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

catlOnaI institutions. Ni"ie cei-
tain colleges will be selected for
donations or e~ndoWments. form
ing q chain across the contlneIL,
other not SO favored Will be le1t
to their fate, as it were, and many
of them will be, it IS expected,
forced to close their 5lOrS IN the
face of such strong support o.
their fortunate rivals
Can any one doubt hat these two
extracts were written by the same
hand and that the hand which wrote
them was the hand .. s'oIt,e one p2r
ends of Mr.. Rockefeller and his
Board. How thoughtful was the
writer in that he put forth the matter
in the leading Republican paper n
the leading Democratic paper OF the
metropolis. He meant that men Of
all parties should see and understand
it. And mark what is proposed by
this writer.
ca There is to be "a chain" of
Board-supported colleges stretching
across the continent CD That these
Eoard-supported colleges Will force
others to close their doors. In other
words the General Education Board
pr to both Kill and make alive,
to make and unmake colleges at will.
Is any mar so simple as not to see
that the Board will be able to influ-
ence the character of the instruction
given in the Board-fed institutions?
Is it not clear that it Will have col
!eges to its own notion, teaching what
it directs both as to the matter ana
manner Of instruction?
And as to the rest Of the colleges 1t
is expected the little coloured pins on
the maps in the office Of the Rockefel-
Ter Fund will probably seal their fate
and that they viii be forced to close
their DOORS
That this is no strained view of
hat is proposed and expected, will
appear from the following extract
from the Outlook. DR.. Lyman Abbotts
periodicals. magazine which Would
not mistake the object of the Rookie
Teller Fund nor write Of its purposes
and plans in any unfriendly way. The
Outlook said:
with his financial power in
its control. the general board is
in position to do what no Body
in this country can at present,
even attempt. 1t car determine
largely what institutions shall
grow. and in some measur what
shall stand still or decay. It can
look over the territory of the ma
ton. note the places where there
is a famine of learning. and start
new educational plants of any
species it chooses, or revive old
ones. 1t can do in many ways
the government does for
education in France and Germany.
It's power will be enormous: it
seems as if it might be able to de-
termine the character of Ameri-
can education. The funds it old
represent only a fraction of the
which it will control; by
WINS a sum to an institution on
condition that the institution raise
an equal or greater amount. it
will be able to direct much larger
amounts than it possesses
Now note two things in this pas
"a 90 from tho colin, ~ n G of f1a n,t1nnfy. /
CD This BOARD ma be able to
'determine the character of American
education,' that is. it may be able to
dc in our country Wha the govern
ment does in France or Germany,
u without the governments respon-
sibility to the people. Could anything
be more dangerous?
(2) This Board will be able to con-
troll not only the millions OF Mr..
Rockefeller's gift, but the greater mil
others may give, to the institutions
which seek and obtain it's aid. What
an enormous power for fifteen men to
WELD over q nation! It is startling to
think Of it. 1t is alarming!
That it may be clear how this
Board to control the colleges
which it seems to aid and to control
the funds which such institutions may
obtain in the future from others. I
give the conditions which were out
lined for acceptance by a Southern in
to which the Genera Educa-
ton Board PROPOSED to give $4,000
II that institution would raise $112.-
SEQ. and thereby increase it's endow-
ment to $150,000. The conditions as
outlined by an executive officer of the
Board were as follows:
First. That the amount so
contributed by this Board. to-
gether with the supplemental sum
of one hundred and twelve thou
sand five hundred dollars ($112.-
5000, aforesaid. will be safely in
vested and forever preserved in
violably as endowment for the
said College, the income only to
be available for its uses.
Second. That no part Of the in
cOmefrom the fund so cOntri-
buted by this Board shall ever be
used for specifically thenlnoica1