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[N. S. Vol. LI. No. 1305 



In transmitting the gift to tlie General 

 Education Board Mr. Eockefeller forwarded 

 this memorandum : 



The attention of the American public has re- 

 cently been drawn to the urgent and immediate 

 necessity of providing more adequate salaries to 

 members of the teaching profession. It is of the 

 highest importance that those intrusted with the 

 education of youth and the increase of knowledge 

 should not be led to abandon their calling by rea- 

 son of financial pressure or to cling to it amid dis- 

 couragements due to financial limitations. 



It is of equal importance to our future welfare 

 and progress that able and aspiring young men and 

 women should not for similar reasons be deterred 

 from devoting their lives to teaching. 



While this gift is made for the general corporate 

 purposes of the board, I shoiild cordially indorse a 

 decision to use the principal, as well as the income, 

 as promptly and largely as may seem wise for the 

 purpose of cooperating with the higher institutions 

 of learning in raising sums specifically devoted to 

 the increase of teachers' salaries. 



In reference to this gift. Dr. Wallace 

 Buttrick, president of the General Education 

 Board, makes the following statement: 



The general public is well aware that the salaries 

 of instructors in colleges and universities have not 

 thus far, in general, been sufficiently increased to 

 meet the increased cost of living. The General 

 Education Board has since the close of the war re- 

 ceived applications for aid from colleges and uni- 

 versities the sum total of which would practically 

 exhaust the working capital of the board. 



An emergency esists. It is urgently necessary 

 to take steps to increase salaries in order that men 

 in the teaching profession may be able and happy 

 to remain there, in order that young men and young 

 women who incline to teaching as a career may not 

 be deterred from entering the teaching profession, 

 and, finally, in order that it may not be necessary 

 to raise tuition fees and thereby cut off from aca- 

 demic opportunity those who can not afford to 

 pay increased tuition. 



As Mr. Rockefeller 's memorandum shows, he rec- 

 ognizes the urgency of the present situation, and 

 has given this large sum to the Greneral Education 

 Board to be used in cooperation with the institu- 

 tions for the purpose of promptly increasing the 

 funds available for the payment of salaries. It has 

 been the policy of the board to make contributions 

 to endowments, conditioned upon the raising of 



additional supplementary sums by the institutions 

 aided. 



The gifts of Mr. Eockefeller to the General 

 Education Board since its establishment in 

 1902 have been as follows : 



1902 $1,000,000 



1905 10,000,000 



1907 11,000,000 



1909 10,000,000 



Total $32,000,000 



The board distributes the interest on the 

 above funds currently and is empowered to 

 distribute the principal in its discretion. 

 Eecently Mr. Eockefeller gave the board the 

 sum of $20,000,000 for the improvement of 

 medical education, the interest to be distri- 

 buted currently and the principal to be dis- 

 tributed within fifty years. 



In transmitting the gift to the Eockefeller 

 Foundation Mr. Eockefeller specifically au- 

 thorizes the trustees to utilize both principal 

 and income for any of the corporate purposes 

 of the foundation which, as stated in the 

 charter, are " to promote the well-being of 

 mankind throughout the world." " While im- 

 posing no restriction upon the discretion of 

 the trustees Mr. Eockefeller in his letter of 

 transmittal expresses special interest " in the 

 work being done throughout the world in 

 combating disease through improvement of 

 medical education, public health administra- 

 tion and scientific research." Mr. Eocke- 

 feller also alludes to the recent gift of $20,- 

 000,000 to the General Education Board to 

 promote general education in the United 

 States, and then adds: 



My attention has been called to the needs of some 

 of the medical schools in Canada, but as the activi- 

 ties of the General Education Board are by its 

 charter limited to the United States I understand 

 that gift may not be used for Canadian schools. 

 The Canadian people are our near neighbors; 

 They are closely bound to us by ties of race, lan- 

 guage and international friendship; and they have 

 without stint sacrificed themselves, their youth and 

 their resources to the end that democracy might be 

 saved and extended. For these reasons if your 

 board should see fit to use any part of this new 

 gift in promoting medical education in Canada 

 such action would meet with my cordial approval. 



