EDUCATION IN AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1921, Page 9

EDUCATION IN AMERICA.

A GIFT OF £20,000,000. America’s technical equipment, which in recent years has reached a very high standard in the big cities, and largely through gifts of patriotic citizens, will be further increased shortly by a present of £20,000,000 from the Carnegie Corporation, New York, to Carnegie’s institutions in' Pittsburg. It is true (writes the Now York correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph), that part of the twenty millions, in compliance with Air. Carnegie’s idea of helping those who first help themselves, will depend upon the Pittsburg institutions raising nearly a million pounds from outside sources, but the institutes* in question, which have already received over £6,000,000 from the dead ironmaster, are confident tliat the amount will be forthcoming. Another windfall for American education announced recently is a gift of £250,000 for a building to house foreign students at Columbia and other schools in New York City, of which there is most urgent need, because to-day in New York third-rate lodging houses charge £2 weekly for the privilege of occupying a bed in the third floor back. The gift, is anonymous, but there is little doubt that John D. Rockfeller, junr., is the donor. One of young/Rockfeller’s schemes is to establish scholarships there, the recipients being restricted to the poorest of poor students.