College of Diplomacy

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President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard wrote a letter, urging that courses in economics, history and government be included.

Admiral William S. Sims, U.S.N. retired, an old War-time colleague of Ambassador Page in London, endorsed the proposal, comparing its utility to the State Department with the value of the war and naval colleges to the Army and Navy.

Dr. Albert Shaw described the preparatory work already accomplished at Johns Hopkins for the establishment of the Page School for Diplomats.

Advices from Washington show that Secretary Hughes and the State Department are warmly in favor of a proposal that would aim to equip diplomatic aspirants with the professional training needed for the delicate and momentous task of executing the foreign policy of the U.S.

The guests at the Bankers' Club indicated the nation-wide and authoritative support this effort will receive. They included: Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, President of Dartmouth; Ray Stannard Baker; Herbert S. Houston, editor of Our World; General Tasker H. Bliss; Dr. William H. Welch of Johns Hopkins; Governor A. C. Ritchie of Maryland; T. I. Parkinson, Acting Dean of Columbia; Dr. Alexander Smith, representing Dr. John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton; John G. Agar, George Barr Baker and Edgar Rickard of the Commission for Relief in Belgium Educational Foundation; Van Lear Black; Robert S. Brookings, President of the Institute of Economics; Judge J. Harry Covington, John Daniels and H. J. Fisher of the English Speaking Union; Charles S. Guggenheimer; John W. Hallowell, former Overseer of Harvard; Frank R. Kent of The Baltimore Sun; Charles Lathrop Pack; George L. Radcliffe; French Strother, associate editor of World's Work; Louis Wiley, Business Manager of The New York Times.

Letters endorsing the scheme were received from Col. E.M. House, Newton D. Baker, Edward W. Bok, Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia; Dr. Kenneth C.M. Sills, President of Bowdoin College; Dr. Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School; William Allen White, Dr. W.H.P. Faunce, President of Brown University; William Marshall Bullitt.

Pending final approval by the authorities of Johns Hopkins University, the scope of the school is planned to include the five basic subjects of international relations, history, international law, diplomatic practice, international organizations. The physical, geographical, commercial, racial and economic aspects will receive first consideration with a view to lessening conflicts between different types of national thought and culture.

A Speech

Nicholas Murray Butler,* college president in politics, made a speech on the thesis: Prohibition is not a moral issue but the prohibition law is a moral issue. Much discussion resulted, but the speech was the thing. Extracts:

Preamble. " The time has fully come to speak one's mind on the subject of the shocking and immoral conditions which have been brought about by the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and by the legislation enacted pursuant to the provisions of that amendment. That the amendment itself is not only a violation of the principles upon which our Government rests, but a revolutionary departure from them is generally admitted. . . ."