June 10, 1921] 



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community trusts, but they have the tem- 

 porary disadvantage of intimate association 

 with the personality or memory of a particular 

 family or individual. They therefore are 

 somewhat less likely to receive during their 

 early history such gifts as readily come to the 

 community trust which bears the name of a 

 city or state. 



Egbert M. Terkes 

 National Eeseakch Council 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



THE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF COLUMBIA UNI- 

 VERSITY AND THE PRESBYTERIAN 

 HOSPITAL 



It has been announced from Columbia Uni- 

 versity that a permanent alliance has been ef- 

 fected between the university and the Presby- 

 terian Hospital, to provide a medical center, 

 and the large sums needed to carry the plan 

 into effect, have been provided by gift. 



Under the terms of the agreement, the uni- 

 versity and the hospital each continue their in- 

 dependent existence and control. The medical 

 school, now occupying the site bounded by 

 59th and 60th Streets and Tenth Avenue, and 

 the hospital, now occupying the site between 

 Madison and Park Avenues, 69th and 70th 

 Streets, are as soon as possible to be provided 

 with new and thoroughly equipped buildings 

 upon a common site. The professional staff 

 of the hospital is to consist of professors and 

 other members of the faculty of the medical 

 school, to be appointed by the hospital upon 

 the nomination of the university. For the 

 oversight of the common interests of the uni- 

 versity and the hospital in the new under- 

 taking, an administrative board is established, 

 to consist of three representatives of the trus- 

 tees of the university and three representatives 

 of the managers of the hospital. The first ad- 

 ministrative board is to consist of Messrs. 

 John Q. Milburn, Walter B. James, and 

 William Barclay Parsons, representing the 

 university, and Edward S. Harkness, Henry 

 W. deForest and William Sloane, representing 

 the hospital. 



The large sums needed to enable Columbia 

 University to bear its share in this enterprise. 



have been provided in the following manner : 



$5,000,000 for eadowment from the ©state of the 

 late Joseph E. DeLamar. 



$3,000,000 for the construotioa of new buildings 

 and their equipment, from the Carnegie Corpora- 

 tion, the General Education Board and the Rocke- 

 feller Foundation, each of which has pledged 

 $1,000,000. 



Land located between 165th and 168th Streets, 

 Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue and val- 

 ued at not lesa than $1,000,000, which is the gift 

 of a donor who wishes to remain anonymous. 



An additional sum of $1,000,000 for endow- 

 ment from another anonymous donor. 



GIFTS BY CARNEGIE CORPORATION TO CAR- 

 NEGIE INSTITUTES OF PITTSBURGH 



As a result of joint conferences held by the 

 trustees, respectively, of the Carnegie Cor- 

 poration of New York, the Carnegie Institute 

 of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Institute of 

 Technology, a definite agreement has been en- 

 tered into by the Carnegie Corporation to give 

 an additional sum of more than $17,000,000 

 over a period of years for maintenance and 

 development of the institutes. 



According to a statement issued by the Car- 

 negie Corporation, the Carnegie Institute of 

 Technology now has about 4,000 students. 

 They come from every state in the Union and 

 from all parts of the world. The plan now to 

 be carried out contemplates the full completion 

 of Mr. Carnegie's gift in developing at Pitts- 

 burgh a great technical institute available for 

 the young men, and particularly those in mod- 

 erate circumstances, not only of the Pittsburgh 

 district, but of the whole country. The plan 

 is distinctly national in scope. 



Under the arrangements now made, the in- 

 stitutions ultimately will have received from 

 Mr. Carnegie, the corporation and other 

 sources more than $49,000,000. The financial 

 program that has just been mapped out may be 

 summarized as follows: 



OUTBIGHT APPEOPKIATIONS 



For the Carnegie Institute of Pitts- 

 burgh : 



Additional endowment $2,000,000 



Cash to be used at discretion of insti- 

 tute 672,888 



