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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03
Education for Classes Onlv? Nonsense Here's Womgmen Coee
The Institution Is Akin to Ruskin College, at
Oxford, and Is Mixture of Club and School
for the LEFT Wing" in Art Literature
and Sociology--Evening Classes
Have Attendance of Hundreds.

, to the Englishman-that students Should
not speak at the Martyrs Memorial"
Maybe the martyrs are those bishops they
used to burn at Oxford.
The complete cost OF residence at Rus
kin College, including board, lodging and
education, is about $3.50 for the session
Of forty-four weeks. For a less period
the charge is around IS Is a week. The
low cost of obtaining culture is partly ex-
planned by the fact that the students do
nearly all the homework and other labor
in the college. No servants are kept ex-
cept q cook and an assistant. Every
seeker of knowledge is expected to work
at cleaning and other jobs two hours a
day and TO take his turn as delegate"
These requirements seem rather appro-
pirate for a workingmen's college. They
spell democracy as we'll as economy, and
obyiate the need OF an athletic equip
ment. or course, the details OF doing
housework may lack somewhat in gla-
mour, and to take UP the scrubbing brush
after reading william Morris's News
from Nowhere" is apt to crate upon the
sensitive spirit. On the other hand, there Is
q feeling of independence In being your
own jantor and slavey, not 20 mention
the healthfuI physical glow that follows
toll Most OF the students are young
workingmen from the factories, fields and
mines, and work agrees with them. They
are no pale, an9mIc types, but rudy
and robustious youths
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03
THE TYPO.

Robert w. Chambers. the writer, was
correcting proofs at a desk in the Century
Club.
Typographical errors are the bane or
all writer's" ne said. II have never had
very bad ones myself-nothing like the
one once saw in the famous line:
There were roses strewn in my pain
like mad
This the typesetter turned to:
There were roses strewn in my pain
like mud.
THE other day Mr.. Roosevelt was sd-
vocating the purity OF the ballot-he
sacrifice himself to bring about the puF'
ity Of the ballot But in my paper the
typesetter made it read the purity OF the
ballet!
II did once suffer myself-not In
book. In a speech. I was addressing
Scottish literary society, and l began Wl'h
the words, 'Brither Scots!
But the typesetter made me begin:
"'Brither Sots'"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03
PRACTICAL VALUE OF STUDY.

Thus the institutions OF savage life are
studied, not on account Of any inherent
interest they have In themselves, but that
through the study OF these early ana
simple conditions the complicated society
OF to-day may be better understood ana
some light thrown on hopes OF further
progress toward better conditions or So
ciety in the future.
In economies there are also two lectures
a week, and under the Exchange OF
Wealth" several theories OF value are DIS
cussed, including those of Karl Marx
Jevons and Marshall. Under Production
of Wealth" Industrial combinations in
Great Britain and the American trusts
are studied. Among essay subjects there
are the effect Of machinery on the work
ers, collective bargaining and principles
of taxation Other lecture subjects are
English political and constitutional his
tory. industrial and economic history and
local government.
Besides the internal work Of the college
there Is an important correspondence de-
partment, in which no less than 9Voo
students have been enrolled in the past
dozen years The department began with
five subjects and now IL has twenty-seVen.
Those who get the benefit of an educa-
ton through the mails live in all parts
OF England and the Continent, and as far
away as South Africa, India and AUS
tralia. There are a number Of Canadian
correspondence students.
Emphasizing the neutrality of the col
lege in religion and politics, the admins
tratlon requests members Of the institu-
ton, when speaking or writing, not TO
take the name OF Ruskin in vain. and
Furthermore suggests that since students
have little time to spare they should
refrain from speaking frequently in pub
llc."
The latter is an interesting adjuration
and one that II would be hardly neces-
sary to address 10 the students of any
other college. There Is a special request
''for reasons which are obvlous"-perhaps
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03
UNFORTUNATE TRUTHS.

