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21. Celebration of Andrew Carnegie's Centennial in Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: November 24, 1935
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.B. Carnegie Centenary. Flat Box 524
- Abstract: Carnegie never regarded the "Music Hall," opened in 1890, as one of his philanthropic institutions despite spending almost $2,000,000 of his money on it. The Hall became part of his residuary estate, and thus came to be owned by the Carnegie Corporati on of New York after his death.
22. The Best Fields for Philanthropy Poster
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: posters
- Date: 1935
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.B. Carnegie Centenary. Map Case 14.05.01
- Abstract: One of several posters created for the Carnegie Centennary celebration in 1935, quoting from "The Best Fields for Philanthropy" essay, written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889.
23. Memorandum of Agreement between Carnegie Corporation of New York and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America as to Professors Annuities. Cover
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: March 28, 1929
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.B. Reports on Grants, 1911-1983. Box no. 124
- Abstract: By 1917, the CFAT trustees, after an extensive study, concluded that a pension system paid out of income at no cost to the beneficiary was expensive beyond all estimates and anticipation. In 1917-1918, under an arrangement negotiated by Andrew Carneg ie and the CFAT the CCNY gave $1 million to found the Teachers Insurance Annuity Association of America, an occupation-wide contributory plan, believed by some to embody more closely Carnegie’s original vision of the teachers’ pension plan. The nonprofit stock of the association, now called TIAA-CREF was owned outright by the Corporation until 1938, when it was transferred to an independent board of trustees. CCNY continued to support TIAA with grants until 1957.
24. Poster for Chaire Carnegie program in Berlin
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: posters
- Date: 1928
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: From 1927 until 1933, the Centre also maintained a Carnegie Lehrstuhl at the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik in Berlin. The Lehrstuhl was not entrusted to one professor, but was conducted as a series of lectures and seminars given yearly at the Hochsc hule and the University of Berlin by several professors from different countries.
25. Poster for Chaire Carnegie program in Paris
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: posters
- Date: 1928
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: The European office of the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace started a series of courses of lectures on international organization and relations. In addition the Centre offered independent courses under the auspices of the Chaire Carnegie, wh ich it established in 1925. Each year, the Chaire and invited authorities delivered a series of lectures on a subject selected in agreement with the consultative committee. André Tibal (University of Nancy Professor and previously Directeur of L'Institut Français at Prague) occupied the Chaire from 1925 until 1940.
26. Carnegie Corporation Donations Volume "C"
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: books
- Date: between 1927 and 1928
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.C. Financial Record Books, 1872-1987. Flat Box 489
- Abstract: The first donations to Columbia University (Astronomy Observatory, Teachers College, College of Pharmacy, etc.) were made by Andrew Carnegie himself and go back to the early 1900s. The Corporation has worked with Columbia ever since, with total donat ions exceeding 20 million dollars. This is a small sample of reports, produced by various Columbia University affiliates under Carnegie Corporation grants.
27. Typed letter signed to James T. Shotwell regarding one of the books in Economic and Social History of the World War series
Hoover, Herbert C.
- Name: Hoover, Herbert C. (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: December 30, 1924
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
28. Photograph of James T. Shotwell
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: photographs
- Date: [between 1922 and 1951]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: James T. Shotwell General Editor of the Economic and Social History of the World War was also a Professor of the History of International Relations at Columbia University. He devoted most of his life, as he put it, “to the organization of peace,” an d was instrumental in the creation of some of the most important international institutions of the twentieth century, such as the United Nations. He succeeded J.B. Clark as the director of the Division of Economics and History in 1924.
29. Photograph of Frederick P. Keppel
- Format: photographs
- Date: [between 1918 and 1943]
- Collection Name: Frederick P. Keppel Papers
- Abstract: Frederick P. Keppel (1875-1943), the Carnegie Corporation president for almost 20 years, from 1922 until 1941, was a Columbia College graduate of 1899. He then served as Columbia University Secretary, and upon the retirement of John Van Amringe in 19 10 became the dean of Columbia College-the position he held until 1918.
