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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
SLUMP IS MARKED
BY LACK OF FIGHT
Six of Eight ReverSeS on Trip
Come After Team Has
Obtained Lead.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

CT LOUIS, July 22.-It's high
time the Nationals are get
ting their heads up and
hnhtinp for games. Some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22

Speaking Of heat. this Paul
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
BOARDS EFFORTS TO CURB
diploma MILLS OUTLINED
Undesirable Institutions Here Are Thing
of Past Under New Law,
Hine Says.

plications from several institutions for
comforting advanced degrees have been
disapproved under existing conditions,
with likelihood of favorable action
when the curricula are improved.
It is of interest to note that in prac-.
tically all the institutions Improvements
and additions to courses offered have
boards study. There has been O
wholesome reaction to the provisions
Of the law. The language of the stat
ute sets forth that in any institution
a majority of the trustees, directors or
managers shall be persons of good re-
pute and qualified to conduct an In
stitution of learning. There is exacted
also that the quantity and quality of
work offered required in the curricula
shall be that usually required by reput-
able institutions awarding the same
degree. There is, moreover, a proviso
that when a degree is earned by cor
respondence or extranural study, such
fact shall be conspicuous by being
noted on the diploma conferred. But
no diploma shall be issued comforting
a degree in medicine, dentistry or any
healing art for courses pursued by
correspondence.
No Appeals from Decisions.
Despite the fact that any institution
that has been denied a license upon
application has the privilege of an APP
peal, no appeal has been made from
any decision of the Board of Educa-
ton. The standards of any institu-
ton once licensed are likely to remain
acceptable for the reason that for cause
the license may be revoked. Due rec
ord Is required to be made by the re-
corder of deeds Of all licenses issued
or revoked.
Older universities and colleges In
Washington, such as Georgetown,
George Washington, the National Uni.
versfty. Catholic University and 9TH
erS, do not come under the provisions
OF this statute, as these institutions
received their charters from the Con-
greSS of the United States. There Is
restriction in the "diploma-mi law
that prevents the use of title or name
making use of American, Federal,
United States, civil service or equiva-
lent term that might imply a con-
nection with the Government Of the
United States or any of its depart
mentS or bureaus, or of the govern
ment of the District Of Columbia. This
proviso was inserted because of the oc-
casional presentation in foreign coun-
tries of degrees, often of questionable
or fraudulent origin. conferred in d.
plomas which on their face indicate
that such degrees are conferred by the
authority of the Government. This
practice. 1t is believed. has wholly
stopped. There will be no recurrence
of the regrettable former conditions
which operated to the diScredit Of
educational standards.
Within the past year q number Of
institutions operating In Washington
have practically closed their activities,
while others, denied a license under
present conditions, are improving their
courses to bring the grade of work :
within the requirements set. The
whole tone Of existing institutions has
been measurably improved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
ABILITY PUT TO TEST
Adult Business Education Found
Necessary to Success.

Adult Business Education Found
Necessary to Success.
The popularity of adult business edu-
cation, presented in a scientific man
ner, Is one of the basic reasons for the
prosperity Of our citizens and country
according TO the report on adult educa-
ton by the National University Society
Research has discovered:
That a majority of men and women
have ability they are not using.
That failure to discover and capitalize
on this ability results in unhappineSs,
failure and discomfort.
That unemployment and financial de-
pendence are the results of failure to
keep UP TO date and put this ability to
It's best usage.
That the only successful way to over
come this is through practical training
training that will give people
modern business methods In easy,
speedy form, and will show them how to
put them into immediate use to win
success.
That larger incomes make such men
and women better and more useful
citizens, and enable them to rear their
children so they will become greater
assets to the country, thus increasing
the prosperity Of both community and
Nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07

