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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08
The LaD.
by ALTRFD. A. WHEAT,

Associate Justiee Of the Supreme Court OF
= the District Of Columbia.
There has been much discussion IN
recent years regarding the educatlon
which should be required Of those ABOUT
TO enter the legal profession. Not WITH
out opposition from men who believed
that admission to the bar should not
be denied those whose circumstances
prevented them from obtaining q lib
eral academic education. and who sup
ported their position by citing such
great names as Lincoln and Marshall,
the view has come to prevail that the
young man or woman who would pc
come a lawyer must have as founda-
ton fairly liberal general education
to, be followed by several years OF
special legal study.
Education Comprehensive Word.
Education Els a comprehensive word
It has been defined as the process OF
developing and training the powers and
capabilities of human brings GAS Mass
1892. The law, as it is found today In
statutes and reports, is of enormous
volume and extreme completely. To
obtain q comprehensive understanding
Of 1t requires diiigent application, &C
curats thinking and . just sense OF
proportion.
rt seems to me to be obvious thai
before entering upon the study Of the
| law the students preliminary prepare
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journalism.
BY BYRON PRICE.

Chief Of the washington Bureau. the Asso-
ciated Press
In the newspaper world, as in many
other directions, there Is greater oppor-
tunity today than ever before for the
right sort of ambitious young man. But
he must be the right sort If he hopes
to climb He must be willing to invest
the very limit of his intelligence, his
energy and his patisnce, and If he is
wise he will base the whole structure Of
his ambitions on as good an education
as his means will permit.
The opportunities are great not merely
because the business of making news
papers has become gigantic, prosper
Gus industry, but because from an edi-
torial standpoint the modern American
newspaper stands on level all its own
whether lifted by some inward urge or
carried upward by the pressure Of prog
ress all about it, today's newspaper re-
fleets stage Of development which would
have astonished readers of even short
generation ago. Side by side with the
story of great events around the world
the daily press now brings to the home
regularly a vast compendium of infor-
nation on such subjects as industry and
commerce, science, the church, the
school and the tleater. It even records
for, all to read the latest discoveries in
caring for the garden and feeding the
baby.
There has been another great change,
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cal teaching. The modern medical
trained In the theory and the laboratory
practice of the sciences. OF physics,
chemistry, bacteriology, and even ento-
nology, ana must have good cultural
background. Besides he must have
training in foreign languages, and q
sufficient endowment OF actual scien-
tific curiosity to further and assist
medical research
Temperamentally he should present
what the psychologists call the tough
minded" attitude of the laboratory
minded" sympathy of the bedside phy-
sician-the type immortalized by Ian
Maclaren in THE. Doctor Of the Old
School," who knew more Of humanity
than of the humanities." Such tenn
peramental paradox must the ideal
modern medical student become. Above
all he must be preternaturally industri-
ous-the contemplative sagacity Of the
owl combined with the restless industry
of the beaver. There is no place IN any
modern medical school for lazy stu
dent.
Strange to say, although the courses
are harder, although 1t costs more to
educate a medical student than any
other professional student 1880, 900 Is
given as the amount IN actual payment
and economic loss necessary to educate
each student), and although relatively
few men are naturally endowed to
make good medical students, much less
physicians, yet no schools are more
crowded with applicants than the
school of medicine.
Actually about three times as many
students apply annually at American
medical schools as can be taken. This
Is the average Of all American schools,
the mean being from two TO six times
the capacity of the school In addition
to this not more than two out of three
of all who enter the first year class are
able 10 graduate.
After the grueling fourth year the
student must work for year In a
hospital and must also pass a diff1cult
anliners. Then he Is ready to practice
his profession-a learned and ex-
perienced scientific healer.
Boys who feel inclined to study
medicine should, therefore, weigh the
matter well. They should have good
physical and mental Wgor: they should
have been more than clever In UNDER
graduate studies, and they should, In
order to succeed, have the virtue Of
application abnormallv developed.
Given these, qualities, and having
presented evidence of their possession
early enough in the year cat least six
months before the FAN term), they stand
a good chance of selection, and will, no
doubt, graduate successfully into an
honorable profession which with all its
difficulties offers many compensations to
to its members.
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OPENING DATES SET
BY PARISH SCHOOLS
Most Elementary Classes Re.
sumo Tomorrow-Second-
airy Schools Begin Tuesday.