30. Chart, showing inability of the Carnegie Foundation to meet expectations under the free pension plan.
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Format: manuscripts
- Date: [1916]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: For the first few years of the CFAT's existence, its principal function was in selecting eligible institutions and establishing rules for receiving retirement allowances. The resulting financial obligations ended up being greatly in excess of CFAT re sources, and were only fulfilled by 1973, after spending over 6 million dollars of CFAT endowment and a 15 million dollar loan from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
31. Andrew Carnegie. Title page; An Anniversary Address Delivered Before the Carnegie Institute of Technology on November the 24th, 1915
Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939
- Name: Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939 (Speaker)
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: 1915
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. Vol 57
- Abstract: Address by Pritchett on occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Originally founded in 1900 as Carnegie Technical Schools, this Pittsburgh contribution by Carnegie is now part of Carnegie Mellon University.
32. Typed letter, signed, to Henry Smith Pritchett in response to the Teachers Retirement Survey
Van Amringe, J. Howard (John Howard), 1835-1915
- Name: Van Amringe, J. Howard (John Howard), 1835-1915 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: May 2, 1915
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: John Howard Van Amringe (1836-1915) graduated from Columbia in 1860. Thereafter, he taught mathematics at Columbia, holding a professorship from 1865 to 1910 when he retired. Van Amringe was also the first Dean of Columbia College, memorialized with a bust enshrined in a column-supported cupola on "Van Am Quad" in the southeastern portion of the campus.
33. Summer Session for Teachers of International Law in George Peabody College for Teachers
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: printed ephemera
- Date: 1915
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: Carnegie Endowment of International Peace was also heavily involved in educational projects. One of the objectives of its Division of International Law was facilitating the study and improving the teaching of international law and related subjects; t hus the Division was instrumental in founding and supporting an Academy of International Law. It also provided financial and administrative support for conferences of teachers of international law and sponsored a series of eight summer sessions on international law for teachers from smaller colleges. This is one of the earliest such sessions held at George Peabody College for Teachers (now part of Vanderbilt University).
34. History of European War Project Plan
Clark, John Bates, 1847-1938
- Name: Clark, John Bates, 1847-1938 (Author)
- Format: legal documents
- Date: October 22, 1914
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: After the outbreak of World War I, the Division commissioned a series of studies dealing with topics of immediate importance in connection with the war. This proposal by J.B. Clark presents a plan for the publication of Economic and Social History of the World War. The resulting seminal 150-volume History contained General, American, British, Austrian/Hungarian, Belgian, Bulgarian, Czechoslovak, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Netherland, Polish, Rumanian, Russian, Scandinavian, Serbian, and Turkish series written by eminent scholars from these countries.
35. Typed letter signed to Andrew Carnegie requesting a grant for Barnard College
Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936
- Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: April 29, 1913
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 101
36. Meeting of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching Board of Trustees
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Format: photographs
- Date: 1912
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: Andrew Carnegie initially selected 25 trustees to administer the Carnegie Foundation, primarily presidents of major universities, and presidents of "colleges of both the older and the younger type." Robert A. Franks, Thomas Morrison Carnegie, and Fr ank A. Vanderlip were the only three members of the Board with no academic affiliations.
37. Medical Education in the United States and Canada. Title page
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Format: books
- Date: 1910
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: This report by Abraham Flexner (1866-1959) described 155 U.S. and Canadian medical schools, examined the state of American medical education and led to dramatic changes in the way doctors were trained, and influenced many studies of academic quality.
38. Note to Henry Smith Pritchett in response to the Teachers Retirement Survey
Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853-1918
- Name: Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853-1918 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: April 13, 1909
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: Frederick Remsen Hutton (1853-1918) was a Columbia College graduate of 1873, Columbia University professor of Mechanical engineering, and a Dean of Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He also was a Vice President of the Carnegie-su pported American Museum of Safety, and a Secretary of the Carnegie-supported United Engineering Society.
39. Typed letter signed to Henry Smith Pritchett
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: December 11, 1905
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: The letter hints at differences in vision that existed between Andrew Carnegie and the CFAT’s first president Henry S. Pritchett. Carnegie saw the Foundation as an agency for payment of retiring allowances. Pritchett, on the other hand, hoped that th e Foundation would be “one of the Great Agencies…in standardizing American education” and put higher priority on the educational inquiry activities.
40. Original Request for Information
Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939
- Name: Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939 (Author) Vanderlip, Frank A. (Frank Arthur), 1864-1937 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: June 30, 1905
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: Copies of this letter were sent to colleges and universities potentially eligible for Carnegie Foundation pensions. The responses from several hundred institutions, held in the archives, paint a rich and varied picture of the state of higher educatio n in the United States and Canada.