The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.12, page 83, Dec. 1912, U. of Illinois Press

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DECEMBER · ~ 9 ~ ~ It strikes me a good deal as if Mr Bebbington should take the interesting facts he has secured, while working over the schools accounts, and write a thesis on the subject. Such information as this report would bring out, it seems to me, is for the trustees or other persons personally interested in the school. On the other hand a study of what becomes of Tuskegee students, compared with the results of education in white schools or other Negro schools, would have some point and would be a good thing. This, however, is just what the Stokes Fund proposes to do. ~ have just had a letter from Mr Stokes which ~ enclose. It semns to me that now that the investigation Is assured we should proceed to take the next step. The next step seems to me to be the endowment of the research work at Tuskegee. ~ was impressed, in talking with Mr Stokes, with the fact that the reason ~ did not get the job, or was not going to get it, was because ~ did not seem to him to represent science. Perhaps also, there was a distrust of the ability of any one connected with a Negro school to do scientific work. This suggests the advisability of my making some connection with Chicago University. Mr Thomas2 has proposed it. Then, when ~ wanted to do sociological work from Tuskegee, ~ would have a title and the backing of the University. There are some other matters in this connection that ~ should like to talk over with you. ~ am very truly Robert E. Park TLS Con. 462 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Jacob Harry Hollander (~87~-~940), an economist, was a professor at Johns Hopkins University beginning in 1904. Hollander proposed a study of the ''economic usefulness'' of those who had attended Tuskegee Institute. He wrote to Julius Rosenwald that such a study should be conducted scientifically and the statistical results carefully analyzed. (Nov. 5, 1912, Con. 456, BTW Papers, DLC.) 2 William Isaac Thomas (I863-I947) was chairman of the Colon depar==t of the University of Chicago and co-author with Florian Znaniecki of the monumental work, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (2 vole., I9I~20~. Thomas met Park at the International Congress of the Friends of Africa-at Tusked gee in the spring of 1 2, where they were both on the program. He invited Park to lecture at Chicago during the summer session, and this led to a permanent pontiow for Park in the department. 83