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Show LU-(j Dr. Bawden is good looking, has a good bearing, may not be sufficiently aggressive, is considerate and gentlemanly, possesses a scholarly attitude, is conservative and altogether an admirable man. Heath As shown by the special committee's preliminary report to the Board of Regents, Mr. Louis J. Heath, now engaged with the United States Public Health Service, was recommended to the committee. I had an «tended interview with Mr. Heath, and found him to be in many ways well qualified. He is thirty-five years of age, and was born at Cortland, New York. He was reared on a farm and engaged in farming, lumbering, and breeding horses and stock. He had the usual common school training and at the' Cortland High School graduated from a four years' course after three years of study. He then entered Amherst and received his A. B. in 1910 and in 1912 took his M.A. at Harvard. He is now writing his Ph. D. Thesis. He was instructor in English in the University of Pittsburg. He assisted Pres. Edmund J. James at the University of Illinois and resigned to enter the government service. He was secretary to the committee which made the survey survey, which was very exhaustive, I have selected excerpts characteristic of Mr. Heath, and append them hereto. One excerpt from page 51 of the Report, deals with the expenditure of moneys and shows how, under the survey-officers who were put in charge of the institution to the extent that all administrative matters were passed through their hands, considerable savings of money were effected. I select these as bearing directly upon Mr. Heath's tendencies as an administrator. I observed, too, that Mr. Heath was very democratic in his educational views. For instance, he says, "Eastern Universities are covered with traditions and are not functioning in a community sense. That is, they fail to learn the country's needs and seek to supply them, but endeavor to assume a standard ' a theoretical standard and turn out their products unfitted to do the work of the community". He also contends that the disciplinary methods on schools and universities are generally wrong as based upon what is termed the Ear-motive, and which he says tends to develop an attitude unfitting the individual to function properly in society. He contends, too, that teaching cost can and should be put on a scientific basis. As a conversationalist, Mr. Heathvis interesting not because of good articulation, for he does not possess it,- not because of a good voice, for his voice is faulty, but because of his clear thinking and his philosophical trend. The defects here mentioned detract from his personality. .Mr. Heath has a definite ambition for administrative work, and it is possible he may distinguish himself in that field. Mr. Heath was joint author in the "New Basis for Social Progress", published by Heughton Mifflin Company in 1917, by White and Heath. Social H iene. He is now engaged in writing articles on except He has traveled over the United States, in also the extrgie south and extreme west; has traveled 51.4.: _ A of the Pittsburg University when Mr. Melon, now Sec. of the Treasury, contemplated endowing this institution. From this |
