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Show 3.09 . England, France and Italy and eastern Canada. He went on a special diplomatic mission to France regarding relations between Greece and Servia. He has a wife, no children, no brothers or sisters. H e does not belong to any church. The highest salary he has received for educational work is $4,000 per annum. From Washington, I went to Baltimore and spent a day BY ens BJOY at Johns Hopkins University, where I received much assistance and obtained valuable data from the Bureau of Appointments. Heee Frank L. McVey, president of the University of Kentucky Since 1919, was highly recommended. He took his Ph. D. at 'at Yale, has two LL.D.'s, is about fifty years of age and has impressed himself favorably upon a number of well-known University men. Later, when I talked with Dean Frederick Schwartz Jones of Yale, who though complimenting McVey highly, felt that he ought not to be our first choice, McVey was described as not a great social favorite, "not able to get next to people", and owing to some personal peculiarities was "rather handicapped" and as "not an impressive speaker". Furthermore, he is succeeding well in Kentucky and we made no further investigation of him. Here at Johns Hopkins, I also conferred at some length with Prof. John H. Latane, who will be remembered as an authority on United States History and particularly on Diplomatic History. He is the author of "From Isolation to Leadership", a treatise well known, though only recently off the press. It deals with the League of Nations and the Monroe Doctrine and covers generally that period of our foreign diplomacy extending from 1918 to 1920. Prof. Latane is a typical southerner. I am impressed that he does not know the spirit of the West and as to his adaptability, I am not certain. He is now director of the Johns Hopkins College and has an ambition for university extension work. I append hereto a number of sheets taken from the current 'catalogue of Johns Hopkins which indicate some of the It goes without saying courses offered by Prof. Latane. that Latane's scholarship is all that could be asked. I also considered at this institufion, Prof. Arthur 0.-Lovejoy, but upon the report that he is essentially a controversialist, I pursued him no further. Prof. Latane recommended Clarence P. Gould, aged thirty-five, A.B. 1907, and Ph.D. 1911 Johns Hopkins, formerly Professor of History at Worcester and now at Washington College, but he did not seem to meet our requirements. Dr. J. C. French of the Bureau of Appointments, after I had discussed our problems with him, said, "There is probably not a man on our faculty who would be fitted for your problem". |
