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

tain q specific lien on said tuna
and on the securities IN "h.ch
il shall from time to time be m
vested, as security for the falthIui
observance by the college OF the
terms of this agreement.
Hora are rights of inspection ana
mower Of control demanded which no
salf-respecting institution should con
sent for one moment to SuDn1lt To- Lie
boards little Wad Of the pltlful sum
of S32.5OO is epected to draw after
# all the endowment which the col
leee has or may hereafter u 1t
is set up as the prime fund, n the
larger amount of $112,5OO given by
others is only "a supplemental sum.
Tn order that the board may preserve
a handle by which to swing the lnstl-
tuition as it may wish, its little condl-
tional gift is to be held as a separate
fund and be separately invested, SO
that its identity shall at all times be
preserved"
With what threats of litigation or
with what threats of the withdrawal
of funds. might not this board cOntrOl
under one preteXt or another II
whole management and policy Of such
a college.
How must self-respecting trustees
feel who from year to year should be
forced to look up to this coterie OF
fifteen men. asking leave Of this lit
tie board with reference to invest
ments and everything else about the
college with which the fifteen men
might chooS to meddie. Such meth
DDS must pauperize every one connect
ed With such q board-fed and board
controlled college, from the WiSeSt
member Of the board Of trustees to
the most callOw freshman.
Now, it may be said with reference
TO all this that Mr.. Rockefeller. or the
bO3r 1 which ranraConrS him hos tho
right to determine what he will do
with his own, and to fix the conditions
upon which a part Of what he owns
Will be given to others, Gf indeed we
may call these doles to hungry col
leges gifts at alb No one will deny
this right. 1t is euaily true that the
people. or n part of the people. have
q right to say what sort of educa-
tlonal institutions they will support
ana cOuntenance. OF course if a col
lege seeks and obtains these gratuities,
with the Rockefeller strings to them,
It must consent to be guided by the
rem with which these fifteen men will
drive 1T. But may we not have enough
people left who will say. we want in
situations freer than the board-fed
KIND can be, and we mean to- have
them. ana to put them where the
boards chain of colleges across the
continent can not in any wise over
come them or make them afraid. Nav.
we not have some institutions whose
doors can not be closed bv the little
coioured pins in the office Of the
Rockefeller Fund in New York?
Our colleges must be something
more than the cage dbirds Of the
'ehefal education Board" fed by
us hand and made to sing at its hid
dlng. American education can NOT ha
safely entrusted to fifteen men with
out any responsibility to tie people
whose education they assume to su-
perviSe. :"
1t should be added hat the board
ooes not leave State institutions nc
severely alone as might be inferred
from It's purposes as expressed at
hrSt and as stated In the extracts
quoted above from the columns Of
tne New York Tribune and the New
YORK Evening World.
1t now undertakes 70 s,,nnor+ 49,
1eesors OF secondary education~in
state universities, and to MAINTAIN
ooilie sort OF demonstration farms ana
q system OF agricultural lecturine Of
d somewhat spectacular sort in the
.out"erh states. It thus undertak kos
and ~ . nalo on the high schools
something of the spirit ana nnrno.o
" me board concerning the latter
"olh among the farmers NAV he oath
ereu from the following nttasanao
elIch IS sad to have emanated in tho
aoiln oI an interview from Mr. Fred
enni ! Gates, president of the Cen
eral Education Boaro": "en
me work of spreading the
study and application of aericu1o
tural improvements in three ~
Iour OF the Southern states
Mhicn the board began when the
nrst S1'ooo.OO0 was received from
Mr. rockefeller" said Mr.. Cafes
fo "a now De enlarged, SO that in,
lorIlation about better farmino
methods a be spread thro,ah5
out the entire South. Only the IN
eeles. OF the first 100000
toulo De devoted to this agricu,o
tufal work because Of the h;sh-