Eventually he moved to corporate law and his rise in politics was strongly helped by his relationship with Andrew Carnegie and the United States Steel Corporation.

Carnegie believed in using his fortune for others and doing more than making money.

Carnegie believed the concentration of capital was essential for societal progress and should be encouraged.

Carnegie believed that the sons of prosperous businesspersons were rarely as talented as their fathers.

Most notably, Carnegie believed that the future leaders of society would rise from the ranks the poor.

Because unlike the Hawaiians, Cubans and Puerto Ricans, the Filipinos were willing to fight for their independence, Carnegie believed that the conquest of the islands is a denial of the fundamental democratic principle, and he also urged William McKinley to withdraw American troops and allow the Filipinos to live with their independence.

Carnegie believed that it is the effort and will of the people, that maintains the peace in international relations.

Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.

Carnegie is also believed to have fed them salt, and he was later publicly criticised for this.

The independent Freehold Public Library is one of the remaining Carnegie-funded libraries in the state and is believed to be the only one with the name " Carnegie Library " engraved on its front.

" Carnegie believed that the Amalgamated was a hindrance to efficiency ; furthermore it was not representative of the workers.

Andrew Carnegie, like other leading internationalists of his day, believed that war could be eliminated by stronger international laws and organizations.

Carnegie believed in giving to the " industrious and ambitious ; not those who need everything done for them, but those who, being most anxious and able to help themselves, deserve and will be benefited by help from others.

In late September 1886, Thomas Carnegie fell ill with what he believed to be a cold.

In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.

It was the machine that made time-sharing common ; it looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the 1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, the most notable of which were MIT's AI Lab and Project MAC, Stanford's SAIL, Computer Center Corporation ( CCC ), and Carnegie Mellon University.

It came late to the Carnegie campus because of the hiatus in building activity and a general reluctance among all institutions of higher education to abandon historical styles.

This building is also known as the Montpelier Carnegie Library because it was made possible by a grant from philanthropist ( and former business magnate ) Andrew Carnegie.

During Groucho Marx's live performance at Carnegie Hall ( circa 1972 ), Groucho states that his brother got the name Chico because he was a " Chicken-chaser " ( early slang for chasing women ).

This is due, in part, because, as Lee S. Shulman, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, puts it: the lack of distinction between the Ed. D and the Ph. D has meant the Ed. D.

" The Carnegie libraries were important because they had open stacks which encouraged people to browse .... People could choose for themselves what books they wanted to read ," according to Walter E. Langsam, an architectural historian and teacher at the University of Cincinnati.

She was turned down for a Carnegie Fellowship in 1945 because this fellowship would have meant that she would have had to observe at Mount Wilson observatory, which was reserved only for men at that time.

The day after its official opening, in 1906, the original Carnegie library opened several hours later than expected, because the mass of people who had come to the opening day left the entire library in complete disarray, and had walked off with many items.

Although Quintessence played many hundred of concerts and festivals all over Europe, they turned down a U. S. record deal negotiated by Island Records ' Chris Blackwell and did not play at a concert at New York's Carnegie Hall lined up in early 1972, or tour the U. S., because four of the band's members wanted a larger monetary advance.

Vannevar Bush, the director of the Carnegie Institution, had pressed for the creation of the NDRC because he had experienced during World War I the lack of cooperation between civilian scientists and the military.

Weeks ' reputation grew because he built many of the Carnegie Libraries in Northern and Central California.

Carnegie started as a telegrapher and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges and oil derricks.

Carnegie helped open the rail lines into Washington D. C. that the rebels had cut ; he rode the locomotive pulling the first brigade of Union troops to reach Washington D. C.

Carnegie had some investments in the iron industry before the war.

He had observed how efficiently Carnegie produced profit.

While owning steel works, Carnegie had purchased at low cost the most valuable of the iron ore fields around Lake Superior.

Although still actively involved in running his many businesses, Carnegie had become a regular contributor to numerous magazines, most notably the Nineteenth Century, under the editorship of James Knowles, and the influential North American Review, led by editor Lloyd Bryce.

From 1901 forward, public attention was turned from the shrewd business acumen which had enabled Carnegie to accumulate such a fortune, to the public-spirited way in which he devoted himself to utilizing it on philanthropic projects.

Before his death on August 11, 1919, Carnegie had donated $ 350, 695, 654 for various causes.

Carnegie tried to keep this information concealed, but legal document released in 1900, during proceeding with the ex-chairman of Carnegie Steel Henry Clay Frick revealed how favorable the tariffs had been.

Carnegie instead preferred to see things through naturalistic and scientific terms stating, " Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

On the matter of American annexation, Carnegie had always thought it is an unwise gesture for the United States.

Although his promotion of anti-imperialism and world peace had all failed, and the Carnegie Endowment had not fulfilled his expectations, his beliefs and ideas on international relations had helped build the foundation of the League of Nations after his death, which took world peace to another level.

Carnegie was so proud of " Dippi " that he had casts made of the bones and plaster replicas of the whole skeleton donated to several museums in Europe and South America.

The project was able to leap forward in design with the arrival of Harold McFarland, who had been researching 16-bit designs at Carnegie Mellon University.

The 2006 Carnegie Foundation classification listed Dartmouth as the only " majority-undergraduate ", " arts-and-sciences focus ", " research university " in the country that also had " some graduate coexistence " and " very high research activity.

Then, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Vera Rubin, a young astronomer at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, presented findings based on a new sensitive spectrograph that could measure the velocity curve of edge-on spiral galaxies to a greater degree of accuracy than had ever before been achieved.

In the early 1970s, largely at the behest of companion Erin Fleming, Groucho had a live one-man show, including one recorded at Carnegie Hall in 1972 and released as a double album, An Evening with Groucho, on A & M Records.

In 1964 he moved to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he had experienced a sabbatical in 1961 to 1962.

Their son, Siddharth, who went to Carnegie Mellon University in the USA, had a long history of schizophrenia and committed suicide in 1997 at the age of 26.

A team led by Avie Tevanian, who had joined the company after working as one of the Mach kernel engineers at Carnegie Mellon University, was to develop the NeXTSTEP operating system.