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Amos Emeksox Dolbear. 



all to watch the great state universi- 

 ties begging the favor of a private 

 corporation. Thirty-two state legisla- 

 tures have approved the request for 

 money, and the foundation finds that 

 four of the universities are worthy, 

 while the others — institutions such as 

 California and Illinois — must be fur- 

 ther investigated. The president tells 

 the governor of Ohio how the universi- 

 ties of that great state should be ad- 

 ministered ; he says that " in nearly 

 every state " there is " educational 

 demoralization." 



In his last report Dr. Pritchett 

 makes all kinds of recommendations. 

 Some are in themselves good and some 

 bad, but all are bad in so far as they 

 come from that source., for there is an 

 implicit threat everywhere that insti- 

 tutions must do as they are told or 



they will not receive Carnegie money. 

 The best thing that could happen 

 would be for the foundation to retire 

 its president with a liberal pension to 

 write about education over his own 

 signature, and then, as the Peabody 

 Fund has wisely done, to dissolve and 

 distribute its funds among our colleges. 



AMOS EMERSON DOLBEAR 

 In the death of Dr. Dolbear, for 

 thirty-six years professor of physics 

 and astronomy at Tufts College, Amer- 

 ica loses a man of science of a type 

 that is now becoming rare. Born in 

 New England in 1837, and left early 

 an orphan child, he worked on a farm 

 and at other odd jobs, attending the 

 district school when he could. He be- 

 came a machinist, had various adven- 

 tures, and when twenty-six entered 



