Abstract

"Hire Learning" at Ohio State

A splendid laboratory for the study of what has been called the "hire learning" in the U.S. is to be found on the campus of the great Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State University is one of three State-maintained universities in a State more generously sprinkled with colleges, public and private. It had a very active military department and compulsory training, it is true, but it had also a more lively opposition to such training than existed in most universities, in the critical departments of history, political science, economics, and sociology, it boasted a somewhat unusual group of able men, apparently entirely free to speak their minds. Among them Professor Herbert A. Miller stood out, less, perhaps, by reason of his academic work than because of his public interest in problems of race and nationality, and his real services to President Tomàŝ Garrigue Masaryk of Czecho-Slovakia in the war days when that country's declaration of independence was written.