Congressman Henry was deprecatlhs N
WASHINGTON an international "marias0
de CONVEYANCE"
1.-TWO men were talking about u,i'
marriage cynically but truthfully' ~
said. "The first man remarked:
"'Of course. the earl won't De aoie
support Miss Lolita Golde In the sV''
she's been accustomed to- IN
"'Oh,' said the other, her rather W"
make allowances for that
Congressman Henry gave grim ia'e"
and resumed:
1.-The first man looked thoushttui io'
moment. Then he said: -.
Despite the stories about the e 49,
past, il does seem to me that mes mss
Codes devoted slave. III,
"'oh, yes. was the other mans rep''
he's eager for the bonds, all right
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03
Ruekin College as
Oxford. The QuedrOrS1e

there is not much margin for amusements
or clothes or table dhote dinners where
they ask II you will have red or white
wine Nor is there much left for secret
societies, only that item doesn't come In,
| for there are no secret societies AS for
| plays and concerts. student can join
the Wageworkers' League and get cut
rate ticket for the best performances in
| New York. Some students don't even buy
cut rate ticket, but get paid for seeing
play and opera In the capacity of supers.
There is no lack Of social features and
amusements In the school Itself Every
! little while there Is reception or a
dance, to which all friends as well as
| students OF the institution are invited.
| These affairs take place in the reading
room library. and they are about as gay
| as II the participants never heard OF
economic determinism or delved into re-
J wisconsin versus the catastrophe theory.
| There are always good dancers on hand
I and plenty Of musicians.
Ruskin College, at oxford, is a working
mems college, with many quaint and in
| teresting features. It's governing body Is
composed OF representatives OF the par
| lidmentary committee OF the Trades
| Union Congress, the Cooperative Union,
| the Workingmens Club and Institute
Union, the Amalgamated Society OF Ell
gineers, the Northumberland Miners AS
ISOLATION, the Weavers' Amalgamation.
the General Federation Of Trade Unions
and the Amalgamatod Society of Tool
| makers.
One can imagine there are few silk hats
| seen at a meeting OF Ruskin College trus-
tees. Sometimes a meeting can't be held
because so many OF the trustees are out
leading strikes or battling on the floor Of
the House OF Commons. The college was
founded In 1890 Instead Of being financed
by a millionaire Ii was endowed by the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03

pennies contributed by thousands OF trace
unionists.
For example, $500 members OF the
Amalgamated Society Of Engineers con
tributed eight cents each. making total
OF about $1,000. The railway union gave
81 100 to the building fund and established
two scholarships. The weavers and PRINT
ers made donations Most OF the students
are young trades unionists who are sent
to the college and have their expenses
paid by the organizations to which they
belong. In some cases the unions have
sent married men to the college and have
taken care Of their families during their
absence.
At first conservative oxford laughted at
the workingmen's institution, then II be-
gan to take an interest In 1t, and finally
professors OF the university offered their
services and opened their lecture rooms
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03

I'm the Gramercy Park district OF CLUBS
and studio apartments and quaint old
Il dwellings, hemmed in by skyscrapers
which yet seem to respect an ancient
centre of Bohemia, there Is brOwnstone
front which arouses the curiosity OF the
observant passerby. You know It is not
a private house by the number and sort
of persons entering It. If 1t were an
orthodox club you would not see that
dainty young figure buttoning her gloves
In the vestibule in preparation for facing
the autumnal blasts. Maybe It is some
thing on the philanthropical or settlement
house order, but you recollect that such
institutions, like the skyscrapers, keep
discreetly on the outskirts ana the fringes
Of Gramercy Parks select centre.
Let us indulge in one last vain surmse'
that Augustus Thomas has undertaken 10
grant personal interviews to and read the
manuscripts OF all the budding dramatic
geniuses from Flatbush 10 Harlem
wherefore his doorbell is busy and Gus
tells his callers that he hopes their po-
nucal principles are sound, which means
they must vote for the party OF ---,
And now, boldly crossing the street, we
descry q small brass plate inscribed THE
Rand School of Social Science" IT'S at
No. l4O East 18th street, about as far from
Third avenue as you can carry one OF
those curved undercoat pals Of refresh
nlents while retaining the pristine crown
of foam.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03
AN AMERICAN MODEL.

