The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-18
GIFTS AND REQUESTS TO EDUCA-
TON IN 1902.

quests for educational and charitable in |
situations in the United States during the
past year. The list would I'LL seven
columns of this paper 1t has been care
fully prepared and is the most accurate
information that could be gathered. No
attempt is made to add up the gifts and
requests, but they far exceed one hundred
million dollars.
This writer has carefully gone over
the full statement of each beQuest, and
finds that OF the total number, 264, only
Ia give anything to the Southern educa-
tional or charitable institutions, and most
of these are to institutions for the edu-
cation of the negro. The only donation
in the list to a school for negroes In
North Carolina is the "residuary estate
of Mrs Julia Brick Of Brooklyn, N. Y"
to the Joseph K Brick Agricultural, IN
dustrial and Normal School, in Edge
combe county.
The only gifts to North Carolina insti-
buttons for the white youths are $4,000
to Elon and the gifts of the Messrs.
Duke to Trinity College The full list Of
gifts and requests to the South is as
follows:
Ball. Mrs Sarah G. B., Galveston, Tex,
gift to Austin Theological Seminary,
$4,000.
Billings, Robert c., Boston, gives to
four institutions for the negroes of the
South an equal portion of 81 900 to
be divided between 1875 educational and
charitable institutions.
Brick, Mrs. Julia Elma Brewster,
Brooklyn, N Y. to Joseph X. Brick Ag-
ricultural Industrial and Normal School,
| Edgecombe County, North Carolina, her
residuary estate.
Carroll, Mrs. Mary Austin, Boston,
Mass, gift to the University of Virginia,
a pledge of $4,000 annually.
Duke, James B., New York city, gift
| to Trinity College, Durham, n. c., new
library building, $4,000 for the purchase
| of books, and funds for the establishment
| of chairs in German, Romance Lam
guages, Political Economy and Applied
Mathematics.
Duke, William W., New York city,
| gift to Trinity College, Durham, N. o..
a dormitory.
Glover, Joseph b., Boston, Mass, Hamp-
| ton Normal and Agricultural School and
| Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School
| 1927 900.
Haggin Mrs ]. B., New York and Ken
lucky, gift to Ashland Seminary, Yer
| sailles, Ky, to restore dormitory, az
/ cost $4,000
Haggin, Mrs. James Ben Ali, New
York city, gift to the Episcopal Diocese
Of Lexington KY, conditional on Ash
land Seminary being always at Versailles,
funds for the Margaret Hall.
Huntington, Mrs. c. p, New York:
Hampton Institute, new library bulld-
ing; Tuskeegee. new academy building.
Lcese, Mrs. S. p New York. bequests
to Central University of Kentucky, $685.
600; and Leese Institute of Jackson, KY
$500
Palmer, Francis A., New York: Elop
l College, N. c.. 100000.
i Rice. William Marsh New York, be-
quest to Rice Institute of Houston, Tex,
the bulk of his estate of $S,0O0,O00.
Tuskegee (Ala) Institute, gift from .
friend, for a girls dormitory, $4,000
So far as the South Is concerned, how
ever. in it's educational progress, the past
year marked the most important gift and
: wise direction of help for Southern edu-
cation in the history of the country. IL
is thus outlined by Appleton:
, "John D. Rockefeller proposed to en-
dow a corporation, known as the Gen
!, eral Education Board and created bJ
= IL with
: understood to be $1,000, 900. The object
[ of the corporation, as set forth IN the
, act. is 1.-The promotion of education
| within the United States of America
without distinction of race, SEX oil
creed" and the corporation is authorized
"to establish. maintain, or endow, OF
aid others to establish, maintain, or en-
, dow elementary or primary schools, in
dustrial schools, techinacal schools, nor
| NAL schools, training schools for teach
: ers, or schools of any grade, or higher
institutions of learning; to employ or ait
, others to employ teachers and lecturers
: to aid, cooperate with or endow associa
tions or other corporations engaged ii
educational work within the United
, States of America" The corporators
names in the bill are William H. Bald
- | VIII, IL. JdDSL L. h' SuIl y ANH
Gates, Daniel c. Gilman, Morris
Jesup, Robert c. Ogden, Walter H. Page
? George Foster Peabody, and Alber
, Shaw"
I 1t is we'll understood that the objec
l of this board is chiefly to assist thu
Southern States which, in the povert!
Y that followed war have been struggling
to provide education for the children. Th'
first steps already taken have shown {
broad and wise spirit, and under tn
. | control of the men who are the corpora
, tors of the General Education Boar
! the policy has been to work IN perfec
harmony with the State authorities. Il
| North Carolina the board has been Il
! complete accord with the Governor, Stat
i Superintendent Joyner, and DR.. Charlie
D. McIver, who represents North Carolin
| on the Southern Educational Conferenc
Executive Committee. This State is go
ing forward of its own motion and il
+, it's own way to educate the children. Be