New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-15
EXPERTS ON MOORE'S Job.
Roard of Estimate Committee
Appoints Two Educators.
m SCHOOL ORGANIZATION
nr Frank ]. Goodnow and DR..
Frederick G. Howe the Men
Suppression Denied.

=, statement explaining its action In
...,;rp the report Of Professor Ernest g.
,,oore Of Yale University. on the organi-
..,on Of the citys schools, the special
.,o,ttee Of the Board Of Education on
..,ool inquiry announced to the body yes
,,rdsv the appointment Of two men to do
On. work that had not been accomplished
% its satisfaction by Professor Moore.
.pecause the rejection of Professor
,,oore,s report leaves one of the most i'm
.or,snt fields of the inquiry uncovered
49, announcement said, 1.-THE committee
80 decided to retain experts to make the
.,,dv assigned to Professor Moore. 1t
.as arranged with DR.. Frank j. Goodnow
"a mr.. Frederick c. Howe, both COM
tent authorities on the question Of mu-
.ininal administration and educators Of ex-
,orience to study the organization and
,.bods of the Board of Education and
,ho local school boards, together with the
,o,o,ion OF the school system to the city
government
nv Goodnow is a lawyer, lecturer, edu-
o.tor professor Of administrative law in
Columbia University, expert on municipal
government and a member OF President
Tot's Economy and Efficiency Commits
.,or He was graduated from Amherst
College in 1879 and from the Columbia
Law School. He is the author Of many
standard text books on administrative law
and municipal science.
mr. Howe is lecturer, educator, expert
IN municipal government and director OF
,hs Peoples Institute. He was graduated
trnm Allegheny College in 1889 and re-
,elved the degree Of Doctor of Laws from
Johns Hopkins. He practised law In
cleveland as a partner Of James r Gar
field. former Secretary Of the Interior.
He has taken a prominent part in the
Cleveland city government and has served
IN the Ohio Legislature. He is the au-
thor OF many books and has lectured ex-
tenSively.
The committee in its statement said that
q wished to correct the widespread i'm
pression that IN rejecting the report OF
pressed H.
''The committees rejection Of the re-
mort" Il is set forth. docs not make any
OF its statements, II true, less true, or any
Of its conclusions, If sound. less sound"
II goes on to explain that the report was
admitted to the Board Of Estimate. al
though the fact that II was not printed In
the document in which the reasons for its
rejection were given. no doubt, gave some
to ha VI NJ
that the report had been suppressed.
However, It had become part OF the min
utes OF the Board Of Estimate, and in due
course was printed in THE City Record.
Speaking Of the way in which the school
inquiry happened to be taken up the
statement yesterday declared:
Il was because opinions were so plenti-
ful and facts so few that the inquiry was
imperatively needed. The committee was
directed 10 obtain facts to illuminate the
wilderness OF uncertainties and guesses
which surrounded the boards considera-
tlon of school matters The committee
was authorized to associate with II eX-
perts TO assist in the inquiry. II had no
authority to turn over the inquiry 10 these
experts and II never had, nor has 1t now,
any intention Of doing so. We wanted
no general unsupported opinions, because
We cannot act upon them.
The committee has never attempted or
desired to edit the report OF any one OF
the specialists, nor has the committee, or
any one Of It's members, had any precon-
ceved notions regarding school admins
trstion. 1t merely sought and demanded
facts.
The statement went on to say that the
committee was discharging a proper duty
in declining to receive and sanction Pro-
lessor Moore's report because many OF
its important generalizations were un-
supported by facts and because others
were untrue The report was not re-
iected until the committee had unsuccess-
fully tried to elicit facts to support the