The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-05-24
CARNEGIE GIFT PRAISED
..,cators' Views on His Fund
For College Professors.

corneII University President Says
ling Better Could Have Been
For Higher EducatiOn-"MOst
-fecant Step" Says DIR. Harper
cbicago-A Canadians Opinion.
,-,sidauts and professors of leading
.I,o.es in various parts Of the United
coates and Canada recently expressed
tnsso opinions concerning Andrew Car
.io,s deed of gift of 100000 to be
,sod in providing annuities for super
mated college professors and in
..,.tors. says the New York Tribune:
prosident Jacob Gould Schurman CT
c,rneJ university: 1T is magnificent
,if- bespeaking at once a sympathetic
and generous heart and a wise and
.+o+osmaulike head.
.>-otbine better, nothing else so good,
Gould have been done even with $1O,-
ooaoa0 for the cause of higher educa-
4.r IN America. Hitherto the pro-
,o.sors in our colleges and universities
,,,,ra in old age either turned out upon
coId world or retained to teach stu
aonts in spite of physical and mental
5ocrfne the first course being an in
trstira to them, the second an injustice
80 their students Their salaries are
+oo email TO make saving to any con-
Siderable extent possible. Mr.. Carne-
rio,. gift will. provide them in old age
viii, an assured livelihood and relieve
them of anxieties which have hitherto
bapr acute and distressing. But this
is not all. In consequence of Mr.. Car
negje's gift professorships become more
attractive positions than ever before,
and men who enter on the teaching
career viii have a strong additional in
ducpment TO remain in it.
FINALLY, in an age of StupendOus
material achievements in which Mr..
Carnegie himself has been one of the
worlds foremost leaders, his gift is a
triumph for spiritual civilization. 1t
will make for the eXaltation of let
tprs science and the things for the
mind of which our colleges and uni
verslties are the organs and our pro-
fpssors the ministers at the affairs, and
consequently Mr.. Carnegie deserves
not only the thanks of American pro-
fessorS, but the cordial gratitude of the
American people"
President W. X. Harper of Chicago
university This is one Of the most
significant steps ia the interests Of
higher education in the last twenty
five years. 1t will give the college
professors a position of dignity great
err than ever before No class of men
more richly deserve appreciation OF
this kind than the professors"
President Henry S Pritchett of Mas
sachusetts Institute OF Technology: Il
regard Mr.. Carnegie's gift as one Of the
most important and far reaching ever
made to education. 1t will establish
upon broad and general lines a system
Of pensions in sufficiently large num-
Der Of American institutions to insure
its general adoption as part of the
administration of our higher institu-
tons of learning, This will go far to
give dignity and security TO the calling
Of the professor"
President w. H. T.. Faunce of Brown
university mfr. Carnegie's interest in
American colleges is very gratifying.
] only hope that Mr.. Carnegie's agents
will consider whether it might not be
well to distribute the available fund
among the different institutions whose
professors are to derive benefit from
ii rather than to hold the lump sum
under a board of independent trustees.
1t might be that retired professor
who would be eligible under the terms
of the gift would feel much more like
accepting the allowance allotted him
from the institution to which he has
devoted his best days rather than
from a board of trustees with whom
he has nothing in common"