Education: More Kudos

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The University over which young President Sproul will preside is a huge institution spread over three California cities and extending even to foreign territory.* At Berkeley is the University's seat; also the Colleges of Letters, Science and Applied Science (Commerce, Agriculture, Mechanics, Mining, Civil Engineering, Chemistry). In San Francisco are the Medical School, College of Dentistry, Hastings College of the Law, College of Pharmacy, Training School for Nurses. At Los Angeles are Teachers' College and another College of Letters & Science.

In 1919 Los Angeles State Normal School was transferred to the regents of the University of California, became a Southern Branch of the University of California. Two years ago its name was changed to University of California at Los Angeles. It is administered by a director (Dr. Ernest Carroll Moore) appointed by California's Regents at the President's recommendation.

Leland Stanford Jr. University ("Stanford") has been nationally famed ever since its presidency was assumed in 1891 by Cornell's David Starr Jordan. The election of its most famed graduate to the U. S. Presidency, followed by the elevation of its second president, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, to be U. S. Secretary of the Interior, put it more than ever into the foreground of the higher educational scene. Dr. Robert Eckles Swain is now Acting President.

In Oregon are a State Agricultural College and University of Oregon. At the latter are taught such unusual subjects as Clothing Construction, Clothing Selection, Camp Cookery, Space Selling, Traffic Management.

Washington's great institutions are the University of Washington, where in common with most Pacific Coast colleges, the scientific is stressed; and a complementary State College, at Pullman. Not the least of the University of Washington's national fame has been derived from its rowing. Last week two Washington crews, en route for the intercollegiate title races at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., paused at Lake Mendota to trounce Wisconsin.

Three other small but noted Pacific slope institutions are Gonzaga University in Spokane; Whitman and Walla Walla Colleges in Walla Walla, Wash.

^{*No common thing is it for a layman like Mr. Brookings to
receive an honorary physician's degree. Wealthy and wise, he, while
board chairman of Washington University, put its new medical school on
its feet, making a personal study of hospital practice the world over.
The late great Dr. Charles William Eliot of Harvard, no medic, received
an honorary M.D. from Harvard in 1909. But Dr. Brookings received two
honorary degrees at once, another rarity.

*It has an observatory at Santiago, Chile.}