The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-05-11

DAcA Ill 1OI CeUoTal dlU
to education revived,-the thing that
the lamented William L. Wilson drove
10 cover so soon as it showed it's
head in one of the earlier and less
rlgldly programmed Conferences"
While the General Education
Board declines to make gifts to State
colleges, Mr.. Carnegie's formulation"
equally refuses its teachers pensions
to the faculties Of colleges and ~univer-
sites under denominational control.
AS an educational agency its presi-
dent proclaims that Its policy is not
to pass on the merits of individuals,
but Of colleges" It is manifest that
by picking certain institutions whose
professors may receive pensions from
the Carnegie Foundation" it will give
great advantage to the accepted col
leges over the rejected institutions,
and the only way of escape for the
Institutions will be to revise their
charters and get rid of control by the
churches which founded them or to
make a square fight for their lives.
Some colleges nave been willing to de-
ny the church p~arentage which gave
them birth in order to get Mr.. Carne-
gie's fund. For example, Bowdoin
college. in Maine, received years ago
the endowment of one of it's professor
ships on condition that the fund
should be forfeited to another insti-
tuition whenever q majority of the
board OF OVerseers ceased to be in
sympathy with the Orthodox Congre-
g%ational church, and for this cause the
authorities of the Carnegie Founda-
ton held that BoWdoin was i%neliSible
for "a place. On the Carnegie pension
roll. And Bowdoin has forfeited the
endowment given by former friends in
order to get a chance at pensions for
its professors from the Carnegie
Foundation Other colleges may fol-
low in such q course. Still others,
which will not their faith,
may have their professors carried off
to accepted colleges by the temptation
of a pension in their Ole age. So dis
establishment may be the fate Of some
institutions. and death, perhaps the
fate of others.
OF course. the General Education
Eoard's' denial Of its gifts to State
educational institutions will work a
that which the "Carnegie Founda-
ton" lays on church schools, and
some of the State schools may be led
to seek disestablishment and discon-
nection from all State control in order
to get aid Of The General Board" as
surrendered church onnec
ton to get on the Carnegie F'Ounda
ton"
Suppose now, that eventually, after
many colleges have died and other
have been Wrested from any respon-
sibility to state or church, The Gen
eral Education Board" and the Car
negie Foundation should unite on a
chain Of colleges across the CONT
nent' independent OF all authority or
influence, except the control and in
fluencc of those two corporations en-
doWed With the millions OF Rockefel-
Ter and Car2cgie; what then would
be the character of American
e61Ir9tinn' az th1lc 'Ipt9rrnjnp63 -
After Federal aid to education is Sc
cured, we may expect to see started 4
movement to make the National Com
missioner Of Education a cabinet Of
ficer. Mr.. Ogden, one Of the leading
spirits in all this movement,-Who is
a member of the General Education
Board chairman of the Southern
Board" and for many years
president of The Conference for Ed
ucation in the South" and the only
man who is a member Of all these
three bodies,-favors Federal aid to
education in the South.
Of course. with Federal aid, we
must submit to Federal supervision,
and with that subsection accepted,
why not raise the Bureau of Educa-
ton at Washington to an executive
department and make the Commfs-
of Education a cabinet officer?
Probably in such an event THE Gen
eIdl EOucdllOH bodIu; Will lS Alui-
tiplied millions and national follow
ing, would have something to say
about who should be chosen for the
of Secretary Of Education. 1t
could then fulfill the Outlook's fore
cast when that periodical said OF this
General Education Board 1t can
do in many ways what the govern
does for education in France
Germany
The General Education Board" in
the final outcome may adopt the suS-
Of Mr.. Charles A. Gardiner, OF
New York, which is really the logical
from the promise OF FED
eral aid to education. He advocates
The National Bureau OF
Education with supervisory powers SO
it can make education compul-
sorry. fix the courses Of study, and di-