Show GIFT iii UNCLE SAM Carnegie Jtfill Donate Ten I Mil lions to United States i SOINFORMS THE PRESIDENT Letter Will Be Inferred to Congress by Roosevelt in a Special Message Gift Is for tho Purpose of Establishing Estab-lishing in Washington a University Univer-sity for Higher Education It Will Bo the Greatest Institution of Its I Kind in the World Government Is I Simply to Bo tho Trustee I Washington Dec DThe Post tomorrow to-morrow will say President Roosevelt has received a letter from Andrew Carnegie In which the latter offers to pale 0 donation oC 10000000 to the United States This letter will be referred I re-ferred to Congress by the President in a special message Mr Carnegies gift Is for the purpose of establishing In Washington a university uni-versity for higher education As far as his idea has been developed At proposes pro-poses a gift after the niannet of the bequest of James SmIthson the Englishman Eng-lishman who gave 1000000 for the establishment es-tablishment and maintenance oC what is now known as the Smithsonian Institution tution Smlthson desired the Institution founded by him to be a factor In the 1 diffusion of scientific knowledge GREATEST IN THE WORLD MI Carnegie proposes that the unl veralty which he Is to endow shall be the greatest institution In the world for the development of higher education educa-tion He has consulted President Oilman Oil-man of Johns Hopkins university President Hadley of Yale President Eliot of Harvard exPresident White of Conle1 and all the leading educators edu-cators of the country They heartily indorse his plans The proposed university will not Interfere In-terfere In the least with the educational institutions already t established but will supplement them for according to tho present plan its doors will be open only to those who desire to take up a postgraduate course Mr Carnegie also wants the new university uni-versity to take the lead in original research re-search so that the United States can eventually stand side by side with Germany Ger-many If not excel that nation In scientific scien-tific development NO AID FROM GOVERNMENT Mr Carnegies plan does not propose a national university in the sense that an appropriation will be asked or needed need-ed The Government is simply to be the trustee of the magnificent endowment endow-ment Just a it administers the fund bequeathed by Smithson I Is probable that a board of regents will be appointed appoint-ed a in the case of the Smithsonian Institution or It may be that the Government Gov-ernment will be represented upon the board of directors which It Is con I templated shall consist of men of national na-tional reputation Mr Carnegie has kept the proposed endowment a secret until he could definitely nitely arrange the plan and scope of tho new university even yet all these details have not been arranged so that little more than the outline of his gift can be published cen publshe H MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURES 1 I I Is known however that he does I pot propose to ask from Congress a single foot of land upon which the university uni-versity buildings will be constructed The entire expense Is to be borne out of his endowment No site has yet been selected I will however necessarily be very large as It I is proposed to erect a series of magnificent structures The amount of money to be given by Mr Carnegie equals the sum of the present endowment fund of Harvard and IB considerably more than tho invested In-vested fund of Yale |