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Show The Carnegie Institute. On the 10th of the present month the closing exercises of the dedication of the Carnegie Institute Insti-tute at Pittsburg wore hold. As we understand It, this Institute is the final stor ' the establishing establish-ing of a great university, the first being the Car-" negio Foundation, the second the Carnegla Initiation, Initia-tion, and now the Carnegie Institute. How elaborate elab-orate the plan, how magnificent the culmination, may be imagined when we knv.v that the founder has expended $23,000,000 upon it. The new Institute Insti-tute is of marble and contains a library, art galleries, gal-leries, museum, musid hall, hall of sculpture, exhibition ex-hibition rooms, a lecture hall and offices and executive exec-utive rooms. At the dedication guests from England, Germany, Ger-many, France, Belgium, Holland and distinguished distin-guished citizens of our own country were present. Tho Emperor of Germany was represented by General von Lowonfeld, Secretary of State Moller and other eminent men. France sent congratulations. congratula-tions. Mr. Carnegie made a speech, saying his .jrtuno had come to him in Pittsburg; that the Institute was built by a Plttsburger for Pittsburg, and ho advanced the high thought that mere money is nothing until it is transmuted into something to advance the morality, knowledge and usefulness of men or to minister to his needs, earthly and spiritually. There are now 1,600 students in the great school, and thousands are waiting for admission. It would be ungenerous to inquire when Mr. Carnegie Car-negie took on a full appreciation of what money really Is; indeed, it is remarkable, considering the rough path up which Mr. Carnegie toiled to his great fortune, that his soul did not grow warped and na row. Some will say that the inherent vanity of tho man prompted his inviting the distinguished dis-tinguished company of Americans and foreigners to bo present. We are willing to believe that the desire for the display was a secondary matter. One of 'the essentials to the perfect equipment of a university is ago and traditions.' Tho chlefest charm of Harvard, of tho University of Virginia to all the older universities is the memories that cluster around them. Tho memories of the events worthy of note in their past, the illustrious names connected with them in the past, the high souls that wont out from them and made immortal names in the different walks of life. The dedication dedica-tion of the Institute will supply it for all time to come with treasured memories. That the Emperor Em-peror of Germany was represented there; that France through a representative bestowed the cross of the Legion of Honor upon its founder; the letter read there from the chief magistrate of our Republic, all these will make hallowed memories after awhile and remain traditions of the Institute while the marble in its walls remains. re-mains. Tl at ostentatious dedication ought, also, to be an Incentive to other rich men to do what they can for their fellow men with their surplus wealth. It was the dream of the ancient Egyptian kings that the pyramids would be an everlasting monument to them, and hold their dust sacred through the ages. But their dust has been scattered scat-tered and their very names, in many cases, have been lost. John Harvard's thought waa to ad vance education in a new world, and all the abrasions of timq cannot dim his fame. Cornell thought to establish a more practical schooling for the youth of tho land. Leland ' Stanford,1 caught the inspiration ... left a monument which will endure. The clearness of the mind of Thomas Jefferson was never better exemplified than when he wanted embossed upon the .humble stone above him, not that he wrote the great Declaration, not that he was President of the United States, but that he was the founder of the University of Virginia." He knew where fame could fix for him a final resting place. Mr. Carnegie's chief claim upon immortality will be that he tried to better prepare the youth of America for life's battle. |