Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-12-23 | Page 4 | Great Educational Gifts

GREAT EDUCATIONAL GIFTS They arc poking u good deal of fun at President Harper of th University of Chicago for his Immense success in obtaining money for that great educational educa-tional institution Thus the Rochester Herald says Mr Rockefeller heard that Dr Harper was preparing for a visit to tho east and suspecting his mission voluntarily = came down with a Christmas gift I of li 250 O to Chicago university Mr Rock feller is probably ono of the wisest of our rich men n faculty which has been well developed under the tutelage of Diu Harper S0 With a reputation like that Dr Harper Har-per Is a daisy when an intimationthat IntmaUontlt he may be out gunning for coin will fetch a million and a quarter 11 would his actual presence do t I is a great faculty exercised in n high cause his magnificent success Is an Inspiration In-spiration to other college presidents and the accounts show that they are getting more money to advance the cause of education than was ever heard of in the wpild before And 1n this most excellent form donation the rich men of America stand out mn preeminent pre-eminent not only In our own time in all the world but In all time Such 3 I donation a this just recorded from j Mr Rockefeller would not long ago have attracted worldwide attention butit Is almost lost sight of in the Imperial Im-perial gifts of Mrs Stanford and Mr Carnegie that are counted by the tens ot millions