Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-13
GIFT is NO BLESSING
CARNEGIE FUND DETRIMENTAL
TO SCOTCH COLLEGES.
Special Cablegram to The Star.


GLASGOW, January 12-Bitter cons
plants have been made for some time past
of the evil effect upon the Scottish uni
versities of Mr.. Carnegie's gift of S10,-
100000 Sir William Sinclair. speaking at
Aberdeen. declared that he had never met
an Aberdeen graduate who had not de-
nounced the influence of the Carnegie
money.
Mr.. Carnegie. ii will be remembered, de-
posted in 1901 the sum of $4,000, 900 for
the formation of a Carnegie trust" the
wish of the donor being that mo student
should be debarred from attending the
Scottish universities on account of the pay
ment of fees" Students of either sex who
are Scottish born. whose parents or
grandparents were Scottish have the right
to apply to the trust for the payment OF
their fees. This provision has been inter-
preted with such latitude that Uses are
on record of colored students receiving aid
though just wherein arises the blend CT the
negro and the Scotch blood has never been
made quite plain.
An Abused Privilege.
1.-The practical effect of the gift" said
one prominent educator of Scotland, is
that most of the students at all the Scot
fish universities have drawn upon the
money for the payment of their fees. In
very many cases the students have thus
Deen enabled TO SQuanUer the sums sent
by their parents for fees, concerning the
fact that they had received help from the
Carnegie fund"
Another disastrous effect is the starving
out of the extra university schools in
which poor students have hitherto been
coached. By the aid of the Carnegie
money more students are able to go TO the
universities. and the schools which pro-
duced Livingstone and scores of other IA
nous Scots are in serious straits II is
also declared that the university profess
sors. in view of the students increased
Carnegie resources. have raised their fees
and become less earnest in their duties.
The moral damage of the S10,000,0OO gift
is pronounced incalculable by the greatest
of the Scotch educators. 1t is claimed that
the Scottish student is losing his self-re-
lance, his sturdy independence and his
capacity for study under difficulties, and
it is argued that the whole nature of Scot
tish university training is undergoing a
change for the worse.
Interested in jamestown.
Scotland is taking a really deep interest
In the jamestown (Va) international expo
sition for the purpose of celebrating the
tencentenary of the establishment of the
first permanent English colony in North
America. The settlement of Virginia is
always spoken of as an English colony.
yet when Mime. Esmond Warrington ruled
at Castlewood. the banks of the Po-
tomac. the governor of the colony was
Glasgow man. Dinwiddie of Germiston.
The connection between Glasgow and the
old colony of sugar and tobacco was a
very close one. as the old tobacco lords
knew and as the name OF Virginia Street
to this day testifies. But Ii is 300 years
next March since CHRISTOPHER Newport
landed on the banks of the James river
and founded the colony. The town OF
jamestown. which was the capital of the
colony for nearly a century. was the Amer
lean home of a number of the leading FAM
Tiles OF Scotland.