Imperial Valley press., 1917-02-19
UNIVERSITY WOULD PROMOTE
INTERN ALTON Al GOOD WILL

| To help find out just what Uncle
Sam's neighbors really think of him,
Committee on International has been
created by the Academic Senate of
the University of California. This en-
deavor to promote international un-
oerstanding and good will is announced
in the University Record in the last
number of the University Chronicle,
the official quarterly issued by the
University of California.
That it is the duty of American uni
versities to place increased emphasis
on teaching and research relating to
international and racial problems is
declared by the Academic Senate.
"At this time of world upheaval,"
reported the faculty committee, mo
problem overshadows in Importance
that concerning the relations of this
country with its neighbors. A univer-
sity is better organized than any other
institution for assembling, compend-
ing and organizing the knowledge re-
uuired in the solution Of international
problems.
Holding that California has special
Responsibilities and opportunities for
understanding the international prob
lens of the Pacific area, the Academic
Senate has recommended the establish
ing of chair primarily for research
in international relations, appoint
ments to be for limited periods only,
and to go to men Of proved ability to
do constructive work on international
problems. Pending the hoped-for es-
ltablishment of this new professorship,
faculty seminar, consisting of Pro-
fessors David P. Barrows, Edward Ell
lott, Lincoln Hutchinson, Charles A.
Kofoid, A. L. Kroeber, ]. c. Merriam
and George M. Stratton, has taken up
the problem of finding out what popu-
lar opinion really is in Japan as to
the relations Of Japan to the United
States, the question Of growth of popu-
lation and industrial change in Japan,
Japan's relations to the problem OF
Japanese expansion, the status of jap
anese nationalistic ideas, and the leg
istlation of Pacific Ocean countries
in it's relation to international prob
lens.
Other features of this issue of the
University of California Chronicle are
a paper on "Science as Vehicle of
Education" in which Professor I.
Brailsford Robertson (who recently
discovered tethelin) discusses the dan
ger of undue specialization in scien-
tific education and the need of res
cuing science as one Of the humani-
ties, and not merely as vocation train
ing; an essay on Josiah Royce, who
from boy in mining camp-he was
born in Grass Valley-rose to be one
of the most distinguished of American
philosophers (in this paper DR.. j. Loe-
weinberg discusses Royce as, "interpre-
ter of American problems''); the pres
ident's address delivered at the last
annual meeting Of the Pathological As
sociation of the Pacific Coast by Pro-
fessor Walter Norris Hart, dean OF
the Summer Session, on "a Vanish
ing Type"-a comparison of old and
new ideas of what the scholar really
is; an essay on "Some Logical Factors
in the History of Science" by Tenney
l.. Davis, and a series of translations
by Arthur w. Ryder of old Sanskrit
fables, which, despite the fact that
they are 1000 years old, have mod
ernity and wit which attests the un-
changingness of human nature as be-
tween different centuries and far dis
tant continents.