Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-28

the work we have all done to this end in
the past sixteen months will yet bear
fruit.
Hope in Dolliver Bill.
"A striking evidence of a new reaiza-
ton on the part of members Of Congress
that the District of Columbia has the
same educational needs and the same
educational rights as other parts of the
country was given last week in the re-
port from the Senate committee recon-
mending the passage of bill prepared
by Senator Dolliver That bill proposes
to appropriate $lO.OOO.OOO annually for
education in agriculture, the mechanic
arts and domestic science. through the
high schools of the country, on condition
that equal amount is contributed by
the states themselves.
ITO us citizens of the District the sig
nificant and welcome feature of the Dol
liver bill Is that. for the first time in the
history of this class of legislation, the
District of Columbia is put upon an
equal footing with the states. in proper
ton to its population. After the cam
paign which the George Washington Uni
versity has made for extending the Nor
rill acts to the District of Columbia, 1
enacted. any serious effort will be made
to amend ii by excluding the District OF
Columbia from its benefits
Question to Be Discussed.
Therefore, although the Galiinger-
Boutell bill has not yet been passed, We
are justified i'm believing that the justice
and wisdom of it's first section, admit
ting the District itself to the benefits OF
the Morrill, acts. has been established be-
yond serious debate.
THE only question in connection with
this bill that will ne much discussed at
the next session of Congress will be
md
namely: In the face of the other educa
tionaI needs and serious financial prob
lens of the District is not the George
Washington University for the time being
the only available. as it certainly would
be the most economical, instrumentality
by which the Morrill, appropriation could
be made actually effective, we'll
theoretically available" for the District
of Columbia?
Entitled to Support.
with the radical. businesslike reor
ganiza ton now being worked out by the
new board of trustees twelve out of
whose twenty-one members have been
added to the board in the past seveh
months; with the new local support
which this community will surely give
to the reorganiZed George Washington
University. because OF its non-sectarian
character and comprehensive and prac-
teal educational program feel con-
fident that the members of Congress. as
prudent men,. and in justice TO the pres
ent needs of the young people of the Dis
trict, will conclude at their next session
that no amount of criticism of the finan-
cial policies of the former board twhose
disinterested sincerity and laudable am
bition TO serve the people of the District
have never been questiOned) ought to be
permitted to stand in the way of the only
plan that is at present feasible for ad-
ministering the Districts Morrill, appro-
priatiOn.
Pardon this long letter. The interest
which my three years connection with
the university has led me to take in the
educational problems of the District is
so profound and abiding. and my devO-
ton to the George Washington Cniver-
sity has come to be so great that / have
not been able to sever my connection
with it without putting upon record some
expression of the mistaken faith | have
in the ultimate success OF an institu-
ton whose primary mission and chief
ambition it is to serve the young peo-
pie of the District Of Columbia.
Yours respectfully.
RICHARD D. HARLAN.
The George Washington University,
June -, 1910.
Law School self-Sustaining.
Dean Lorenzen of the Law School today
gave out the following statement in re-
gard to the work of his\ department.:
Despite the financial difficulties of the
university the permanency of the de-
partment of law was an assured fact
from the beginning. 1t has been self
supporting in the past. and there is
reason why it should not be more than
self-sustaining in the future. Indeed. We
expect a substantial increase in attend
ance next year. both in the all-day and
In the afternoon courses. The courses
for next year have been fully arranged
for. and the catalogue will be out in a
day or two. The work of the law school
viii be continued upon the former basis,
except that an afternoon course has been
introduced, from which students may
graduate with the LII. b. degree in three
years.
"It will appear from the catalogue
about to be issued that several new
courses will be given. Particular atten-
ton may be called to the course in brief
making and the one involving the prepa-
ration of legal instruments. 1t is the aim
of our law school to give as far as posi-
BILE a practical as we'll as theoretical
training Our instruction in practice, and
particularly that in our moot courts, has
been regarded heretofore by the law
school world as of the first order. and
| has been followed by several of the lead
| ing law schools of the country. In order
| to emphasize still more the practical
nature of our instruction these additional
courses have been arranged for