Evening journal., 1909-07-15
Thursday, July 10, 1909
CLUB OVER EDUcATIoN7

Il n a way the Carnegie Pension Fund is play
\ ing havoc with some of the colleges and
universities. Mr.. Carnegie struck blow at the
institutions that are considered sectarian by
making provision prohibiting the aged pro-
fessors OF such institutions from enjoying the
benefits OF his pension fund. AS consequence
some of the colleges are changing their regula=
tons regarding sectarianism and are becoming
non-sectarisn in order that the professors may
enjoy the Carnegie bounty. Others have not
changed and will not do so. 1t will take more
than the Carnegie fund to pull them from their
time honored sectaran moorings.
II is said that the trustees OF the Carnegie
Foundation have made exception in several in
stances as a few professors who have stood very
high in the educational world have received
since their retirement, the beneht OF the tund
These persons are among the abest scholars OF
the country, men who never thought OF the dol
lar but devoted the best parts of their lives 10
educational work which has not all been confined
TO the mere teaching of youth.
But while making these exceptions the Car
neeie trustees have added certain other restric-
tons to the fund. They have declared some in
stitutions ineligible because they do not come
up to the educational standard which the Car
negie trustees have set. From this it is feared
that the Carnegie fund will result in sort OF
censorship over the colleges. If college will
abandon sectaranism for "a Carnegie pension
11la, uill il ret-yield its manner of teaching IT
Mr. Carnegie and his trustees have the right
TO prescribe whether this or that college shall re-
ocive his pension, but it seems to that he is
unnecessarily hard on the so-called sectarian in
sttutions. Probably the attitude OF the Pension
Fund Commissioners will discourage young men
from seeking positions in the faculties of col
leges that are under the Carnegie ban. And yet
at present some Of the ablest instructors are
found in these colleges even in the smaller ones,
and il is an open question whether young man
cannot better be fitted for life in smaller, even
sectarian college, than he can be in of the
larger universities.
Mr. Carnegie and his trustees may imagine
that in a Presbyterian College for example Cal
vinism is pumped into the students from morn
TIL night, and they, therefore, must leave such
college firmly impregnated with Calvinism. The
very reverse is often true Some Presbyterian
colleges so-called have students OF all religious
faiths and Of no faith in their classes, and those
students whose parents do not desire it are no;
called upon to attend the trihing religious in
struction that is given them.
In opposing sectarian colleges It seems to US
that Mr.. Carnegie is fighting a man of straw
Instead Of being liberal in his mental makeup
As he processes 10 be, he is iliberal by seeking tc
shackle the institutions OF learning with his owl
ideas as TO how they shall be conducted 1t j.
often the case that people who boast of the
breadth of thought and liberality Of their view.
are the most narrow. Their hberality consists
in wanting other people TO do as they say. Wha
a difference there is between real liberaltv O
mind and what scme so-called liberals" think i
liberality.