Pan-Education

Constructive T. Coleman Du Pont has set himself to the job of securing world peace by a slow-sure method: Education. His aim is the internationalization of education.

It is, first of all, necessary to arrange that scholastic labors in one country shall be given due credit in another, so that, for example, a "Sophomore" in Italy may become, over-summer, a "Junior" in Austria or the U. S.

Having achieved this universal interchange of scholastic credits, ex-Senator Du Font's committee would then increase the opportunities for interchange of students. Money necessary to these plans will be supplied by American financiers if the preliminary work produces satisfactory results. A preliminary committee is headed by Frank A. Vanderlip. Senator Du Pont is Vice Chairman and Felix M. Warburg Treasurer. Members include Marcus M. Marks, F. B. Robinson, Sydney Blumenthal, Dr. Walter Hullihen, President of the University of Delaware.

So great a proposal is characteristic of Coleman Du Pont, who built a $30,000,000 highway and gave it to his State; who built the Equitable Building, Manhattan, who organized the Du Pont de Nemours manufacturing interests, made them the greatest of their kind, then resigned. His present objective may not be reached during his lifetime.

T. Coleman is great grandson of Pierre du Pont de Nemours, French economist-statesman, friend of Thomas Jefferson. Pierre came to America and began manufacturing gunpowder in Delaware during the French Revolution. T. Coleman was born in Louisville in 1863, graduated from Urbana University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was stroke of the crew, captain of the football and baseball teams, "ran the 100 in ten seconds" (despite his 6 ft. 4 in. and 210 Ibs.), shot, swam, boxed, wrestled. He started work with pick and shovel in a coal mine, being an active member of the miners' union (Knights of Labor).

After he had retired from business he started to clean up "Delaware politics," and was appointed U. S. Senator in 1918. In the same year he went into the hotel business (WaldorfAstoria and McAlpin, New York, arid Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia). "One of the most democratic of men, liked by all who come in contact with him."