Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-25
SUCCESSOR TO DR.. kINYoUN
MAJ. FREDERICK F. RUSSELL
JOINS g. W. u. FACULTY.
Professor Of Pathology and Bacteri-
ology-President Newman Dis
cusses Institutions Prospects.

Maj. Frederick F. Russell, U. s. A.
professor of pathology in the Army Medi-
cal School and curator of the Army Medi-
cal Museum, has been selected to sue
coed DR. ]. J. kinyoun as professor of
pathology and bacteriology at George
Washington University.
In speaking of the appointment DIR.
Charles w. Needham, president of the
university. said this morning that he was
highly pleased with the choice, and that
the university authorities could not have
found better man If they had had all
summer to look over the field. Maj. Rus
sells hours at the Army Medical School
are from 8 to IL am. and the course at
George Washington University is sched-
uled for the afternoon. The new profess
or can therefore take up his added work
without interfering with any of his ex-
listing arrangements.
Members of George Washington's fac
uty ascribe to Maj. Russell fully as high
standing in the scientific world as that
held by Dr. Kinyoun. Maj Russell fol-
lowed Majs Reed and Carroll in the
Army Medical School They were the
sion of the yellow fever germ. Both of
them taught in the medical school of
George Washington University.
Future Prospects Bright.
DR.. Needham spoke very optimistically
of George Washington's future this morn
ing.
Our enrolment is fine. I have not had
the figures from the deans yet but /
know that with the exception of the
medical school our incoming students will
swell our rolls to splendid number. The
medical school will not have any night
classes, and. of course, there will be a
reduction there. The published report
that only four medical students had en-
ing some one said that four new students
had enrolled that day and the report
was printed from that remark. The en-
rollment has up to October 10 to be
more students enrolled than there were
last year, speaking of the entire univer-
sity.
George Washington University is a
Washington institution. There are $50
students now on it's rolls who have no
other address than Washington and who
probably would receive no college educa-
ton II they had to go outside of Wash
lngton. There is great population here
who want the sons and daughters to re-
not afford to send these young men and
women to a distant city. For that reason
the university should have a complete
course in the modern sciences.
Source Of Criticism.
Right here is where the criticism and
trouble has come in, in great measure.
The old line colleges and the old line pro-
fessors oppose the institution of the mod
ern sciences. 1 say that person must be
fitted for the work he intends to pursue.
For instance, what good would it do a
man who wants to enter a big steel plant
to tell the head of that plant that he has
college education. If that education had
no bearing on the steel business. They
want men who are trained. We want to
make engineers. teachers. political econo-
mists who can compete in the states out
side of Washington with other men. 1t
has been in the Introduction of these
courses that the criticism arose. And yet
II this university should abandon the
courses where would those Washington
ians who cannot afford to go elsewhere
get this education?
There are technical courses in the uni
versity. the tuition fees of which pay the
professors and teachers salaries. If it
should be necessary to practice further
economies. 1t is probable that these
courses will be cut out. I do not want to
see them abolished. and just at present
there is no indication that they will be-
The university finances are clear and the
institution can see a perfectly free year
ahead"