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SCIENCE. 



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lias been had in the actaal administration 

 of the trust. 



EDUCATIONAL STANDARD. 



The term college is used to designate, in 

 the United States, Canada and Newfound- 

 land, institutions varying so widely in en- 

 trance requirements, standards of instruc- 

 tion and facilities for work, that for the 

 purposes of this foundation, it is necessary 

 to use, at least for the present, some arbi- 

 trary definition of that term. The follow- 

 ing definition, now in use under the re- 

 vised ordinances of the state of New York, 

 will be employed for the purposes of this 

 foundation : 



An institution to be ranked as a college, must 

 have at least six professors giving their entire 

 time to college and university work, a course of 

 four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and 

 should require for admission, not less than the 

 usual four years of academic or high school 

 preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the 

 pre-academic or grammar school studies. 



A technical school, to be eligible, must 

 have entrance and graduation requirements 

 equivalent to those of the college, and must 

 offer courses in pure and applied science 

 of equivalent grade. 



To be ranked as a college an institution 

 must have a productive endowment of not 

 less than two hundred thousand dollars. 



SECTARIAN LIMITATION. 



Institutions of learning will be recog- 

 nized as eligible to the benefits of this 

 foundation, so far as sectarianism is in- 

 volved, under the following conditions: 



1. Universities, colleges and technical 

 schools of requisite academic grade, not 

 owned or controlled by a religious organi- 

 zation, and whose acts of incorporation or 

 charters specifically provide that no de- 

 nominational or sectarian test shall be ap- 

 plied in the choice of trustees, officers or 

 teachers, nor in the admission of students. 



2. In the cases of institutions not owned 



or controlled by a religious organization, 

 and in which no specific statement concern- 

 ing denominational tests is made in the 

 charters or acts of incorporation, the trus- 

 tees of such institutions shall be asked to. 

 certify by a resolution to the trustees of 

 The Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- 

 ment of Teaching that, notwitlistanding 

 the lack of specific prohibition in the char- 

 ter, 'no denominational test is imposed in 

 the choice of trustees, officers or teachers, 

 or in the admission of students, nor are 

 distinctly denominational tenets or doc- 

 trines taught to the students.' Upon the 

 passage of such resolution by the govern- 

 ing bodies of such institutions, they may 

 be recognized as entitled to the benefits of 

 The Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- 

 ment of Teaching, so far as considerations 

 of sectarian control are concerned. 



RECOGNITION OF INSTITUTIONS. 



Institutions of higher learning, whether 

 universities, colleges or technical schools, 

 whose educational standard is equal to, or 

 higher than, that indicated in the forego- 

 ing, and which comply with the conditions 

 regarding sectarian control, may be recog- 

 nized by the trustees of The Carnegie 

 Foundation for the Advancement of Teach- 

 ing, as entitled to share in the benefits of 

 the foundation, and a list of such accepted 

 institutions will be announced. This list 

 will be provisional and to it additions will 

 from time to time be made. 



To professors in these institutions the 

 benefits of the foundation shall be extended 

 through the institutions themselves, that 

 is to say, once the rules upon which retir- 

 ing allowances are granted are definitely 

 determined, they shall work automatically, 

 in what might be called normal cases, that 

 is, in cases of old age or long service. Thus 

 if a professor in such an accepted institu- 

 tion has reached the age of x years, or if 

 he has been in the teaching profession for a 



