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Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

 - Class of 1906

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Dear Mr. F.dilor: March 30. 1906. You ask Me to give the readers of The Thistle” some account of the inception oi and my reasons for deciding to give to Pittsburgh the Technical Schools. hirst, then, please note that Pittsburgh was the home of my boyhood, and it was there that Fortune showered its favors upon me in early manhood. One earnestly wishes to benefit his early home and its people if ever it be in his power. After I had decided that public libraries maintained by the people, a hall for music, a fine art gallery, and a museum would all tend to educate and elevate our citizens and bring into their lives new elements of happiness, and had established these, I found myself casting about to find the next want that Pittsburgh most needed. 1 was often brought into contact with men in llritaiu and at home earnestly devoted to benefiting their respective cities, and in New York I became a Trustee of Cooper Union and of the Mechanics’ and Tradesmen's Society. I very soon decided that there was nothing in the line of education which the youth of Pittsburgh so much needed as first-class Technical Schools. 1 offered to spend a million dollars on such school buildings and to give two million dollars endowment fund to furnish one hundred thousand dollars per year required to pay the cost of operating them, provided the city furnished a site, which it did. Since then half a million dollars additional has been given for necessary extension and addition. No scholars ever made a more promising start. None was ever besieged. I think. In so many more students than could be taken. Mr. Katncrschlag has proved the right man in the right place, and his earnest assistants no less so. As for the eight hundred students—their behavior, assiduity and anxiety to learn. I am informed, was never surpassed. We have made a great start! Where it is all to end, we cannot predict; but I for one believe that Pittsburgh is to rank in the world as one of the chief centers of technical education. The Founder is very proud of his latest gift to the city and the people to whom he still remains a grateful debtor. Andrew Carnegie. 21

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