The New York herald., 1922-02-12
CARNEGIE TEACHERS
AID Is $S,92O,661
Ninety Institutions Have Ben
Gifted From Fund in
Sixteen Years.
MEDICAL REFORMS URGED
Curriculum Is That of Fifty
Years Ago, Annual Re-
port Says.

In the sixteen years of the existence
of the Carnegie Foundation. $500. .66l in
retiring allowances and pensions has
been paid out to former teachers in
ninety American colleges and educa-
tional institutions. according to the six
teenth annual report of the president
and treasurer of the Carnegie Foun-
dation for the Advancement of Teaching
which will be distributed tomorrow. The
Foundation has at present $25,513.0O0 in
resources which include a permanent
general endowment. reserve fund for
teachers and one for aiding universities
and colleges.
general review of the work Of the
institution the last year ending June 30.
1921. is embodied In the report, touching
on the work and progress made in all
educa tional fields, including particularly
advance in the medical profession. hos
pital and research work. During the
wear four institutions. Washington and
Lee University, Cornell College. Iowa.
Converse College. and Fisk University
were added to the list of associated in
stitutions in the Carnegie Foundation,
and twenty-one other institutions for
mally adopted the new plan or con-
tributing toward cohtractural retiring
allowances for their teachers, among
those being listed are the University OF
Ala bama. Bates College. University OF
Cincinnati. Cornell Gowa) College. Le-
high University. Leland Stanford. Mount
Holyoke College. Ohio Wesleyan Uni-
versity. Washington and Lee University,
Wesleyan University and Smith College.
In Medical schools.
In reporting on the condition in, the
medical field and with special reference
to medical schools the report says:
There is still needed great improve
ment in the quality of medical teaching,
an entire reorganization of the medical
curriculum, a careful determination OF
the number of medical schools required
by the country. and adequate provision
for their support. Many inadequate. mis-
guided and commercial medical schools
have vanished. A few schools have be-
come preemnent in equipment and en-
dowment. There must. however, be a
sufficient number of schools throughout
the country to train the majority and
they must be enabled to do it soundly.
THE medical curriculum of to-day is
merely that OF fifty years ago overlaid
with one speciality after another until
the load upon the student is almost in
tolerabe. and the fundamental sciences
are quite detached from their applica-
tions This curriculum must be wholly
remade from the standpoint of practice
rather than theory"
Research Important.
In commenting on the matter of re-
search the report says: Research is so
important that it distracts many insti-
tutions and individuals from their real
W ork of teaching. Few have the abil-
ity to extend the bounds of knowledge
by discoveries of great originality or
Fundamental Importance. Not many
more are fitted to verify. extend and
apply great discoveries. A much larger
rumber may master and develop the
detail of certain limited or special
fields. Most of those engaged in the re-
search field lack both the skill and pa
tience to carry out Independent studies.
Increasing expenditure for research has
shown chiefly that the source of fruit
ful research lies not so much in subs-
Dies as in the inspiration of gifted
men,"
The report continues the practice Of pre-
senting a summary OF recent movements
in the development of new pension sys-
toms and the progress of pension legis-
lation and literature The cost of med
ical education and service and the reg
ulations of entrance requirements
adopted by the majority of the colleges
and universities also are discussed at
length in the report, which will be is
sued tomorrow from the offices of the
Foundation at 522 Fifth avenue.