We read the sign, and still we must in
quire its meaning A benevolent person
with a bushy beard, one Of the elder
statesmen of Gramecy Park, pauses cour-
teously and informs us that this is a
workingmen's college modelled somewhat
after Ruskin College, at oxford, and
yet more like the Social Democratic
School In Berlin.
Is II possible! odds boddikins, and also
POUNDS! What might workingmen's col
lege be doing In this oasis OF art and
clubdom? Right in the shadow Of Mr..
Thomas's Dutch facade resideHce and the
quarters Of the Liberal Club and the
dovecote Of the pen and brush, and
hardly any distance from that sacrOsanct
square of greensward which is fenced and
padlocked against he multitude in the
manner of dear old London.
Well, you see, It is not exactly an in
trusion, though it may look H. The Rand
School used to be in the district, even on
the same street, and just behind the Ma
tional Arts Club. 1t was forced out Of
It's old quarters last spring by the edyent
of a. real intruder--One OF those sky
scrapers-and has just moved into new
and permanent home.
When you come to know all the facts
you perceive that the workinsmen's col
lege is quite appropriately located. In
stead of detracting from the qualities OF
the neighborhood, it adds certain haVor
and picturesqueness. It is a sort OF cluo
as well as a school or college. II Is
meeting place for the left wing in art,
literature and sociology, the aforesaid
left wingers focking 70 their natural CEN
ire from points as remote as Staten ISL
I'D Kansas and Oregon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03
Mrs. Bertha K Mailly
Executive Secretary Rand School

else each day. Their two hours floor
scrubbing may be considered recreation.
No liquor is allowed in the college, no
resident student may stay out for the
night without permission, and trespass-
ing in kitchen or larders is strictly for
hidden.
The historic strike at Ruskin occurred IN
1909. II was precipitated by the resigna-
ton Of the popular principal, Dennis Hird'
NJ. A., of oxford. All lectures except Mr..
Hird's were boycotted by the students.
The administrative authorities declared
lockout, but they did not bring in any
strike breakers. After a two weeks lock-
out the strikers were intellectually
starved into submission, and the prole-
tartan college resumed its activities on
basis OF law and order.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03

I to the proletarian students. DR.. Card,
the master OF Balllol, and other leading
educators became members Of the Ruskin
council.
Despite it's trade union control, II is
officially stated that Ruskin. while a
school OF citizenship and public admin
istration for workingmen, is required TO
be absolutely neutral in all matters Of
theology and party politics" The scheme
OF education assumes that the majority
OF students are only in residence for one
year, and it includes lectures, class work,
essays and revision questions Under the
head of sociology there are two lectures
weekly, and the effort is made to make
the teaching actual and practical
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03
A TASK UNDERTAKEN.

There is a house committee, which in
trusts part Of the domestic arrangements
TO the whole body Of resident students.
Among the detailed rules and regulations
it is stated that "a weekly scrub must be
undertaken by resident students" and
that students shall be knocked up at
a. m. by the morning delegate" The
American reader may suspect that scrub
means abution, but he cannot fathom
why il should be merely undertaken or
attempted. The item on knocking up
students seems to SAVIOR Of medieval
hardships or tortures which were once
In vogue at oxford, but which were sup
posed TO be abolished in an enlightened
era. Another dark detail, perhaps in
tended as humor, is the advice that all
students take some form Of active exer-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03
AlSerrorr Lee
Presidere Norls Unique College For Werk'r5r ne'

II union rules were being violated in the
amount OF work required. A working
mems college ought TO be careful on this
point, lest II be caught in the act by
walking delegate and all the students
called out on strike. At Ruskin College
a strike OF students did happen some time
ago. whereby the traditions OF dear old
oxford were horribly wrenched, and
everybody said II was a most rcgrettable
incident, except those malevolcnt syndi-
calists. Any one can see the folly OF a
strike I'm a college, since It might happen
on the eve Of a great football game or
some other important event
The schedule Of courses at the Rand
School includes American history and
government, economies, historically and
theoretically: socialist theory and policy
labor movement and labor legislation,
social problems and reform movements.
English for foreigners, grammar and
composition. composition and rhetoric,
public speaking, elementary civics,
stcnography and typewriting. II will be
seen that the curriculum has variety as
we'll as depth. The instruction In stenog-
raphy and tEpeWruuG rs prdcuGdi leat-
ure, intended not TO turn out mere typists
and stenographors, but 10 add these arts
10 the equipment Of the publicists, teach
ers and social workers graduated by the
school
So with the public speaking class con-
Quoted by George II. Kirkpatrick; 1t is
not meant TO create paylor elocutionIsts,
but to develop Stcntors OF the hastings
and. maybe, Demosthenoses OF legislative
halls; wherefore the classroom IS located
at the top OF the college building and
sound-dcadenIng mats are placed against
the door. Professor kirkpatrick is some
orator himself; he is also author Of War
What For?'
The tuition fee for tho complete college
course Is SC0 The necessary textbooks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03
AN ENDOWED INSTITUTION.

