Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-31
BRITISH EDUCATORS HERE
FOR BETTER COOPERATION
EN-Prcsidents Taft and Roosevelt,
Nicholas Murray Butler and Other
Prominent Men Receive Visitors.
WILL TOUR EASTERN STATES
Mission Thoroughly Representative.
Includes Vice-Chanccilor Of Uniycr-
sity of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Cam
bridge and Dublin Represented.

oriuge ana Dublin Represented.
NEW YORK. October 3O--A party
OF distinguished Britons. representing
tho leading universities OF the United
Kingdom. has arrived here from Eng
land on the invitation OF the Council
OF National Defense. having been sent
ny the British government as mis-
sion 10 Inquire into tho best means OF
securing closer cooperation between
British and American cducu tional in
stitutions BY such means it Is felt.
the bonds Of sympathy and under
standing. which now unite the Eng
lish- speakinE world will be greatly
The party. consists OF DIR. Arthur
Everett Shipley. Sir Henry Alexander
@sTs 's sir Hem h Snnss Mewpu,m
Jolly, Miss Caroline Sturgeon and Miss
Rose Sidkwick The American Coun-
en- OF Education has undertaken all
an exceedingly strong committee has
been formed Tor that purpose.
Iec IaG Mon nhs bile Elihu ,itoot ras Sc
most distinguished men in the
United states are cooperating with
him, as the list of committeeman con-
oraoic James NJ. Beck, Cardinal Glib
hons. Judge Elbert Ii. Gary, the Hon
9 n lanes w. Gerard. MIR. William
MIR; }. plerpont Morgan. MIR Otto H.
kahn, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Mr.
ch G,5a n: schwab; Mr. John d. Itock
eIeller. Jr., President Nicholas Muir
ray. Butler. and the Honorable w. H.
The mission Will participate in a
Of state Universities in Chicago on
November and IL. and in meetings
OF INC Association Of American Uni
motion of Engineering Education at
Ghusetts Institute Of Technology from
itinerary includes Washington. Dalti-
more, Philadelphia. New Haven, Am
herst and smith College. Boston, Mon
Paul, ST. Louis. Cincinnati, Lexinx-
tour practically hogan. at New York
Win Win their arrival and ends al Com
week In December.
The mere list of names OF tho mem.
oushiy representative they are Of the
Sr As,hur Si Esere,t sn fias bF' rias.
S Sh;I,s. Of The University Of Cam
United states, where he has been an
hono.ed guest many times. lie is an
honorary ID. Sc; of Princeton univer-
Entomologis,s and of the Hclmintho.
logical Society OF Washington. In his
tant offices that i would require half
them. He is a notable writer on 20
raphy, bu, his standard text books
on zoology. are accepted as authori-
tative all the world over. His spe-
animals. and that means a good deal
TO The men In the trenches.
Sir Henry Alexander Micrs. vice.
T shamieilGr; of mro The University OF
graphy: began his life's work in the
mineral department OF the British
Museum lie has been for many years
lege and fellow of Magdalen College
oxford, was elected a fellow OF the
Royal Society in lSe6, has been prcsi.
l., an honorary doctor OF the univer-
sites OF Sheffield and Christiania. He
Is = great traveller. and long ago.
visited and reported public and private
mineral collections of Norway. Sweden.
Russia and part OF Germany. He has
South America. and has even had ad-
ventures in the air. us he is one Of the
pioneers in bal looming. Thirty years ago
he he was the only man who escaped UNI
hurt from Il bad accident which re-
suited In an attempt to balloon from
London to Vienna.
REV; Edward Mewhurn Walker has
University u oxford :" during i III the past sne
thirty years His interests lie chiefly
in the neId OF ancient history, and
particularly the constitutional history
OF Greece. AS senior tutor OF Queens
College. Oxford, and a member of the
Hebdomadal Council he nils no small
part in the educational life OF that
great university.
Sir Henry Jones. professor Of moral
philosophy. is AN old personal friend
Of Mr.. Lloyd George: Like the Brit
ish Prime Minister he won his way
from Mss humble T;Io beginnings as his ta,he
himself was apprenticed to the same
trade. lie has never lost the craft
10 stu! boasts that he can make a
shoe with any man In Glasgow" Eut
ne has made more than shoes. lie has
o9''t up great reputation In al parts
teacher, lecturer and q writer.
DR.. John Jolly has bccn professor OF
geology and mineralogy in the Uni
versity OF Dublin for the past twenty
physicist, hu! is more widely Known
from popular point Of view as the
pioneer OF photography In colors.
Dr.. Jolly deals with such opposite sub
jects as the ascent Of sap in trees. the
age of the ocean. and the origin of
yachtsman, and a good fighting man.
for he took part in the defense Of his
college during the rebellion of 1915.
Miss Caroline SpurEeon is not only
n professor of English literature or
The University of London: bnt heads
lege and fellow Of the Royal So
ciety of Literature. She is most high
~ estimated both in England and