The Washington herald., 1920-11-22
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SCHOOLLEADER
Head Of Washington Uni
versity May Lead Bay 9
State Institute.

Atlantic Coast with another key
man" in the educational neid?
hear that President suzzzllo. OF the
State University OF Washington. has
been in Cambridge. meeting the Of
ncials aud students Of the MAssa-
chusetts Institute of Technology.
they sizing him up and he doing the
same with them. IL he Is chosen it
will be a victorf for the group
within the electing body that has
steadfastly insisted that what the
institution needed was an admins
traitor Of proved capacity who also
knew the problems Of education and
who had specialized in pcdagogics.
There have been those who insisted
that the new president should be
scientist Of eminence; ana others
who declared that what the Tech"
most needed was a man who can rot
money for it DIR. SuzzalIo's personal
and professional career has been
brilliant. His youth in San Jose
was humble. Leland Stanford. Jr,
University gave him a place TO get
a toe-hold on the ladder of fame and
Intellectual development and he has
not slipped a rung. He has taught
written text books and admins
tered. In 1918 he went from CALI
forniA to the presidency OF the Uni
versity OF Washington, and when
We went into the war he became
chairman of the State Council Of De-
| fense. The record that he then
made showed his capacity TO handle
large civic problems in a mastery
way. His interest in the industrial
problem is acute, and IL he were
to come to the Tech" he would
Jump that institution right into the
| fight OF the American Engineering
Council, recently formed, TO put an
end to the labor-capital warfare.
The Cat That Never Came.
In 1918. when Prof. william Lyon
Phelps, of Yale University. coIloqui-
ally known as BILLY Phelps" lee
tured at the Central High School.
he had hardly got under way and
snuggled his audience in the hollow
Of his hand when a cat walked out
from the rear OF the stage to COM
plicate the situation. Billy" with
out ceasing to talk, sidled over TO
the cat, picked It up. placed il on
his manly breast, stroked the feline
ii4terloper, aided il TO descend when
it became restless, and continued to
lecture, while the cat made itself at
home on the prompter's box and be-
came a Creative listener" In due
time the cat walked of the stage,
and the Yale litterateur got the
glad hand" from an audience,
which thought. Did you ever see
the beat of that" In 1919, when
! Frof. Phelps lectured before the
same audience in the same place.
, the same cat again appeared. and
again the New Haven psychologist
: controlled both the cat and his au-
! dience. But mingled with the ad-
miration for his technique was
scepticism. Was fhe cat a minor
member OF the Phelps cast Did il
also come from New Haven? Twelve
, months have pass-d and the cynics
have had time TO null over their
suspicious. They went last week to
hear Prof. Phelps lecture for a third
, time. But no cat appeared. The
audience was disappointed. Faith
in the lecturer and in the ethics OF
: contemporary Yale has revived.
! The BakIanon-NIuett ControverSy.
e Herbert L. willett president OF
the Church Federation Of Chicago.
!, and George Baklanoff. the Russian
E barytone. who has returned so sing
: this winter in the local opera COM
pany, are having a controversy. The
issue is one that the managers OF
the opera company will have to de-
$ eide. and IL probably will be settled
0 on prudential grounds. and the Rus
sian probably will not sing. for his
d opinion to the contrary notwith-
standing. namely. that a boycott OF
the company by the church people
OF the city would not lower the box
: office receipts, is an opinion that he
l might revise were he to sit down
and talk with Maxim Gorky. Bak-
lanon is reported as saying that his
ability as a singer and not his per-
= sonal morals counts. The president
: of the church federation Is not bas-
ing his protest on any abstract is
A sue of ethics being above aesthetics.
5 but on the concrete fact that Bak-
lanoff has been arrested on Mann
law charges. and that when he first
a landed at Ellis Island the other dRy
a he was ordered deported. Now he
r is out on parole. In defending him
$ self the Russian is reported as say
ing that very few artists make
= any pretensions Of being particu-
n larly moral" How far this will
u make him persona grata with the
e other singers OF the Chicago Opera
Company time will tell. Incidental
n ly IL may be remarked that Mr.. Will
: lett is not a gutter. and he has
1 back Of him a powerful organiza-
y tion.
n In Control of the .sThunderer- at rs.
. There are several interesting
facts about Sir Campbell Stuart.
the new managing director Of the
London Times by the grace Of Lord
Northcliffe. He is only IS years old.
/, Young men have a better chance in
= Great Britain today than formerly.
They are taking a leaf out OF Amer
ican practice. Sir Campbell Is a
native OF Montreal Canada. He
= joins other men in the ministry and
y out of IL who are bringing TO Eng
land first-class ability from 4 do
minion that is ruled by the Scotch.
Sir Campbell was in Washington
during 1917 as secretary Of the
British war mission. Therefore 20
some extent he knows how and why
the wheels go round in this Capital.
Last, but not least, he was deputy
director OF propaganda in enemy
lcountries, and thus was educated in
the inner life OF many nations with
which the Times must deal, reporto-