year of uninterrupted study and writ
ing upon problems of legal education
in this country. Prof. Charles Sager
Collier has been named acting dean of
the Law School.
John Raymond Lapham, professor of
civil engineering and dean of the
School of Engineering, will go to Johns
Hopkins University, where he will spend
his time in study and research in the
field of sanitary engineering and bac-
teriology. Prof. Arthur F. Johnson will
serve as acting dean of the School of
Engineering.
Thomas Benjamin Brown, professor
of physics, will spend his sabbatical
year at Harvard University, where he
will engage in experimental research in
cathode fluorescence and will study
modern atomic physics and spectre
scopy.
Robert Russ Kern. professor of soci-
ology, will study the sources of stimu-
lation of the cells CT the interpretive
or mind brain. studying either at the
University of Chicago or at Columbia
University
Prof. Elmer Louis KaySer, who has
been on leave during the past year, will
return to the university to resume his
teaching and to become director of the
division of special and extension stu
dents.
New Members Of Faculty.
The new members Of the faculty are:
Edgar A. j. johnson has been added
to the staff of the department of eco
Monies as associate professor of eco
nomics. Prof. johnson will take charge
of the Introductory courses in econom-
les. He also will teach new course
dealing with labor organization and
problems and seminar in the his
tory of economic thought
DR.. Johnson holds the degree of mas
ter of arts and doctor of philosophy
from Harvard University. His under
graduate work was done at the Univer-
sity Of Illinois. = He has taught at the
University of Oklahoma and at Har-
ward University and has served as a
fellow of the Social Science Research
Foundation. During the past year he
has been in England engaged in special
research. His special field is the his
tory of American economic thought.
His work American Economic Thought
in the Seventeenth Century" will be
published during the Winter and he
has in preparation a companion VOL
ume, American Economic Thought in
the Eighteenth Century"
Albert Lett has been appointed in
structor in mechanical engineering. Mr..
Lett is a graduate of Michigan State
College and Iowa State College and has
taught at the latter institution. He has
had considerable engineering experience,
CONTINUED on Fifth Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
D. c. SCHOOLS OPEN.
MONDAY, SEPT. z.
Regulations for Pupil Enroll
ments Announced
by Officials.

Washington public elementary, senior
and junior high schools open for the
year September %, with an enrolment
Of 10000 children anticipated by the
middle Of the 1930-31 season.
According to plans announced by
school heads at the Franklin Admins
tration Building, all new pupils are to
present themselves at the school nearest
their homes, whether 1t be elementary
or junior high school, on the opening
day. Vaccination cards should be pre-
sented by the prospective pupils to the
principal of the school they wish to
attend.
Aspirants to Apply.
Prospective high school students who
wish to enter one of the District high
schools for the first time from schools
other than the local public schools are
TO appear before the board of high
school entrance examiners in the Frank
lin Building, Thirteenth and X streets,
on September 19 and 20. If they pos
sess credentials Of adequate attachments
from recognized schools, they will be
assigned to high school without delay.
II, however, they cannot show accept
able evidence of eligibility for high
school, they will be required to take an
entrance examination in the Franklin
Building auditorium.
Restrictions Set.
Owing to overcrowding in the high
schools Of the Georgetown and West End
sections, restrictions on new pupils as
piring to enroll at either the Western
High School or the Gordon Junior High
School have been ordered by Stephen e..
Kramer, first assistant superintendent
in charge of high schools. Pupils living
east Of Connecticut avenue and Rock
Creek will not be admitted to Western
this year. This same plan was inaugu-
rated last year. New nonresident pu-
pils-those who live In Maryland and
Virginia-whose homes are in the terri
tory adjacent 10 the northwest corner
OF the District and who formerly were
admitted to Western will be admitted to
| Western II there is room for them on
the third day Of the school year. Nom
resident pupils already attending West
ern will not be disturbed. No new nom
resident pupils will be admitted to the
Gordon Junior High School at any time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
Education as Permanence.

