The Washington herald., 1920-06-02
In the Limelight
BY George Perry Morris.

Exit Talcott Williams. Enter ].
w. Cunli6e as director of the Pulit-
ger School Of Journalism. Columbia
university. The nominal formal
ties were sundered a year ago. Now
formally the new ones begin. II
is a case of promotion based on
merit. Professor Cunliffe has taught
English in the school and been its
associate director from the first He
10 an Englishman of trained family
OF journalists, with a Manchester
College teaching experience. and
active service in Canadian news
paper making ere he came to this
country. McGill University in Mon
treal had him on its stan Of teach
ers OF English. and there Columbia
University found him In 1906. Later
he taught at the University Of Wis
consin. During the recent war he
did admirable service as British
director of the American University
Union. What / would like to know
Is whether be has become an Amer
lean citizen, or is still an Anglo
American. There Is satisfaction in
the thought that he is a man with
cultural" background like his
predecessor, DR.. Williams, who, by
the way, among the literary tasks
on which he is engaged. has a his
tory Of American Journalism, a book
sadly needed.
Henry +. Reutt dahl we'll known
as a marine Fainter and chronicIer
OF the doings In the navy, in which
he once served. had exceptional fa-
cilities placed at. his disposal dur
ing the war for registering by art
dramatic and memorable as
poets OF the conflict. Incide ntaIly,
of course he accumulated material
that will be OF never-waning value
as he follows his professional ca
| reer Missouri's new State capital
Is to get some OF his first work,
the State having signed a contract
with him to decorate the naval sec
ton of The Soldiers and Sailors Mu-
scum which the capitol building Is
10 include as one of its most at
tractive departments.
Miss Amy Lowell. CT Boston, is to
read a poem at Columbia Un!ver-
sity's comnt ice ment this week.
Thus does the out"tandipg figure in
New Erglands literary circle get
recognition from the academic and
cultural center of New York. Wom-
an hitherto has not figured prom
| inently, IL at all. in such functions.
! Mans prescription of woman has
extended to this field, for reasons
that now seem silly. The country
from the days of Anne Bradstreet
down to the present has never been
without women who were both in
tellectual and more or less revolu-
tionary, as is Miss Lowell. She is
by far the more important con-
temporary member of a family that
in this generation has bred PercivaI
Lowell, the astronomer and A. Law
renee Lowell, the educator. That
she is not typically feminine, ac-
cording TO past standards, is evil
dent. In range of thought, knowl-
edge of European and Asiatic points
of view and standards. vigor of
polemic in defense Of her self and
her beliefs, and variety of media
and technique. New England never
has had her equal among women
and some would add-or men. The
fact that she is somebody much
above the ordinary is proved by the
fact that she is fought over so much
and so bitterly. If Columbia honors
her before Harvard does, it is only
proof that a prophecies, like a
prophet, is not without honor. etc.
Art critics. Robert Lincoln and
other persons to the contrary not
| withstanding. the George Grey Bar
nard statue of Lincoln is to live on
and on. in replica as we'll as in it's
| original form. The original now
IN N
cinnati. as the home of the patron
who gave the commission to Bar
nard, naturally has one copy, and
now Louisville. Ky, is to have an
other. thanks to the civic spirit and
| generosity of Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac
H Bernstein. of that city.
\ Selection of Nathan Straus as first
president of the newly created
American Jewish Congress was q
natural proceeding. With a Carne-
! gie-like endeavor to rid himself of
wealth, he has been pouring monvy
into the treasures of Jewish causes
for years past. The remaining years
of his life he Is consecrating to
restoration of a Jewish state in Pal
estine, albeit under British manda-
| tory power. There he will resice
much OF the time. Not the least of
his titles to eminence as a citizen
of New York has been his steadfast
Tight for a supply of first class milk
to the children Of the city, and this
against the obstruction of politi-
clans and milk producers and dis
tributers to whom child-life con-
servation has no meaning.
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