The Washington herald., 1920-11-02
YALE TO ELECT
new PRESIDENT
Two Clergmen and One
Educator, All Sons Of Eli,
Being Considered.
By GEORGE PERRY MORRIS.

BY GEORGE PERRY MORRIS.
is fale's coming president TO be
a clergyman or an educator7 To %
choose a preacher would be 70 re-
vert to the practise OF foru,er days.
broken when Arthur T. Hscley was
elected VIII the new executive be
graduate Of Yale or Of another
institution There are Yale alumni
who demand that inbreetinr be
stopped and that the university e1-
pertinent with the plan OF taking an
alien Signs point to = choice be-
tween two clergymen and one edu-
Gator, but all sons Of Eli. The .du-
Gator is Herbert +. Hawkes.. dean
OF Columbia University. Of Yale 80
a mathematician by calling. a write
ot text books, and q man with nu-.
than national reputation In hi
specially. He had a year az actHa-
dean Of Columbia and did 90 w.rE
In the executive position that Hs
was chosen dean in 1915
OF the two clergymen who have
survived the critical examination NJ
the special committee Of the cor
pOrauon OF Tale and who are on
the list OF eligfbles, one, Rev. Ansor
.
the university for twenty years aud
his friends have long had him IN
mind as President HadIey's succrs-
sor. The other Is Rev Henry Sloan,
CONN Of New York City. a leadsr
IN the Presbyterian Church NortI
and one Of the best preachers o.
the country as well as a man with
wide social and religious vision
College Seeks Funds.
Alumni Of ancient William AM
Mary college, in Virginia. are ap-
pesling for funds with which 10
erect a science hall. and they nat
urally have coupled tho plan will
the Crcoitablc Que Of also maxim
| u memorial 20 William Earlou.
Rogers. the institutions most d.
! tinguished alumnUs 70 win fame as
/ scientist and as an educator. HI
name Is inscparably associated viii
a Boston institution. the Massachu-
setts Institute Of Technology, than
which there is no higher Of it's TYP
in the country. He laid it's founda-
tions and built its FIRST superstrur-
ture Of method and ideal. But be-
did more. As Charles w. Eliot
president emeritus Of Harvard. has
pointed out, Rogers also pioneered
In the hcld OF laboratory instruc-
tion. and he mad a great contrI -
button to cdVcation and 10 scicnrn
applied 10 manufacture and art -
Massachusetts and Now EnrIaul.
because Of the larEC debt they oya
this distinguished NiTEinian, Bra
going To- give handsomely to n,
science hall fund at William anu
Mary. Rogers caught the CLEAN
from his father. Patrick kerr RoE
ers, who taught chemistry at tn,
Virginia college. This North of
Ireland teacher trained four sons 10
be eminent scientists. WIllisp RAJ o
ton. Henry D.. James Blythe suG
Robert Empie.
Jspan's Debt 10 FeneIIosS.
There is a monument now stand
ing in front OF the Fine Arts Inst
tute in Tokyo. recently erected and
unveiled. which is Japan's tribUts
to Ernest FeneIloss. j. depicts his
Countenance and gives him the title
OF 'Sensi," or beloved teacher. or
the base there is inscribed d reCor,
/ OF his career in Japan, his achieve
ments as a student. teacher, and in
terpreter OF japanese art both G,
the OCcident and TO the Japanes
themselves. Nor is II forgotten Z,
d af
Buddhism. Tho INCIDENT is one pleas
o ant to note in these days OF strainc,
d relations between Japan and III
United States. The fraternity Of ar
I often rises above that OF race. r.
liEion. politics and trade. Fen
D ncllosa, like LafCadio Hesrn. haI
experimental aGinities for thiuE
f Oriental and he remained more con
stant TO his new friends and teach
J crs Of wisdom and beauty thar
d Hearn did. II you want 10 soc Wha
a his pioneering in the field IL japan
csc art did for the United states. 81
far as IL led him to buy what he &C
[ mired. walk through the unrivs lcl
. japanese section OF thu Boston Nj
p scum OF Fine Arts. Thithcr wen,
their way most japanese Of cmI
nence who visit this country TO "a
E treasures that are not duplicated g.
home.
Another Dodge aEnIists.'
The transmission OF the ideal %
public service from generation O.
generation Of certain wealth
n American families IS one OF th
I finest phases Of our national ln'
e To illustrate. Bayard Dodge hs
just been chosen TO direct America
n Relief Activities in Syria, and quit
v naturally. for ne has been teach,
= for. seven years in the America
!. College at Beirut. His great grCs
a grandfather was one Of the lcsdin
merchants. Of New England stool
resident in New York who preHchc
~ AGAINST war. His GTeatgreat grand
- father was one Of the earliest hEhl
ers for temperance. His grandfathc
was a leader in the Y. NJ. (.
moveme ent-natioual and Intern
tional-and was a StaunCh SUI
Il porter Of DR.. Parkhurst in his Vic
N crusades His father, Cleveland
o Dodge. for years has aided IN edl
eAtionsl and missionary work in th
n Near East The name may b
d Dodge. but the spirit always show