The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-17
MILLIONS FOR EDUCATION.
The Enormous Sums Which Have
Been Given to Schools and Colleges.

The Enormous Sums Which Have
Been Given to Schools and Colleges.
From the Boston Transcript.
In 1917 Abbott Lawrence gave $4,000 to
Harvard, and it was then said to be the
largest amount ever given at one time
during the lifetime of the donor to any
public institution in America. The re-
construction period, so fifty contaminated
at chicago last year, is a marked epoch
Tor college endowments. Between the
years 1850 and 1882 the colleges of the
country gained in wealth an amount
larger than their entire valuation in 1889.
More than S50,OO0,000 were bestowed in
these twenty-five years upon our educa-
| tlonal establishments, and SIS, COZ. 900 of
this amount were donated in the ten wears
between lSdO-S0. Johns Hopkins en-
dowed with S3,0O0OOO the university
bearing his name, Mrs. Valeria G. Stone,
or Massachusetts, distributed more than
Sl,O000OO among various institutions of
learning. Asa aPacker founded Lehigh
University, and Ezra Cornell the univers-
lty at Ithaca, n. Y, which bears his
name. The names of Matthew Vassar.
Sophia Smith and Henry F. Durant de-
mand more than passing mention. Each
or these pioneers in the cause of higher
education for women made their beliefs
pSA AAAauOA1 Nv lOuuuluE ItullG colleges,
aud Henry w. Sage provided for special
/ instruction for women in Cornell Uni.
Verslty. But the ideas of generosity have
wldened with the process of the suns, and
the last ten years have witnessed a far
more liberal endowment of educational
centers than the period Just referred to-
Mr.. RockGfeller's original offer of $780,
600 toward the resuscition of the dofunct
Chicago University was made in 1886, and
the total sum he chiefly, and others il
lesser amounts, since bestowed is more
than $1,OOO,0O0 Mr. c.. Il. Yerkes gave
100000 for the observatory and telescope,
Mr.. Marshall Field gave the university
lands, and another $500, 600 was be-
queathed from the estate of William b.
Ogden for the school of science, the Rey-
nolds estate adding $3.50, 900 more Here.
then, and at Palo Alto also, is a univer-
slty practically made TO order. Senator
Stanford gifts to Palo Alto amount to
more than Sl0C00,000 BY the gigan-
tic power of wealth wisely used
he has created the Oxford or Yale
of the west upon his fruit ranch.
The quiet man of affairs has put
all future civilization under bonds of OBJ
legation to him for this singularly noble
achievement, the phenomenal gift of all
giving Mr. James j. Hill, of st. Paul,
has given 81 100000 for the erection of a
Roman Catholic theological seminary be-
meath the superintendence of his friend
Arch bishop ireland. Mr. J. S. Pillsbury
presented the city of Minneapolis with
Sl5O,OOO for a science hall in its
university. Mr.. George A. Pillsbury
gave another $3.50, 600 toward the Pillsbury
Academy. Mr.. James Lick provided the
observatory, with its mammouth tele-
scope, situated at Mount Hamilton, Cal,
and named in honor of the donor. DR.
Coggswell bestowed 81 600 600 for the San
Francisco Polytechnic School. Miss
Mary e. CARROTS check for 1850, 900 was
recently handed to the trustees of John
Hopkins TO complete the sum necessary
to open to women the medical department
of that university
The Girard college at PHILADELPHIA has
been too long before the American public
to need any special introduction here. 1t
cost nearly $2,000,000 TO found this lnsti-
ton. The Drexel institute is the latest
descendant of Girard, and perhaps it is
the best and wisest of Fhiladelphia's
many philanthropies. The various de-
partments of Pennsylvania University
owe great deal Of their existence and
| efficiency to prominent Philadelphians
Mr.. Lenning, for example, gave 10000
to the scientific school, and the
late Mr.. George Pepper left more than
81 ,OO0,O 600 TO the schools and charities
of the city. The Western Reserve Uni
versity has founded a medical college
with S250, 900 given for that purpose by
Mr.. j. l.. Wood, of Cleveland, O. Will
lam F. Clark followed with 100000 for
the Women's College of the same institu-
ton. The Cincinnati University was the
gift of Mr. McMicken, who bequeathed
almost sl,000,000 for its support Mr.
Armour has given his institute to Chicago,
a worthy peer of the Pratt Institute
in Brooklyn, and the Cooper Union in New
York Mr.. Armour's gift will have cost him
about $1,000, 900 by the time it completes
its founders purpose. Bishop Hurst's
scheme for national university at Wash
ington is well Under way. A donation of
100000 is just reported. 1t should be OBJ
served that the monetary estimates of
these numberless endowments is only a
partial one; the contagiOn of generosity
has caused a leading offer, such as Mr.
Rockefeller's TO Chicago, to become the
precursor of far greater sums. The
timeliness, the healthy spirit the sanity
OF view which has prompted such dona-
tons, is even more admirable than their
magnitude.