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new auditorium are in process of construc- 

 tion and a new dormitory will be com- 

 menced soon. This is the first year in 

 which no "partial course" freshmen have 

 been admitted, all those that entered being 

 candidates for the degree of bachelor of 

 arts.^ 



KUDOLF TOMBO, Jb. 



Columbia Usivebsitt 



SUMMARY OF THE FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 

 OF THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION^ 



The fifth Annual Eeport of the President of 

 the Carnegie Foundation covers the year end- 

 ing September 30, 1910. The report is divided 

 into two parts. Part I. pertains to the current 

 business of the year; Part II. is a discussion 

 of the Relation of the College and the Secon- 

 dary School. 



The report shows that the trustees had in 

 hand at the end of the year funds amounting 

 to $11,114,056.86, consisting of the original 

 gift of $10,000,000 par value of five per cent, 

 bonds and one million accumulated surplus. 

 The income for the year was $543,881.20. 

 During the year 64 retiring allowances were 

 granted, of which 46 were in accepted institu- 

 tions and 18 in institutions not on the ac- 

 cepted list. During the year 23 pensioners 

 died. 



Among distinguished teachers who retired 

 during the year were Professor Burt G. 

 Wilder, of Cornell; Dean Van Amringe and 

 Professor Chandler, of Columbia, both well ad- 

 vanced in years and in academic honors; Pro- 

 fessor George L. Goodale, the famous botanist 

 of Harvard; Professor Osborne, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, who has 

 taught mathematics in that institution since 

 its foundation; Chancellor MacCracken, of 

 New York University; President Seelye, of 

 Smith College, and Professor Calvin M. 

 Woodward, of Washington University, St. 

 Louis. These distinguished men average in 

 age seventy-two years, and illustrate how well 



^An abstract of this article appeared in the 

 Evening Post (New York) of February 11. 

 ' Press bulletin supplied by the foundation. 



the vigor and influence of the scholar can be 

 continued to a ripe maturity. 



There were admitted to the accepted list 

 during the year the University of California, 

 the joint institutions of the State of Indiana 

 — Indiana University and Purdue University 

 — and Wesleyan University, the last named a 

 college. 



In the first part of the report the president 

 of the foundation follows up the bulletin on 

 medical education by a paper on the relation 

 of the university to the medical school, in 

 which he calls attention to the responsibility 

 attaching to any college or university which 

 undertakes medical education. 



The second part of the report is a careful 

 attempt to state the existing causes of fric- 

 tion between the secondary school and the col- 

 lege, and the loss of educational efficiency in 

 the present methods of bringing pupils from 

 the school to the college. The complaint of 

 the college against the secondary school and 

 the complaint of the secondary school against 

 the college are set forth. 



An extremely interesting part of the report 

 is a statement of the observations of Oxford 

 tutors upon the preparation of the Ehodes 

 scholars. The strong points in the American 

 boy's preparation are readily seen by these 

 trained teachers, and the weaknesses which 

 they find point directly to the superficiality 

 and diffusion of the work done in the Ameri- 

 can secondary school and college. 



The president of the foundation urges that 

 this whole question be approached by second- 

 ary school men and college men in a spirit of 

 cooperation. Neither the certificate method 

 of admission nor the piecemeal examination 

 method have, in his opinion, solved the prob- 

 lem. He urges that the college must find a, 

 solution which will test better than the certifi-- 

 cate or the piecemeal examination the funda^ 

 mental qualities of the student, and which will 

 at the same time leave to the high school a 

 larger measure of freedom. He recommends, 

 a combination of certificate and examinations^ 

 the latter of simple and elementary character, 

 but calling for a high quality of performance 



