New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
School Solely for
Social Research to
Open Here Monday
Faculty to Include Educators
From Many Big lnstitu-
lions: Will Aim to Turn
Out New Type of Leader

The School for Social Research will
npen Monday at 400 West Twenty-third
Street. Its purpose is 'to encourage q
more dynamic relation between the So
cial sciences and Industrial, political
and social affairs" On its faculty are
professors and former professors of
Yale. Harvard, Columbia, Wisconsin
and Missouri institutions. 1t will be
omen to thinking men and women"
who Will not be required to take en-
trance examinations or show previous
academic training
1t is the hope of the founders, Pro-
fessor James Harvey Robinson, of
Columbia, who heads the faculty, said
Yesterday, to develop the school from
the experimental stage into an insti-
tuition analogous to the Ecolc Libre des
Sciences Politiques, which was estab-
lished in Paris as a result of the social
upheaval following the Franco-Prus-
sian War.
Some of the Faculty
The faculty will include Professor
Charles Austin Beard, formerly profes-
sor OF history at Columbia; Professor
Harold J. Lask, of Harvard, who will
conduct course on Representative
government; Mrs. George Haven Put
nam, formerly dean of Barnard Col
lege; Professor Wesley Clair Mitchell,
Of Columbia; Professor Thorstein
Veben, of the University Of Missouri;
Professor Frederick w. Ellis, of Colum-
bia; Professor Horace NJ. kallen, for
and author Of Basis of Durable
Peace" who viii conduct course on
The Evolution of the International
Mind; Professor 7. S. Adams, of
Yale, who will explain the process of
the income and excess taxation laws,
and Professor Robinson Courses on
employment which will deal with
right physical working conditions. Sc
lection OF employees, employees welfare,
wages and kindred subjects" will be in
charge Of Henry c. Metcalf. Ordway
Tead, William f. Mosher, Robert W
Bruere, Robert Il. Chaddock, assistant
professor Of statistics, at Columbia, and
Erwin II. Schell, of the Massachusetts,
institute vi ltNIlIlO4OS('
Anthropology, psychology, political
economy, finance. statistics, jurispru-
dence. sociology and similar topics will
he taught. not to impart "merely
cultural information" but to develop n
practical application of these subjects
in an understanding of "thc great ques-
tions which are arising out of the re
adjustment period following the war"
The school win not be so radical as
the Socialists nor so conservative as
the established universities said Pro
fessor Robinson yesterday. at will be
undogmatic in all its teachings. 1t will
approach no subject with preconceived
opinions.
"The school is not to be an asylum
for the unseated disbarred. and un-
frocked, any more than it is to be a
stronghold for established tradition"
Need of Accurate Information
"A group of instructors has been
selected who recognize the pressing ne
cessity of collecting accurate informa-
ton about POLITICAL social and indus
trial conditions and who are capable
Of bringing our ever increasing knowl-
edge Of natural science, history, psy-
chology and anthropology to bear on
the task Of social and economic re-
adjustment
THE school will turn cut new
class OF leaders. 1t ought to turn out
new kind of asprant to political of
nee, who will be clever enough to gain
MS constituents support by fair
means and represent their real inter-
ests, not those Of hi4 party machine.
We have already acquired owner
ship Of the building in which we are
starting. Many prominent and progress
sive thinkers have come to the aid Of
the movement We are going to grow"
Some professors who have identified
themselves with the school have lett
former positions because Of differ
ences Of opinion on how university
should be managed.
Question and the Answer
Bearing on this point. the newly
formed faculty ask. "Why new
school?' They answer it in their an
nouncement thus:
AN established university, on ac-
count Of its diverse obligations, is
necessarily hampered in investigating
and teaching subjects of such contem-
porary interest as are involved in So
cias relations II inquiries on the part
OF the social science faculty lead to
any controversy the whole university,
win all It's professional schools and
rs undergraduate department. feels the
result. Its form Of government also
1ends to discourage independence,
s,nee the administration is response
DIe 10 trustees, who in turn represent