The workingmen's college was founded
in 1906, at the suggestion Of Professor
George y. Heron, By the late Mrs. Car
RE d. Rand, whose daughter added a
contributory fund The revenue from the
endowment is supplemented by tuition
fees, contributions and other income. For
the first five years the work Of the col
lege was mainly confined TO holding even
Ing classes, attended by residents Of New
York and vicinity. Three correspondence
courses were established and a few ex-
tension lecture courses we're conducted
The evening classes have been attended
by from two hundred To three hundred
persons Of both sexes each year.
While the evening classes were espc-
cially adapted for working folk. who
edge, the need was recognized OF thor
ough and all day instruction for those
able TO devote themselves 70 It. There
fore, last year a full time course covering
several months of study was begun.
Among the dozen odd students who took
! this course, three came from this state,
two from Pennsylvania and one each from
Indiana, North Dakota, South Dakota,
| Oregon and California.
There Is an increased enrolment this
year for the full time course which
! begins November IL and ends April II
next. On the schedule f6r the course are
five evening lectures (open also to local
| students) and five or six afternoon con-
ferCnces, making a total Of about twenty
hours of class work week. There will
| also be some special lectures. attendance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03
ART FOR THE STRIKERS SAKE,

They are auctioned off or sold 10 private
buyers for the benefit Of the shirtwaist
strikers fund or something like that. No
doubt the strikers need the money. At
the same time the college ought 10 have
the pictures.
When the restaurant is out Of comTls-
sion. as I'm the recent temporary occu-
pancy Of a floor ~ the Woman's Trade
Union League building, IN East 22d street,
or when another chef 1espairingly quits
the attempt TO reconcile revolutionary
.nd reform ideas on the bin Of fare, the
centre of Rand School life is in the IL
brary and reading room. There are only
about two thousand books IN the library,
grouped on open shelves around the long
room which was once a private parlor
but these books and certain documents In
cases are Of such a sort that special
writers come here from all over the
country 20 consult them. II has become
a motto Of sociological Investigators: IF
you can't find what you want In the Con-
gressional Library or the New York Pub
lie Library try the Rand School"
Many Of the modern books are auto
graphed and inscribed to the school by
their authors, and the greater number
have been donated by authors or owners.
The subjects of the books are labor, In
dustry socialism and the numerous as
poets Of the social question. There are
magazines and newspapers almost as
reconcile haillng from Canada ami Eng
land and Australia and Japan, giving the
latest word Of social battle and progress
from the worlds remotest corner-news
which is not usually found IN other me-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03
A DEMOCRATIC LIBRARY.

Any one who comes along is welcome
room, and upon making a small deposit
may draw out and take home books from
the circulating department. At the en-
trance to the reading room there are
books, pamphlets and magazines on sale.
Also there are the desks OF the educa-
tional director Of the Rand School, Alger-
non Lee. and Of the executive secretary,
Mrs. Bertha II. Mailly.
The educational director has no aca-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03

demic titles or airs, although he is re-
puted TO DO 4 prodigious scholar and an
a No. / expert in social labor science. He
wears thick pebbled glasses and a beam
ing smile Before he became president OF
the worhngmen's college-for that Is
what his job amounts to-he was'an ed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03

are provided without extra charge. On
the question OF how much 1t costs for a
student TO live in New York ''in a manner
that will enable him or her to study eff
fectyely," the Rand School authorities
suggest minimum figure Of IS a week.
and say 1t is better to have $40. At that,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03
In Fact, There Are Several of Them in the World
New York's, Known as "The Rand School of
Social Science" Is in the Gramercy Park
District and Has Faculty of We'll
Known Teachers and Writers.

