Doctors, clergymen, lawyers, as well as many high-grade men of affairs, are devoting their best and most unselfish efforts to some of the plans that we are all trying to work out.
Take, as one example of many similar cases, Mr.Robert C.Ogden, who for years, while devoting himself to an exacting business, still found time, supported by wonderful enthusiasm, to give force by his own personality to work done in difficult parts of the educational world, particularly to improving the common school system of the South.

His efforts have been wisely directed along fundamental lines which must produce results through the years to come.
Fortunately my children have been as earnest as I, and much more diligent, in carefully and intelligently carrying out the work already begun, and agree with me that at least the same energy and thought should be expended in the proper and effective use of money when acquired as was exerted in the earning of it.
The General Education Board has made, or is making, a careful study of the location, aims, work, resources, administration, and educational value, present and prospective, of the institutions of higher learning in the United States.

The board makes its contributions, averaging something like two million dollars a year, on the most careful comparative study of needs and opportunities throughout the country.

Its records are open to all.

Many benefactors of education are availing themselves of these disinterested inquiries, and it is hoped that more will do so.
A large number of individuals are contributing to the support of educational institutions in our country.