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...October Atlantic Monthly is a suggestion on the football finance problem by President Henry Smith Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching. The problem, says he, is "to substitute some other sport for football that will bring just as much revenue into the college chest while not exacting the toll in young lives and lowered college ideals. . . . The substitute must provide at least three things: it must be a great spectacle which will attract crowds of paying sightseers, it must invoke at least the semblance of college rivalry, and it must be so ordered that graduates and undergraduates...
...following article, reprinted through the courtesy of the Atlantic Monthly, was written by Mr. Henry Pritchett, presiden of the Carnegle Foundation which made a detailed study of American college athletics in 1929 and attacked their general conduct...
When Andrew Carnegie, believing that "the least rewarded of all the professions is that of the teacher," wanted someone to direct the organization which was to be endowed with $10,000,000 worth of his U. S. Steel Corp. bonds, he chose his good friend President Pritchett of M. I. T. To President Pritchett, astronomer as well as educator, Mr. Carnegie applied his celebrated industrial maxim: "Find an efficient man and enable him to do the work." For years President Pritchett was not only Andrew Carnegie's next door neighbor in Manhattan, but his chief philanthropic adviser and severest...
...years wore on, more millions were supplied to carry out Mr. Carnegie's design. Originally intended simply to pension superannuated pedagogs, the Foundation began a campaign of thoroughgoing educational research. To date it has published 50 fat, dun-colored bulletins and reports. President Pritchett had to bear the brunt of hostile criticism when, in 1918, the Foundation ceased giving further pensions, inaugurated instead the Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association (assets: $18,992,018) which insures the beneficiary at cost. In the U. S. and Canada 8,132 provident pundits are now guaranteed old-age annuities...
President Suzzallo, who has been a Carnegie Trustee since 1919, was once (1926) board chairman. He will still have the benefit of President Emeritus Pritchett's experience when he takes office in August. In addition to the Carnegie presidency, Dr. Suzzallo has other important chores which will keep him occupied for some time to come. He has not yet finished his work of coordinating the educational activities of the Government as director of President Hoover's advisory Committee on Education for which he temporarily dropped a study of U. S. graduate schools for the Carnegie Foundation...