Brothers

Twenty-five years ago a proud young New Hampshirite watched his big brother receive a degree from Dartmouth College. Three years later he entered Dartmouth himself, but had to go to work when half way through his course. The big brother was still at Dartmouth, functioning first as the president's secretary, then as secretary of the college. The big brother took another degree, A. M. The young brother accepted his fortune and buckled down to work, for a shoe company, an optical company, the General Electric Co., a spark coil company. He learned about men, kept up his interest in education and after serving the Government as a personnel expert, accepted a post at Northwestern University in 1922 as personnel director. Meantime, his older brother had become president of Dartmouth College, a man to whom Amherst, Colby, Rutgers, Brown, McGill, Yale, Williams, the Universities of Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, were proud to give honorary degrees.

For the industrious, however, all roads lead to eminence. Last week Young Brother, plain "Mister" Louis Bertram Hopkins, was installed as seventh president of Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.), in the presence of august trustees, judges and nine college presidents, including Big Brother, the learned Dr. Ernest Martin Hopkins, president of Dartmouth, who greatly enjoyed delivering an inaugural address.

At Fisk

"Yes, it is indeed a notable and felicitous occasion. We are most fortunate, and should do our all to promote the new era of constructive co-operation."

"I agree. We have reached a turning point and are now on the upgrade. Racial differences should be put aside. Culture is irrespective of color and culture must be our objective. The trustees have acted with great foresight and understanding, and I, for one, am heartily in sympathy with their aspirations."

The speakers were two young Negroes, second-year men at Fisk University (Nashville, Tenn.), one of the oldest institutions of higher learning for Negroes in the South. They were walking slowly to their rooms from the final ceremony of a four-day celebration to inaugurate as president of Fisk young Thomas Elsa Jones, last year a graduate student in sociology at Columbia University, chosen by the Fisk trustees, after a long search, to fill the boots of Dr. Fayette Avery McKenzie, against whose alleged "Jim Crow" methods Fisk students struck last year (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925). To give President Jones a good send-off and to impress Fisk students with the permanence of the Fisk policy of a white president (often they have asked for a black), Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath* and his fellow trustees arranged the four days of ceremony and speechmaking, beginning with a football game on the campus and including the distinguished presence of representatives of the Phelps Stokes Fund, the Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Missionary Association (all contributors to Fisk's million-dollar endowment), as well as dozens of college presidents and Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, guests of honor. To give substance to the occasion, Lawyer Cravath offered $25,000 if alumni would match him. Promptly they contributed $35,000.

Details

The S. S. President Cleveland last week reached San Francisco from Kobe, Japan, bringing six young men and their explanations why they were obliged to resign from the Floating University aboard the S. S. Ryndam, bound around the world (TIME, Sept. 27). They had, they admitted, rushed the guards at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, in their eagerness to see the unoccupied royal suite, held sacred to the Mikado and his family or visiting royalty. They had burst the imperial doors off their imperial hinges, sat on imperial chairs, lounged on imperial lounges. They had stormed a Buddhist temple, torn down an image, encountered Tokyo police and engaged in a street brawl. The U. S. consul, irate, had thereafter refused to receive Dean Lough of the Floating Unversity. The disorderly ones were virtually deported. Their names: Duncan MacMartin, Enos Richardson, Wendall C. Goddard of New York; Harry R. Addison of Cleveland; Frank T. Morgan of New Haven, Conn.; George E. Tierney of Philadelphia.

* Millionaire Manhattan lawyer, whose father, the Rev. Erastus N. Cravath, was a founder of Fisk (1867) and its first president (for 25 years).