Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-04
AID FROM CARNEGIE
Subject of Discussion at
Methodist Conference.
AS TO DICKINSON COLLEGE
Suggestion That It Is Not a De.
nominational Institution.
RESOLUTIONS OF SYMPATHY
Address by Principal Of Williams
burg Seminary-Thanks for Of
fetal of Railroad Company.

For more than an hour today the session
of the Baltimore annual conference OF
the Methodist Episcopal ministers In
the Hamline Church was enlivened by the
consideration of the question as to
whether or not Dickinson College. the
pioneer educational institution of the de-
nomination in this country, by accepting
aid from the Carnegie foundation fund.
had been declared by it's president and
board Of trustees nOn-sectarian.
The question was called to the atten-
ton Of the conference at the conclusion
of the address of DR.. Huntsberger. field
agent of the college, who asked that the
ministers go to their charges and ask
their parishioners to do all they can
toward raising a fund of 100000 for
Dickinson College.
vent appeal for the earnest prayers OF the
members of the conference, Rev. Dr..
c. w. Baldwin announced that he had a
resolution to read. which he believed
was of much interest to the members OF
the assembly. Bishop Cranston recog-
nized him at once and he read the reso-
lutions questioning the Methodism of the
college.
Presents a Resolution.
AS Ine trustees OIL Tie euuCdliOh 1uho
of the Baltimore annual conference Is a
body incorporated by the legislature Of
Maryland in 1884 for the purpose Of hold
ing certain properties DR.. Baldwin read,
"the income of which is to be paid over to
the trustees of Dickinson College so
Long as that institution shall be I'M
der the direction and auspices of
the Baltimore annual conference:
And. as the president and trustees OF
the college, in order to qualify to be ad-
mitted to the list of accepted 1nstitu-
tons by the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching. and there
by secure pensions for it's professors from
said foundation upon their retirement,
have in clear and explicit terms by formal
and official action declared that Dlckln-
son College has no official connection
with any denomination. that while it is
under the friendly auspices of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. 1t has never been
owned or controlled by any church body,
and that the president Of the college Is
directed in the future to report the college
as non-sectarian and the trustees
of the educational fund of the Bal
timore conference now hold for
the purposes of their Incorporation
large property valued at $155, los. or,
with an annual income of 81 .9O2.61. and
secured by appeals to the generosity and
piety Of our people. ministers and lay
Sunday schools, on the plea that Dickin-
son College is Methodist institution. and
as such 1t is necessary for the proper
education and training of Methodist peo-
pie. and whereas twenty-five years ago
this conference undertook, and, in fact.
has established. in the heart of it's terri
tory, another institution under its con-
troll, and from funds solicited and OBJ
tanned chiefly from members of our church
within the bounds of this conference,
which control bars 1t from participation
in the pensions given by the Carnegie
foundations: therefore, 1t Is
Resolved. that the trustees Of the edu-
cation fund of the Baltimore conference
be and are hereby directed diligently
and carefully to inquire whether said
trustees under the power and authority
granted them by their charter, may use
the income of the fund now held by
them in order to establish under the
direction of the Baltimore annual con-
ference a pension fund for the benefit
of the professors of the Woman's Col
lege of Baltimore, and If they should
find themselves SO empowered to proceed
to establish such a fund and to report
to this body as soon as possible the re-
suit of their inquiry and the grounds
of their conclusion
1t was further resolved that this con-