564 Scientific Intelligence. 



provided with an independent income. The endowment alluded 

 to has heen allotted from the funds of the " Carnegie Corporation 

 of New York" which has a capital of $128,000,000 and an 

 income of a little more than $6,000,000. The purposes of the 

 corporation are very broad in their beneficial work and it is 

 specially charged with safeguarding the interests of the five 

 Institutions with which Mr. Carnegie's name is connected and to 

 which he has already given between eighty and ninety million 

 dollars. / 



The Carnegie Foundation now has a total endowment of 

 115,325,000, and the expenditure for the year ending September 

 30, 1913, was $658,431; of this $519,440 was distributed in retir- 

 ing allowances to professors, and $80,949 in pensions to their 

 widows, a total of $600,390. Thirty-three new allowances were 

 granted during the year, making the total in force 403; the 

 average annual payment to an individual is $1703. The total 

 distribution from the beginning in 1905 has been $2,936,927. A 

 number of topics of vital interest to educational institutions and 

 their officials are treated in this Report: as the new systems of 

 pensions established here and in England ; College entrance 

 requirements ; state regulation of higher education, etc. The 

 subject of College catalogues is treated critically and the gentle sar- 

 casm of the author makes it amusing as well as profitable reading. 

 Education in Vermont is handled in a separate bulletin. 



3. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teach- 

 ing. Education in Vermont. Bulletin No. 7, parts I and II, 

 pp. 214. New York City, 1914. — The present Bulletin shows 

 the work of the Carnegie Institution extended in a somewhat 

 new direction, the results being presented here of an inquiry as 

 to the educational situation in Vermont, undertaken at the 

 request of the State legislature. The report advises in brief that 

 the money now being given to the three colleges, aggregating in 

 1913 to about $100,000, be transferred to the public schools, on the 

 ground that the State cannot well afford a regular State Univer- 

 sity, while the public schools, which provide the entire education 

 of more than nine-tenths of the children, are in great need of 

 better support. Special recommendations are as follows : " That 

 the dozen training-classes for teachers that were established in 

 the high schools in 1910 be multiplied, so that every new teacher 

 in the state shall be a high school graduate with professional 

 training. These classes graduated more than a hundred such 

 teachers last year, and will soon be able to supply the entire four 

 hundred that the state needs annually. The two state normal 

 schools, the abandonment of which is recommended, have pro- 

 vided less than a dozen such teachers each year. 



It is further recommended " that the teachers, together with a 

 new state commissioner of education, several deputy commis- 

 sioners, and a number of supervisors, gradually work out a new 

 program of studies for the schools which, without interfering 

 with its academic character, will relate it more closely to the 



