Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-25
GRADUATE SCHOOL
INECONOM|CS HERE
Type of Institution Coolidge
Advocated in N. E. A. Talk
Already Exists.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

President Coolidge told the National
Education Association on Washing
tons Birthday that his ideal of ma
tional university" is an institution
s'for post graduate and original re-
search work" at Washington. He ad-
vocated such an institution because
of the abundant sources and oppor-
tunities already located in the Capital
City
The teachers Of the country now
ending their great convention in
Washington were, for the most part,
Rstonished to learn that precisely the
kind of institution favored by the
President is already in existence. 1t
Is young, but It has already graduated
its first students. 1t is the Robert
Bookings Graduate School of Eco
pomics and Government" and is about
to celebrate its second birthday.
Some of the best known educators
In the United States comprise the
Bookings Schools board of trustees.
advisory council and faculty staff.
The trustees are Robert S. Brookings
of st. Louis, the president and found
er of the school: Harold G.. Moulton,
vice president, and MeSsrs. Frederic
a. Delano, George Eastman. Frank
J. Goodnow, jerome d. Greene, Yer
non l.. Kellogg, John c. Merriam.
Leo S. Rowe and Charles D. Walcott.
Advisory Council.
The advisory council and faculty
staff include W. +. Willoughby, Ed
win G.. Nourse, Thomas Walker Page,
Walton II. Hamilton, David Friday,
Louis Levine, Isador Lubin and F.
W. Tryon. Among the periodical lee
turers are DR.. Felix Frankfurter of
Harvard, Prof. J. Laurence Laugh
lin of the University of Chicago, AL
win Johnson, editor of the American
Dictionary of Biography, and II. Will
mott Lewis. American correspondent
of the London Times.
Thirty-tive studentS-about 20 men
and : women-are now enrolled at
the Graduate School. which occupies
an imposing trio of buildings of its
own on / street. All of them are
resident students" occupying living
quarters on the campus" Colleges
and universities all the way from
New England to California are rep
resented in the student body. Two
students are from Canada, one from
.Alsace- Lorraine. The degree of doc
tor of philosophy was conferred at
the first graduation exercises upon a
class OF -.
to give men and women. already grad
yates of approved colleges and univer-
stiles. unusual opportunities for de-
velopment in the fields OF economics
and politics. The object is to train
them to take an active, practical part
in graphing with current problems in
America and in the world at large
In the United States itself. Bookings
students are taught how to come to
scientific grips with actual questions
like the tariff, taxation. the merchant
marine. railroad consolidation. labor
the coal industry and immigration In
the realm Of world politics, students
specialize in matters Ike international
arbitration, ornaments and the other
issues troubling statesmen.
Grounding In Statecraft.
The school is intended primarily fol
those who wish to make a profession
OF economics or political science If q
young man or woman feels he NAV
be destined some day to be a member
OF Congress, the governor of a State
q cabinet officer, a foreign ambas
eador. or even President of the United
States, the BrookingS School holds on,
the possibilities of a grounding in
statecraft that has not yet been at
tempted by any school, college or uni
yersity in the country.
The sources and opportunities
eXtant in Washington, at which Presi
dent Coolidge limited in addressing the
National Education Association, are
literally drawn upon by Brookings
men and women. Students frequent
all the great departments and subdivi
sfons Of the Government, and are con
stantly in touch with Government ant
congressional personages. Affiliated
with the school are the Institute o.
Economics and the Institute of Gov
eminent Research. These are also tn,
foundations Of Robert S. Bookings
the ST. Louis philanthropist after
whom the graduate school is named.
For the school year 1926-1927 Georg,
Eastman of Rochester. N Y, ha
made available fellowships for abou
20 students, providing a credit of from
$3.50 to 81 900 for the required studen
fee OF $1,000 year. The fee include
full residence facilities. The list O
'profciencies" in this pioneer estah
lishment for the education of youn,
Americans in statecraft includes sever
major items; viz, l. disinterested at
titude; 2, critical power; 8, a sense Q
reality; 4, ability to handle a problem
B, a general acquaintance with Htera
ture; 6, an ability to write, and, 7, al
ability to speak.
Copyright. 1927