The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-12-13
Andrew Carnegie Offers the U. S.
$1O,OOO,OOO
BENEFIT OF HIGHER EDUCATION
To BE Used in the Establishment of a
Washington University, Which is to
Exceed Anything of Its King in the
World, Even Ce--,an Institutions.

Washington, Dec 1O.-The Wash
ington Post today says:
President Roosevelt has received
letter from Andrew Carnegie in which
the latter offers TO make donation
OF $4,000, 600 to the United States
The letter will be referred TO congress
by. the president in special message
Mr.. Carnegies gift is for the purpose
of establishing in Washington a uni
versity for higher education As Ga.
as his idea has been developed ii Pr
poses a gilt after the manner of the
bequest OF James Smithson, the Eng
lishman who gave Sl,000,000 for the
establishment and maintenance of
what is now known as the Smithson
institution. Smithson desired the IN
stitution founded by him to be a factor
in the diffusion of scientific knowl-
edge Mr.. Carnegie proposes that the
university which he is to endow shall
be the greatest institution in the world
for the development of higher educa
ton. He has consulted President Gil
man of Johns Hopkins university,
President Hadley Of Yale; President
Eliot of Harvard President White OF
Cornell, 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 estab-
lished, but will supplement them for
according to the present plan its doors
will be open only TO those who desire
to take up postgraduate course. Mr.
u lgn &c hn afxrar
sity to take the lead in original re-
search so that the United States can
eventually stand side by side with Ger
many, if not excel that nation in scien-
tific development Mr.. Carnegie's plan
does not propose a national university
in the sense that an appropriation will
be asked or needed. The government
is simply to be trustee of the magnifi-
cent endowment, just as it admins
ters the fund bequeathed by Smithson
1t is probable that a board of regents
will be appointed as in the case of the
Smithsonian institute, or it may be
that the government will be represent
ed on the board of directors, which it
is contemplated shall consist of men
Of national reputation.
Mr.. Carnegie has kept the proposed
eHuOWmeHl secret until he cOuiQ
definitely arrange the plans and scope
of the new university. Even yet all
these details have not been arranged,
so that little more than the outline Of
his gift can be published. 1t is
known, however, that he does not pro.
pose to ask from congress a single
foot of land upon which the university
building will be constructed. The en-.
tire expense is to be borne out of his
endowment. No site has yet been Sc
lected. 1t will, however, necessarily
be very large, as it is proposed to
erect series of magnificent struc-
lures.
The amount of money to be given by
Mr.. Carnegie equals the sum of the
present endowment fund of Harvard,
and is considerably more than the III
vested fund of Yale. With Catholic
university, the Methodist university
and the proposed Carnegie university
Washington will be the educational
center of the country.