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To seek aid from President Herbert Hoover last week went a committee which included President Rees Edgar Tulloss of Wittenberg College (Springfield. Ohio), President George Leslie Omwake of Ursinus College (Collegeville, Pa.), Dr. Norman Jay Gould Wickey, executive secretary of the Board of Education of the United Lutheran Church, and Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, onetime (1907-17) president of Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio). President Hoover agreed to serve as a member of the national sponsoring committee of the Movement, to make a speech for it over the radio in November.
Hard-hit by Depression, small colleges throughout the land are all economizing, according to members of the L.A.C.M. Many are threatened with extinction. Some recent evidences:
¶ From Abingdon, Va. to Bristol. Va. Tenn. this week goes Martha Washington College (female, Methodist Episcopal Church South) to merge with Sullins College (female Methodist). Most of Martha Washington's teachers have lost their jobs. Abingdon now has no college: Stonewall Jackson College merged in 1929 with King College (male) at Bristol.
¶ In Barboursville, W. Va., President Leonard Riggleman of Morris Harvey College announced that farm produce would be accepted this year in lieu of cash for tuition.
¶ In Lubbock, Tex., Herbert D. Bell swapped a truckload of beans for three months room & board at Texas Technological College.
Youth v. Crisis
U. S. delegates to the tenth annual conference of the International Student Service, a goodwill organization which grew out of relief work done for students in Europe just after the War, were reticent for the first few days of the meetings last week at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. Then, as often happens, they burst into hot excoriation of their own countrymen.
Lamented Alexander Duncan Langmuir, Harvard 1931, onetime president of the Harvard Liberal Club: "Nothing but pinching shoes and empty stomachs will ever make American students sit up and realize that they have a government. . . . They are not even well-informed. . ."
Lamented President Edward R. Murrow of the National Student Federation of America: "American students don't even know a crisis exists. The only question that interests them ... is Prohibition."
European students consoled them: "You are too impatient . . . unduly pessimistic. Numbers of German students don't even know what the Kellogg Pact is."
* Which does not include State universities, or the nation's 350 smallest institutions, for which complete figures are lacking.