The New School was concocted in the office of the New Republic but The Nation was kept abreast of the "New Educational Adventure" too:
The Nation Vol. 106, No. 2758 (May 11, 1918): 559-60, 560
This piece, called “An Independent College of Political Science" and probably by James Harvey Robinson, adds to the mystery of how we ended up with the quixotic name New School for Social Research. In the air as the founders discussed it evidently were "Independent School of Social Science" (in the original proposal), "Institute of Social Technology" (favored by Emily James Putnam), "School of Social Research" (Herbert Croly) and this "College of Political Science" which aspires to becoming a "genuine university of social science." All over the place!