Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-11

the trolley cars are the splendid new
buildings of the University of the City
of New York. and few blocks TO the
Theological Seminary; while within sight
are a dozen preparatory institutions and
schools for young women. When the new
buildings are completed Grants tomb will
be the center of perhaps the largest group
of educational institutions in the world
The land for the new buildings OF the
Union Seminary comprises four blocks,
bounded by 10th and 122d streets on the
north and south, and by Broadway and
Claremont avenue on the east and west.
This land was bought for $1.1O0.0OO and
given to the seminary by the late u. Will
lis James, the we'll known phflanthropist
and president of the board of trustees,
who died in 1907.
The New Buildings Monumental.
1t is proposed to erect group of monu-
mental buildings at a cost Of $1,000, 600 or
more, the designs for which have been
prepared and adopted. The corner stone
of the first building was laid by John
Crosby Brown, president of the board Of
directors of the seminary, few weeks
ago, when an address was delivered by
Rev. DR.. George William Knox, professor
of history and philosophy. and the bene-
diction was pronounced by the Rev. Dr..
seminary.
There will be dormitory facing Broad
way and covering a half block. A
library of harmonious architecture will
occupy the next block. On the other side.
facing Claremont avenue. will be an adj
building. building for reci-
tation halls, chapel and a residence for
the president: while between these
groups, upon the side streets. will be
apartment houses for the professors and
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completed within year. and it is hoped
to have the entire group ready for occu-
patton within the next five years, when
there will be accommodations for at least
500 students.
The present buildings. between Goth and
10th streets. on Park avenue. will accom-
modate only 100 students, a little more
than half Of the number in attendance.
These buildings and the ground upon
which they stand, which are estimated to
as 1t is deemed expedient and the money
will be invested on the new site.
Wonderful Growth Of Sem4EarJ.
This is the second move that the Union
Theological Seminary has made. The
original site was 8 University place.
where the institution was opened in 1885.
Forty-eight years later, in 1884. it was
to 700 Park avenue, the present
location, where the buildings erected at
that date were be ieved to be sufficient
their utmost capacity within the next
ten years. At that time there were
only seven professors and one instructor,
who found three lecture rooms sufficient
for their accommodation Today there
are eleven professors, two associate pro-
fessOrs, one assistant professor, four in
structors and three lecturers, and it has
become necessary to rent accommoda-
tons in the neighborhood to give them
room for their work. The curriculum has
been enlarged, and the system of instruc-
lion has been made elective. so that stu
dents may select the courses which they
believe will qualify them best for the
branch of Christian work to which they
intend to devote their lives.
The Union Seminary is no longer the
of a single denomination,
it is under the care of the Pres
byterian Church. Three denominations
are represented on it's board of trustees, |
four in it's faculty and more than twenty
among its students.
Carnegie's Scotch Hero Fund.
Before he lett Scotland this fall Mr..
Carnegie made an endowment of a mil
lion and quarter dollars. in bonds of the
Steel Trust, the income from which,
amounting to $63, 500 a year, is to be used
to relieve from pecuniary cares Scots who
shall distinguish themselves for heroism
and self-sacrifice. The p an Is similar to
that of the hero fund.- In this coun-
try. and in a letter to DR.. John Ross.
chairman of the Carnegie Foundation. the
donor explains his motives and his pur
pose:
I'VE live in a heroic age" he says
Not seldom are we thrilled by deeds
Of heroiSm. where men or women are
injured or lose their lives in attempting
to preserve or rescue their fellows. Such
are the heroes of civilization. The false
heroes of barbarism manned or killed
theirs.
II have long felt that such true heroes.
and those dependent upon them. should
be freed from pecuniary cares resulting
from their heroism and as a fund for this
purpose one and one-quarter millions of
dollars in per cent bonds, yielding
twelve thousand five hundred pounds
sterling per annum, will be sent you.
Judging from our experience this sum ISL
ample to administer the trust and NEE.
the cost of maintaining injured heroes and
their families during the disability of the
heroes. the widows and children of heroes
who may lose their lives in the United
Kingdom. and still leave a surplus for
and contributions.
How Interest Will Be Used.
1.-The interest of the fund Is to be used
as follows:
vocations, who have been injured in
heroic effort to save human life. in some
what better positions pecuniarily than be-
fore until again able to work. In cases
of death. the widow and children to be
provided for until the widow remarries.
and the children until they reach self
supper. ing age. For exceptional children
grants may be made for ad-
vanced education. grants in money or
in other forms may also be made to
heroes or heroines as the trustees deem
each case to be judged on its
merits. AS rule. grants should be paid
''2. No grant is to be continued unless
it is being soberly used, and the recip-
tents remain respectable, well behaved
members of the community. No exception
will be made to this rule, but heroes and
heroines are to be given at first a fair
trial, no matter what their antecedents
They deserve pardon and a fresh start"
Mr. Carnegie has defined his purpose in
founding the trust for the benefit of his
native city. He says in recent letter