For Notre Dame

A good Roman Catholic and a good businessman is Edward Nash Hurley of Chicago. A good Roman Catholic institution is the University of Notre Dame at South Bend, Ind. To Notre Dame came last week a gift from Businessman Hurley: $200,000 to found a College of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. Well might Businessman Hurley consider himself internationally-minded, well might he plan that his donation should make internationally-minded businessmen out of Notre Dame students. His fortune, he pointed out, had started in 1899, in London, with the sale of $125,000 of patents for pneumatic hammers and drills, which he had tried in vain to sell in Chicago. His ability, he needed not to point out, had made him Wartime chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, president of Emergency Fleet Corp., onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, president of the American Manufacturers' Export Association.

Proposed for the Edward N. Hurley College was an exchange of students with similar foreign schools. A cable was sent to Edgar Algernon Robert Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, president of the British National Union of Students, offering scholarships.

With his gift Mr. Hurley made a re quest: that the six study-halls in the pro posed collegiate Gothic building be named for "distinguished American industrial leaders of international vision;" that an oil painting of each be hung to remind the students of "his boyhood struggles, phenomenal success and subsequent leader ship." The six: President James Augustine Farrell of U. S. Steel; Builder Ernest Robert Graham of Chicago (Graham, Anderson, Probst & White); Samuel Insull; Board Chairman Charles Edwin Mitchell of National City Bank; Chair man John D. Ryan of Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; President Gerard Swope of General Electric Co.

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