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Carnegie as he appears in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.. Andrew Carnegie (English: / k ɑːr ˈ n ɛ ɡ i / kar-NEG-ee, Scots: [kɑrˈnɛːɡi]; [2] [3] [note 1] November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist.
While Gardner's opinion of educational equality was to multiply the channels through which an individual could pursue opportunity, it was during the term of long-time staff member Alan Pifer, who became acting president during 1965 and president during 1967 (again of both Carnegie Corporation and the CFAT), that the foundation began to respond ...
The Gospel of Wealth asserts that hard work and perseverance lead to wealth. Carnegie based his philosophy on the observation that the heirs of large fortunes frequently squandered them in riotous living rather than nurturing and growing them. Even bequeathing one's fortune to charity was no guarantee that it would be used wisely, due to the fact that there was no guarantee that a charitable ...
The School of Social Work also declined to renew the New York School for Nursery Years' lease of 9 East 90th Street, which was set to expire in 1964; [244] the School of Nursery Years moved to the Carnegies' old garage. [245] The Carnegie Corporation notified the School of Social Work in January 1967 that the school would have to leave the ...
5. George Washington Vanderbilt II. The Vanderbilt name is famous for many reasons. Like the Rockefellers and Carnegies, the Vanderbilt family had a portfolio of railroad and steel businesses that ...
George Lauder Sr. was a 19th-century Scottish businessman and political radical in Dunfermline who raised and educated George Lauder and Andrew Carnegie. [2] After the two younger men moved to the United States, Lauder married Anna Maria Romeyn Varick, a patrician Old Dutch New Yorker.
W.T. Rawleigh was born on the family farm, near Mineral Point, Wisconsin, on December 3, 1870. [3] As the oldest of a family of three boys and four girls born to Charles David and Sarah Malinda Rawleigh, it was necessary for Rawleigh to take on adult responsibilities at a young age in order to help provide income beyond the daily chores that a life in agriculture required.
If he had to go back and do it again, he said he would’ve taken some time before diving back into school. “Gaining more real-world experience before returning to academia would have been ...