Religion and Money by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 7, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 22.

Religion and Money

By Editor

Quite a number of colleges in the United States have been started in the past by various denominations and for the one purpose of educating the young men and women of these several denominations. Recently the Carnegie Foundation was founded for helping small colleges. Since then these denominational colleges have been dropping their denominationalism in order to get a share in the Carnegie fund. The Evening Post of New York declares that this has caused no little concern, and it seems to us that there is reason for concern. For instance, the Wesleyan, Middletown, College makes application as a pensioner to the Carnegie fund; two Presbyterian colleges have “made over their organization and are now on the pension list of the Foundation,” namely, Center College, of Danville, Kentucky, and Coe College in Iowa. Drake University, of Des Moines, “has also broken away and joined the steadily increasing group of pensioners.” We really do not see any reason for keeping alive some of these smaller educational institutions that have drifted so far away from their primal purpose.