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48 THE BALTIMORE SUN ALMANAC, 1903.
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CARNEGIE INSTITUTION.
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Office: 1439 K Street, Washington, D.C.
President--Daniel C. Gilman, Maryland.
Secretry--Charles D. Walcott, District of Columbia.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Daniel C. Gilman, Baltimore.
Charles D. Walcott, Washington.
Abran S. Hewitt, New York.
Elihu Root, Washington.
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Philadelphia.
Dr. John S. Billings, New York.
Carroll D. Wright, Washington.
TRUSTEES.
Chairman--Abram S. Hewitt, New York.
Vice-Chairman--Dr. John S. Billings, New York.
Secretary--Charles D. Walcott, Washington, D.C.
The President of the United States.
The President of the United States
Senate.
The Speaker of the House of
Representatives.
The Secrety of the Smithsonian
Institution.
The President of the National Academy
of Science.
William N. Frew, Pennsylvania.
Lyman J. Gage, Illinois.
Daniel C. Gilman, Maryland.
John Hay, District of Washington.
Henry L. Higginson, Massachusetts.
Henry Hitchcock, Missouri.
Charles L. Hutchinson, Illinois.
William Lindsay, Kentucky.
Seth Low, New York.
Wayne MacVeagh, Pennsylvania.
D.O. Mills, California.
S. Weir Mitchell, Pennsylvania.
W.W. Morrow, California.
Elihu Root, New York.
John G. Spooner, Wisconsin.
Andrew D. White, New York.
Edward D. White, Louisiana.
Carroll D. Wright, District of Columbia.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland, of New Jersey, was originally selected as one
of the trustees, but asked to be excused from serving.
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On December 10, 1901, Mr. Andrew
Carnegie proposed to President Roosevelt
to give the sum of $10,000,000 to
found an institution in the City of
Washington for the promotion of learning
and original research. His first
thought was to fulfill the expressed wish
of Washington by establishing a university
at the National Capital, but he
could not overcome the objection, that
another university now might tend to
weaken existing universities. He said:
"My desire is to co-operate with all
educational institutions, and establish
what will be a source of strength and
not of weakness to them, and the idea
of a Washington university or of anything
of a memorial character was,
therefore, abandoned."
Articles of incorporation were filed
with the Recorder of Deeds of the District
of Columbia, January 4, 1902,
fixing the name and title of the institution
as "The Carnegie Institution."
The incorporators were:
John Hay, Secretary of State; Edw.
D. White, Justice of the United States
Supreme Court; Daniel Coit Gilman,
late president of the Johns Hopkins
University; Charles D. Walcott, superintendent
of the Geological Survey;
John S. Billings ex-Surgeon-General of
the Navy; Carroll D. Wright,
Commissioner of Labor.
The purposes of the Carnegie Institution
are given in the following
statement by Dr. Walcott:
1. To increase the efficiency of the
universities and other institutions of
learning throughout the country by
utilizing and adding to their existing
facilities and by aiding teachers in the
various institutions for experimental
and other work in these institutions,
as far as may be advisable.
2.

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