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...proper chart by which to steer our educational course" President Hoover two years ago appointed the National Advisory Committee on Education. Chief question to be mulled over was whether to revive (not, as many people think, create) the Federal Department of Education which existed briefly after Congressman James Abram Garfield (see col. 3) helped establish it in 1867. Under Director Charles Riborg Mann of the American Council on Education and President Henry Suzzallo of the Carnegie Foundation, 52 savants labored and brought forth last fortnight a bulky report...
...Western Reserve Eclectic Institute at Hiram, Ohio, went in 1851 a young man, log-cabin-born, who had been a canal-boat driver, farmer, carpenter. The Institute was new, had been founded the year before by the Church of the Disciples of Christ. James Abram Garfield studied there three years and then, ambitious, went on to Williams College. In 1856 he returned to the little village which (so the story . went) had been chosen by the Disciples of Christ because its doctor had a dilapidated buggy, a bony nag-his poverty suggesting that Hiram was healthy. Young Garfield taught Ancient...
...trip that took University officials by surprise, President Lowell, and President Garfield of Williams College, conferred with Present Hoover at the White House yesterday. Although it was not known if Mr. Hoover had asked them to come to the capital to see him, the two leading presidents were closeted with the chief executive for several minutes. On leaving the White House offices, both men refused to comment upon the subject of their conference, President Garfield merely saying, "I think we had better not say anything about it." Officers of the University, when questioned last night, declared that they knew nothing...
...your issue of Oct. 19, p. 30, there was an item in regard to President Garfield of Williams College having persuaded the fraternities to abandon their fall houseparties...
...Garfield has frowned on houseparties for years and I'm sorry he has accomplished his objective under the pretense of assisting parental pocketbooks...