Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-18
COLLEGE HEADS
IN BIG CONFERENCE
Hundreds to Gather for Dis
cussion at Drexel's 25th
Anniversary
MANY IMPORTANT TOPICS

More than 100 college and university
.r.sldents and other leaders In scientific and
.,daSogicaI affairs will gather tomorrow at
n.s,e, Institute to take part in the two-day
..ovram in connection with the twenty-ffth
.nnlyersary OF that institutions opening.
"a will discuss as wartime subject the
avs in which colleges may be OF service
A the nation during wartime.
mr. Hollis Godfrey president OF DreXel
,..,,,ute as chairman of the committee on
.nyineering and education OF the Advisory
can,p,ission Of the Council of National De-
s.nse. has appointed forty noted men as his
.eaoo,ates I'm the university and the sec
.sSorv school sections of the committee and
S.,J,ed them to attend this convocation.
rNs,, will meet for the first time for general
SIscussion Of their duties
Among those who have sent acceptances
- president Jacob Gould Schurman. OF
cornell University; President Jonn Grier
S5Ihhsn. OF Princeton University; President
t.SnE l. Goodnow, of Johns Hopkins Uni
,.ssity: Or. Albert Bushnell Hart, Of Har-
"a University; President Samuel r. Mac
rr.cken. of Pittsburgh University Dr J.
r. RUSSELL, Of Columbia University. and
erot Morris Jastrow, Of the University Of
Pennsylvania
REPORTS FIRST
The conference will be opened at l0:15
...,nrrov morning with reports presented
-, president Godfrey, DIR. Samuel y. Capen,
.sscutIye secretary of the United States
t,,rsau Of Education, and DR.. Frederick c.
pYrrv president of Hailton' College. secre-
..rv of the committee. report on the
W. of the committees on education in
S,o,e councils will follow, presented by Dr.
s,..ry Suzzalo president Of the University
~ wa shinRton DR.. F. L. Bishop dean OF
n. University of Pittsburgh, will report
W ,he work of the engineering committee.
n, Gnv Stanton Ford. of the committee on
.uhc Information, will also report.
The afternoon. following a luncheon to
=, gyen the delegates in the picture gallery
!, Drexel Institute Will be given over to
S,scnssIon. opened by President Hibben, of
prInceton. and Or. p p. Claxton, United
s,.t.s commissioner of Education. A re-
s.r,,or 10 the guests will be rendered by
rI.s,dsnt Godfrey and Mrs. Godfrey later
a. ,hs afternoon at their home in Cynwyd.
ei- Robert Falconer president of the
,,.ivsrsI,v of Toronto former Ambassador
a. Germany Charlemagne Tower and
noc,or Godfrey will address the evening
.orvocation in the Academy of Music A
smoker will follow, at the Art club.
Sir Robert Falconer has been closely
identified with the war work OF Canada. He
4 the author OF Inc Neiihat t'"sVNS ",u
~ Meaning for Canada" published In 1915.
IN. SATURDAY PROGRAM
IN Saturday morning, in the auditorium
:, nrexel Institute addresses will be made
Nv Sir william Peterson, president of Nc
cln University Toronto: DIR. A Stanley
Mackenzie president of Dalhousie College
and University, Canada; the Rev. DIR. Jo-
,.nh g Mulry, president of Fordham Col
ls9e. Or. Robert Judson Alley, president ot
N. University of Maine and of the National
: educational Association. and DIR. John Hus-
ton Finley, Commissioner Of Education OF
the State of New York and president or
New York state University.
Resolutions prepared as the result Of the
m,e,ings held on Friday will be presented
At the afternoon session, The conference
will conclude with dinner on saturday
night al the Bellevue -Stratford Hotel.