Arizona republican., 1916-12-26
Practical Education

In the annual report of President Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia University, which has just hand he points the pressing need in the plan industrial and engineering research Tt has been heavily borne in industrial managers and public that what some American industries would support principality under and keener administration The future of American industry is bound up with the future of American science"
 Dr. Butler greatly deplores the decline in the Der of students who study Greek and Latin. It may be added that the propaganda which has become active against the dead languages within the last half century has hack of it who nothing about them CT college men whose study of them was quite perfunctory and who really derived benefit from the study. And suppose that large number of college who complete the classical course without having grasped the prize that from an earnest study of the languages As to many col lege graduates the entire years up by course has been wasted.
 Dr. Butler says
 No educational substitute for Greek and Latin has ever been found, and will be found long present civilization endures, for the simple that to study Greek and Latin under wise and inspiring guidance is to study the embryology of the civilization which call European and American"
 He is frank enough to say that many teachers of the classics have been "all too successful in cealing from their pupils the real significance of Greek and Latin studies" He adds:
 Let him who wishes to see classical knowledge in action read any of a hundred passages in Nor leys Life of Gladstone any of a of pages in the Life of his one-tme colleague Robert Lowe. Viscount Sherbrooke, the Life Letters of Ben- jamin Jowett Master of BallioI"
 The number of women registered at Columbia for graduate instruction large and rapidly increasing Better accommodations for them needed and it is suggested that in such a building school of house. hold arts could well get in it's work Women have been admitted the medical department on an equality with men,
 Dr. Butler makes many other interesting points, but what says of Pulitzer school of journalism is likely interest newspaper men, As so many want to adopt that who lacking in prep aration, it has been decided to turn the two-year course into of three and transfer the two to the faculty of Columbia College Can didates for admission will be recommended to make of their fitness for the instruction in journalism by getting sound training in English history economics. natural science and French and German at college or scientific school of recognized excellence"
 It is mentioned in the report relating to the school of journalism that prizes will be distributed at the commencement next year follows:
 For the best and most suggestive paper on the future developments and improvement of the school of journalism, for any that will promise great improvement in the operation of the school S10O0
 For the most disnterested and rneritorious public service rendered by any American newspaper during the year, gold medal costing $500
 For the best history of the services rendered to the public by the American press during the preceding year, $1,OO0.
 For the best editorial article written during the year. the test of excellence being clearness of style