The log cabin Democrat., 1914-05-30
GENERAL BOARD AWARDS 10
 HENDRIX COLLEGE SIOO,O0O.
APPLICATION FOR
 AID IS GRANTED BUT GIFT IS CONDITIONAL
COLLEGE MUST RAISE $300,O00 ADDITIONAL WITHIN THE
 NEXT TWO YEARS.

One hundred thousand dollars was firanted to Hendrix College by the General Education Board at New York yesterday. This board, which has previously donated $75,000 to Hendrix, is the one which administers the vast sums set aside several years ago by John D. Rockefeller.
 pr. J. H. Reynolds, president of Hendrix College, said today that he had received no information as to the grant other than that contained in the newspaper dispatches, but expects to receive official advice of the gift by mail within the next day or two.
 At the educational conference at Louisville, Ky, about six weeks ago Dr. Reynolds conferred with Dr. Wal lace Buttrick, secretary of the General Education Board, and placed before him the needs and purposes of Hen drix. Your college is now on the ground floor with the board Dr. Buttrick told him, "and any request you make will, am sure be given se- rious consideration"
 Accordingly, Dr. Reynolds and the trustees decided to begin the plan adopted some months ago for an am- bilious system of buildings, laid off on the campus by noted landscape ar |chitect. The General Education Board was requested to offer $100,000 on condition that $300,000 additional be raised within two years for buildings and endowment. This request was granted by the board yesterday.
 pr. Reynolds states that it is the purpose of the college to eXpend about $250,OO0 for buildings and to add about $150,000 to the productive en- dowment of the college This will increase the cash endowment to nearly a half million dollars and will make the total value of the buildings, grounds and endowment of the insti- tuition reach close to one million dol lars
 The successful completion few months ago of the $300,000 endow- ment for Hendrix is believed to mean that the college has entered upon an era of great things and that it will very soon occupy a place with the greatest educational institutions of the South, if not in the entire nation.
 The Associated Press dispatch re- ferring to the gift to Hendrix College is as follows:
 New York, May 29.-The general education board, which administers the John D. Rockefeller fund, today announced appropriations totaling $l 400 0O0 to universities and colleges and for the purpose of carrying on farm demonstration instruction and boys and girls clubs in Maine and New Hampshire. The college and uni versity appropriations include:
 Hendrix College, Conway, Ark, Sl0O,O00; Washington and Lee Uni versity, Lexington, Va, $100,000; Wofford College, Spartanburg, s. C., $33, ,0O0.
 A report covering study of the status of rural education, submitted to the board, pointed out that state departments of education often lack the organization to make thorough surveys of rural schools. The board decided to support rural school agents attached to the office of the state su- perintendents of instruction and a general agent for the purpose of bringing about cooperation between the several states. An initial appro- priation of $50,0000 was made for starting this work in 12 or IS states, the states to be chosen later.
 For the support of supervisors of rural negro schools $30,000 was ap- propriated