The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-19
FOUNDATION FOR
AN EDUCATION

New York. May 19.-The Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching. founded by Andrew Car
negie with an endowment of $15.O00,-
oo0 to provide retiring allowances for
teachers and officers of high educa-
tional institutions in the United States
and Canada. has, during it's eight years
OF oHeration, distributed a. total of So
936,927, according to the annual report
issued by its president, DR.. Henry S.
Pritchett today.
The report for the year ending Sept,
30, 1913, shows that $579,44O was dis
tributed IN retiring allowances to pro-
fessors, and $S0,949 in pensions to
their widows during that year.
The number Of allowances for the
year was thirty three, making the
present total Of allowances now in
force 403. The average annual pay
ment to an individual is $1,7O3.
In connection with the foundations
cerning pensions, s.the president dis
cusses pension systems that are main
tatned by half a dozen colleges, the de-
velopment of new systems at Brown
university, the Rockefeller institute
Snd the American Museum of Natural
History the new federated pension
system Of the English universities.
and the proposed system for the cIer-
gy OF the Episcopal church. Among
pensions for public schools teachers
the report discusses the misfortunes of
the New York city system, and COM
mends plans Of the new state system
in Massachusetts.
Much Of the report is devoted to the
development Of the work of the foun-
dation into separate division of edu-
cational inquiry. It's present work in
cludes a study of education in Ver-
mont at the request Of the Vermont
Educational commission, of legal edu-
cation at the request of a committee of
the American Bar association, and of
engineering education at the request
Of a joint committee representing the
national engineering societies.
The report ON education in Vermont.
already distributed, represents the
first study that has been made of a
states educational activities as a
whole.
The study of legal education has
heen begun by first hand inquiry into
the bar examinations Of every state a
special study of legal teaching by
Prof Josef Redlich, who came from
Vienna for the purpose, and by a per-
sonal examination Of each of the 160
law schools in the country
Plans for the study Of engineering
education are now being completed.
foundation is continued by commend
alton of the present tendency OF col
lege entrance requirements toward
both elevation and flexibility. The need
for further Improvement is shown by
the fact that only 55 per cent Of the
students now in our colleges are high
school graduates. The decrease in the
number of medical schools in the coun-
try from 1872 in 1910 to lis in 1918. and
the rapid Improvement of the better
schools are commented upon with ap-
probation. A general study Of the
problems OF the state regulation Of
higher education is illustrated by a
detailed account of the recent crisis in
educational affairs in Iowa.
The report further presents a study
of the financial status of college teach
ers as compared with the situation
presented in similar study published
Ave years ago. The ordinary salary of