1919 - Education

Education

Boston-born Jesuit priest Edmund (Aloysius) Walsh, 33, establishes a School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. The War Department appointed him last year to a board of five educators charged with coordinating studies for the Students' Army Training Corps. He served as educational director for the New England area, and he came to the conclusion that U.S. education did not pay enough attention to the study of diplomacy, foreign languages, and international relations.

University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) opens.

Chicago-born educator Carleton W. (Wolsey) Washburne, 29, returns to Illinois after 5 years as head of San Francisco State Teachers College's science department, becomes superintendent of schools at Winnetka, and devises the Winnetka Plan for individualized, ungraded learning in the town's elementary schools. Most school systems use a uniform grading system that holds all children to the same rate of progress, but Washburne's plan lets a pupil move on as soon as he or she has mastered the material in his grade work, which includes not only the common essentials but also art, crafts, drama, literature, music appreciation, and physical activities. A pupil may do as much or as little of these "electives" as she desires, and with regard to the essentials may work in several grades at once.