Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-02
CONDITION IN AMERICAN
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
summary OF the Fifth Annusi Report
of the Carnegie Founda-
tion.

The fifth annua, report Of the president
OF the Carnegie foundation covers the year
ending September co. 1910 The report IL
divided into two parts Part one pertains
% the current business OF the year and the
second Is a discussion OF the relation OF
the college and the secondary school.
The report shows that the trustees he'd I
in hand at the end Of the year funds
amounting TO S11.114O56.s6 consisting Of the /
or ginal gift Of 3iO.OOooOC par value of 8
per cent bonds and t1.OOoOOO accumulated |
surplus. The income for the year was
Ss4s, -. During the year sixty-four re-
firing allowances were granted. Of which
forty. six were in accepted institutions and
eighteen in institutions not on the accepted
list During the year twenty-three pension
! ers died.
Among stinguished teachers who retired
during the year were Prof Burt @. Wilder
of Cornell. Dean Van Amringe and Prof.
| Chandler OF Columbia both well advanced
| in years and In academic honors; Prof.
! George l.. Goodale. the famous botanist
Of Harvard; Prof Osborne Of tho Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, who has
/ taught mathematics in that institution
since its foundation: Chancellor Mac
Cracker OF New York university: Presi-
dent seeye OF Smith college, and Prof.
Calvin NJ. Woodward OF Washington uni
versity, st. Louis. These distinguished men
average In age seventy-two years end
illustrate how well the vigor and influence
Of the scholar can be continued to a ripe
maturity.
There were admitted to the accepted list
! during the year the University OF Cali
fornia, the Joint institutions OF the state
Of Indiana-Indiana university and Purdue
university-and Wesleyan university, the
last named a college.
In the first part Of the report the presi-
dent OF the foundation follows up the bulle-
tin on medical education by a paper on
The Relation OF the University to the
Medical School," in which he calls atten-
ton to the responsibility attaching to any
college or university which undertakes
medical education.
The second part of the report is a careful
attempt to state the existing causes OF
friction between the secondary school end
the college, and the loss of educational
efficiency in the present methods Of bring
ing pupils from the school to the college
The complaint of the college against the
secondary school and the complaint of the
secondary school against the college are set
forth.
An extremely interesting part Of the re-
port is a statement Of the observations of
| Oxford tutors upon the preparation of the
Rhodes scholars. The strong points in the
American boys preparation are readily
! seen by these trained teachers and the
weaknesses which they find point directly
to the superficiality and diffusion Of the
work done in the American secondary
school and college.
The president Of the foundation urges
that this whole question be approached by
secondary school men and college men In
spirit of cooperation. Neither the certi-
ficate method OF admission nor the piece
meal examination method have in his
opinion solved the problem. He urges that
the college must find solution which will
test better than the certificate or the piece
meal examination the fundamental quail
ties OF the students, and which will at the
same time leave to the high school a
larger measure of freedom. He recon-
mends combination OF certificate and ex-
amnations, the latter Of simple and
elementary character, but calling for a
high quality OF performance without which
the candidate will not be admitted. For
example. under this plan the boy who can
not write good idiomatic English would
not be admitted to college at all, but would
be sent back to the secondary school, The
Harvard are quite in line with these recon-
mendation. The president OF the foundation
urges cooperation between the secondary
school and the college not as unrelated
institutions. but as two parts OF a common
system education. He argues that the in
terest Of the great mass of high school
students must not be sacrificed to the in
terest OF the minority who are looking
toward college. He insists on large
measure Of freedom for the secondary
school, but on the other hand he argues
that the interest OF the boy who goes to
college and OF the boy who goes from the
high school into business are alike con-
served by learning a few things we'll not
by learning many things specifically The
boy who has obtained such intellectual
discipline is a fit candidate for college,
whether he has studied one set of subjects
or another; without this intellectual dis
cipline he IL unfit alike for college or bust
ness. 1t 10 therefore. in the optnion Of the
president OF the foundation, the plain duty
of the college, at the present stage Of
American educational development, to
articulate squarely with the four-year high
school and to leave to the secondary school
the largest freedom 90 that 1t may educate
, boys not coach them; but at the same time
to require Of the candidate for admission
tests which rest upon high performance
, in the elementary studies and which mean
mastery OF the fundamentals. In such
program lies the hope OF scholarly better
Inent and Of civic efficiency for both
college and high school,
The report may be obtained by writing
to the Carnegie Foundation, SIC Fifth
avenue. New York City.
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