Former President Calvin Coolidge
said: I'VE can not abandon our educa-
ton at the schoolhouse door. We have
to keep it up through life" Every one
is familiar with Henry Ford's state
ment that young man should think
less about saving money and more about
spending it - for self-improvement.
S. D. Fess, United States Senator and
educational leader, in, accepting the
Craftsmanship of the National University
Society'S honorary advisory council,
said: II believe in advancing the cause
of adult education in America and feel
that the work you are doing Is an
undertaking of merit" This demon
strates the attitude leaders take toward
adult education.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
SAYS DELAY FACED
IN APPOINTMENTS
Lack of kindergarten Policy
ProlongS Teacher Vacan-
CieS, Kramer Fears.

Appointments of new teachers to I'LL
vacancies in the teaching stats of the
District public schools will be delayed
this year pending the adoption of a
definite policy for kindergarten adj
ministration, Stephen E. Kramer, first
assistant superintendent, declared yes
terday.
The delay in naming eligible candi-
dates to open positions is necesitated by
the confusion in official school circles
over the possibility of transferring extra
kindergarten teachers to positions in
the first three grades of the elementary
course in accordance with the desires
of Representative Robert G. Simmons,
chairman of the subcommittee of the
House Committee on Appropriations.
Simmons Views Stated.
Representative Simmons criticized
the local school authorities severely last
Spring and Winter for maintaining an
over teachered" kindergarten system
He recommended the establishment of
afternoon kindergarten classes and the
assignment of an afternoon class, to-
gether with morning class, to each
kindergarten teacher. The kindergarten
teachers thus relieved Mr.. Simmons
would have made legally eligible to
teach first, second and third grade work
During the chaotic discussions of
District matters during the final COM
promise between the Senate and the
House on the District appropriation
bill, however, many of Mr.. Simmons
recommendations which had been in
corporated in the bill itself were altered
so that as the measure was enacted
District school officials may" make
their kindergarten teachers eligible for
grade work instead of being obliged to
do so.
Definite Plans Lacking.
At present no definite plans have
been adopted for kindergarten classes,
and that is one of the first of series of
major problems which the school off,
GERS and Board of Education must
solve. Mr.. Kramer said yesterday that,
due to designations and retirements,
some teaching positions are open. They
cannot be filled, however, until the
kindergarten administration question is
settled, and he and his fellow officers
are looking to DR.. Frank w. Ballou,
superintendent. to draft a policy on
his return to his desk in the Franklin
Administration Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
DR.. MARVIN TO CALL MEETING
OFG w. u. FACULTIES SEPT. 10
Institution to Open It's 10th Year Septem-
Der "a Under Recently Effected Edu-
cational Organization.

Returned from Europe after deliver
ing series OF lectures on the Monroe
Doctrine at the Geneva School Of Inter-
national Studies, Dr. Cloyd Heck Mar
win, president of George Washington
University, will call the university fac
ultieS together for their first meeting
Of the year Friday evening, September
19, at $50 O'Clock, in Stockton Hall.
With the opening of the 10th aca-
demic year September "a, the institution
will function under the educational or
ganization which recently was effected
for the purpose of overcoming standard
ization and the limitations of mass edu-
cation. Freshmen and sophomore stu
dents, both re-professional and those
preparing for entrance to Columbian
College, the senior College of Letters
and Sciences, will be registered in the
junior college, where their first two
years of college work will be closely SUI
pervised by a corps of trained junior
college advisers. Juniors and seniors in
letters and sciences will enter Column
bian College, where special provision for
the discovery and development Of Gre
alive ability in the individual student
has been made through the adoption of
plan for independent study. The mas
ter'S degree, viewed as the rounding out
of cultural education, will be admins
bClC0 Wy AOlleRe, While the
degree of doctor of philosophy will be
administered by the Council for Grad
uate Study as professional and purely
research degree. Educational control
will rest with the faculty, operating
through four divisions of study, repre-
senting broad fields of knowledge.
Is Appointments Made.
Fifteen appointments to the faculty
have been made, including five of pro-
feSsorial rank, five instructors and five
lecturers. Five members of the faculty
will be absent during the year on sab
full year of leave granted by the beard
of trustees to all professors who have
served the university for IA years or
longer. These faculty members will de-
vote themselves to study and research
in their special fields.
Charles Edward Hill, professor of
political science and dean of Columbian
College, will spend the year in work
upon American Government" which
he is producing in collaboration with
Prof. Warren Reed West of the univer-
sity. Dean Hill will elaborate set of
problems in international law which
may be published in book form. In the
absence of Dean Hill, DR.. John DON
aldson, professor Of political economy,
will serve as acting dean OF Columbian
College.
william Cabell Van Week, professor
of law and dean of the Law School,
VIII go to Harvard University Tor q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07

