Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-16
sI,725,OOO Gifts
 for Yale Medical
BY PRESIDENT HAD.
 LEY AT DINNER OF ALUMNI
s4oo, ,ooo GIFT OUTRIGHT
Half Million Given by Family of the Late Anthony N. Brady is Contingent Upon a Total of s2,ooo, ,ooo Fund Be- ing Raised Within Ten Years.

New Haven, Conn, June 15.-Gifts of s1,125,000 for the Yale Medical school were announced by President Arthur T. Hadley of the university to- night at the dinner of the school alum nj with which the centennial of the founding of this department was brought to a close. Interest through out the day had been awakened by the report that large gifts had been made to mark the medical schools anniver- significance of the presidents an- nouncement.
 Contingent Gift by Brady Family.
 The family of the late Anthony N. Brady of Albany. N. Y., have advised the university of their determination to establish the Anthony N Brady Memorial Foundation" of $500 0OO It Is provided that the income of s25,000 from this foundation shall be given annually for ten years to the univer- sity to enable the latter to declare op- e1ative at this time the agreement with the General Hospital society and conclude an alliance between the New Haven hospital and the Yale Medical school If the university receives with in this ten year period total of S2,- e00,0 for medical school endowment and building funds. exclusive of the a million dollars will become the abso- lute property of the university.
 Unnamed Donors Pledge S4o0,ooo
 The Brady family has given s125.000 for the erection and equipment of a clinical and pathological laboratory. Toward the s2.000,000 sought for en dowment the general education board has offered s50O,000. provided s1, 800, ,09O is secured by Jan. l. 1918, unnamed donors have pledged s40o, 900 condition ed only upon the establishment of at least one memorial professorship in the medical school; Charles w. Hark- ness, 'S3. has pledged $1O0 000 and an unnamed alumnus adds another $100, 900.
 President Hadley said that only $900, 600 remains to be raised for the endowment of two million necessary to receive outright the half a million from the Brady family.
 $400,0o0 Given Outright
 Of the gifts. that of s400, ,oo0 outright awakened the greatest cusiosity, for 1t had been reported that Mrs. Finley J. Shepard, who was Miss Helen Gould, was the donor. The university author ities, however. stated that the name of the donor would not be made public at this time. The gift is with the hope that the school may be greater factor in improving public health con- ditions in Connecticut"
 The corporation at its meeting ear Her in the day had been informed of the gifts Most of its time was taken up with discussion of them. It was voted to call a new chair in the school of religion, founded anonymously, the Gilbert l.. Stark professorship, after the late MT. Stark of Saginaw. Mich, class of ,07.
 The degree of electrical engineer was authorized to be conferred for the first time on Wednesday.
 The alumni advisory board at its session elected Edward Hidden of St Louis corresponding secretary; Rev. s c. Bushnell, Arlington, and Irwin Kew l Chicago, as members of the executive committee.
 The board discussed among other things the advisa bility of using, mov- | ing pictures to show Yale life, esps- cially in schools in the west; the better organization of alumni association; the Yale bowl, and existing educational ! conditions in the university.