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Higher Tuition
Fees Forecast
For Harvard
president Lowell Reports
Deficit of $161,000 for
Year; Predicts Next 12
Months Will Double It
Salaries Take Endowment
Calls on Alumni and Pub
lie to Stimulate Disci?
pline and Scholarship
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 16.-- A
?ef.cit of $161,000 for the year, de?
spite the raising of the Harvard en
downn?nt fund, has been reported to
the Overseers of Harvard University
?jV President A. Lawrence Lowell, who
said the deficit would be more than
doubled for the current year. He ask.*>
for the support of Harvard Alumni ani
the public in stimulating the ambition
of students for h!gn scholarship and
in maintaining ?standards of discipline
in the college, forecasts the probable
necessity of an increase in tuition
fees, and discusses at length the re?
lations which should exist between th?
governing board of a university and
its faculty.
President Lowell praises the en?
dowment fund committee and the
graduates for -?their "zeal and persis?
tence" in raising the fund. "Without
this generous assistance from th :
alumni," iie says, "the condition of
the university would be lamentable."
Fresident Lowell reports that an in?
crease in the salaries of the teaching
ttaff- of roughly 50 per cent was made
possible by the fund.
"This addition to the teaching sal
ayes." he nevertheless points out,
"would alone exceed the immed;atc
gain in the income of the university,
bat there has been also a large in?
crease in the wages of labor, in the
cost of services cf all kinds, and m
the price of fuel and other materials.
The result was a deficit which, includ?
ing all items that should properly be
charged therein, comes to $161.000,
and this will be more than doubled
for the current year. Nor is there
any reason to hope that without mow
income it can be much reduced for
some time to come. .Since it is no*
possible to increase the endowment
further at present, the only resource
left "or meeting the deficiency is an in?
crease in tuition fees.
New Conditions Alter Plans
"At the time when the endowment]
fund was planned we believed a change
in the tuition fees out of the question, i
but the continued hi'_'h prices, the stag-|
gering deficit, and the action of other j
institutions have brought new condi- j
tioi "
President Lowell reports that during!
recent years "there has been a constant
effort to raise the standard of scholar?
ship." He finds that: ' so far as the
minimum work required for a degree
is concerned, the improvement has
been marked.'' Harvard students, al?
though "they are not obliged to work
too hard.'' nevertheless "have to work
hard? r than their fathers did."
"liaising, however, the minimum :
standard, or even the average scholar
ebip of undergraduates, is not enough." :
continues President Lowell. "It is not
less pel ? ore, important to in-!
erease the ambition for excellence on \
art i,f tnose capable of achiev?
ing it. . . .
??Th? real rifare for high scholarship
dep nds upon the attitmle of the alum-;
ni ami the public. If the object of col?
lege is preparation for life b ? educa?
tion, excellence therein ought to be bet?
ter than mediocrity; but this the pub?
lic fails to'understand. In England a
man's career at the bar or in public
life is greatly, assisted ay taking a
high class of honors at Oxford or
at Cambridge. In France the gateway
to success in many careers is opened
only by a series of rigorous competi?
tive examinations. Here the great law
firms select eagerly the graduates of
our Lav,- School who stand highest in
rank: bul the wotfld does not value in
the --"-?- way the highest scholars in
eol'?gp."
College Discipline Discussed
Or. the subject of college discipline
President Lowell writes as follows:
"Parents of students not infrequent?
ly complain of the rigidity of college
discipline in certain respects?that
their sons are not allowed, for example,
to leave early or come back late at the
Christmas or spring recess. They also
worry the college officers by entreating
that delinquents may be relieved of
penalties for the infraction of rules,
and Btill more insistently that they
may not suffer the consequences of
grave neglect of their work, or even of
serious moral misconduct. On the
other band, we hear from business
Wen that graduates fresh from college,
while possessing excellent qualities,
?re deficient in ?toady habits of dili?
gence and industry."'
A large part of the report is given
over to ;.n i-xu-r.<\r.tl discussion of the
lelatior.s which should exist between
? "? governing board of a university
?fid the faculty. President Lowell rea
"?ons from the experience of Harvard
"at the instructing statf should not
J"** represented upon the governing
board.
The report also speaks of the suc
"is of the new requirement of com
P?lsory nx'-rcisc for freshmen, the
parked increase in the number of men
?raniferring to Harvard from other
^'?"'??ges, the working out of the new
""?"q?irernen*. of comprehensive exami
?'?ti?rifs in the senior year of college,
*M increase in the size of the profe
i'onal schools, and the necessity
*"?? the immediate future of perfecting
*?* ?>?t ng ?: partmenta of the nniver
?ty rather than branching out into
*?w fields of work.
