Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-13
For Sunday Reading. ]
An Oerss ~ Opinions.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Denomin.tio nali.m in Education.

Denominationalism in Education.
| The commencement season, bringing
| with it the annual meetings of trustee
boards. brought also agitations over
questions raised by the Carnegie fund
esta blished to pension retiring pro-
| fessors 1t will be recalled that all
| professors who are teaching in col
leges that are technically under de-
| nominational control are excluded
| from the benefits Of the fund. In or
der to make provision for these pro-
| fessors it is noticed in some quar-
| tiers that efforts were made to clear
given institutions of their denomina-
| tional alliances. Such efforts We're at
tempted at Brown University but
failed, as majority of the alumni
voted not to amend their charter,
which requires the president and a
majority Of the corporation to be of
the Baptist faith. Harpef's Weekly
| in commenting upon this fact. asserts
| that this Is decision that theory
shall prevail against the truth Be-
cause:
Brown is really undenominational
| SectaMan beliefs do not prevail in her
teaching. While the letter of the char
| ter is observed, its spirit Is not. An
| Episcopalian may teach there. In
deed, the Providence Journal declares
| that the control Of the university is
| really lodged with Episcopalians Jews
as we'll as Christians, Roman Catholics
as we'll as Professionals, are among
her students. A Jewish philanthropist
| has founded there a prize to be be-
| slowed annually for the best essay on
religious belief. The charter alone
makes her professors ineligible for q
| "The vote of the Brown alumni to
| maintain a tradition which is but
tradition, at the expense of the old
and faithful professors of the institu-
| ton. shows more the successful gall
vanization Of an old and dormant life
than a lively and intellectual gratitude
for the services of men who have at
| least presided at the birth OF what
ever education these CONSERVATIVE WV
| ers possess.
The Congregationalist and Christian
world (Boston) notes this decision OF
Brown and the inconsistency OF the
situation created, when comparing the
fate of her professors with that Of ex-
professors OF Oberliu Theological Sem
mary, which furnishes this year an I'M
structive example. We read:
so the professor Of geology or OF
astronomy there, who may never him.
self attend a Baptist church. will be
I debarred from the privileges OF the
fund. while a man like Professor A. II.
Currier, who has for twenty-six years
i lin, ThanInp-
zeal Seminary, from which steady
stream of congregational preachers
have been pouring out. receives from
now on his annual stipend. HIS sooo
fortune. at which we heartily rejoice.
is due to the fact that Oberlin college.
with which the seminary is affiliated,
has no formal relationship to the Con-
gregational denomination. tho the
service rendered to it in the persons OF
such men as the late President James
H. Fairchild, DIR. Currier, President
King, and Professor BosWorth Is be-
yond computing"
The Western Christian Advocate
| (CincinnatD insinuates that there is
some sort of indefensible discrimina-
ton made against many colleges Of
the land by the trustees of the Carne-
gle Foundation" and expresses the
hope that some change of policy will be
made by them in the administration or
! the fund. This subject was brought
before the trustees of Ohio Wesleyan
University by President Herbert WEIGH
in his recent report to that body, and
tho there is no indication of any defi-
mite action being taken. President
Welch's words may perhaps stand for
| the attitude of a number of institu-
tons conditioned such as his. We
Tread:
The executive committee of that
foundation decided that the election
of the majority Of our trustees by an
nual conferences of the Methodist
Episcopal church constituted denomin-
ational control In such a sense as to
exclude us from any share in the
benefits of the foundation. There has
been apparent disposition among those
who are charged with this trust, to
interpret with increasing strictness the
limitations placed upon them by Mr..
Carnegie in his gift
"The result up to this time is the
exclusion from the approved list or
about nine-tenths of the colleges OF
the country The test applied seems
to be a, purely formal one. as num-
Der of the accepted institutions are
Thoroughly we'll recognized as denom-
national in their sympathy and rela-
tionships, while others fully as free
from sectarian bigotry, are excluded
purely on some question Of organlza-
ton. Much unrest has arisen among
the colleges because of this seeming
ly arbitrary division, and several move
ments are under way to bring more
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