Whose idea?

The professor began to enjoy visiting the Ladislaus estate and drinking beer with Max with hounds at his feet. And Max began to enjoy the professor’s company— someone he could talk with without the complicated etiquette of their relative social positions, and whose eyes didn’t glaze over when he talked about bones. In addition to paleontology, they talked about the state of the world, the state of education, and their visions of an ideal government. It would promote basic science and teach an appreciation of the natural world. How could this happen? In Max’s opinion, an ignorant mankind had no hope of achieving utopia. The professor was similarly inebriated, but he would have agreed anyway. Neither remembered later who first proposed establishing a summer school for paleontology on the Ladislaus estate.