The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-08

to Mir Rockefeller by their associates, were:
 E. Benjamin Andrews, Hollis B. Fris- sell, Daniel C. Gilman, Hugh H. Han na, Morris K. Jesup and Walter H. Page.
 A copy of this letter will be engross- ed on parchment and sent to each member of the board for his autograph signature, and will then be formally presented to MT. Rockefeller. [ The members of the board who will administer MT. Rockefeller's immense gift include some of the best-known educators, financiers, publicists and philanthropists in the country MT. AL derman is president of the University of Virginia; MT. Andrews is chancellor of the University of Nebraska; MT. Frissell is principal of Hampton Insti- ute; Mir Gales is business and benevo- lent representative of John D. Rocke- feller; Daniel c. Gilman is editor-in- chief of the New International Ency- clopedia and former president of Johns Hopkins university and the Carnegie Institution in Washington; MT. Henry is a well-known publicist and trustee of various educational institutions; MT. Jesup is well known as patron of art and science, and particularly of Arctic exploration; MT. Pratt is head and pro- lessor of political science and dean of the faculties of art, literature and sci ence in the University of Chicago; MT. Ogden is an officer of various educa- tional institutions and president of the Southern Education board; MT, Page is editor of the Worlds Work; MT. Pea body is a banker and director of vari- ous educational and philanthropic in- stitutions, and MT. Shaw is editor of the Review of Reviews,
 While the board was in session to- day gifts to five colleges were ordered, amounting in all to $4OO,OO0, as follows: Beloit college Beloit, Wis; Morning side college, Sioux City, la; Lafayette college, Easton, Pa, $5O,OOO each Wa bash college, Charlottesville, Ind, and the University of Wooster Wooster, O., each $125,OOO
 In 1908 the general education board was chartered by congress. It employs a force of experts in the continuous and systematic study of educational conditions in all parts of the United States. The object ofthe organization is promoting education in the states of the Union by means of gifts and other wise.
 The organization was adopted to as- sist MT. Rockefeller in his gifts to education; but it was not intended to limit the work of the board to the administration of funds given by him, sand Chairman Frederick T. Gates, who stated in his explanation of the purposes of the organization:
 Ut was rather designed to meet a wider need. and to offer a medium through which other men of means whose desire to promote education in it's various forms in the United States, could do so in a systematic, intelligent and effective way, and the board is be- ing so used extensively by philanthropy ists.
 Tn March, 1902, John D. Rockefeller pledged $1,000,000 to the work of the board, confining it's use particularly to the study and promotion of education in the southern states
 On June 30, 1905, through Mir. Gates, MT. Rockefeller gave the board $1O,000,- GOO in securities, the principal to be held in perpetuity as foundation for education. the income above expenses of administration to be distributed to, or used for the benefit of such institu- tions of learning as the board might deem best adapted to romote a conn prehensive system of higher education in the United States. There wer the simple conditions and the brief form in which Mir. Rockefeller endowed the board.
 From the income of the original fund of $11 100000 conditional subscriptions have already been made to eighteen colleges in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana Missouri, Kansas, Iowa. Wisconsin, In- diana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, amounting to a total of SLOT, ,50O. As condi- ton of receiving these gifts the colleges are raising the further total of $S,262, 800,
 The board of the Rockefeller founda' llOIl lldS duOpISQ bHSSt pllntlPlSo luI 1tf guidance
 ITO cooperate sympathetically ant lhelpfully with the several religious de, : nominations; to select, as far as prac' \ ticable, centers of population ant wealth as the permanent pivots of ar educational system; to mass its gift' : on endowment"
 It was further stated that of fivt hundred or more colleges in the United States over four hundred colleges were directly established by the several re ligious denominations; tifty-tive by thu several states, and less than fifty b. the other agencies Of the latter mum Der many were established by organ Iizations of Christians not directly con ]. Inected with any particulcr communion Tt is the judgment of the board that :. lsince the several Christian communion give so much attention to the promo ltion of higher education, such an agen , cy ready at hand should receive tn boards heartiest co-operation.'
 It is said that the board now has 20 Iannlications before it. Many of then