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Title: The Popular science monthly
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Science Technology
Publisher: (New York, Popular Science Pub. Co., etc.)
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. It would be wellif more children were born to fit parentsand fewer to those who are unfit, andthe apostles of eugenics are performinga useful service in preaching from thistext. But the Carnegie Foundationplaces itself in the position of the prac-tical eugenicist who would put unfitparents out of the way. This is a deli-cate and difficult undertaking, which(me is scarcely prepared to entrust toDr. Pritchett and Mr. Flexner. The proprietary schools withoutproper laboratory and clinical facilitiesare probably being eliminated about asrapidly as is desirable. The AmericanMedical Association publishes annuallya list of those which are inadequate,and the Carnegie Foundation has givenwide publicity to the deficiencies ofthese institutions. Such information isdesirable, but it may be that the Car-negie Foundation is not the best agencyto exploit it. Thus the foundation re-fused to give pensions to the professorsof the University of Illinois at Urbanaon the ground that its medical school in
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Thomas Habbison Montgomery,Late professor of zoology in the University of Pennsylvania. ic>4 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY Chicago did not maintain standardssufficiently high, and the university hasjust now abandoned its medical school.This may have been the best thing todo, but it seems undesirable that a pri-vate foundation should be able to dic-tate by purchase the educational policyof a state university. The conditions are of such great edu-cational and public concern that theyshould be clearly understood. Thepowers of the Carnegie Foundationmay be illustrated by an example. Itwas originally established to grant pen-sions for length of service as well asfor old age and disability. The lengthof service pensions were abandonedthrough lack of means, but the trustees,practically all of whom are universityor college presidents, instructed the ex-ecutive committee to safeguard theinterests of those whose twenty-fiveyears of service includes service as acollege president. Under this cla

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