The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-10
CARNEGIE PENSION
FUND DENOUNCED
Presbyterian Divine Ar
raigns Foundation Policy.
WOULD RAISE A RIVAL FUND
Rev. DR.. w. s. Plumer Bryan, of
Chicago, Attacks President Pritch-
EFT as Presumptuous-Scor Ex-
cIusion of Colleges Founded by
Christian Bodies from Bencflts-

Princeton. y. J.. April Rev. DIT
William S. Plumer Bryan, pastor OF the
Presbyterian Church of the Covenant,
Chicago, arraigns the policy and practice
OF the Carnegie Foundation in its deal
ings with colleges founded by Christian
bodies, in an article published in the
Princeton Theological Review. for April.
out tomorrow. He attacks President
Pritchctt, of the Carnegie Foundation,
both for his own theological views and
his presumption in defining the theology
of the churches, and proposes the rails
ing by all Protestant bodies OF a rival
fund to the Carnegie enc for the pension
ing of professors.
While written with extreme care. and
taking pains in places to be judicial
toward the founder of the fund, Mr.. An
drew Carnegie. of New York. the ar
ticle is. in its criticisms, even more
severe because of its calmneSs and fair
ness.
Get Income of SO 1000, 900.
Tho Carnegie Foundation, as will be
recalled, is a fund of 100000, the in
come OF which forms a retiring pension
fund for college professors. While Presi-
dent Schurman, of Cornell University.
and ether men like him are trustees. the
foundation is the act of Mr.. Carnegie,
and his conditions regarding colleges to
be admitted to its benefits were un-
changed by the trustees
At first colleges supported by the
States We're excluded. but later prac-
tically all colleges were let in, save only
those whose trustees were named by
some religious body. and limited to mem
hers of that body. In State-supportcd
colleges, the governor and legislature act,
but there being no controlling body over
colleges founded by religious societies,
the foundation seems. IL the Rev. DR..
Bryan is to be believed. to have acted as
investigator, judge. and executive, a sort
of censor asd monitor.
The Chicago Presbyterian pastor cites
a. length the decisions made by the
foundation and also by trustees of COL
leges established by Presbyterian and
other bodies. and quotes President Schur-
man. Of Cornell, a foundation trustee, as
saying:
I'm this foundation there is not a rich
man giving his money and leaving the
university free to manage its affairs.
The purse strings are now controlled by
an immortal power which makes il its
business to investigate and supervise,
and which lays down conditions which
the college must accept If it receives
money. Will not large powers and large
influence tend to develop in it an atti-
tude of patronage and a habit of med
ding? The very ambition of such a cor
poration to reform educational abuses is
itself a source of danger. Men are not
constituted educational reformers by hav-
ing millions to spend"
Sounds Money Power Alarm.
In his article Rev. Dr. Bryan relates
the story of a dozen or more colleges,
and sounds alarm for the Christian re-
ligion If such money power is to govern
in the education Of young men who are
to enter the Christian ministry and sit
in pews of Christian churches. He shows
the great extent to which education in
America is indebted to churches, and re-
cites how a large proportion of these
colleges. founded by Christian people,
have cut the tie binding them to churches
which brought them into existence solely
to gain the benefits of the foundation
The attack upon President Pritchett,
Of the foundation, is a theological one,
but the Chicago pastor also criticises
the foundations head for meddling