The Washington herald., 1914-04-24

The election. of Mrs. George T. Small
wood, of this city, as one of the vice
Presidents general of the Daughters Of
ne American Revolution. as announced
II the congress last night, gives the
District of Columbia Association a rep
.esentation on the national board Of
management an honor duly appreciated
oy them.
The ten vice presidents general elected
ire Mrs. George Maynard Minor, Con-
,ecticuT: Mrs. Joseph F. Wood. New
FORK; Mrs. Eliza F. Leary. Washington;
Mrs Charles Clemence Abbott, New
Hampshire: Mrs. A. V. Lane, Texas;
Mrs George T. SmaIlwood, District Of
Columbia; Mrs Edmund F. Noel, Mis-
Iissippi: Mrs. Samuel ". Jamison, Vir-
yinia. Mrs Charles R. Davis, Minnesota
md Mrs. William H Crosby. Wisconsin
As honorary vice presidents general
we're elected Mrs Drayton w. Bushnell,
iowa. and Mrs. Wallace Delafield. Mis-
pouri. Mrs Eliza o. Denniston was re-
elected as editor OF the magazine. There
we're los Votes cast and the candidates
elected, with ones'or two exceptions, are
Ill Story adherents.
Last nights business session was
brought to a most gratifying conclusion
Ehen il was announced that the rally
Law contributions for the Continental
Memorial Hall fund amounted to W.
23.Tg in cash and s6.sS5.s5 in pledges,
making a total of S1S79.H
What We need is coordination and
extension of existing facilities. not the
blowing of big trUmpets in the hope that
he walls of Congressional economy Will
all down and immense sums of money
Dc poured out for the establishment OF
m imposing university, with miles OF
marble buildings and millions OF en-
IOwment".
These were the concluding sentiments
N the report Of Miss Mary r. wilcox
chairman of the committee on National
University. read at yesterday afternoon
Iession. Mrs. William Cumming Story
president general of the society, PRESIDED
Vote of Thanks Given.
The report, which contained many
Iovel suggestions and proved OF deep IN
Rrest particularly to the washington
contingent of the Daughters was received
With a vote of thanks. In part, II was
as follows.
"A university does not consist Of land
md buildings, nor in marble monuments,
nut consists in a spirit and an oppor-
a,nity for work The City OF Washing
@ already contains the elements OF a
rreat university which need only to be
Irganized and brought together, and de-
reIoped, in order to make it one OF the
most effective real universities in the
world. First Of all, we have great
observatory. a great physical laboratory
n the Bureau Of Standards, a labratory
n the Bureau of Hygiene Of the Public
Health Service; then We have a National
Museum, and. in pure science, there Is
he Smithsonian Institution for the publ
:ation Of the results Of research.
should Coordinate Work.
aan .L..o tbfpoS apd ofbars that might
Ie mentioned. go to make up univer-
dty. As now conducted, they are none
II them teaching institutions, but the
,rincipal function of a national univer-
dty would not be so much teaching as
esearch. BY building on these founda-
ions, II would not be at all difficult, by
ne admission of properly qualified ad-
ranced students, to utilize the existing
ABILITIES for the purpose OF advance
tudy as well as for research. All this
,ould be done, and a national university
pouId be established by simply providing
1 central organization which would bind
III these isolated institutions together,
coordinate their work and extend II in
he direction providing for advance study.
I'm other words, a central admintstra-
i've council, with a president or other
,roper executive officer at the head OF II,
,rimariIy- to research in lines not al
eady provided for, and, secondarily, for
,uidance in advance study in the same
Ines, would launch a national university
which would have in itself the germs Of
IN almost infinite development This can
,e done at a relatively small cost, and,
the Congress chooses, without the set
ing apart Of any large endowment
such q university would not, necessar-
ly. start with a complete faculty and
liant in every department Of science, nor
would it be necessary, or perhaps, ad-
risabIe that it should do SO. for that
would lead to q needless duplication OF
work which has already been amply and
uficiently done elsewhere. For instance.
Washington not having a sufncient sup
hy of clinical material for the purpose,
iced not ever have a complete faculty 70
medicine and surgery. r.E-.
No Need for Duplication.
''It would not be necessary to duplicate
rhat, perhaps. can be better done In q
arge Industrial center like Baltimore,
Philadelphia, or New York. Blu. the ma
ional university started In the manner
uggested, might provide unusual facili-
ies in certain special lines Of medical
tudy and research; as. for example, the
tudy and treatment Of mental and
Iervous disease, for which the already
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