South Bend news-times., 1915-07-09
CARNEGIE FUND
FOR EDUCATION
PROVES SUCCESS
Study of Legal and Engineering
Teaching Methods Brings
Exhaustive Results = Three
Million Spent in Pensions.

NEW YORK. July 9-In the ninth
annual report made public here the
Carnegie foundation for the advance
ment OF teaching, announces that IN
the year ending Sept. 30, 1914, II
spent $716. OS0- Since it's activities be-
gan the fou ndation has granted $50
pensions 10 teachers. the total eX-
pended being $3.551, 900
The foundation now has an en-
dowment Of S14.25O0O0. a surplus OF
S1.245. 600, and an annual income OF
ST46.00O OF its expenditures in the
year reported. $4,000 went for ad
ministration. $4,000 for education
inquiry and $634, 900 in retiring allow
ances and pensions.
During the year % retiring allow
ances and Is ~widOws' pensions were
granted, the average grant being
$1.64S. The total number of allow
ances now in force is 532, the total
number OF widows pensions 100, the
general average grant being 1854.
The division OF educational inquiry
has three extensive studies in hand.
Study Legal Education.
The study of legal education, un-
dertaken at the request of a committee
of the American Bar association, has
resulted in the publication of a survey
OF the cast sy stem of teaching IN
America law schools, by Prof. Josef
Redlich Of the university Of Vienna.
for admission 70 the bar in each Of
our states have been studied at first
hand. and each Of the separate insti-
tutions that are teaching law through
out the country has been or shortly
will be visited The material already
accumulated represents the combined
effort OF some 40 legal scholars, teach
ers and practicing attorneys While
the number of physicians and sur
geons in the country now 157, goo, and
of clergymen. now $4,000, has re-
Gently increased uniformly with the
population: the number Of lawyers.
now $4,000, increased only One-third
as fast as the population between
1900 and 1910, although 1t increased
faster than the population between
1890 and 1900. from SO, 600 to $4,000,
and very much faster between 1880
and 1890. from. $4,000 to $4,000.
4 cOrlDrehenSiVe study of engineer
ing education has been undertaken at
the request OF a joint committee rep
resenting the six national societies. In
cooperafion with these societies a
study of the history of important en-
gineering schools and land-grant col
leges has been made. Numerous en-
gineering schools have been visited,
special studies axe being made of the
situation of the student upon entering
and leaving his engineering studies,
and several thousand engineers are
cOOperating in formulating the views
of the profession concerning the pres
ent methods and results of the en-
gineeTing schools
Training of Teachers on List.
At the request. Of the governor, the
state superintendent, and a hundred
representative educators i'm Missouri,
study is being made Of the training
OF teachers in that state. All of the in
stitutions providing such training are
being studied III the light of reports
upon the training and status or each
OF the Is. 600 teachers in the state
The study OF education In Vermont,
which was made at the request Of the
Vermont educational cOmmissi n. has
resulted I'm the enactment into law of
a number OF the foundations recon-
mendations concerning a state board,
a commissioner OF education. high
schools and elementary schools, and,
especially concerning better facilities
and la rger salaries for teachers in the
rural schools.
The foundations earlier studies of
this report in recommendations for
changes in the classification of medi-
cal schools. a study of medicine and
politics in Ohio: and a survey of med
ical education on the Pacific coast
which shows that the state of Wash
fngton which has no medical school
has a plentiful supply of physician:
trained in good schools all over the
country. while California with eight
pOorlV trained doctors.