The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-10
|CARNEGIE'S
 UNIVERSITY Personnel of Board Of
 Trustees. NOTED MEN ARE MEMBERS Aims of the Institution Out- lined by Founder. To Enable Prosecution of Original Research to Be One of Chief objects.-Trustees to Meet
 January ae.
NOTED MEN ARE MEMBERS

Washington, Jan. s.-onicial announce ment was made today of the Board Of
 Trustees of the Carnegie Instifufs, which has been incorporated here under the $o,0O00Oo gift of Andrew Carneefe. The only indication as to the form of the gift is that it will be ''$10,0o0o in per cent bonds"
 The announcement says: 'In the de- vclopment of his plans. Mir. Carnegie has consulted with a number of gentlemen. including the heads of universities and other scientific institutions"
 The Board of Trustees elected by the incorporators to carry out the purposes of the institution as indicated are: Fix ofhcio. the President of the United States. the President of the United States Sen ate. the Speaker of, the House of Rep resentatives. the Secretary of the Smith sonian Institutions: the President of the National Academy of Sciences. The oth- CTS are: Grover Cleveland, New Jersey: John s. Billings, New York: William N. Frew, Pennsylvania; Lyman J. Gage IllI- nois; Daniel C. Gilman, MaSyland; John Hayl District of Columbia; Abram S. Hewitt, New Jersey; IT. L. Higginson. Massachusetts: Henry Hitchcock, Mis- souri; Charles l.. Hutchinson. Illinois: William Lindsay, Kentucky; Seth low. CcW Iofh' wayne MctedEus EcuuStt~ vania; D. O. Mills. California;: s. Weir Mitchell, Pennsylvania; w. w Morrow. California; Elihu Root, New York: John Spooner. Wisconsin; Andrew D. White. New York; Edward D. White, Louisiana: Charles D. Walcott. District of Columbia; Carroll D. Wright. District of Columbia
 The Board of Trustees will meet to or ganize and elect officers, January %.
 MT. Carnegies purpose. as stated by himself in requesting the various trsis-' tees to become members of the board. Is as follows.
 Tt is proposed to found in the city of Washington. in the spirit of Washington, an institution which. with the co-opera- ton Of institutions now or hereafter es- tablished. there or elsewhere, shall in the broadest and most liberal manner. en- courage investigation. research aud dis covery; encourage the application of Knowledge to the improvement of man. kind; provide such buildings, laborato- ries, books and apparatus as may he needed; and afford instructions of an ld- vanced character to students whenever and wherever found, inside or outside of schools, properly qualified to profit thereby"
 Among its aims are these:
 First-To increase the efficiency of universities and, other institutions of learning throughout the country. by utilizing and adding to their existing facilities. and by aiding teachers in the various institutions for experimental and other work as far as may be advisable
 Second-To discover the exceptional man in every department of study, when ever and wherever found and enable him by financial aid to make the work for which he seems specially designed his life work.
 
 Third-To promote original research. paying great attention thereto, as being one of the chief purposes of this institu- ton.
 Fourth-To increase facilities for higher education.
 Fifth-To enable such students as may ind Washington the best point for their special studies to avail themselves of such advantages as may be open to them in the museums, libraries. laboratories, observatories, meteorological. piscatorial and forestry schools and kindred institu- lions of the several departments of the government.
 S1xth-To ensure the prompt publication and distribution of the results of scienti- hc investigation, a field considered to he highly important
 These and kindred objects may be at tained by providing the necessary ap- paratus for experimental work, by enn- ploying able teachers from the various institution in Washington or elsewhere, and by enabling men fitted for special work to devote themselves to 1t, through fellowships or scholarships. or through salaries with or without pen sions in old age. or through aid in other forms to such men as continue their special work at seats of Iearniugs throughout the world