The Washington herald., 1920-04-17
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris.

l. d. Coffman, the newly-chosen
president Of the University of Min
nesota. is an educator. He is taken
out OF the faculty. His speciality is
pedagogy. His merits are those OF a
specialist in education and not those
of money getter or an administrator.
Like Cornell University, which 10
now seeking a president, the Mime
sofa institution has decided to rec
ognize the claims of the teacher
president and forsgo any advan-
tages that might come with a finan-
Icier-president. 1t is an old-fash-
ioned policy. but II is a sensible
one, and heralds a better day in
our university education The State
of Indiana claims President-elect
Coffman as a son; he made his mark
as a teacher in the school of educa-
tion at the University OF Illinois. and
then Minnesota put him at the head
of the pedagogical department of
the Minneapolis institution. Now he
will have full swing.
President-elect James Rowland
Angel of the Carnegie Corporation.
New York, is the son of Michigan
iUniversity's long and renowned
president, James r. Angel. He
probably has refused more college
presidencies than any man in the
country. shington's educational
and scientific circles have come to
know him well during the war and
since the armistice. partly because
of his share in perfecting the or
ganization of the student army
training corps, but more especially
owing to his chairmanship of the
National Research Council. He now
goes to New York to shape the exec
utive policy and help plan the work
of an organization with much wealth
and already famous for the scope OF
it's benefcence. To the knowledge
he gained in the University of Chi
cago where he has been a professor
since 1894 and dean of the faculties
since 1911. Mr.. Angel now adds the
wider knowledge of men and of edu-
cational institutions that has come
to him during his service in WASH
inEton. 1t is a case of a unique op-
portunity for power and service
coming to a specially trained man.
In the days OF Jay Gould's ILL
fame. exploitation Of the public and
looting of railroads. the public al
ways Disseminated in their thought
of the family between him and his
daughter. Helen. 4 similar distinc-
tion Today is made by some persons
between the record of John d
Rockeie1ivT, sr-- and his son of the
same name. Good men differ radl-
cally over the house o. Morgan past
and present; but all agree that Miss
Anne Morgan is now one of the fin
est eXemplars Of American woman
hood that we have sent to Europe TO
aid in reconstruction of men and
women. homes and villages. She
has just started of for France with
teight new recruits to labor for the
American committee for devastated
France. special attention to be given
to the farmers syndicates. Instruc-
tion in scientific farming by compe-
tent teachers drawn from the United
States is part of the program. With
! her financial connections here she
! has not found il difficult to arrange
for large exports of farm machinery
to be used in the work she superin-
!
tends.
Henry II. kitson, whose Minute
Man" at Lexington. is one of the
most virile and satisfactory pieces
of sculpture produced by a native
artist. has been commissioned 10
design a symbolical statue OF the
American Woman to he set up at
ancient Plymouth during the COM
ing tercentenary celebration. Kit
son is an interesting, illustration OF
the Western born artist of talent
finding a satisfactory abode and
center OF operation in venerable
New England.
Changers. "ProGressives" and anti
Newberry Republicans have just
elected Fred NJ. Warner, Michigan's
representative. on the Republican
National Committee. 1t is an inter
esting combination of hackers. and
the result is another source of
worry to the Republican machine .''
The newly elected committeeman n
was governor of the State in 1905.
Henry Ford to him is not the bogey
that he is to some folks.
Gen. Smuts. one of the largest
and finest figures of the Versailles
Peace Conference. an idealist. and
yet a practical statesman, is back
in South Africa endeavoring to build
up "a best man government" which
will defeat by its coalition methods
the rising demand for a republic
which the Dutch Nationalists for
merly led by HerZog are fostering.