Carnegie Centennial Exhibition

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).

Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939

Name: Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939 (Author)
Format: correspondence
Date: February 6, 1905
Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
Abstract: Letter from Pritchett, written two months prior to the founding of the Foundation, discusses the plans for the "insurance for institutions of learning," and mentions Frank A. Vanderlip (1864-1937) vice-president and then president of National City Ban k of New York, a future CFAT executive committee member.

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

Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943

Name: Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 (Author)
Format: correspondence
Date: August 12, 1905
Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
Abstract: This letter from Keppel, then the Secretary of Columbia University, to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, accompanied the Columbia University List of Faculty (see the first page of the list shown below) submitted to the CFAT in order to calculate their retirement allowances under the original Carnegie plan.

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.

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.

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