p. 7 | Tainted Universities

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 29, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 48.

Tainted Universities

“Tainted” Universities will soon be the danger of this country, if they be not indeed at present, judging from the manner in which the money of trust magnates is sought, and the disposition of educational institutions to honor the men who encourage the great combines. The Chicago Review says:

President Thwing of Western Reserve University, who has returned from a visit with Andrew Carnegie at the latter’s castle in Scotland, announces that Mr. Carnegie has given $25,000 toward the establishment of a fund of $100,000 for the endowment of a chair of political economy at Western Reserve University, to bear the name of the late United States Senator M. A. Hanna.

The education of the coming men of influence under the patronage and inspiration of the capital classes, is not likely to produce statesmen and financiers and professional men whose sympathies will be antagonistic to the great monetary schemes of the country. Soon the great school with a purpose to better the prospects of the plebeian population will be a rarity, and be at a disadvantage.