The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-08-13
Five Great Gifts TO
the Cause of Educator
Worthy of Perpetual Remembrance Bccaas.
Reveal q Ne,v Force i'm Civilization

great gifts for the acDeft - The Na-
Ton at large which have oreh HaA1s
in recent ears oy wealthy Afaef'e1
These National gifts arc woFthS g
perpetual remembrance Tor NfI4o3S
reasons. especially they re-
veal a new force IA civilization when
IS iIkelz 10 have still further develop
ment
omittlnE many minor and yet mu-
rtftcent donations. the list TO which
attention is here directed includes nve
~bcnefact!ons which take the first rank
among those which affect the entire
country North and south. last ana
W est-tho~e OF Peabody. slater. Car
neg!a. Rockefeller. and Sage. n
every case the donor has made his
Gift Without religious or ecclesiastical
conditions. The few restrictions
which are made are or tho most SEN
eral character. such rs are not likely
10 enbarrass tie action OF flture
managers. While the wishes Or the
founders are carefully protected The
unit OF this bounty Is u million dol
lars. but his unit has been multiplied
ten twenty, and even thirty times.
Perhaps the most noteworthy dts
tinction is that In each case the scope
IS national. not provincial or local.
The managers or trustees are selected
partly from educational and partly
from financial circles, and they are
oAACAAs -
motives and do not receive the slight
est pecunlary recompense. They cam
not be suspected OF personal, sec
tional, political. or UNCONVENTIONAL
p~rcjudiccs.
Mr.. George Peabody began this limo
of modern benencience Yet there
were earlier givers-senerous for
their times and far-sighted-John
Harvard and Elihu Yale in colonial
days. and Count Run1ford at a later
period: and there have been In re-
cent years multitudcs OF local Pen
efactors OF universities and colleges
museums. libraries. and hospitals.
Buildings. professorships. and funds
for the purchase OF books have always
been favorite objects. The endow-
ment Of the Leland Stanford Univer-
sity of California and OF the Univer-
sity Of Chicago by John D.. Rookie
teller are magnificent examples OF
private bounty, and so Is the NUM-
fcence Of MIR. Andrew Carnegie in
Pittsburg. The Astors. James Lenox
and Samuel ]. Tilden made possible
the New York Public Library: Joseph
f. Sheffield established the scientific
department Of Yale College. as o. F.
Winchester n near by the
astronomical observatory. The two
institutions which bear the name of
Johns Hopkins, who gay them seven
million dollars, belong TO this series.
1 At IN 4S134lL Sill VI MI. d IlAgE1
for the study Of tuberculosis and the
Wistar Institute of Anatomy in Phil
adelphia must also be mentioned. al
though their scope is not local. but
general. Harvard University will
soon receive a prLnceIy gift for the
promotion Of technical education. For
the study Of natural history Alex
ander Agasslz has already made most
contributions TO the Mu-
OF comparative Zoology. These
are only Illustrations Of the far
sighted generosity of the rich men in
America A complete list IS impos-
sible within the space now at COM
mand.
The present selection of five great
gifts has been made because of their
0 education throughout
the land, in the South as we'll as in
the North
The roll begins, as I have already
said, with the name OF George Pea
body, pioneer of national ~benefcence.
It is now nearly forty years since he
and q new generation has grown
UP to many of HON he Is little moro
than q name. Born and bred in the
country. q merchant and banker in
Baltimore and Washington, Mr. Pea
seventy years ago.. founded a
bankers house in London. and he
continued To reside in that city until
death During all this period he
VIZ Stiitl Us, GQt ms great gifts WtIt
bestowed near the close Of his life
the city OF London and upon
natiVc and. In London he pro-
vided houses to be rented to respect
able working PEOPLE. In this coun-
try, bes Ges many minor gifts to Har-
ward and YALE. to Salem and Danvers,
he established the Peabody Educa-
ton fund. which has remained eni-
cient until now in the promotion Of
public education n the Southern
and in the maintenance or a
Normal College in Nashville, Tennes-
see. The late Or. j. J.. NJ Curry,
who succeeded DIR. Barnas Sears as
General Agent OF this fund. has
q very good account OF its
operations. The influence exerted
by this agency throughout the states
which We're impoverished By the war
cannot b calculated. and ii is not
strange that the name OF George Pea
body is now rcvered from Baltimore
70 NcW orleans. 1T Is n name -
c~onjure with said a Southern OBJ
server not very long ago. +,
After the death Of DR.. Curry. Dr. ,
samuel a. Green, secretary Of the
BOARD. acted IS general agent: and
WheH ne asked to be relieved OF these ,
iutie'. Professor Wicklire Rose % +,
the Peabodv National college wac /,
general agent in his stead. He ,
has just entered upon the duties 81 :
office. The problem before the /
board now IS lie ~perrraner eadow- !,
ncct cf tic Peabody Normal College }
70 Nashville. ard the flrtaer distrt-|
oution OF the Peabody fund. T.
The indirect Influences Of Mr.. Pen (
body arc almost Is great as the direct ,
ana are especially noteworthy IL three I
u~bsecue-t sIlts-thore or John T :
slater, Johns TIockins, AMI Eaoch
Pratt. This. the lIb-ary which Pea
body founded - paItimora FOR the
ise Of scholars. led Enoch Pratt TO cs-
-aoIsA ~ the same city wnat NAV be
-erned 2 collateral library FOR the cir
,~u!atton Of books among the people.
again the n~luniGcent foundations
y johns HOPKINS fo- p university and
'or a hcspita' arc TIE fruit ~ Mr. Pea .
tody's cxemTl r. IL. John W Gar I
has let on record an Interesting
ccou1t Of a d.rner t which he in
lied Nj. PeaEoiy and Mr.. Ho-kfne
has recorded VITA 2cewe!Iian de- .
an the conversation which thea
COX pi9ee. led by air. PEABODY. who
mi h@sizsd the Measure II giving a.
r~ansoerGirg tic pleasure of making