Tuition rates at Yale are to be raised
nom $240 to $300 next fall. Until ris
'*?'? coste, which carne with the v.ar,
?Wpelled the $240 charge, the tuition
i**t were (160 Even with the new in
???M tier? ?rill be a deficit.
I'-* o- este? at the University of
*?**7>vania have been increaaed twice
i nua, deficit now ??>.?> new increase
H ratos |a contemplated.
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Grave of Lincoln's Sweetheart
Finally Marked by Monument
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Jan. 16.?The
erection of a large and beautiful monu?
ment yesterday on the gravo of Ann
Kutledgc, the sweetheart of Abraham
Lincoln, in Oakland Cemetery, just
south of Petersburg, III., marks the
performance of a deed long contem?
plated.
A movement to fittingly mark the
: last resting place of one who was per
? haps the one most closely associated
with the early life of Abraham Lincoln
, while he was living at New Salem,
| which was located near what is now
Petersburg, had been started several
times before, but nothing ever came of
I it until those who had charge of the
last movement took charge of the
work.
Henry B. Rankin, of Springfield, who
| has perhaps done more to mark places
Philadelphia Textile
Workers Deeitle to
Resist Lower Wage
_
Accuse Mill Owners of Hav?
ing Made Exorbitant Prof?
its; Demand They Shoul?
der Losses of Hard Times
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PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16.--The Phila
' delphia District Council of Textile
Workers at a meeting here to-day de?
cided to resist "to the limit of their
ability'' any wage scale reductions and !
called on the people of Philadelphia to |
support them in their struggle ''for i
fair play and for a chance to live as {
citizens *of a great American city I
should live."
Most of the textile manufacturers |
recently announced wage reductions,
ranging from 10 to 25 per cent, and j
told the men they either would have !
to submit or be thrown out of work
by the closing of the plants.
Fourteen iocal unions, with a mem?
bership of approximately 20,000, were
represented ac the council meeting to?
day.
Adoption of resolutions setting forth
their attitude followed the reading of
a detailed report in which statistics j
and memoranda were quoted to show ,
! that the average worker in the textile j
industry is at present receiving a sal
ary "far below the amount needed to j
; sustain in decency a family, while the
manufacturers have reaped for the last
five years exorbitant profits."
"Conclusive evidence," the resolu?
tions read, "shows that the textile
manufacturing concerns in Philadelphia
have made profits since 1914 which are
grossly exorbitant. Such profits have
furnished ample opportunities for the
mill owners to create adequate financial
reserves. I
"During the same period the workers'
in-, the textile mills were denied any
--hare of this prosperity and received
wag?is utterly inadequate to support
, them in health and decency.
"This low level of wages has made
; it impossible for the workers to lay
I up any financial reserve whatever, and
? recent unemployment in the local tex
i tile industry has already reduced the j
! wages of the workers to a point that
breeds desperation and renders them i
prey to destitution and disease.
"The present depression in the tex
tile industry is merely a temporary j
transition from unnatural inflation to ?
normal and prosperous business condi- |
tiens.
"Therefore, the textile workers here j
represented call upon the employers to |
shoulder all the losses of hard times, |
as they reaped all the benefits of pros?
perity.'' \
BOSTON, Jan. 16.?Representatives
of unions in many textile centers of ,
Mr.ssachusettts and Rhode Island affili?
ated with the Amalgamated Textile '.
Workers were authorized at a meeting j
here to-day to report to their organiza- :
tiens that the Amalgamated was \
pledged to render all support possible, !
both moral and financial, to any local \
branch which should declare a strike I
au a protest against the recently an- !
nounced wage reductions in New Eng- j
land mills.
League for Women Voters
To Perfect Welfare Program !
From a Staff Correspondent
ALBANY. Jan. 16.?The League for'
Women Voters, of which Mrs. Frank j
A. Vanderlip is chairman, will meet'
in Albany on January 27 to perfect its i
legislative program. Present plans ?
arc for the league to devote itself tot
the proposition of a health and wel?
fare program for children.
Measures already before the Legis?
lature dealing with welfare matters
also will be given consideration, al?
though the league does not anticipate
taking any great part in seeking fa-|
vorable action by the Legislature this i
year on minimum wage and eight-hour i
day proposals for women and minors.
in Illinois associated with the life of
Lincoln than any other one man, wan
largely responsible lor the marking
of Ann RutLdge's grave. In thi-*
work he was assisted by a number of
Menard County people.
