Abstract Records concerning the establishment of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, including letters from Andrew Carnegie to Jacob Gould Schurman and Livingston Farrand (Presidents of Cornell and trustees of the Foundation). The collection includes extensive correspondence of Foundation presidents Henry Pritchett, Henry Suzzallo, and Walter A. Jessup, and secretaries Clyde Furst and Howard Savage; also, material and lists pertaining to pensions, financial records, trustee...

Scope and content Collection includes correspondence pertaining to the psychology of learning, teacher training, intelligence testing, the problem of unqualified practitioners of psychology, his membership in professional organizations, writing for professional journals and popular magazines, invitations to lecture and to teach, and consideration in 1940 for the presidency of the City College of New York, as well as copies of his articles and book reviews; correspondence and reports pertaining to the...