Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-06
the university. and once more it outgrew

the university, and once more it outgrew
its premises.
opened by Lord Rosebery in 1902. Its en-
rollment was Immediately doubled. increas-
Ing from SAP to LOOP. 1t has steadily grown
in numbers, reaching a total of 1,635 stu
dents for the year 19O6-W.
Like the Paris school, the London School
of Economics is independent of government
control, although it now receives govern
ment subsidy of from $500 to 1900 pounds
per year. because Of its services to the
state. For example:
1T now receives each session 400 stu
dents nominated by eight of the great
railway companies from among the most
promising of its employees. During the
past year the school has undertaken for
the secretary of state for war the ad-
ministrative training of thirty selected
officers and second course of similar
nature has been arranged for the COM
Ing session. Many important private cor
porations are now getting into the habit
of sending their best clerks to this school
after business hours in order to increase
their efficiency.
THE London and Paris schools were
founded because there did not .xist in
France or England any system Of COM
mercia1 education of university type,
and of scientific training in public admin
istration.
Encouraged by the marked success of
the Paris and London schools Dr. Har
Ian continued, the George Washington
INV cISily pIopOSeS 10 10 d ike SeTVlCS
for the United States and for the west
ern hemisphere generally by the develop
ment of special college of the political
sciences
prudence and the leading oriental Ian
guages, neither of which branches of
study Is covered by the London school.
We shall also include extensive courses
in commerce, which in Paris is relegated
to separate and special school.
GAS soon as this college Of the political
sciences is thoroughly organized and prop
erly endowed, some plan will undoubtedly
be worked out by which the State Depart
ment will cooperate in a very practical
way in preparing men who wish to apply
Tor appointment. For example: Suppose a
man hopes some day to become one of the
American consuls to France. There is to-
day locked up in the State Department at
Washington and its consular agencies in
france rich mine Of correspondence bear
ing on the commercial and trade relations
between the two countries for many dec
adeS All such facts will be tabulated
properly and made educationally available
for the postgraduate student who hopes to
prepare himself for appointment at an
American consulate in France. Such a STU
dent Will, or course, master the French Ian
guage, in addition to all the other studies
which would equip him for service to his
country.
"Of course. amount of training will
help a man who has not the proper per-
sonal qualifications. Here, as in every
other walk of life, it is "the man behind
the gun that counts. But given the right
KIND OF man and equip him in advance Of
ms appointment, and such man will be
as efficient within three months after his
appointment as the best man was under
the Old system at the end of several years
experience
Few Americans are aware of the fact
dnat the FEDERAL government is spending
$o'oooOOO annually in connection with the
great scientific and technical bureaus and
laboratories of the government situated in
washington itself. That represents cap
ltal OF 2OOOOO,O OO-an endowment such as
no private institution can ever hope to nos
sess. But the results of that splendid work
are to large extent hidden away In gov
ernments reports and bulletins What is
imperatively demanded in the interests OF
American agriculture and commerce. la a
thoroughly organized university for grad
uate work at the capital itself with large
laboratories of its own to be sure but so
managed as to cooperate with these gov
eminent bureaus and laboratories. in train
ing and sending out into American agricuI-
ture and commerce well-equipped men An
annual output of 100 men would be worth
more than 100000 bulletins inestimable
and necessary as those bulletins certainly
are This the George Washington expects
to do"
Speaking of financial matters, DR.. Harlan
said:
For the work we have planned we must