Funds for the erection of the monu?
ment which now stands over the grave
were given by members of the families
of descendants of people of this county
who were intimately acquainted with
the great emancipator when he lived
in thi? county.
The stone is a massive one, and is of
dark Quincy granite. A verse from
Edgar Lee Masters'3 poem, "Ann Rut
ledge," is inscribed on the monument.
The only marker of the grave of Ann
Rutledge, in Oakland Cemetery, for
many years has been a small, dark
piece of rough hewn stone with the
words "Ann Rutledge" roughly marked
? on its face.
Board Is Raised
For U. S. Guests
Of Alimony Club
Knott Also Demands Mc?
Carthy Pay Up Bill for His
Charges; "Lower Social
Caste, Demand Best Cells"
The City of New York, represented
by Sheriff David H. Knott, and the gov?
ernment of the United States, repre
; sented by Marshal Thomas D. Mc?
Carthy, are in controversy. The trouble
has arisen over a bill for a few hun?
dred dollars which the Sheriff pre?
sented to the marshal for the keep of
Federal prisoners in Ludlow Street
jail.
This bill owing Father Knickerbocker
from Uncle Sam dates back as far as ,
1919. In reply to a request from Sheriff
Knott that the bill be settled, Marshal
McCarthy said indefinitely that it would
be. This reassurance, however, failed
to assure the Sheriff that there would
I be an early remittance to the city, so
i he sent the following further com
' munication on the subject:
"My Dear Marshal: Your letter re?
garding overdue account received.
Really, your assurance that the United
States government would pay was not
necessary. I have felt certain of that
all along, even since 1919, when the ac?
count now owing began to accrue. But,
dear marshal, the matter is like this:
"I, as Sheriff of New York County, j
keep your Federal prisoners in Ludlow
Street jail. We support them out of ;
the meager allowance we get for that j
purpose. I have to account for every-i
thing that is expended^, so if there is
any money coming back to the Comp- !
trollcr, who, you know, does not like to
see accounts get mixed up, I should re?
ceive promptly any such money due the
city through the Sheriff's office.
"As you also no doubt know, there is
no better, yet at the same time cheaper, ;
jail than our Ludlow Street jail. Pris- j
oners clamor for its warm comfort and j
substantial, though plain, meals. My |
own prisoners are civil defendants only. ]
alimoners, etc.; yours are, for the most 1
part, men held in connection with j
crime. They do not add any social dis- \
tinction to the jail. Yet, strangely ?
enough, your prisoners are the more j
troublesome. They demand the best j
cells. One of these not long ago actu- j
ally demanded a cell with a southern !
exposure. (This man is now in At-!
lanta prison.) Also, the Federal pris?
oners are so fussy about their meal:-.
"Now, the City of New York does not
seek to make any money on Uncle Sam,
but neither can I be party to Father
Knickerbocker being 'knicked.' We
must get back what we lay out. We
are hardly getting this at the present
70-cents-a-day rate charge, with the
price of coal -where it is. Therefore, I
wish to confirm my prior statement to
you, that hereafter the charge for Fed?
eral prisoners will be 90 cents a day,
the same rate charged by the Commis?
sioner of Corrections for the main?
tenance of Federal prisoners in the
Tombs.
"And, please, dear marshal, hurry
along that check to the city for 1919
and 1920."
-?-?
Republican Bureau to Meet
The newly appointed speakers' bu?
reau committee of the Republican
County Committee will hold its first
meeting at the National Republican
Club, 54 West Fortieth Street, Wednes?
day at 8:30 p. m. A dinner will be
given at the club prior to the meeting.
Prominent Republicans will address
the meeting on municipal problems.
The purpose of the speakers' bureau is
to organize and prepare speakers for
the next Mayoralty campaign.
Missing With J,'100,000 Francs
PARIS, Jan. 16.?The disappearance !
of a messenger of the receiver of
finances who had been given 1,400,000!
francs to take to the Bank of France, ]
was announced to-day. The announce- j
ment stated it was feared the cm
nloyee had been a victim of foul play.