Ellis O. Jones' Allan L. Benson and
Charles Edward Russell, not to mention
Ernest Poole Leroy Scott, George Allan
England and Arthur Billiard.
These magaznists and fictionists drift
in and out Of the workngmen's college
in a quiet, unobtrusive way shedding
bright and Shavian radiance in their
wake. In any ordinary college they
would be rewarded for their genial SER
vices with degrees at commencement, and
some OF them would get sinecure lecture
chairs. That can't be done here on ac-
count Of the high cost Of sheepskin and
the limited endowment of the institution,
Maybe some day Mr.. Carnegie or Mr.
Rockefeller will make It possible for the
Rand school TO acquire all the usual
educational appurtcnances Of college
and TO take its proper place In the sport
ing columns of the newspapers. 1t must
be admitted there is something 10 be de-
sired at present from the athletic stand
point There is no football team worth
speaking OF, and the college yell sounds
like a soapboX orator competing with the
elevated railroad.
However there are CompensauonS De-
sides the avove mentioned occasional pres
ence Of conservative lltterateurs. Take
the coterie OF artists like Art Young and
Ryan walker, Balfour Ker and John
Sloan and Anton Otto Fischer. They
come in every so often around luncheon
or dinner time, and while they look and
talk mostly just like other people there Is
a subtle something of atmosphere dis
ser1inated by them. once in while they
are persuaded 10 donate something more
substantial than atmosphere, and the
walls OF the school restaurant blossom
with their drawings and works in OIL
whereupon art criticism supersedes the
burning issues OF sociology and science
Unfortunately the pictures are not al
lowed TO stay as permanent decorations
Of the workinRmen's college.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03

itor Of Socialist and labor newspapers
in addition TO his present duties as COL
lege president, he is g member Of the ed
itorial staff Of The Metropolitan Maya
zine" and writes the "T!dings of the
Times" department. which was formerly
conducted by the late William Mailly. Mr..
Lee is a product OF the Middle West
Some Of his scholarship was produced at
the University Of Wisconsin, where he
studied for six years. lie received hisn
marks for everything except mathematics
and football, I'm which fields ne was al
most a total failure. 1t may be mentioned
that Mr.. Lee can talk on the public plat
form or make an after dinner speech at
least as well as his average fellow col
lege president.
Mrs. Bertha II Mailly, the executive
secretary Of the school, is especially
known as a writer for children, and for
merly conducted a childrens page in THE
Coming Nation"
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1912-03-02
SYNOPSIS.

The story opens with a scream from
Dorothy March in the opera box Of Mrs.
Missioner. wealthy widow. It Is &C.
casioned when Mrs. Missioner's necklace
breaks. scattering the diamonds all over
the floor. Curtis Griswold and Bruxton
Sands. society men In love with Mrs. Mis-
sioner. gather up the gems. GrisWOld
steps on what Is supposed to be the eelc-
brated Maharanee and brushes it.. A. Hin
expert later pronounces all the stones
substitutes for the original. One Of the
missing diamonds Is found In the room
OF ElinOr Holcomb, confidential compan-
ion OF Mrs. Missioner. She Is arrested
notwithstanding Mrs. MissioEer's belief
in her innocence. Meantime In an up
town mansion. two Hindoos. who are in
cuss the arrest Detective Britz taxes
up the case. He asks the cooperation Of
Or. Fitch, Elnor's hance, In running
down the real criminal Britz learns that
duplicates Of Mrs Missoners diamonds
were made in Paris on the order of
Elinnr Holcomb. While walking Britz is
seized. bound and gagged by Hindoos. He
Is imprisoned In a deserted house. but
makes his escape. Britz discovers an in
was employed by either Sands Of Girls
void to make counterfeits of the Mission
er gems. Griswold intimates that Sands
Is on the verge Of failure. Two Eindoos
burglarze the home Of Sands and are
captured by Britt. On one Of them he
finds a note signed by "Millicent" and ad-
dressed to Curtis" Britz locates wo-
Griswold has been paying marked atten-
lions. The Swami attends ball at Mrs
Missioners home. but learns nothing fur.
Their about the diamonds.