1918 - Education

Education

The board of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (later TIAA-CREF) holds its first meeting May 17 at New York and elects Henry S. Pritchett president (see 1905). Chartered by New York State as a non-profit company, its stock is all held by the Carnegie Corporation and it will enjoy tax exemption until 1997.

Educator Luther H. Gulick dies at South Casco, Maine, August 13 at age 62; Cornell University cofounder Andrew Dickson White at Ithaca, N.Y., November 4 at age 75, leaving his library to the university.