History of Man
Classed as Lie
By Chesterton
If Primitive Men Were So
Rude Why Were Primitive
Women So Absurdly Re?
fined? He Asks Audience
Ridicules a "Superman"
Says Patrick Henry, Living
Here To-day, Would Sim?
ply Say "Give Me Death"
No one will vouch for the accuracy
| of the following piece of gossip, but it
is said that just as he was closing his
trunk preparatory to sailing for this
| country Mrs. Gilbert K. Chesterton told
' her husband "not to forget the para?
doxes." At the Times Square Theater,
where the English author lectured to a
large audience last night, he seemed to
have forgotten everything but his para?
doxes.
His text was the "Ignorance of the
Educated," but what he really discussed
was the pretense to education made by
the ignorant.
But the subject that captured most of
his "attention was the injustice of call?
ing Bohemia by the doubtful ethnologi?
cal name of Czecho-Slovaki?. No one,
he asserted, knows the difference be?
tween a Czech and a Slovak, not to
speak of the distinction between a Slo?
vak and a Sloveine. His impression,
I he said, was that the Sloveine was the
| femtle of the species.
No Harm in Ignorance
Mr. Chesterton chanced on the sub
j ject of Bohemia when he was engaged
I in defining the type of ignorance he
i finds so prevalent. He said he was not
I criticizing the kind of ignorance mani
! fested by Shakespeare in "A Winter's
I Tale," when he refers to the "seacoast
of Bohemia," because it was a matter
of indifference to Shakespeare whether
Bohemia had a seacoast or not.
"There is not the least harm in
ignorance," observed Mr. Chesterton,
"ho long as it is the result of indiffer?
ence."
But what irritates Mr. Chesterton is
that people who don't know anything at
all about Bohemia speak wisely of
Czecho-Slovakia. This prevalent habit,
nursed, he said, by newspapers, he re?
ferred to as a "long winded pseudo
scientific evasion" of real knowledge.
Another "tribe which interests me
is one. that hide;; under the curious
ethnological d?signation of Anglo
Saxon chiefly because it does not
exist." And Mr. Chesterton went on
to show that "many years ago" people
called themselves Anglo-Saxons be?
cause they wanted to be known as
Saxons, and that they wanted to be
known as the latter because that would
establish their kinship to the Ger?
mans, who at that time were the "cul?
tured people" of the world.
There is no such person as an Anglo
Saxon, Mr. Chesterton insisted, but if!
one "wanted to be logical there might
be an Anglo-Wiirtemberger or an
Anglo-Prussian!" And that, he added,'
sounds ?mite awful.
"1 never could understand," he went'
on, "why it was necessary for the man
to knock down the woman, nor could
I understand why women were averse
to going off peaceably with the men.
If primitive men were so rude, why
were primitive women so absurdly re?
fined ?"
Speaking of the superman promul?
gated by "literary persons" like George
UPON THE KNEE
uYnu will notice, Grammont,
that I am served upon the
knee," said Charles II. " Tis
a token of respect not common
at other courts."
"I thank your majesty for the
information," answered Gram'
mont. " I thought they were
begging pardon for giving you
so bad a dinner."
Evidently Grammont, like the
patrons at CHILDS, preferred
a good dinner to pomp and
ceremony.
For itutanoe: real country
??mage, freth baked apple,
old - fashioned buckwhent
?cake? and delicious coffee.
BROADWAY
flak0&<?om|!anij
At 34/// STREET
Today?A Remarkable Special
SALE of 2,160 PAIRS
Men's Fur-Lined Gloves
Regularly 8.50
Special 0#yO
Diese gloves are made of fine quality imported
degrained capeskins, in a rich shade of gray, fur
lined. A warm, practical glove for street or
driving at an unprecedented saving.
MAIN FLOOR
Bernard Shaw, who in their imagina-1
tions created human beings with supe- j
rior qualities, Mr. Chesterton remarked
"we won't see any more of the super?
man. He had a nervous break-down on
the banks of the Marne, where the
Prussian god was stationed."
Brief History of Humanity
Leaving Bohemia behind, Mr Ches?
terton discussed the same kind of
ignorance in its relation to the his?
tory of mankind. He gave his audience
the usual brief history of humanity,
of the time when there was oniy wil?
derness, then man emerging from the
monkey, how man would fell the
woman and take her to his caverns,
the organization of tribes, then na?
tions and then the usual pious talk
about a "world-state." .
"Of course." remarked Mr.' Chester?
ton, "there is not one word of truth
in it from beginning to end. The de
sc'ription I have had the honor of put?
ting together before you is cne mass
of lies."
