| Show ON PUNS PAN S Dec Carroll D commissioner of tho United Bates of labor today mado the following statement as to Mr Car endowment of a national it at Washington The general which has Irne hasl l leca n carried on during the tho last twenty five e years In relation to the tho establish pent of a national university In Wish In a mt flan Dlan and endowment by Mr Andrew Carnegie For or a number of years the university idea held sway but years rears ago the matter was taken up by b tins the Washington Academy of and this body In hi cooperation the tho George Washington WahingtOn Memorial association formulated n it definite plan radically from froni the tho plan contemplated In tho earlier This resulted last spring ns as vu wu then In the organization tion of ct tho Washington Memorial In institute The Tho wee was Jn n brief as tel fol teli I A private foundation lion tion Independent of government sup l or control 2 To facilitate the tho use of the tho scientific and other resources of government for or research U 11 to co cooperate operate with colleges and Individuals Individual In securing to properly persons opportunities for ad advanced study and research Dr Daniel C Oilman ultimate president of the Johns Hopkins university sity elty was wa elected director of tho Institution tion When Mr Carnegie came to consider the tho of endowing a national un university nt at Washington he lie Investigated the whole subject with his usual thor thoroughness and found that nn an Institution tion tiun devoted to research the train training tug ing of capable persons was as more moio in with his Ms conceptions than Mio lio establishment of a university that would bo io a rival of tim tho already exist existing ing In universities of thu country How far ho he was led to this thia conclusion by the tho york work that had been done by the tho organizations In Washington Is unknown but buthis his indicates that he had lia In the tho general plan that had been de do developed i and tind Jn in that city It Is probable that the tho Washington Memorial institute wilt will suspend Its op operations orations for It Is understood that Mr plan not only embraces nil fill the proposed activities of the institute but goes tar far beyond these |
