The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-21
John ). Rockefeller C0m- pIeteS Task of Great
 Schools Endowment
CONTROL OF UNIVERSITY
 NOW LEFT ID TRUSTEES
RocIxefelIer's Personal RepresenfatIyer on the Board of Trustees Resign So as to Leave Control of
 School Unhampered

Chicago. December 20.-John D. Rock
 efeller has completed the task he set
 TOT himself in the founding of the Uni
 Ferslty of Chicago. Today public an-
 nouncement was made of single and
 final' Io,00o,o00 which includes all the
 contributions that MT. Rockefeller had 1 planned to make to the university This
 sum which is to be paid in ten annual in
 stallments beginning January will make
 a tctal of approximately ss5, 100000 that
 MT. Rockefeller has given to the univer- l sity.
 l Mr. Rockefeller says he nof believes
 the school should be supported and en-
 iarged by the gifts of many rather than
 those of a single donor. This he believes
 will be better accomplished If the public
 understands the limit of his contemplated
 aceistance. The founding of new depart
 ments he leaves to the trustees as he says
 funds may be furnished by other friends
 of the university.
 Up to the present nearly $70oo,00o has
 been given to the university in addition
 to Mir Rockefellers gifts. With the an
 nouncement of MT. Rockefeller's final donation came the resignation of John D.
 Rockefeller, Jr., and Fred T. Gates, MT.
 Rockefeller's personal representatives,
 from the university board of trustees. Leaving Plans to Others In inclosing the resignations, MT. Rock
 efeler explained that he was only carry ing out a conviction that the institution
 should be controlled, conducted and SUD- fa6 l,r-f flo lot
 this date he had simply been co-operat- ing.
 MT. Rockefeller's idea as it is under stood that he is turning over the in- | stitution and its endowment to Chicago
 and the west and in so doing withdraws any further representation in it's con l troI
 The official announcement of the bsne-
 faction was made at the quarterly convo-
 cation at the university this afternoon President Martin A. Rierson of the board
 Of trustees read a letter from MT. Rock efeller It was dated December 13 and was addressed to the president and trtIs-
 tees of the University of Chicago. RockefeIIer's Letter | MT. Rockefeller's last letter follows: | T have this day caused to be set
 aside for the University of Chicago. from the funds of the general education boarl | which subject to my disposition, in come bearing securities of the present | market value of approximately s10,0O0.000,
 the same to be delivered to the university l in 10 equal annual installments begin | ring January 1, each installment to bear
 income to the university from the date
 of such delivery only. A list of these
 securities is appended herewith. In a
 separate letter of even date my wishes
 regarding the investment and uses of the | fund are more specifically expressed | Ut is far better that the university be | supported and enlarged by the gifts oe | many than by those of a single donor. | This l have recognized from the begin | ming, accordingly I have sought to assist | you in enllsting the interest and con | tributions of many others at times by
 making my own gifts conditional on the gifts tf others and at times by aidnig l you by means of unconditional gifts 90 | make the university as widely useful worthy and attractive possible. Most heartily do I recognize and re- l Joice in the generous response of the | citizens of Chicago and the west. Their contributions to the resources of the uni | versity have been. I believe. more than | s7, ,000,O 900. It might perhaps be difficult TO | find a parallel to generosity so large | and widely distributed as this, exer- cised in behalf of an institution so re- gently founded
 "I desire to express my appreciation | also of the extraordinary wisdom and | fidelity which you, as president and trus- | tee, have shown in conducting the affairs | of the university. Tn the multitude Of | students so quickly gathered in the hign | character of the institution in the variety and extent of original research, in the valuable contributions to human knowl- | edge. in the uplifting influence of the
 university as whole upon education
 throughout the west. my highest hopes | have been far exceeded
 | Tt is these considerations, with oth-
 CTS. that move me to sum up in a single
 and final gift. distributing its payment | over a period of many years to come, | such further contributions as I have | purposed to make to the university. The | sum now give Is intended to make pro- | vision with such gifts as may reasonably be expected from others. for such addel | buildings, equipment and endowment as | the department thus far established will | need.
 This gift completes the task which | have set before myself The founding | and support of new departments or the
 development of the varied and alluring
 field of applied science, including medi- cine I leave to the wisdom of the trus-
 tees as funds may be furnished for these purposes by other friends of the un- | versity.
 | Tn ndKlnp d1 enu or my SlIlS iO tue university, as I now do. and the with drawing from the board of trustees of my
 personal representatives. whose resigna-
 tions I enclose, I am acting on an early
 and permanent conviction that this great l institution. being the property of the
 people, should be controlled, conducted'
 and supported by the people In whose
 generous efforts for it's upbuilding I have | been permitted simply to cooperate, and | I could wish to consecrate anew to the | great cause of education the funds which
 I have given, if that were possible, to present the institution a second time. in solar as I aided in founding 1t. to the people of Chicago and the west, and to express my hope that under their man. agement and with their generous sup port the university may be an increasing blessing to them. their children and to the future generations. Yours very truly. JOHN D. ROCKET FILLER"
 Ryerson's Address | Mir. Ryerson. after making announce
 ment of the gift, addressed those preseny at the convocaton as follows;
 There Is feeling of deepest gratitude
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