Small Boy

"Ever since my father took me as a small boy to visit Hampton ..." Those words, uttered last week, created for those who read them a curious picture. They saw a certain very rich man, old even then, with a sharp, meagre face and deliberate gait, dragging by the hand a small, disagreeable-looking boy in a homely tunic, who cast terrified glances behind him at faces that leered from entries and windows--agreeable faces enough, but black as tar, with large white teeth, white eyeballs, which that backward-staring boy found inconceivably horrible. John Davison Rockefeller and John Davison Rockefeller Jr. were visiting the campus of Hampton Institute (for Negroes). Naturally the good-natured blackamoors stared at this rich old man and his scrawny, trembling son. Last week, this son made a generous gift. He gave $1,000,000 to Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes "because they provide an education which fits boys and girls to be useful citizens." Said he: "Inasmuch as I have been profoundly interested in these schools, ever since my father took me as a small boy to visit Hampton ... I shall count it a privilege to participate in the campaign to the extent of $1,000,000."

"West is Best" '

Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Leland Stanford University and one-time (1923-24) President of the American Medical Association, came to Manhattan from Washington, D. C, where he had been visiting his brother.-- Reporters asked him questions. Said he:

"The big Eastern Universities are being eclipsed by our Western Universities. Their fault has been that they have gathered a group of preparatory school feeders, which send them the same type of man year after year.

"With all due respect to the cosmopolitan East, this has tended to make them become provincial in their thought. Provincialism deals with isolation."

He then discussed the relative merits of the East and the West on the athletic field. Said he: "It has been proved that the supremacy of Eastern colleges in football is a myth."

* Curtis Dwight Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy.