BACK FIRST SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The formation of the first complete school of international relations in this country, to be established in connection with Johns Hopkins University, is virtually assured as a result of a recent conference of distinguished educators, publicists, and business men in New York City in which Harvard professors and graduates took a leading part.

Among the most prominent backers of the project to establish the school are Professor A. C. Coolidge '87 and Dean Roscoe Pound L '90 of the Law School. Franklin D. Roosevelt '03 is chairman of the committee to bring about its realization.

To Use Name of Walter Hines Page

At the conference, resolutions were adopted supporting the plan whole-heartedly and recommending that the school be established at Johns Hopkins University and that the name of the late Walter Hines Page be associated with it because of his service in promoting relations.

Three Year Course With Year Abroad

According to the present plans the scope of the school will include the five basic subjects of the fundamental bases of international relations, the history of international relations, international law, diplomatic practice and procedure, and international organizations. A three-year period of graduate instruction has been suggested for the course, at least one year of which would be spent abroad in the study of racial and ethnological peculiarities, political and social undercurrents, and other factors that bear directly on the relations of nations with each other.

To Study Other National Cultures

In connection with the study of fundamental bases of international relations, the physical and geographical, commercial, racial and economic aspects will be given first consideration with a view to lessening conflicts between different types of national thought and culture. It is the belief of thinkers who have given the matter their close attention that the source of international friction can be traced to the inability of the peoples of the world to appreciate the merits of civilizations other than their own, and the reasonableness of national politics founded upon them.

Will Promote Research

The primary purpose of the school will be to provide oportunity for research and investigation of the fundamental conditions of international life, and the publication of such findings as will be of benefit to the world. Its secondary purpose will be the training of teachers and advanced instruction to a limited number of well qualified students.