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...Commissioner of Education is subordinate, obscure. Reason: the U. S. Education Commissioner is essentially only an adviser. His official duties are to "collect statistics and general information showing the conditions and progress of education in the U. S. and all foreign countries; to advise State, county and local school officers as to the administra tion and improvement of schools." He must also publish "a number of bulletins and miscellaneous publications." He also supervises the reindeer industry in Alaska...
...William John Cooper is a onetime superintendent of public instruction in California, his native State. He is a 32° Mason, a Rotarian. One of his favorite phrases is "the democracy of education," by which he means giving to each student the kind of work he prefers and can do best...
Last week Dr. Cooper made his first official appearance and speech, at the opening of the meeting in Cleveland of the National Education Association's Department of Superintendence. Vigorously he proposed for State universities the Johns Hopkins idea of eliminating freshmen and sophomore courses from the curriculum...
Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., is that State's oldest educational institute. Last week it celebrated its 44th anniversary...
United Hotels Co. Twenty-five hotels owned, 38 controlled, comprise the U. S., Canadian and West Indian hotels in the United Hotels Co. system. Head of United is New York-born Frank A. Dudley, versatile organizer. He left his Niagara Falls law office to serve in the New York State Legislature. He organized the Buffalo & Niagara Falls Railway. He organized the Electric City Bank, then went to the Pacific Coast and organized the North Coast R. R. An even more famed organizer, the late great Harriman, offered him a job, but, "No," said he, "I don't care much...