Headmasters Elect

The Headmasters Association met for the 32nd time. Those present numbered 95, including: Mather A. Abbott of Lawrenceville, Huber G. Buehler of Hotchkiss, William M. Irvine of Mercersburg, Endicott Peabody of Groton, Lewis Perry of Exeter, Alfred E. Stearns of Andover, Horace D. Taft of Taft. They elected Charles L. Kirschner of the New Haven High School as their president.

Genius Helper

Somebody with $50,000 in the bank recently read Michael Pupin's autobiography, From Immigrant to Inventor, with the result that he donated the $50,000 to Professor Pupin's alma mater, Western Reserve University. The fund is to be used in aid of the exceptional student. The financial status of the student receiving aid is in no way to be a consideration. Said the donor: "I feel persuaded that by helping one such exceptional student, I might in reality be helping, through the student's possible success, a greater number than if my bequest were large enough to give like assistance to the ninety-and-nine of less outstanding ability.

"I have in mind that an Edison or a Theodore N. Vail, a Westinghouse or a Michael Pupin might open up for their less gifted brothers, new fields where their fellow workers could not in a hundred years have provided for themselves like opportunity.

"It has occurred to me, if in a generation I could be the means of helping one only of those who have in them that vital spark we call genius I would in fact be helping indirectly a multitude of my fellow men."

U. of Washington

A memorial to Alfred H. Anderson, pioneer of the Northwest, will be built at the University of Washington* with the sum of $250,000 gift of Mrs. Anderson. It will be a school of forestry probably unsurpassed in the U. S. A museum of samples of every wood known to man will make it unique.

Valdosta

Woodrow Wilson College will open its doors in September.

The South Georgia conference of the Methodist Church was establishing a new junior college for boys at Valdosta, Ga. Woodrow Wilson died. They named it in his honor. The college is financed by the people of Valdosta to the extent of $300,000, by the Church, $500,000.

Neglected

There exists one great university with practically no endowment. It has 3,600 students who "work their way through" by serving as Government clerks, and 1,500 who devote their working hours exclusively to study.

These students receive their instruction in scattered old buildings, in basements, in dining-rooms, in kitchens transformed into laboratories.

This is George Washington University the development of George Washington's proposal that there should be at the nation's capital a truly national university, a melting pot of ignorance and prejudice. The idea has survived; the institution has been neglected. But, in spite of neglect, it grows, and is now actively campaigning for a $1,000,000 building and endowment fund.

In appealing for national support it points to its many assets--the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institute, departmental libraries, museums, laboratories, and, above all, to the "broadening" influence of Washington, D. C, as a college town.

"Puellae"

Nearly one-half of the 700,000 teachers who work in the elementary and high schools of the U. S. are young girls, aged 16 to 25, is the conclusion reached by Dr. William C. Bagley, Professor of Education at Columbia University.

These "immature, transient, untrained teachers" are found in the rural schools of every state. They constitute, says Prof. Bagley, the chief weakness in American education.

*Not to be confused with Washington University, St. Louis, or with George Washington University. D. C,