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filling the building with collections. The 

 agreement has been kept on both sides in 

 the best spirit. To the honor of the city 

 of New York be it said that her rulers have 

 never withheld funds from education, 

 neither have her citizens been lacking in 

 generosity. Owing to this peculiarly 

 American and altogether ideal union of 

 public and private endeavor we discover 

 that at the end of forty-one years the 

 amount which the people of the city of 

 New York have contributed to this museum 

 is balanced by an equal amount given by 

 officers, trustees and other friends. 



I have therefore great pleasure in intro- 

 ducing as the orator of the day the Hon- 

 orable Joseph H. Choate, founder, and 

 author of the laws of our being. 



THE FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF TEE 

 CARNEOIE FOUNDATION'^ 



The Fourth Annual Report of the President 

 of the Carnegie Foundation, like the three pre- 

 ceding reports, deals not only with the current 

 business incident to the conduct of the retir- 

 ing allowance system, but takes up also the 

 discussion of questions dealing with educa- 

 tional history and educational policy. Some 

 of these subjects are of immediate interest, 

 such as politics in state institiitions, agricul- 

 tural education, college advertising, the func- 

 tion of the college trustee, the articulation of 

 high school and college, and the like. 



During the year the foundation granted 115 

 pensions amounting to $177,000. It is now 

 paying 318 pensions, the cost being $466,000. 

 The professors receiving these pensions come 

 from 139 colleges, distributed over 43 states of 

 the TJnion and provinces of Canada. To the 

 accepted list of colleges, that is, to the list 

 whose professors may regularly receive pen- 

 sions under fixed rules as a right and not as a 

 favor, seven colleges were admitted during the 

 year. These were Coe College in Iowa, 

 Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, the state 

 universities of Wisconsin, Michigan, Minne- 



' Statement supplied by the foundation. 



sota and Missouri and the University of 

 Toronto. The governors and legislatures of 

 these states asked for this privilege for their 

 universities. 



The governors and legislatures of 26 other 

 states asked that their universities should also 

 be admitted to the foundation. The fact that 

 only five state institutions, one of these in 

 Canada, have been admitted to the Carnegie 

 Foundation, after a year of administration of 

 the rules under which tax-supported colleges 

 and universities become eligible, testifies to the 

 scrutiny exercised in the admission of institu- 

 tions. As the president explains in his report, 

 the names of certain well known institutions do 

 not appear. This means that some question has 

 arisen in the examination of these institutions 

 which made the trustees feel that it is neces- 

 sary to wait — such, for example, as the artic- 

 ulation of the institution with three-year high 

 schools, or its failure to maintain entrance 

 requirements, or the maintenance of a weak 

 school of law or medicine below the standards 

 of law and medical departments of stronger 

 institutions. 



The report shows, also, that two institutions 

 retired from the accepted list: Randolph- 

 Macon Woman's College, which withdrew after 

 deciding that the election of trustees must be 

 approved by a Methodist Conference, and the 

 George Washington University whose connec- 

 tion with the foundation was ended by the ac- 

 tion of the foundation. The reasons stated 

 are that the university had impaired its en- 

 dowment and that two professors had been 

 arbitrarily dismissed. There are now 67 insti- 

 tutions on the accepted list. 



The second section of the report is devoted 

 to an examination of the working of the rules 

 for retirement as shown in the experience of 

 the past four years. The president gives in 

 this connection a summary of a statement 

 from each teacher now upon the retired list as 

 to the reasons for his retirement. As a result 

 of the experience, two changes were made in 

 the rules by the trustees : one extends the bene- 

 fits of the retiring allowance system so that 

 service as an instructor shall count toward the 

 earning of a retiring allowance. Heretofore 



