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Also in 1911, a bill was introduced in the [[California Legislature]] calling for the establishment of a publicly funded "California Institute of Technology," with an initial budget of a million dollars, ten times the budget of Throop at the time. The board of trustees offered to turn Throop over to the state, but the presidents of [[Stanford University]] and the [[University of California, Berkeley]] successfully lobbied to defeat the bill, which allowed Throop to develop as the only scientific research-oriented educational institute in southern California, public or private, until the onset of World War II necessitated the broader development of research-based science education.<ref name="The Dream Endures">{{cite book|last=Starr|first=Kevin|title=The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s|url=https://archive.org/details/dreamendurescali00star|url-access=registration|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford|year=1997|pages=[https://archive.org/details/dreamendurescali00star/page/74 74–77]|chapter=Unto the Stars Themselves, Astronomy and the Pasadena Perspective|isbn=0-19-515797-4|access-date=November 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203202552/https://archive.org/details/dreamendurescali00star|archive-date=December 3, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> The promise of Throop attracted [[physical chemistry|physical chemist]] [[Arthur Amos Noyes]] from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] to develop the institution and assist in establishing it as a center for science and technology. | Also in 1911, a bill was introduced in the [[California Legislature]] calling for the establishment of a publicly funded "California Institute of Technology," with an initial budget of a million dollars, ten times the budget of Throop at the time. The board of trustees offered to turn Throop over to the state, but the presidents of [[Stanford University]] and the [[University of California, Berkeley]] successfully lobbied to defeat the bill, which allowed Throop to develop as the only scientific research-oriented educational institute in southern California, public or private, until the onset of World War II necessitated the broader development of research-based science education.<ref name="The Dream Endures">{{cite book|last=Starr|first=Kevin|title=The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s|url=https://archive.org/details/dreamendurescali00star|url-access=registration|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford|year=1997|pages=[https://archive.org/details/dreamendurescali00star/page/74 74–77]|chapter=Unto the Stars Themselves, Astronomy and the Pasadena Perspective|isbn=0-19-515797-4|access-date=November 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203202552/https://archive.org/details/dreamendurescali00star|archive-date=December 3, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> The promise of Throop attracted [[physical chemistry|physical chemist]] [[Arthur Amos Noyes]] from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] to develop the institution and assist in establishing it as a center for science and technology. | ||
With the onset of | With the onset of World War I, Hale organized the [[United States National Research Council|National Research Council]] to coordinate and support scientific work on military problems. While he supported the idea of federal appropriations for science, he took exception to a federal bill that would have funded engineering research at land-grant colleges, and instead sought to raise a $1 million national research fund entirely from private sources. To that end, as Hale wrote in ''The New York Times'': | ||
<blockquote>Throop College of Technology, in Pasadena California has recently afforded a striking illustration of one way in which the Research Council can secure co-operation and advance scientific investigation. This institution, with its able investigators and excellent research laboratories, could be of great service in any broad scheme of cooperation. President Scherer, hearing of the formation of the council, immediately offered to take part in its work, and with this object, he secured within three days an additional research endowment of one hundred thousand dollars.<ref name="NRC">{{cite book|last=Goodstein|first=Judith R.|title=Millikan's School: A History of the California Institute of Technology|publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]]|location=New York, NY|year=1991|pages=[https://archive.org/details/millikansschoolh00good/page/64 64–75]|chapter=The Birth of Caltech|isbn=0-393-03017-2|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/millikansschoolh00good/page/64}}</ref> | <blockquote>Throop College of Technology, in Pasadena California has recently afforded a striking illustration of one way in which the Research Council can secure co-operation and advance scientific investigation. This institution, with its able investigators and excellent research laboratories, could be of great service in any broad scheme of cooperation. President Scherer, hearing of the formation of the council, immediately offered to take part in its work, and with this object, he secured within three days an additional research endowment of one hundred thousand dollars.<ref name="NRC">{{cite book|last=Goodstein|first=Judith R.|title=Millikan's School: A History of the California Institute of Technology|publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]]|location=New York, NY|year=1991|pages=[https://archive.org/details/millikansschoolh00good/page/64 64–75]|chapter=The Birth of Caltech|isbn=0-393-03017-2|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/millikansschoolh00good/page/64}}</ref> | ||