Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-18
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CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE
ADVANCE OF TEACHING: Twen-
ty-flfth Annual Report of the Presi-
dent and the Treasurer. New York
522 Fifth Avenue.
Familiar pattern of the modern phi
lanthropist is that of one who started
out toe to toe with the rest of us.
Standing no nearer than We to the
earth's pack of coal and oil and iron.
No nearer than we to the next step
needed 70 change scientific discovery
into a thousand utilities and enjoyments
of common daily life.
Yet these modern benefactors-Car-
negie. Rockefeller and many another
of the growing clan-through some
strange ichor of the blood, some power
of mind. some substance of character
forged far ahead of the mass, multiply
ing work and wages along their separate
ways for the better being of millions.
Opening doors of opportunity, doors
hitherto sealed. to the more desiring,
to the more adventurous.
Ultimately each of these stood upon
a great height of material achievement.
A demonstration, every one, of the
biblical observation. There is that
which scattereth, yet increaseth." For,
despite the vast largess of industry and
its rewards bestowed by them upon
many lines of progress, each finds him
self at last possessed Of a growing bulk
OF wealth. What to do with It? For
man goes out. stripped, even as he
came in, naked.
Money counts, to be sure. I'm in
Vulnerable priceless ways. The wisdom
garnered through acquiring it counts
more. I leave it to you. Is it not sig
nif1cant-deeply and reassuringly sig
nificant-that these men, many of
them, standing on the height so hardly
won, looking around and within, feel
that the great need for today and to-
morrow, as 1t was in their own yes
terdays. is the need of more and bet
ter knowledge. Man must know the
deep secrets of the earth Man must
know more of himself. Else the con-
f1ict between him and nature is already
over to his own loss. Nature so vital, so
prolific, so wrapped in secrets of i'm
perative moment to man. Secrets which
he must pry open and will, provided
only that he come to know more
So the need for more knowledge be-
comes the kernel. the heart, of many
a great legacy to the world, chiefly
from men, too. who have in their own
advance felt the sore need of it.
Education, therefore, becomes a
pivotal theme. And in this instance
the great philanthropist, Andrew Car
engle, becomes its protagonist. To
know more, to begin to know more
from the earliest years. Immediately
the matter becomes that Of institutional
education. From kindergarten to uni
versity in actual substance, though not
In equal emphasis. At once teachers
and the profession Of teaching stand
paramount A broader and sounder
professional training becomes an i'm
perative need. Such need establishes
the sequence of more study and inter-
ludes in teaching for that purpose. It
declares also for periods OF recreation
by way of travel and other cultural con-
facts. These in turn point upon the
question OF salaries adequate not only
TO meet these quite necessary obliga-
tons, but adequate, as well, for that
other day when body and mind and
spirit flag under the exactions and joys
of helping to prepare, year after year.
hosts OF worthy men and women to
carry on in this amizing and glorious
new day, new world In some such
fashion ran the mind of Andrew Car
negte, modern philanthropist. So the
great ironmaSter turned schoolmaster
The famous flnancier became the eciu-
Gator
Then he created foundation" of
material substance. He hedged it about
with practical securities and sound
protection. He organized 1t. or had II
organized, on the lines Of other work.
ing corporations, and manned it with
experienced business men and profess
sional experts for the administration
OF Its various departments, allied,
though distinct in specific purpose and
function. Such, in the rough, is the
Carnegie Foundation" whose benefi-
cence OF opportunity to youth is the
glorious monument to a greatness of
truly heroic stature, to a benefaction
OF solid worth, growing with the years.
scattering its yearly harvest THROUGHOUT
the future life of this country, however
long that national life may be.
The report in hand, the twenty-fifth
annual report of the foundation, sub
mitted by the president of the organi-
zation and by its treasurer, divides.
broadly, into financial statement and
educational survey. most impressive
document both in the scope of its
activities and in their direction as well.
"A Quarter Century of Accounting"
STANDS here in a declaration of the
resources of the foundation, more than
S32 ,O00,0 600. Investments In securities
Of the highest grade. 80 per cent in
bonds and ! per cent in preferred
stocks" Its expenditures are grouped
under salaries, retiring allowances for
professors and pensions for teachers.
Under various lines of educational re-
search and study as well. A new
pension splan is under way, one de-
signed to do away with the pater-
nalistic, gratuitous, political. disadvan-
/ tage OF the familiar pension plans of
government and other enterprises.
Fabulous sliEns-they sound truly "fabu-
lous"-are expended by the foundation
under the necroma-4cy Of sound BUSH
ness method and objective, rather than
IN the more commonly known and less
stable processes of either sentimental
ity or an uncertain public spirit.
Educational research is reported
along several important lines. One of
these Is the Statewide study of Penn
sylVanla Tor the relations of sec
ondary and higher education; for the
practical relations between studies in
modern science-chemistry physics,
economics, and so on-and in the ira
ditional courses of history. literature.
the classics Not final survey this,
not conclusive one, yet a decidedly
significant one nevertheless. The sur
vey OF legal education IS an important
one, important in itself nowadays GER
tainiy, and of good value in the report
OF its findings here. Dental education,
also vital, reveals by way of this re-
port that there has been a decline in
the number Of dental schools, a sit
uation due to the increase Of entrance
obligations so wisely imposed upon a
department that only few years ago
required only a high school diploma
for admission. A financial hardship
for the schools themselves, but one
which will, in the course of better IA
cilities, remedy the situation and make
these schools contribute EFFICIENTLY to
a yerV inD0rfant item IL, y,,,hJfc