While most of the District of Column
bias parochial elementary schools will
reopen tomorrow morning, plans are
being completed for the resumption of
classes in others later this week and
early next week.
st. Dominics School, near Sixth and
streets southwest, will mark the be-
ginning of, the 1s29-30 academic year
with the establishment OF new COM
niercial course. September Is. It's regu-
lar elementary school. however, will re-
open tomorrow morning. The Holy
Comforter School, at Fourteenth and
East Capitol streets. which also resumes
classes tomorrow. will use for the first
time new classroom made available In
its present building.
Opening Tomorrow.
Other paroctial schools which will re-
open their elementary departments to-
morrow include St. Anthony's, at
Twelfth and Lawrence streets north
east; St Gabriel's. Webster street near
Grant Circle; Holy Name. Eleventh and
K streets northeast; Immaculate Con-
ception, N street near Seventh street;
st. Mary's. Fifth street near g street:
st. Stephens, Twenty fourth and K
streets: ST. vincent de Paul's. I street
between Second and Third southeast,
and st. Josephs. Third and G streets
St. Martins school, r street near
Lincoln road northeast, will reopen
Tuesday morning. while the Academy
of the Sacred Heart viii open in its new
building at Sixteenth street and Park
road Thursday.
Tenth, will be opened September l6,
while others resunning classes on the
same day will include St. Peters Sec
ond and G streets southeast; st. Paul's,
v street between Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth streets. and the Blessed Sacra-
ment School, Chevy Chase.
st. AIMS at Wisconsin avenue near
Grant road, and st. Cyprian's. near
Eighth and G streets northeast, will re-
sumo classes September II.
List Secondary Dates.
The first OF the parochial high-school
classes will be held Tuesday. when St.
Martins secondary department is re-
opened. Other high-scl1ool depart
ments of the parochial schools will open
on Thursday, when st. Anthony's and
the Academy of the Sacred Heart re-
sumo work; on september 16, when st.
Doniinic's and St. Patrick's Schools be-
gin the new academic year; on Septenn-
Der 90, when ST. Cyprtan's High School
opens, and September IS. when st.
PauI,s High School enters upon the new
wear. ',T. -
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NEW SCHOOL FOR BOYS
RECEIVES REGISTRATIONS
Preparatory Institution will Aim
to Eliminate Classroom Type
of Teaching

Registrations are being received daily
at the Landon School, one of the Capt.
tails new preparatory schools for boys,
which is located at 2131 Massachusetts
avenue.
Limiting its enrolment for the first
two years to 80 boys, the Landon School
plans to give individual instruction for
college examinations and for Annapo-
lis and West Point. The schools sys-
tenn is designed to eliminate as much as
possible the characteristics of the class
type of instruction. Both boarding and
day students will be enrolled. -'r.
The instructors are graduates of
Dartmouth, Maryland, Harvard and st.
Johns College Of Annapolis. They are
experienced as teachers and all are un-
der IS years of age.
Paul Banheld IS headmaster Of the
school,
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Medicine.
BY DIR. JOHN FoOTE.
President. Medical Society Of the District Of
Columbia. %.

President, Medical Society OF the District Of
Columbia.
A little more than a generation ago
it was possible for a boy with the rudi-
ments of an education to leave the pillow
or the blacksmiths shop or the office
and enter medical school, where, after
three years OF lectures and an occa-
sional clinic-rnost of these being given
at night-he was graduated and without
any further ceremony was given the
right to treat human beings as physi-
clan. -a--' ~.s'-
Today elaborate precautions are taken
in the interests of public health to pre-
vent the unfit from entering the medi-
cal profession. These precautions re-
late to both the preliminary training
and the course of instruction in itself.
In the last half century medicine has
come to be more or less exact science
based on other well established funda-
mental sciences.
Cites Medical Studies.
The bacterial origin of disease, the
role of the insects and animal parasites
in producing infection, the growth and
extension of bio-chemistry in the In
vestigation of causes Of illness, the
newer knowledge of dietetics and Of the
glands of internal secretion, the adj
Vances in surgery-these are only a
few examples of the changes in medi-
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MANY HARDSTIIPS MARK CAREER
OFFOUNDER OF KINDERGARTEN
Froebel, After Long Series of Reverses, Me-
Sympathetic Friends and Developed
School Idea.