TOp-StOne dOrmitOry nearing COM
pIetion on the Georgetown University
campus.
Middle, left to right-HamiIton House,
American University's new dormitory
for men, which will be occupied for the
first time next week, and the Univer-
sity of MaryIand's library.
BOttOm-EIectricaI installation labo-
ratOry of the Bliss Electrical School.
Star Staff Photos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07

While the Roosevelt High School I'M
doubleday Is the most picturesque struc-
tural project in the school system, its
significance must share honorS with
the proposed elementary school work.
Mr.. Harris schedule includes build
ings aimed squarely at the remaining
portable schools. At present Wesley
Heights is served by a group of five Of
these fiimsy frame structures which
are perched on q hillside open to dam
aging windStorms. The eight-room
school proposed this year for that site
will eliminate these entirely.
Portable Use Limited.
The four-room school to be built
at Tenth and Franklin streets north
east carries out the recently adopted
policy of erecting permanent school,
houses in outlying neighborhoodS as
soon as a sufficient number of chill
dren can be recorded to occupy only
four rooms Heretofore, 1t was the prac.
tice to erect portables in such com.
munities until they could efficiently use
eight-room structures. It Is In pur.
suit of this new policy that Mr.. Harris
developed a four-room "extensible
building" which Is actually an inter.
unit of a completed 16-room school Of
modern design. In actual practice, the
municipal architects plan permits the
addition of a second four-room unit 70
the first, making complete eight-room
school. AS the needs increase, q sec
ond eight-room unit, identical with the
first, would be erected, and the two
joined by third wing housing an as
sembly hall.
The new Northeast Washington Junior
High School, which Is to be built on
site adjoining the Eastern High School,
will follow Mr.. Harris standard plan
for schools of this grade. A central
wing will house approximately IS class
rooms and an auditorium. Provision
is made in the design to permit the
building at later date of two 10-room
units which contain gymnasium 3acili-
ties also. These later additions are
symmetrically placed with respect TO
the initial unit. so that when COM
pleted the whole school plant becomes
compact building.
All of Mr.. Harris later school build.
ings are of colonial architectural type,
which critics have pronounced com.
patible with Washington designs.
Through these latter buildings the
Districts municipal architect is at
tracing the attention of schoolhouse
designers and city planners all over
the Nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07

Harris Already Busy.
Albert L. Harris, municipal archi-
tect, and his staff now are engaged on
the plans for the new school projects.
His schedule for the elementary schools
embraces:
The new platoon school in Northeast
Washington for colored pupils, which
will contain six class rooms, four Spe-
cial rooms, separate gymnasium and a
separate auditorium:
A new eight-room school for Wesley
Heights;
A new eight-room school for North
ampton street and Broad Branch road
A new four-room school at Tenth and
Franklin street northeast:
A four-room addition, including a
combination assembly hall and gymna-
SUM for the Deanwood School;
A four-room addition, including a
combination assembly hall and gymna-
SUM for the Congress Heights School;
An eight-room addition for the Whit
tier School, and
An eight-room addition for the new
Anthony j. Bowen School.
Mr.. Harris plan schedule for the
junior high school field calls for the
following construction:
A new 27-room junior high school
adjoining the Eastern High School;
A 12-room addition, including two
gymnasiums. for the Gordon Junior
High School;
A 10-room addition, including two
gymnasiums, for the Stuart Junior High
School, and
A third-hoor addition of eight rooms,
including gymnasium, for the Powell
Junior High School.
Business To Be Replaced.
Plans for the Theodore Roosevelt
High School, which will replace the
present Business High School at Ninth
street and Rhode Island avenue, are
completed and Mr.. Harris announced
yesterday that this structure will be
under contract by the first of october.
Under the terms of the contract, this
structure should be ready for occu-
pany by the beginning of the 1922
school year next September. 1t will
be erected on a tract of land bounded
by Upshur, Allison and Thirteenth
streets and Iowa avenue, with its ia
cade facing Thirteenth street. Be-
sides the IS regular class rooms, which
will constitute the central unit of the
extensive plant, this building will con-
tain an attached auditorium building
as one wing, and an attached GYM
nasium building as the opposite wing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
BY HARRY o. HINE.
Secretary of the District of Columbia I
of Education.

