Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-08-24

presented to the college by the
French government.
When DR.. Fell decided to retire
last year. the friends OF the college,
looked around for man to take MS
place-a man who would preserve
all the old traditions and lead the
college into more useful ana ruler
life. DIR. Enoch Barton Carey. presi-
dent of the Alumni Association and
professor of military science and
tactics at Johns Hopkins University,
was asked to take the big job He
was an officer in the United States
Army, with the rank of major, and
is the author of many tevt books on
military matters. He accepted after
he was promised free hand ana the
unanimous backing of the trustees
and the alumni. He receives no SAL
airy as president, nor will he accept
any, until the ambitious program for
the college, which he has outlined. is
carried out.
Realizing that the last few years
had brought about a vast change In
educational methods. DR.. Carey
girded himself for the job of re-
tanning everything that had made ST.
Johns worthwhile and experimenting
with the newest ideas. He decided
that "a military college was not the
thing" The cadet feature was i'm
mediately scrapped and the Reserve
Officers Training Corps idea substl-
tuted and urged on the student podS.
He has added many new names TO
the faculty and has many other
changes and additions in mind. The
maintenance of the present faculty is
costing the college twice as much
as the faculty of a year ago.
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THE preparatory school was elm
L mated. as we'll as all graduate
work. and the faculty and student
body intensity on the bachelor de-
gree work. This work has been in
creased in scope to make st. John S
the greatest small college in America.
In order to make the college SELF
supporting during the period OF re-
construction, DR.. Carey began cam
paign for an endowment fund OF
sso1 900. The greater part of this
sum already has been subscribed by
the alumni, and they are making
preparations to begin in the near fu-
ture campaign for $6,000,oo0-
81 600 600 for permanent endowment
and 100000 for new buildings and
other physical improvements.
DR.. Carey came to the big job
imbued with all the cherished atmos-
phere of the college, and one of the
his methods was that the rating of
the college was changed to "a" by the
State Board of Education. He is 40
wears old, is married and has four
sons. Mrs. Carey was born in Annap-
oils and is the daughter of Rear
Admiral Ross, retired. She and the
wives of the other members of the
faculty are very active in the social
life Of the city and of the college.
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building will be raised on the campus,
the gift of an eminent scientist, who
is not an alumnus. Other marks of
progress and rejuvenation are seen
in the college life. That DR.. Carey
is a man of action may be judged
from the fact that he proposed to his
wife two hours after having met her,
the proposal having been made in
the unromantic environment Of a
railroad train in the, Philippine
Islands.
The Carey plan for the future of
this old college includes a combina-
ton of up-to-the-minute efficiency
with grand old traditions. Among the
Washington men who are members
of the st. Johns Alumni Association
are Robert Crane. philanthrophist and
builder of the Crane highway; Mai
Gen, r. F. Buchanan, U. s. A.; ]. E.
Bowie, Bureau OF STANDARDS omcfal,
and DIR. c. Clagett Marbury, the
eminent surgeon, who served his
country during the Spanish-American
and the World War.
In every forward movement that
the college makes, DR.. Carey plans
that the basic foundations and the
traditions of the institution shall
always be before him. He says that
St. Johns must continue to keep the
faith of the founders as presented in
the charter: THE college shall be
founded and maintained forever upon
a most liberal plan for the benefit of
the youth Of every religious denomi-
nation. and it shall be fitted to train
up and perpetuate a succession of
able and honorable men for dis
charging the various duties and Of
fees of life, both civil and religious,
with usefulness and reputatioas