With the opening Of schools attention
is naturally attracted to the great minds
that have blazed the trails of educa-
tioiial progress. The trail-blazer IN any
line has ever been beset with discour-
agement and humiliation In many
cases he did not live long enough to see
his ideas bear fruit. Exile or ever,
execution was often the penalty for. try
ing to give to posterity its greatest gifts.
! such q man was Friedrich Froebel
a German, the founder Of the kinder
FroebAl was born In 1882 and YVES the
SIN of a Lutheran m 'nister. Before nc
wes q year old his mother died. An
unkind stepmoti1er then became the
haIae of. his. existence. At 10 years Of
age he was rescued from his unhappy
home of q kind hearted uncle. He was
thin ssilow. tf1ougiatful and sad. a. most
I tr specimen Of a boy. His
uncle taught him TO work, but treated
him as human. being, answering his
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the Commissioners with favorable
report from the Bureau Of Efficiency.
The expense to the District involved in
this proposal Is purely nominal; its adj
vantages to the school system are far
reaching and are apparent from its
title. The proposed legislation has the
approval of the various civic organiza-
tions generally
A bill covering exemption Of public
school employees from the $4,000 salary
limitation was favorably reported by
committees in both the Senate and the
House at the last session Of Congress
and the bill was passed by the Senate,
but failed In the House legislative tie
up incident to the last days Of the ses-
sion. The bill will be reintroduced In
the Seventy-first Congress. The justi-
f1cation OF the legislation Is clearly set
forth in the following excerpts from
the report made by Senator Capper,
chairman of the committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia, in the last Congress:
Employees Limited.
"Under existing law it is impossible
to employ in the night schools, vaca-
ton schools and Americanizatiun
schools of the District of Columbia
public school system any person holding
a regular position In the Government
service at salary exceeding $500 per
annum To do so would result In viola
ton Of the provision of law prohibiting
payment Of more. than one Government
salary to any person If the combined
amount of such salaries would exceed
the sum of So, 900 per annum.
THE result of the existing limitation
is to deprive the night, vacation and
Americanization schools of the District
of Columbia of the services of employees
of various Government departments
who have expert knowledge that would
be of great value to students in such
schools. Under present conditions it
Is necessary to employ for the extra
and special work Of such schools the
regular day school teachers, supple
mented by such persons as can be Sc
cured from private employment In
some cases this throws too much Of q
burden upon the day school teachers
and at the same time prevents the er,-
ployment of some Of the best qualified
persons for the night, vacation and
characterization schools.
Existing law exempts persons EN-
ployed in the Community Center De-
partment from the $4,000 limitation,
and the bill hereby reported merely ex-
tends this exemption to employees OF the
schools mentioned. It does not ift-
crease the cost of such schools, but viii
have the effect of increasing the EN-
cheney Of their personnel"
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childish questions, allowing him to play
with stick horses, to build little log
houses and to have q. garden all his
own
: After five years Of being loved ard
understood, Froebel's nature began to
awaken. and he begged to be appren-
ticed to a forester for two years. Here
again his uncle proved his good judy
rnent. by allowing him TO do as ne
wished. Better than any university
training could have been were the two
years spent in the woods. In the pre-
ceding five years spent with his uncle
he had made great improvement, but he
had been unable entirely to conquer
fear, the enemy Of advancement. In
the woods he overcai1e the habit of
shuddering and his frail body became
strong, Gods great olit-of-doors gave
him poise and stability, and gradually
he was able to overcome his early en-
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Education.
BY WILLIAM CARL RUEDrGER,

