The sun., 1919-02-18
NO FORCED STUDIES
FOR JUNIOR LEAGUE
Acting Head Denies Members
Must Attend New School
Research Lectures.
TOO ADVANCED FOR GIRLS
Barnard College Course Sc
lected for Students, Says
Mrs. Barnes.


Thorstein veblen. James Harvey ROBIN
son and Charles A. Beard. the former
Columbia University man now listed as
lecturer at the New School for Social
Research. The dreadful rumor that
course at the y. g. s. r. was to be
made mandatory. obligatory and an alb
solute requirement for Junior Leaguers
was downed for once and all yesterday
BY statement from Mrs Courtlandt
y. Barnes. who Is acting head or the
organization in the absence OF Mrs.
willard d. Straight, It's president.
The young women OF the J. j.. are to
improve their minds and develop their
capacities by attending courses OF lee.
lures on social service. and feature OF
the general reorganization that is
planned is a provisional membership Tor
applicants, attendance on said courses
being required of provisional members
who are TO remain in that status for the
period OF two years. But the courses
will not be taken at the New School
where Prof. Beard lectures. On The con-
trary they will be at that w. X. old
school known as Barnard College, a
part OF Columbia University from which
Prof Beard. resigned some time ago.
Mrs. Barnes Explains Matters.
I'VE would like very much to know
how the story got into the papers that
some members OF the league believed
they were going to be required to attend
lectures at the New School for Social
Research, and that there was trouble
over It and so forth" Mrs. Barnes said
yesterday afternoon at the league office
| on West Thirty-ninth street There is
! no truth in It," Then Mrs Barnes handed
| out a typewriter statement which she
| said she wished could be printed in the
papers just as it was written. Here 1t
| is, just as It was written:
THE Junior League wishes to correct
| the msstatement printed in some of this
mornings papers TO the effect that an
| attempt was being made by the Junior
League to require of its members at
| tendance at lectures to be given at the
New School of Social Research
| mo such attempt has been made. nor
| lie any such action contemplated.
"a committee on training courses was
| appointed at the request of the league
| 10 recommend a course of study and field
work to increase the power Of service OF
its members
Such n course Is at present being
worked out with Miss Gildersleeve, dean
Of Barnard College. and II the contem-
plated arrangements can he made the
Junior League training course will be
! conducted by Barnard College in cooper
/ alton with the department of extension
teaching of Columbia University.
Before reaching this decision five
! schools were presented for consideration.
The New School Of Social Research was
one Of these. It was found that the
courses offered by the new school were
(, for advanced and mature students and
therefore not suitable for the Junior
League training course"
Unnecessary Alarm. They say.
A mild air OF agitation pervaded the
little offices OF the league, but Mrs
Barnes and the other members present
denied there was any difficulty at all
The whole thing had been threshed on,
some time ago. they insisted. and tho
papers were fooled by odd stuff" The
fact was, they said. some girls father
got frightened over the Solshevk bogy
got it into his head that hia daughter wa.
going to he made into an I. w. w, anC
all because some pamphlet or other ad
vertising the New School for Social Re
search was circulated at n recent meet
ing of the league
Pamphlets are always being circu
lated, but that doesn't mean We are
going to. accept what they say" ex
planned Mrs. Barnes. She declined tc
say whether the girls father in question
was DR.. William T. Manning OF Trinit,
Church. but Miss Elisabeth A. Manning
| is understood TO have been ono Of thos,
who disapproved OF the New School To-
Social Research.
The fact that Mrs Straight. presiden
of the league, was one Of the founders
OF that same New School and appar
entity saw no harm in including Profs
Beard Robinson and Beblen on it's lis
OF speakers doesn't complicate matters
at all, Mrs. Barnes declared. Mrs
Straight is now In the South resting. ant
according to league officers has taken NJ
part in this business. Everybody abou
the league expressed a bland absence o
interest in the down with the priv
legged classes" trend OF utterances o
Profs. Beard, Beblen and Robinson. y,
reason why they should be afraid to lie
the Junior eLaguers hear that sort o
talk. they said. only just now 1t was
trifie old for them. That was the onl,
reason they rejected the New School 70
Social Research and turned to good oil
Barnard, up under the egis of conserva
tive Nicholas Murray Butler.
Reporters Kept From Meeting.
Just what happened in the meeting o
|
the home OF Mrs. John T. Pratt, Eas
Sixty-n rst street, was not revealed. sine
y reporters were kept far away from TN
meeting room.
! -~iK meeting lastfN unt7 NEARBY mid
night, however am at its concluso
Mrs. Barnes gave out a statement I
the effect that the question OF publicit
in connection with the Junior League
lecture course was discussed that "thi
publicity seems to have been founded o
a circular letter sent to some member
OF the league. but not sent out by
member of the league, aud was founde
on INSTRUMENTATION. The educat.ons
= committees report was unanimously &C
) copied. and Dean Gildersleeve of Rel
. nard College will be asked to outlin
the course in cooperation with the dc
lumbia University"
would admit that the resolution placin
the league on record rs against sendin
! It's members for their courses TO III
: new school of social research had bee
introduced or even mentioned.
barnard and In Guardia TO Speal
. Major Augustus Barnard of the .lO7t
United States Infantry (Seventh Ne
York; and Representative Fiorello !
n La Guardia, formerly Major in u,
!. United States Aviation Section, attache
. to the italian army, will be the principi
> speakers tonight at a rally at the Ba
= Association OF men and women who wis
a TO volunteer their services as speaker
I to encourage sales of War Saving