Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-12

being for the most part conditional on
their raising at least as much more
elsewhere. His gifts to the University
of Chicago, on the contrary, have been
outright. He has donated more than
s1,250,00 to Barnard college; $1,100,-
900 to Union Theological seminary;
100000 to Harvard; $1,000,GO0 to
Yale; 100000 to the Teachers college
in New York; 100000 to Johns Hop
kins; 100000 to Vassar; $325,0o0 to
Brown university. and so on.
1t was after he become the patron
of the University of Chicago that Mr.
Rockefeller's attention was directed
by President Harper and others to the
need for educational activity among
the negroes of the south He made
his first large contribution to the
southern educational board in 1901.
Robert c. Ogden was one OF those who
interested Mr.. Rockefeller in the
movement, which, under the inspira-
tion of Mrs Rockefeller, soon took
the vastly more comprehensive form
of plan to aid the general cause of
education among whites and blacks in
all parts of the country
$4S,oco,ooo for Education.
The general education board was
therefore incorporated at Washington
1t was said at the time that the board
was to be virtually chartered form
for John D. Rockefeller's charities,
which was thereafter to be concen-
trated under that one impersonal and
systematic administrative shape. Mr..
Rockefeller started off with a donation
of $1,000,000. In 1905 he gave 100000
600, and in February, 1907, he an
nounced further donation of $780,
100000. This doubtless was the largest
sum ever given by one individual for a
specific purpose. This unsurpassed
donation brings his aggregate contri-
button to the general education board
up to s4S,OO0.000.
OF the $43,0O0,OOO the initial 81 ,OOO,-
600 was to be devoted to work in the
southern states. The second gift of
$1O,000,000 was. to be used to PRO
mote a comprehensive system of high
er education in the United States"
This excluded common schools and
academies. Of the $32, 100000 consti-
tuting the third gift, one-third is for
the board outright to use as it deems
best. Two-thirds are reserved for dis
tribution under the direction of John
d. or his son. 1t is said the elder
Rockefeller is preparing a new plan
of benefaction, the nature of which
has not yet been disclosed. His son
now represents him in all his sys-
tematic charities.
To Form Chain of Colleges.
The general education board, up to
the present, has been distributing the
interest on its fund among large
number of smaller colleges Each city
of 100000 should have a college, Mr.
Rockefeller says. So a chain of col
leges is likely to be established in the
smaller cities which have none. prin-
cipally in the south and west. Indus
trial development is the keynote of
the general education board Schools
of trade and agriculture are to be
stimulated especially.
There has been some criticism of
the oil kings plan to centralize high
err education in the cities, it being
contended that the natural tendencies
lie in the other direction-toward the
suburban or rural centers.
The Institute for Medical Research,
at Sixty-sixth street and the East
river, is the most recent Of the Rookie
teller charities. 1t was established
in 1901, and grew out of his grief
over the loss of little Jack" McCor-
mick, his grandson, the child of his
daughter. The boy succumbed to sum-
mer complaint, despite all that money
and science could do to prolong his
life.
Mr.. Rockefeller expressed the belief
that civilization had reached a point
where more effective ways ought to be
found for combating disease. He is
credited with having stated he was
willing to devote S5,000,00O to scientific
medical research. Of this 100000 is
already invested in the institution
which is under the direction of DR..
Simon FleXner.