The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-12-13
Mr. CARNE|aE'S LATEST.
Will Give Ten Million Dollars to
Endow a National Univer-
sity at Washington.
GOVERNMENT 10 Be the CUSTODIAN.
r.. a,rouut named would Tut the In.
stitutlon mt Once Upon Lever WI"
Yale or Harvard In Point Of wealth.
aud Xdd Largely tn the Prestige Oh
the Sational Capital

Washington, Dec. i0.-Ihe Wash
ington Post to-day will say: fresr
dent Roosevelt has received letter
from Andrew Carnegie in which the
latter offers to make donation OF
$4,000. 900 TO the United states. Inc
letter will be referred TO congress pv
the president in a special message.
Mr.. Carnegie's gift is for the pur-
pose of establishing in Washington
university for higher education. As
far as his idea has been developed. II
proposes gift after the manner OK
the bequest of James Smithson. the
Englishman who gave Sl,ooo.ooo ior
the establishment and maintenance
of what is now known as the Smitn-
sonian institution. Smithson dc-
sired the institution founded by him
10 be IA factor in the diffusion OF
scientific knowledge" Mr.. Carnegie
proposes that the university which he
i to endow shall be the greatest IN
stitution in the world for the devei-
opment of higher education. lie has
consulted President Gilman OF Johns
Hopkins university; President Had
lev of Yale. President Eliot OF llar-
ward. former President White of Cor
nell, and all the leading educators OF
the country. They heartily indorse
his plans. The proposed university
will not interfere in the least with
the educational institutions already
established. but will supplement them,
for according to the present plan. ITS
doors will he open TO those who de-
sire to take up post graduate
course.
Mr.. Carnegie also wants the new
university to take the lead in original
research. so that the United States
can eventually stand side by side with
Germany, if not excel that nation IN
scientific development.
Mr.. Carnegie's plan docs not pro-
pose national university in tn"
sense that an appropriation will be
asked or needed The government is
simply to be the trustee of the mag.
nificent endowment just as il admin
listers the fund bequeathed by smith.
son. 1t is probable that board oi
regents will be appointed. as in the
case Of the Smithsonian institution
or il may he that the government will
he represented upon the board 81 di'
rectors, which. il is contemplated
shall consist of men of national repu'
fation.
Mr.. Carnegie has kept the proposed
endowment a secret until he could
definitely arrange the plan and scope
Of the new university. Even yet all
no details have not been arranged
so that little more than the outline
Of his gift can be published 1t Il
known. however, that he does not
propose to ask from congress "A single
foot Of land upon which the univer
sity buildings will be constructed
4 The entire expense is to be borne ont
~ his endowment. No site has yet
been selected 1t will. however. nee
essarily be very large. as il is pro
I posed 10 erect q series of magniiicen
! structures.
The amount Of money to he giver
by Mr.. Carnegie equals the sum of tn
present endowment fund Of Harvard
and i considerably more than tn
invested fund Of Yale.
With the Catholic university. tn
Methodist university and the pro
posed Carnegie university. Washing
ton will be the educational center o
the country.