secretary OF the D1Strlct OF Columbia Board
OF Education.
The operation of alleged diploma
mills" in Washington is a thing of the
past.
A duty unique among the functions
of a Board of Education was placed
on the local board by an act of Con-
greSs approved February 2, 1929. This
legislation amended the Code OF Laws
for the District of Columbia relating
to degree comforting institutions. Its
specific requirements eXacted that an
institution of learning heretofore or
hereafter" incorporated under its pro-
visions may lawfully confer degrees in
the District of Columbia or elsewhere
only by virtue of a license granted by
the Board of Education of the District
of Columbia. The restriction applied
not only to institutions resident in
Washington, but also to those locally
incorporated, wherever located. The
right to confer a degree by persons OPP
Grating as a partnership or an associ-
alton in the District of Columbia was
likewise made dependent upon the is
suance of a license by the Board OF
Education.
The responsible duty of distinguish
ing wheat from chaff, of differentiat-
ing whether an institution Is genuine
or questionable, was at once assumed
by the Board of Education. The board
called to its aid the advice of experts
of the United States ONCE of Educa-
ton in the preparation of schedule
of forms calling for the necessary data.
A committee of school officers was
named to make preliminary study of
applications and report to the board its
conclusions and recommendations.
Since the inception of the law 19 in
-kG -, t.. n rk~ I'D 80
Columbia have applied for licenses.
Licenses to confer degrees have been
granted to 10 institutions. The ap-
plications of six have been disapproved;
one institution withdrew its applica-
ton, while two others are pending. OF
the entire group seeking licenses, f1ve
institutions are located outside of
Washington. They are as far distant
from Washington as Porto Rico and
Cairo Egypt.
Institutions Licensed.
Three local institutions have been
licensed to issue degrees in courses in
accountancy, bachelor in commercial
science and master of commercial sci
ence. Several schools of law are au-
thorized to confer degrees of bachelor
of laws, master of laws and master of
patent laws. The degree of bachelor
of arts may be conferred by two COL
leges coming under this supervision
Two local colleges of music have been
given the privilege of comforting de-
grees of bachelor of music in theory,
voice and fine arts. There also Is one
instance where the degree of bachelor
of science in nursing was authorized
AS course in nursing is related to the
profession of medicine, especial pains
were taken by the board in its study
of the data presented for this unusual
degree. Several major degrees also
were applied for and grsnted-that of
the degree Of doctor OF philosophy and
the doctor OF laws, honorary. The APP
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
COLLEGE WORK WIDER

Many colleges have broadened their
curriculums to include those who are
unable TO attend their regular sessions.
Some are carrying on further educa-
tional work for their alumni. The ma
jority of this is accomplished through
night school. though in some cases
other mediums are used.
Columbia University, Chicago UNI
versity, the University of California
and many other large educational in
situations have been great force In
furthering the cause of adult educa-
ton and have been an important In
strument in helping the Nation achieve
prosperity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
Era of Education.

DR.. l.. p. Jacks Of Manchester College,
Oxford, England, said: When the two
words adult and education were first
joined together, new era began in the
history Of education. It meant that a
broader vision Of what education Is was
dawning. It meant that the old notion
of education as limited 10 the few years
at school or college was passing away
and q new notion Of IT arising rs life
long process"