Evening journal., 1905-05-06
CARNEGIE GIFT PRAISED
Educators Views on His Fund
For College Professors.
soHURMAH CALLS IT MAGNIFICENT


of Chicago-A Canadians Opinion.
Presidents and professors Of leading
colleges in various parts of the United
States and Canada recently expressed
these opinions concerning Andrew Car
negie's deed Of gift Of S10,OOO,OO0 to be
used In providing annulties for super
animated college professors and in
structors, says the New -.ork Tribune:
President Jacob Gould schurman Of +
Cornell university: 1T is a magnificent
gift, bespeaking at once a sympathetic
and generous heart and a wise and
statesmanlike head.
Nothing better, nothing else so good,
could have been done even with S10,
100000 for the cause Of higher educa-
ton in America. Hitherto the pro-
fessors in our colleges and universities
were in old age either. turned out upon
q cold world or retained to teach stu
dents In spite Of physical and mental
decline, the FIRST course being an in
justice to them. the second an injustice
to their students Their salaries are
too small to make saving to any con-
siderable extent possible. Mr.. Carne
gle's gift viii provide them in old age
with an assured livelihood and relieve
them Of anxietles which have hitherto
been acute and distressing. But this
IS not an In consequence of Mr.. Car
negie's gift professOrshlps become more
attractive positions than ever before,
and men who enter on the teaching
career will have a strong additional in
ducement to remain in it.
'linally. 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. Il
will make for the exaltation of let
ters, science and the things for the
mind. Of which our colleges and uri-
versities are the organs and our pro
fessors 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. r. Harper Of Chicago
university: This is one of the most
significant steps in the interests of
higher education in the last twenty
Eve years. 1t will give the college
professors a position Of dignity great
ef 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. CGrnegie's gift as one Of the
most important and far reaching ever
made 10 educahon II will establish
upon bread and general lines a system
Of pensions in a sufficiently large mum
Der Of American institutions to insure
its general adoption as a part Of the
administration Of our higher institu
tions Of learning. This VIII go far tC
give dignity and security to the calling
&C the professor
president ". II. p. Faunce of Brown
university. "Alr Carnegie's interest II
American colleges is very gratifying
1 only hope that Mr. Carnegle's agents
will consider whether it might not b
well to distribute the available funC
among the different institutions who's
professors are to derive benefit from
It rather than to hold the lump sun
under a board Of Independent trustees
It might be that a retired professo
who would be eligible under the term
Of the gift would feel much more lik
accepting the allowance allotted hin
from the institution to which he ha
devoted his best days rather thai
from a board Of trustees with WHOM
he has nothing in common"
President T. Clark Seelye Of Smit
college at Northampton, Mass: 81
will be Of incalculable benefit Z
the colleges. No gift has been mad
to colleges in general which will prov
Of such great value It viii make tn
profession more honorable and at tn
same time win attract and retain I
the profession those who are bes
qualified to instruct in the higher inst
tutions."
Chancellor Henry NJ. MacCracken Q
New York university: Prom my NOR
than twenty years study Of the histor
Of New York university have found
the unanimous judgment Of the corp'
ration that pensions should be givel
even when there was no surplus rev
nue. from which to support then
though there may be an annual dehci
Very recently l made an appeal
graduates OF New York university Il
an endowment Of pension fund. Viz
Chancellor Eugene Stevenson Of Ne
Jersey, who is the president Of OF
general alumni association, has oGe
% 10 be one Of ten graduates to gil
eash S2,500 for this object Mr.. Carn
gie's benesaction viii enable Vice Cha
ecDcr Stevenson and his friends to b
stCw their gifts on some other worth
ohtsVt.
~ Mr. Carnegie wanted to Go
work that would comprehend evel
foundation for higher education tn
depends on private llberality ! dou
whether be could have devised a wis
plan. Administered In a broad, impa
tial. just and continental spirit, It "
be an immortal boon 70 higher educ
ton In America"
Chancellor S. B. Mccormick Of 4
Western University Of Pennsylyani
There Is no profession in the wor
more In need OF more deserving
some aid Of this kind than professo
and Instructors at schools think n