The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-11-20
SURVEY FINDS
COLLEGES ERR
BY SPLURCINC
Carnegie Report Recon-
mends Less Cost and
RIGHTEOUSNESS

NEW YORK, NOV. ~. (Uf)-
Educational institutions, notwith-
standing the upward trend of pri-
vate donations and federal appro-
priations, should use the money
they receive more efficiently than
they do, Frederick P. Keppel,
president of the Carnegie Corpo-
ration, suggests in his annual re-
port.
"There is a growing belief"
Keppel says, "that our UNIVERSE
ties will gain rather than lose by
adopting a less costly and preten-
tious scale of doing things"
He recommends elimination of
purely decorative" courses, and
deplores heavy expenditures for
"sumptuous dormitories and din
ing halls, palatial classroom and
laboratory buildings the appoint
ment of ordinary people to extra
ordinary professorships, and 'rar-
issima' in the library"
american scholarly institutions
have until recently been notably
uncooperative," Keppel adds. "The
items in a college or university
budget first to disappear in days
of falling income are those dedi-
Gated to the joint support of de-
sirable enterprises.
CALLED RUGGED
INDIVIDUALISM"
"a policy of rugged individual
ism has furnished the pattern
which each institution has chosen
to follow. College libraries have
duplicated costly and little used
books and journals already in
nearby collections; departments
have been rounded out to adopt
their own phrase, not because of
any recognizable demand but to
match or surpass the offerings Of
their neighbors.
"For each college in the United
States to cut down its professor
ships by one, each university by
two, would be no serious hard
ship. If as a vacancy occurred in
some decorative but really unes-
sential field it were left untitled,
it would not be many years be-
fore this would provide the funds
for cooperative enterprises which
would immensely broaden the OPP
portunities of faculty and student
alike with reference to art ex-
hibits, music, drama. visiting lee
tureships, facilities for field work
and foreign study, and for schol-
arly publication"
Keppel denies the contention
of some observers that mounting
federal taxation is cutting down
contributions to schools by the
wealthy.
GIFTS CONTINUE UPWARD
"The curve of gifts and be-
quests which began to rise about
the turn Of the century is main
tanning it's upward course with
reasonable steadiness," he says,
"and may therefore be expected
to continue to rise"
He says federal contributions
toward educational and cultural
enterprises have been greater
than ever" and that as a result
"somc very substantial results
have been achieved"
"The inclusion of the rats upon
so broad a basis in the program
of the Public Works Administra-
ton may also prove to have far
reaching effects" he points out.
"Much of the great art Of the past |
was created under conditions in
which subject, medium, dimen-
sions, and general manner of
treatment were determined not |
by the artist himself, but by the
requirement of the job under
which he was put, and this is pre-
cisely the situation in which the
worker upon a PWA project finds
himself.
Certain observers believe that |
the experience of the past two
years may do much to create a
new attitude on the part of the
artist toward his work as means
of gaining a livelihood, and a new
attitude on the part of the public
toward the artist, and that as a
result the artist and his work may
once more take the place in the
community that they held during
such historic periods of great ere