Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-29
RESEARCH SCHOOL
. IS STARTED HERE
Students Will DeIve Into
Economics and Science
of Government.

Washington has new and unique
graduate school of economics and
government, instituted under the
leadership of DR.. Robert S. Brookings,
president of Washington University,
st. Louis. in which some 90 fellow
ships are offered for research work
an the National Capital.
This was originally started as a
Residence foundation" under the
auspices of Washington University,
but developed so rapidly that it was
found desirable to give it complete
independence. 1t now has an en-
dowment of more than $1,000,000. 1t
has started in full operation with
about so men and women students.
This school will differ from other
institutions not merely in the fact
that it is devoted exclusively to
graduate work but that much greater
emphasis will be placed by it than by
other colleges and universities upon
research work, and upon training the
students to engage actively in pur-
suits calling for special knowledge of
economics and government, rather
than for the teaching profession.
Advantages offered Here.
One of the reasons for locating the
school in Washington was not merely
that Washington is the seat of gov
eminent, but that it could work in
close cooperation with two research
institutions occupying the two fields
covered by the new school-namely,
the Institute of Economics, Car
negie institution, of which DR. Brook
ings is president and of which Harold
6. Moulton is director and the Insti-
tute of Government Research, of
which DR.. Bookings is chairman and
William +. Willoughby is director.
DR.. Willoughby was formerly profess
sor of government at Princeton and
Johns Hopkins, legal adviser to the
President of China and treasurer of
Porto Rico. The Institute for Gov
eminent Research was largely re-
sponsible for the adoption of the
Federal budget system and other
Government reforms.
DR.. Bookings has been influential
in the rebuilding of the Washington
University, especially it's medical
school and allied hospitals, and has
served on number of important
Government commissions. He bears
the decoration of the French Legion
of Honor and the Italian commander
of the crown.
These three institutions-the In
stitute of Economics, the Institute
of Government Research and the
Robert Bookings Graduate School Of
Economics and Government are
completely Independent institutions,
but nevertheless work in co-opera-
ton The director and members of
the staff of the two institutes will give
staff of the two Institutions Will give
instruction in the graduate school,
but will especially assist the school
in suggesting subjects to be inveSti-
gated by the students, in aiding stu
. dents in making their Investigations
and in criticizing and checking up
their work.
Have Special Libraries.
These two Institutes have further
more accumulated special libraries of
original material in the fields of
economics and government. The ma
terial in these libraries will be freely
available to the students of the
school, and will thus relieve the
school of the necessity of building up
a technical library.
The graduate school of research, of
course will have the advantage of
being located in the Capital, where
the important agencies of the Govern
ment are located. If a student is
making research on the railroad
problem, or the regulation of trade,
or the promotion of agriculture, or
the problems of labor or finance,
resources of such government estab-
lishments as the Interstate Commerce
Commission, the Federal Trade Com
mission, the Department of Agricul-
ture, the Department of Labor and
the Treasury Department can be
taken advantage of in a way that
would not be possible elsewhere.
AS a result of all these most
favorable conditions, instruction will
be given through the requirement of
research work rather than through
the traditional method of lectures
Such lectures as are given partake
more of the nature of round liable DIS
cussions, in which the students nave
an active part.
Like Foreign Schools.
This new school is expected to per-
form much of the same functions as
the London School of Economics and
the Ecole Libre des Sciences Poltlque
at Paris.
Another special feature of the
school is that the students are ex-
pected to live ''in residence. In quar-
ters provided by the school in build
ines owned or leased by it. This is
reouired in the belief that great
Droft will be secured by the stu
dents in their closer association with
each other by living in the same
building and having a common
mess"
The school will begin the publica-
ton of a journal in the Fall to serve
primarily as means of giving pub
licity to such results of the
research studies of the students and
of members of the faculty as are OF
sufficient value to warrant publica-
ton.
To a certain extent the two insti
tutes-the Institute of Economics ant
the Institute for Government Re
search-will also make use of the
students as temporary assistants IL
carrying on their work.
This school was not only established
by DR.. Bookings, but its financing
is due largely to his own contribu
lions and to the contributions o
others secured by him.
The faculty of the school consist
of Walton H. Hamilton, professor o
economies; LeVerett 5. Lyon, profeS
sor of economics, and Walter J. Shep
ard, professor of political science. Tn
lecturers include William +. Dodd, 10
seph B. Eastman, David Friday, C.
Hardy, John A. Hobson, Vernon Kel
logg, Wilmott Lewis, Manoel d
Oliveira Lima Isador Lubin, c. f. Nc
Guire, Harold G. Moulton, Edwin A
Nourse, Thomas Walker Page, F. "
Powell Thomas Reed Powell Leo s
Rowe, James Brown Scott, Chaunce
d. Snow, F. G. Tryon, w. F. Willough
by and w. w. Willoughby.
Officers of the school are: Board c
trustees-Robert S. Bookings, president
Harold G. Moulton, vice president
Frederic A. Delano, George Eastman
Frank J. Goodnow, Jerome d. Green,
Vernon L. Kellogg John c.. Merriam
Leo S. Rowe and harles d. Walcott