The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-17
RACIAL PREJUDICE
STR0NG|N EUROPE
Feeling Engendered by Fight at
Reno Spreads Into Unex-
pected Places.
MR.. METcALf's IMPRESSIONS
Finds That Roosevelt and Jack
johnson Are Mostly on
Public Tongue.
MR.. METCALF's IMPRESSIONS

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Public Tongue.
Home again, after four months spen!
abroad. Professor John C. Metcalf, Of
Richmond College, Is more thoroughly
impressed with American education
American progresslveness, American
industry and American almost every
thing else.
Sailing from New York on May IL
Mr.. Metcalf, accompanied by Mrs. Mot
calf and their child, landed at Naples.
and after visiting parts OF Italy, toured
leisurely through Germany. France,
England and Scotland. Returning.
they sailed from Glasgow. landing IN
New York. and arrived in Richmond
this week.
Mr.. Metcalf's European experience
was as varied as 1t must have been
interestings Visiting famous educa-
jtlonal, historical and industrial CEN
tres, he added to his. comprehensive
knowledge of these subjects. simulta-
neously from the people he met, he
learned at first hand the European Inn
preston of those more or less famous
Americans OF worldwide prominence
Theodore Roosevelt, Jack Johnson,
Commander Robert e. Peary and DR.
Frederick A. Cook.
Visited Mnny Institutions.
Mr.. Metcalfs trip abroad was in fur
Their pursuit of his professional studies
and for recreation, and combined duty
with pleasure. In England he visited
universities at Cambridge and Oxford;
in Scotland, at Edinburgh and Glasgow.
and in Germany. at Leipsic, Berlin and
Heidelberg. Other educational institu-
rcl Ia al vt tod
At Leipsic Mr.. Metcalf attended Sc
ries Of lectures on language and spent
some time in visiting places OF literary
interest. From the British Museum he
suggestions and more mate
rial assistance in the shape of plates.
cuts and illustrations for literary. work
he has now In progress.
In making comparison Mr.. Metcalf
states the opinion that the American
system Of education Is superior to that
offered in Europe. Putting 1t succinct..
ly, he asserts that the American univer-
stiles are more modern. more progress
sive and as whole much better
equipped. Across the water they are
not near SC thoroughly up-to-d date. hav-
ing failed to keep abreast of the pro-
gress made in educational. as in all
other lines. in the past half-century.
This opinion. he declares, is shared by
q distinguished graduate of Cambridge
whom he met.
Awakening In Education.
There is, however, general ,Avaken-
ing in European educational cih.les. he
believes, this being especially notice
able in England. There is general
and aggressive movement to make the
old English universities moro demo-
cratic--to abolish the rigid exclusive
ness which has characterized the more
classic of British institutions for sew
eral centuries past. The result of this
movement, If accomplished, will be that
certain classes of English people will
have educational opportunities they
have never before enjoyed. 1t is In
teresting to note that the movement,
for the reform in the British school
system Is being headed by Lord Curzon,
who, perhaps, is best known in this
country as the husband Of a Chicago
woman.
AS an Illustration of how closely
American methodE are followed Mr..
Metcalf points out that in practically
all OF the leading European UNIVERSE
ties an agricultural course of training
is being adopted. Then, too, that the
higher branches of education are now
being offered to women is.t no doubt,
over Europe, and especially in England,
much interest is shown in higher edu-
cation for women, the movement dat
Ing from comparatively recent date.
In the face of these changed condt-
lions, Mr.. Metcalf asserts that women
have not the chance in Europe they
have here. They are more restricted
in every sense, he says; they do no,
have the opportunities which are en-
joyed in America.
Saw Passion Play.
Mr.. Metcalf witnessed the Passion
Play al Oberammergau. and was much
impressed with the. play Itself. but
Americans he met there. More than
half of the great audience was com
posed Of people from the states, he
found, and there were many from
as would most naturally have been
expected While in England lie Wis
tied Stratrord-on-Avon Ind there a.
the birthplace of Shakespeare he saw
the Elizabethan period. He was
greatly interested In the revival OF
historic pageants which is now In
progress in England. He witnessed
several ,sy Of these I, spectacles Al during
met with people from this country.
Among them was Or. c.. W. Kent, OF
the University of Virginia
Germany is experiencing an era OF
unprecedented industrial development.
says Mr.. Metcalf. The whole land
fairly brlstles with smokestacks," he
said. The young men are going in for
business. and everywhere one finds tho
greatest enthusiasm on the subject
They are visiting England and Amer.
lea. and are transplanting the ideas
they find Mr.. Metcalf states that the
thrift Of the lower classes of Germany
Is notable. He was much struck with
what he saw on the outskirts OF Berlin
There he found numerous settlements,
resembling American summer retreats,
but made up entirely OF working peo-.
pie. Men and women of tho laborins
classes occupy summer homes when
they themselves own, The women.
says Mr.. Metcalf, seem to spend their
time in identifying these little homes
Even in the humber parks some at
tempt is made at beautltying by arch
itectural adornment and other means.
That this industrial progress in Ger
MANY is disturbing England Is the I'M
preston he encountered In other Euro
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