The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-02-15
EDUCATIONAL
Mrs. saee's First Big Gifts.

Mrs. Sage's First Big GIFTS.
The gift of $1,0OO,0O0 to the Emma
Willard seminary and $1,0OOOOO to the
Rensselaer, Polytechnic institute. both
Of Troy, N. Y, and also $25O,0OO to the
executive committee of the Young
Mems Christian association have been
announced. The gift to the Emma Will
lard seminary is due to the fact that
Mrs. Sage finished her education there
and has been for years one of the
most enthusiastic alumnae. In let
ter to President Ricketts, Of the Poly
technic Mrs. Sage says that no condi-
lions are attached to the gift and that
II was made because of Mr.. Sage's per.
sonal relation to and interest In the
school, Of which he was a trustee.
Neither Of these gifts implies that Mrs.
in educational lines. 1t Is understood
that the money given to the Y. NJ.
G. A. will be used to erect building
for the executive Offices Of the COM
mittee in Twenty-ninth street near
Lexington avenue, New York city.
RockefeIIer's Record Gift.
The general education board, incor-
porated by congress to administer large
educational philanthropies, has receiv-
ed donation Of S32,000,OOO, the lar
gest in all history, from one person
for any purpose. Added to the ST.
100000 which the head of the Standard
Oil trust had already placed at the
disposal of that body, 1t makes grand
total of $43,O00,O0O. OF the 1000
600 one-third is to go into the perma
nent endowment fund of the general
education board and two-thirds is to
be applied to certain specific purposes
by the direction of John d. Rockefeller
or his son, John d., Jr Just what
these specific purposes are was not
made public.
An Educational Diplomat.
Dr. William Il. Sheperd, professor of
history in Columbia university, has
been selected by the International Blu
reau of American Republics, of which
John Barrett Is the new director, to
make trip TO the leading South Amer
lean capitals during the coming sum
mcr for the purpose of cultivating per-
sonal relations with the leading states
men and men of letters In Latin-Amer-
lea and to carry to them knowledge Of
the educational resources and oppor-
tunities of the United States. DIR.
Sheperd will also collect material for
a special course of lectures on South
irI hn tS 70 JnI in
Cooper Union.
Carnegie University Next.
Educational papers credit the report
that Andrew Carnegie and his colossal
fortune are behind the announced in
corporation of the Andrew Carnegie
university at Chicago, which is to be
the site of the new institution. The
articles> state the object to be to cS
tablSh a university for the teaching of
medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, science
and arts, law, theology and all kindred
branches of learning and that it shall
not be conducted for profit.
The report of the Carnegie Fund For
the Advancement of Teaching shows
that already $50 institutions have APP
piled for share of the proceeds and
that of these fifty-two have been plac-
ed on the accepted list, having met the
conditions in regard to undenomlna-
tionalism and academic standards. In
the accepted institutions forty-fivc pro-
fessOrs have received more than 500,
600, and the widows of some profess
ors have been assisted.