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3. That all examinations should be conducted 

 by the overhead university and all the degrees, 

 with the exception of those in theology, be con- 

 ferred by the university. 



4. That financially the Carnegie Corporation 

 would be willing to assist the colleges which would 

 have to move, and perhaps also the overhead uni- 

 versity, so that the general scheme might be well 

 started, and then it was hoped the provincial 

 governments would provide any money necessary 

 for the overhead university; but all fees for class- 

 room work should be handed over to the univer- 

 sity, and that the colleges should only do such 

 work as their endowments would permit. 



ACTIVITIES OF THE ROCKEFELLER 

 FOUNDATION 



A REVIEW of the activities of the Eockefellei' 

 Foundation in 1921, written by its president, 

 Dr. George E. Vincent, will be issued in a few 

 days. The things done by the foundation 

 directly and through its departmental agencies 

 — the International Health Board, the China 

 Medical Board, and the Division of Medical 

 Education — are summarized as follows : 



Continued a quarter-million annual appropria- 

 tion to the School of Hygiene and Public Health 

 of Johns Hopkins Universitv'; 



Pledged two millions to Harvard for a school 

 of health ; 



Contributed to public health training in Czecho- 

 slovakia, Brazil, and the "United States ; 



Aided the Pasteur Institute of Paris to recruit 

 and train personnel ; 



Promoted the cause of nurse training in Amer- 

 ica and Europe ; 



Underwrote an experimental pay clinic in the 

 Cornell Medical School; 



Formally opened a complete modern medical 

 school and hospital in Peking; 



Assisted twenty-five other medical centers in 

 China ; 



Promised a million dollars for the medical 

 school of Columbia University; 



Contracted to appropriate three and one half 

 millions for the rebuilding and reorganization of 

 the medical school and hospital of the Free Uni- 

 versity of Brussels; 



Made surveys of medical schools in Japan, 

 China, the Philippines, Indo-China, Straits Settle- 

 ments, Siam, India, Syria, and Turkey; 



Supplied American and British medical journals 

 to 112 medical libraries on the continent; 



Supplemented the laboratory equipment and 



supplies of five medical schools in Central Europe; 



Defraj-ed the expenses of commissions from 

 Great Britain, Belgium, Serbia, and Brazil; 



Provided 157 fellowships in hygiene, medicine, 

 physics, and chemistry, to representatives of 

 eighteen countries; 



Continued a campaign against j'ellow fever in 

 Mexico, Central and South America; 



Prosecuted demonstrations in the control of ma- 

 laria in ten states; 



Cooperated in hookworm work in nineteen gov- 

 ernmental areas; 



Participated in rural health demonstrations in 

 seventy- seven American counties and in Brazil; 



Neared the goal of transferring to French 

 agencies an anti-tuberculosis organization in 

 France ; 



Provided experts in medical education and pub- 

 lic health for counsel and surveys in many parts 

 of the world, and rendered sundry minor services 

 to governments and voluntary societies. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 

 CERAMIC SOCIETY 



The American Ceramic Society held its 

 twenty-fourth annual convention at the Hotel 

 Statler, St. Louis, Mo., February 27 to March 

 3. One and a half days were devoted to general 

 sessions, one and a lialf days to divisional 

 meetings, and two dav's.to plant visits. 



An organization of 1,575 members, it has 

 seven industrial divisions, all of them strong 

 and independent of one another, but united in 

 one body, the American Ceramic Society. 



On the program for the general sessions, 

 there were nineteen papers and seven films. 

 The Art Division had seventeen papers besides 

 demonstrations. The Enamels Division had 

 seventeen papers, four colloquiums, and one 

 extensive report of their research committee. 

 The Glass Division had fourteen papers, six 

 colloquiums and two reports of their research 

 committee. The Heavy Clay Products Division 

 had' eight papers and four colloquiums. The 

 Refractories Division had twenty-five papers 

 and twelve topics for discussion. The Terra 

 Cotta Division had fifteen papers. The White 

 Wares Division had sixteen papers and three 

 colloquiums. 



The society is governed by a board of trus- 

 tees consisting of\the president, vice-president, 

 secretary, treasurer, and five trustees. The 



