19093 World Peace Foundation 



director of "the World Peace Foundation" estab- 

 lished at Boston in October of this year. According 

 to its constitution, the Foundation's policy was to be 

 controlled by a board of directors having in general 

 the same relation as that of the faculty of a univer- 

 sity, while a separate board of trustees should look 

 after funds. General activities in behalf of peace 

 were to consist of research, addresses, and publica- 

 tion. 



Mr. Ginn having been chosen president, Mr. Edwin Ginn and 

 D. Mead, one of the directors, a sincere, scholarly Mead 

 man, formerly in charge of the School of Peace, was 

 appointed secretary and Arthur W. Allen, a Princeton 

 man, assistant secretary, both with salary. Aside 

 from Mr. Mead, however, no director ever received 

 money other than the refunding of actual expenses or 

 loss of income incurred in approved lines of effort. 

 Afterward Albert G. Bryant of California, a virile 

 pacifist, became Organizing Secretary, a salaried 

 position held by him until his sudden death in 1916. 



The original board of directors comprised the following: 



Charles R. Brown, Dean of the Yale Divinity School 



Hamilton Holt, Editor of The Independent 



David Starr Jordan 



James A. Macdonald, Editor of the Toronto Globe 



Edwin D. Mead 



John R. Mott, General Secretary of the International 



Y. M. C. A. 

 James Brown Scott, Assistant Secretary of State 



Later, George W. Nasmyth, 1 then assistant professor of 

 Physics at Cornell, Charles H. Levermore, ex-president of 

 Adelphi College, and Edward Cummings, a Unitarian pastor in 

 Cambridge, were added to the list. 



1 After a very active and useful life, Dr. Nasmyth died in Geneva in 1920. 



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