Dean OF the School Of Education, the
George Washington University.
The desire to teach has been identi-
fed with the instinct to mother It is
the native privilege of the parent to as
sist his offspring up the incline to eff
fcient and intelligent adulthood and
from this he derives native and price
less satisfaction.
The parent is the natural teacher,
but fortunately for life in our complex
society he is not the only teacher. The
desire to mother and teach is not re-
stricted to parenthood. In some de-
gree it Is possessed by all, by men as
well as by women, and those who have
1t in q high degree are our natural
born teachers.
No one should enter this calling who
does not have an Unborn attraction to
children and who does not feel keen
desire to help the immature, the lg-
norant and the undeveloped along the
road to knowledge and power. He
must take native delight In explain
ing difhculties to those who do not yet
understand and he must have the love
and patience of the sympathetic parent
when the beginner stumbles and when
progress seems slow. This, and nothing
short Of this, will insure that spiritual
bond between teacher and pupil that Is,
always has been, and always will be
the central characteristic of good
teaching. Without it, teaching is de-
void Of soul. In compelling the acqui-
sition of knowledge it may do some
good, but this is greatly outweighed by
the. harm that is done to the pupils
personalities. Even as a child was
impressed with the fact that the dis
position of horse reflects quite
closely the disposition Of its owner or
keeper.
{ Sees Room for Expression.
: While all teachers need the parental
spirit of NERVOUSNESS for true sue
cess, in other respects the opportunities
of the calling are 50 wide that prac-
tically every human power and attrt-
butte may ind room for expression.
There are the kindergarten and the
nursery school for the lovers OF the
little tots; there are the grades for the
artists in technique; there are the
Junior and senior high schools for
those who have a wide-eyed wonder Tor
the realities of nature and OF man.
There are the colleges and universities
for those who like to delve deeply into
the ramifications of meaning, and there
are the graduate schools for the pion-
GERS in knowledge. In each OF these
fields there are endless opportunities
for specialization. In addition, every
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The American College of Life Under
writer's, an institution founded in 1927
by the board of trustees of the National
Association of Life Underwriters to CO.
operate with universities and colleges
in Offering general life insurance edu-
cation, is the institution which has at
tackled the school boards interpretati ton
of this provision in an effort to obtain
favorable action on its application to
grant the professional degree Of CHAR
tered life underwater"
The Board of Education has withheld
its action on the application of the
American College of Life Underwriters
because the institutions title contains
the word American" The board SINH
larry required the Young Mems Chris
tian Association to change the name Of
its educational institution from "Ths
District of Columbia College of the Y.
NJ. c. A." to 'The Y. M. c. A. College
of the District of Columbia" before
licensing it to grant certain college
degrees.
In making this ruling the school
board interpreted the diploma mill law
to be retroactive In that even though a
school had been legally chartered under
the former law, it could not be licensed
If its title violated the new laws pro-
vision pertaining to school names.
Underwriters Contentious.
Through its attorney, James M. Proc
tor, the American College of Life Un-
derwriters contends that since it was
legally chartered in 1927 under its pres
ent name, the school board not only
has the power to license it under the
same name now but that it is legally
bound to do SO if the board decides the
college meets all the other requirements
of the law which relate to personnel,
educational standards and facilities for
carrying out the institutions prescribed
work. In this contention the colleae
argues that a corporate name embraces
property rights and that alteration of
the name under which the American
College has become known would seri-
ously impair, If not actually destroy, the
institutions functions.
The college points out that the char
tering Of corporation such as it is
constitutes contract, and that In view
of the damage which would be wrought
upon the college by an alteration of its
name at this time that contract would
be impaired. That impairment, the
college contends is prohibited by con-
stitutional provision.
Therefore, the college takes the posi-
ton that If the provision of the diploma
mill law which refers to the use of the
word American" and certain other
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ton should have disciplined his facul-
ties, nnatured his judgment and given
him q wide background Of general
knowledge so that he can with under
standing mind see the science Of juris-
prudence in its true relation to the
economic and social life Of the times.
In a notable address, the late DIR.
Tucker, Dartmouth's great president
said that more knowledge, whether
1t be old or new. Is not the end OF
education, but rather knowledge pene-
trated by insight and alive with mo-
tive" This Is particularly true of
legal education. No matter how many
years the student may have spent In
study or how glibly he may cite author
tiles, unless his insight can penetrate
the intricate mazes of the law as it is
today, and find and apply the living
motive to the facts of life, he Is not
well educated lawyer.
Some Encounter Luck.
We may take It for granted that the
lawyer who would attain any success
worthy the name must be scrupu-
lousy honest, strictly honorable, in
dustrious, energetic, careful. Of fair
ability and correct habits, and blessed
with good health But that Is not all.
much, and sometimes the element Of
luck seems to play distinct part. Some
men seem to encounter nothing but
favoring breeZes in the voyage Of life,
while others, strive as they will, meet
only banning winds from which they
are unable to escape. I think. how
ever, that q lack of courage or self
confidence is perhaps the chief cause
Of failure In many men who possess
ability and character worthy of success.
The lawyer who diEtTusts his own
intuitions. judgments and abilities can
not hope to succeed. His weakness will
be apparent to others and no one who
lacks confidence in himself can COM
nand the confidence of others. am
not belittling f1odesty or extolling con-
ceit, but when the lawyer feels that he
has given to his problem the best that
Is in him, he must neither hesitate to
reach a conclusion nor shrink from
doing what that conclusion requires.
To win the great prizes Of the pro-
fession or even to attain moderate sue
cess, the lawyer must pay the price Of
hard, unremitting toll The brilliant
argument that sounds so spontaneous
was probably preceded by days and per-
haps nights of drudgery, and the brief
or contract that seems so simple and
clear was doubtless rewritten over and
over again. Whatever may be his mate
rial reward the lawyer who loves his
work, who acts in the belief that he
is minister of justice. and that "jus-
tice Is the greatest interest of man
on earth" will reap the rich reward
OF the spirit which comes to him who
has been faithful to q high calling.