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SCIENCE 



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omy, is of prime importance not only to the 



teaching of the medical student but also for the 



progress of anatomy, particularly on its research 

 side. 



GIFTS TO UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES 



Trustees of the General Education Board 

 and of the Rockefeller Foundation announce 

 appropriations of $20,251,900 for Yarious pur- 

 poses of general education and for the develop- 

 ment of medical schools. The statement of the 

 trustees is as follows: 



,. For appropriations from the fund of $50,000,000 

 which Mr. Rockefeller gave last December nearly 

 250 institutions have made application to the Gen- 

 eral Education Board. A careful statistical in- 

 quiry shows that in order to raise the level of sal- 

 aries in a sufficiently large nximber of these insti- 

 tutions, to a degree somewhat commensurate with 

 increased cost of living, their endowment funds 

 would have to be increased by from $150,000,000 

 to $200,000,000. 



It is evident that to accomiplish this result the 

 $50,000,000 in the hands of the board will have to 

 be supplemented by funds from other sources in 

 the ratio of two or three to one. This has been 

 kept in mind in making appropriations which have 

 been made contingent upon the raising of addi- 

 tional amounts. 



At the recent meeting appropriations were made 

 to ninety-eight colleges and universities out of 

 those which are under consideration. To this 

 group of institutions the General Education Board 

 appropriated for endowment to increase salaries 

 the sum of $12,851,666 on condition that they 

 would themselves reach the goal they had set and 

 secure for the same purpose supplementary sums 

 aggregating $30,613,334. Thus, these colleges and 

 universities if successful wiU increase their en- 

 dowments available for teachers' salaries to the 

 extent of $43,465,000. 



In a few cases institutions are not asking for 

 endowment funds but only for temporary contri- 

 butions toward a certain total annual subscription 

 which it is hoped later to fund permanently. The 

 board has made a number of such appropriations 

 on a two- or three-year basis. 



For these purposes an additional sum of $2,184,- 

 384 was appropriated covering a period of one to 

 three years, making a total appropriation by the 

 general education board from Mr. Rockefeller's 

 special gift of $15,036,050. 



In the following list appropriations to med- 

 ical schools in the United States were made by 

 the General Education Board, while those to 

 institutions in Brussels and Halifax were voted 

 by the Rockefeller Eoundation. 



"Washington University Medical School, St. Louis 

 — For endowment, $1,250,000; for additional lab- 

 oratory facilities and equipment, $70,000. 



Yale Medical School — For endowment (toward 

 a total of $3,000,000), $1,000,000. 



Harvard Medical School — ^For improved facili- 

 ties in obstetrics, $300,000; for the development of 

 teaching in psychiatry, $350,000. 



Johns Hopkins Medical School — ^For develop- 

 ment of a new department of pathology (toward a 

 total of $600,000) $40,000. 



Dalhousie University Medical School, Halifax — 

 For buildings and equipment, $400,000. For en- 

 dowments, $100,000. 



Medical Research Foundation of Elizabeth, 

 Queen of the Belgians, Brussels — For general pur- 

 poses of medical research, 1,000,000 francs. 



ENDOWMENT OF THE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF 

 THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER 



Mr. George Eastman and the General Edu- 

 cation Board have given the University of 

 Rochester $9,000,000 for a school of medicine, 

 surgery and dentistry. In coimection with it 

 the Rochester Dental Dispensary, an institu- 

 tion recently built and endowed by Mr. East- 

 man, will furnish the clinic for the study of 

 dentistry, at the same time continuing its 

 present work in caring for the teeth of chil- 

 dren. The details of the endowment were 

 announced at Rochester on June 12, by Dr. 

 Rush Rhees, president of the university; Dr. 

 Abraham Elesner, secretary of the General 

 Education Board, and Mr. Eastman, head of 

 the Kodak industry, at a meeting of the 

 trustees of the university, dispensary and 

 local hospitals and other persons directly 

 interested. Of the $9,000,000 the General 

 Education Board gives $5,000,000 and Mr. 

 Eastman $4,000,000. This is in addition to 

 the dispensary which with its endowment is 

 valued at $1,500,000. The most modern lab- 

 oratories for anatomy, physiology and pathol- 

 ogy and a 250-bed teaching hospital are to be 

 constructed. 



