The New York herald., 1922-01-22
WALCOYY HONORED
BY HARVARD FUND
Foundation for Public Health
School Is Named for
Pioneer.

Special Dispatch to THE NEw YosK HEsatD.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Jan. 2l.-The fund
for the establishment OF the Harvard
School OF Public Health, the creation OF
which was recently announced, is to be
named in honor OF DR.. Henry Pickering
walcott. '5s, senior member of the Har-.
ward Corporation. according 10 an an
nouncement by the university.
The action OF the university authors
ties In naming the new fund after Or.
walcott follows the precedent recently
set when the fund for the establish
ment of the Graduate School Of Educa-
ton vas named in honor Of Charles w.
Eliot SO. president Emeritus. Tho
Henry Pickering Walcott Fund, as II will
be called. Is being contributed largely
by the Rockefeller Foundation. Inich
has agreed to give over $1,50o.ooo TO
Harvard. and eventually 100000 more.
to be added TO the income OF $4,000
In addition TO the income on the capital
Of more than s3,ooo,0o0 now being ex-
pended by the university on various de-
partments which are to be incorporated
in the School Of Public Health.
Recognizes Pioneer. Work.
The group OF Harvard professors who
will form the nucleus Of the faculty OF
the new School Of Public Health, when
they met to discuss plans for organiza-
ton. Immediately suggested that It
would be particularly appropriate to
designate the fund as the Henry Pick
cring Walcott Fund. now that DR.. Wal
colt has lived to see public health. in
which he was a pioneer and leader for
forty years. recognized as a special pro-
fession with great school devoted to It..
! In presenting to DR.. A. Lowell Law
renee. president OF Harvard, the recon-
mendation OF the group of professors.
| Dean Edsall of the Harvard Medical
School. wrote concerping DR.. Walcott,
| considering tie Importance OF his
work and the length OF his service,
probably no one in the country deserves
moro recognition, and he has never
asked any"
| DR.. Walcott was practitioner in
| Cambridge in his early days. From 1881
until the last few years. when he has re-
linquished gradually his public office.
DR.. Walcott was chairman Of the State
Board of Health. chairman of the Met
ropolitan Water and Sewerage Commits
| sion and chairman of the Trustees of
the Massachusetts General Hospital. For
| more than thirty years the reports of
the Massachusetts State Board of
Health. which are known rs landmarks
in public health. were largely written by
DR.. Walcott. The public reports written
by him concerning the water supply and
drainage in Massachusetts, particularly
| in the metropolitan district, not only
| have resulted in the protection of the
health of the people Of tho State but
have been regarded as standards Of pub
lie health endeavor everywhere.
Once Acting President.
From 1877 to 1880 DR.. walcott was
an overseer OF Harvard University. and
in 1890, upon the death Of Prof. Alexan-
der Agasslz. he was elected a Fellow OF
Harvard College. or member OF the Coz.
poration. and he has occupied this i'm.
| portant position in the administration
of the university ever since. During DR.
Eliot's absence from Cambridge in 1906
and 1901. he served for a season as ac.-
| ing president OF the university. .f
The Harvard School Of Public Health
probably will open next yetr. It win be
DR.. David L. Edsall will serve as dean
of both schools. Certain departments
now organized under the Medical Schoo..
such as those OF Industrial hygiene and
tropical medicine. will become part Of
the new school. which also will develop
and enlarge the work OF the School OF
Public Health, now jointly conducted by
Harvard and the Massachusetts Ins.i-
tute OF Technology.