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SCIENCE. 



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But it is also true that the effect upon 

 ambitious minds can not but be bad if as a 

 people we show our very slight regard for 

 scholarly achievements by making no provi- 

 sion at all for its reward. The chief use of 

 the increased money value of the scholar's 

 prize would be the index thereby afforded of 

 the respect in which it was popularly held. 



The American scientist, the American 

 scholar, should have the chance at least of 

 winning such prizes as are open to his suc- 

 cessful brother in Germany, England or 

 France, where the rewards paid for first-class 

 scholarly achievements are as much above 

 those paid in this country as our rewards for 

 first-class achievement in industry or law are 

 above those paid abroad. 



But of course what counts infinitely more 

 than any possible outside reward is the spirit 

 of the worker himself. The prime need is to 

 instill into the minds of the scholars them- 

 selves a true appreciation of real as distin- 

 guished from sham success. In productive 

 scholarship, in the scholarship which adds by 

 its work to the sum of substantial achieve- 

 ment with which the country is to be credited, 

 it is only first-class work that counts. In this 

 field the smallest amount of really first-class 

 work is worth all the second-class work that 

 can possibly be produced; and to have done 

 such work is in itself the fullest and amplest 

 reward to the man producing it. 



"We outsiders should according to our ability 

 aid him in every way to produce it. Yet all 

 that we can do is but little compared to what 

 he himself can and must do. The spirit of 

 the scholar is the vital factor in the productive 

 scholarship of the country. 



MB. BOCKFELLEB'8 ENDOWMENT FOB 

 HIGEEB EDUCATION. 



At a meeting of the General Education 

 Board, held on June 30, a gift of ten million 

 dollars was announced from Mr. John D. 

 Rockefeller, as an endowment for higher edu- 

 cation in the United States. The announce- 

 ment of the gift was made in a letter from 

 Mr. Frederick T. Gates, Mr. Eockef eller's rep- 

 resentative, which reads as follows : 



I am authorized by Mr. John D. Rockefeller to 

 say that he will contribute to the General Educa- 

 tion Board the sum of $10,000,000, to be paid 

 October 1 next in cash, or, at his option, in in- 

 come producing securities, at their market value, 

 the principal to be held in perpetuity as a founda- 

 tion for education, the income, above expenses 

 and administration, to be distributed to or used 

 for the benefit of such institutions of learning at 

 such times, in such amounts, for such purposes 

 and under such conditions, or employed in such 

 other ways as the Board may deem best adapted 

 to promote a comprehensive system of higher edu- 

 cation in the United States. 



Dr. Wallace Buttrick, one of the secretaries 

 of the board, in a statement concerning the 

 gift, says: 



John D. Rockefeller, jr., with others in this 

 city, was instrumental in forming the General 

 Education Board in February, 1902. A very 

 broad and admirable charter was secured from 

 Congress, and signed by President Roosevelt on 

 January 12, 1903. 



A gift of one million dollars from Mr. John D. 

 Rockefeller was immediately passed over to the 

 Board, especially designated for educational work 

 in the South. Other funds have been added by 

 other philanthropists since that time, and the 

 Board has confined its work hitherto mainly to 

 educational work in the Southern States. 



The present gift differs from Mr. Rockefeller's 

 first gift to the Board in the following particu- 

 lars: The principal sum of the gift of one million 

 dollars made on the organization of the Board 

 could be distributed. The present gift of ten 

 million dollars is held as endowment, the income 

 only being available for distribution. The first 

 gift was designated to be used exclusively in the 

 Southern States. The present gift is for use not 

 only in the Southern States, but throughout the 

 United States, without distinction of section. The 

 first gift could be used for common schools and 

 secondary education. The second gift is confined 

 to higher education and is designed specially for 

 colleges as distinguished from the great univer- 

 sities, although there is no prohibition in the 

 letter of gift against making contributions to uni- 

 versities. 



Both gifts are alike available for denomina- 

 tional schools, as well as for those which are non- 

 sectarian. While the funds may be employed for 

 denominational schools, they will be employed 

 without sectarian distinctions. No special denom- 

 ination will be particularly favored, but the funds 



