The Irish standard., 1911-07-08
EDUCATIONAL TRUST A
MENACE TO RELIGION
Eighth Annual Convention of Cath
olic Educational Association
Brilliant Success.
Holy Father Sends Message Express
ing Pleasure and Conferrin9
Apostolic Benedicuon.
Rev. I. Brosnahan, S. J., in Brilliant
Paper Shows Evils of Carn-
egie Foundation.

The eighth annual meeting OF the
Catholic Educational Society closed
with an enthusiastic public meeting
June 29. 1t was the most brilliant and
successful meeting of the Organisation
since it's formation.
The following oableerexn, addressed
to Archbishop ouiglev. was reoatvst
and read to the delegates at tho Con-
cral Session OF the Conveutipn On
Thursday mosnin4. June ~ It waa
received with loud applause:
THE Holy Father, highly moved
and pleased by the ika1 devottoH tsa-
dered to him by the Catholic Dduca.
tional Association, assembled In yonr
city, extends to your Society and to
all it's members the Apostolic Benedto.
ton"
One of the most interesting and i'm.
portant discussions of the meeting oc.
Cured in the College Department on
Tuesday afternoon, when 1.-THE Car
negie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching. It's Aims and Tendencies"
was the subject of vital pronounce
ment by the Rev. Timothy Brosnahan,
S. j., of Ioyola College, Baltimore,
Md. &'FS
In his address Father Brosnatan
went into a detailed analysis Of the
hictOyy oS 1o~
Foundation from the date of it's in
ception. April S, 1905. down to the pres
ent time He shows from the provi-
sons of the charter and from the
statements made by Mr.. Carnegie and
Mr.. Pritchett that the foundation
while ostensibly aiming to advance
teaching. is in reality a "self-perpetu-
ating corporation. backed by millions
Of dollars. and irresponsible to the
public whose one aim Is to discredit
and to bring into disrepute schools
under definite religious control of the
higher education Of the country, and
finally to establish educational unity
and coherency by an educational sys-
tenn which Is necessarily hostile and
skcptical in Its attitude toward reh-
gious truth" Father Brosnal,am says:
Mr.. Prltchett In his hrDt annual re-
port does claim this dignity for Mr..
Carnegie. He says: Interested il
this situation, and desiring to aid in
large and helpful way the whole body
of American teachers, Mr.. Carnegie
decided to found an agency providing
in the higher institution of learning In
America a system of retiring allow
ances." Thereupon he cites in sub
sanitation of his assertion the orig
inal letter of Mr.. Carnegie to the twen-
ty-hve men who had been selected az
trustees. Now, in that letter Mr.. Car
negie expressly disclaims the inten-
tion Of providing pensions for "the
whole body Of American teachers" He
excludes teachers in sectarian institu-
tions. And Immediately following the
clause from the act Of Incorporation,
which I have just read, his exception
is embodied in proviso of great pre-
cision. "Said retiring pensions" it
says, shall be paid to such teachers
only as are, or have been connected
with institutions not under control of
IL sect, or which do not require their
trustees, their officers faculties or stu
dents Cor majority thereby to be-
long to any specified sect. and which
do not impose any theological test as
a condition Of entrance therein, or Of
connection Herewith" 1t is quite
clear, the President of the Foundation
to the contrary Notwithstanding, that
! Mr. Carnegie could not have intended
to provide for those whom he intended
to exclude The principle Of contra
diction forbids it."
Passing from this phase of the ques-
ton Father Brosnahan says:
with the illiberal and sectarian
character of this discrimination we
are not concerned. We are not chal-
lenging any mans right-whether he
be Jew or Gentle, or nom sectarian-
to dispose of his hard-earned and hon-
estly acquired riches in whatever way
may best suit him. If he imagines
that the ideals In which he believes