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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Typed letter, signed, to Andrew Carnegie
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.
5. 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.
6. 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.