Of the "world-state" Mr. Chesterton
had a great deal to say, but, stripped of
the paradoxes, his argument was that
even if it was organized it probably
could not endure. He cited the Roman
and other similar empires of history
He said that if Patrick Henry were tc
join the living and see what was goinj:
on in the civilized world he woulc
merely simplify his well known obser
vation and remark, "Give me death."
Summing up his argument, Mr Ches
terton said he agreed with the Amer
ican humorist, Artemus Ward, tha
"it isn't so mi/ch the ignorance of peo
pie that does the harm as their know
j 'ng so^ many things that ain't so."
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: Livingston Paul, Hurt
In Hockey Game, Die
Philadelphia*!^ Death Believe'
First From Injuries in an
American ?Game
Special.Dispatch to The. Tribune
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16.-Living
ton Paul, a member of a prominei
i Philadelphia family, died this mornir
: in the Presbyterian Hospital of i
i juries he suffered in a hockey game
; the Ice Palace Saturday afternoon. ?
: far as is known it is the first dea
! from injuries received in an Americi
hockey game.
Paul, who was twenty-two years ?ol
' was a member of the Bachelors' Bar:
: Club team, which was playing t!
j Merion Cricket Club. He skated aft
i the puck alone and, losing his balanc
: fell as he turned to strike it. T
; back of his head struck the ice.
i Paul, his uncle, referee of the gan
ran to him and attempted to pick hi
up. The injured player was unco
scious. lie was taken to the Presb
terian Hospital in a private car. T
game was continued.
At the hospital Paul seemed to re
more easily, although he did not fu!
regain consciousness. Reassured
phjfticians that her son was not
grave danger, Mrs. Paul, left for h
home. Shortly before 8 o'clock tl
morning she received a telephone c
that her son was in a serious con?
tion. He died at 8:16 o'clock?t
minutes before her arrival. Hospi'
physicians said death probably w
caused by a fracture at the base
the skull.
Paul was the son of Mr. and M
Howard Paul, of Overbrook.
Labor Meeting Will Plan
Fight Against Open Shop
A. F. of L. Secretary Says Vigor?
ous Offensive Will Be Launched
in Washington Next Month
From Thf Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.?The meet?
ing of representatives of 109 national
and international labor* unions affili?
ated with the American Federation of
Labor here February 23 will plan ef?
fective steps to combat the cper. shop
and attacks on the trade uni?r. move?
ment, Frank R. Morrison, secretary of
the Federation, declared to-day.
"These attacks,'' Mr. Morrison said
"include attempts to establish thi
anti-union shop, ware reductions, anti
strike laws, compulsory arbitration
: labor injunctions and a publicity thi
would mold the publjc mind to accept'
these backward steps.
"I belfeve labor will formulate a ;
? plan to expose the pretenses of men
I who are only interested in cheap labor j
? and a continuance of their profiteering:
j policy. The trade union movement is j
i alert to the forces against it and pro- !
j poses to act vigorously and couVageous- !
. ly. Our opponents are mistaken if they !
? imagine they have made the slightest ,
?progress in alarming the workers or i
? thai they will humbly accept a policy ;
! of reaction.
"The proposed conference will con- j
' sider the publicity and other methods
:of*our opponents, and it is qu,Ue pos
i sible that labor will launch an offen?
sive movement against those who '
? imagine they control practically every !
; avenue of publicity.
"The conference is one of several !
similar gatherings that have been ,
' called by the A. F. of L. during its
history to consider unusual condi- .
t tions."
Fireman Dies in Wreck
Passenger on Fast New York-St.
Louis Train Shaken Up
CLEVELAND, Jan. 1(*.-Fireman J.
J. Hollister was killed and Engineer
"Harry Lynch, both of Cleveland, seri?
ously injured, when the engine on B??
Four passenger train No. 11. westbound
from New York to St. Louis, left th
tracks at Linndale, near here, earl;
to-day, plunged down a 30-foot em?
bankment and turned completely over,
pinning the fireman un<ler-neath. ~
Passengers were piled up in the cars,
but escape'd injury.
The engine tender stuck in the side
embankment and prevented a com?
bination baggage car and *coach and a
Pullman from rolling into, the ditch.
The wreck was caused by an east
bound freight train engin* jumping the
track and sWeswiping the passenger
train engine.
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Announce to Begin This Morning
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449 Regularly . . 12.50 461 Regularly . . 7.50
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180 Regularly . . . .' 5.50
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WlNTE
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?600 Coats from Regular Stock . Regularly $50 to $63
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il
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