The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Americas Benefactions in 1921.

For year of economic stress 1921
was remarkable for the number and
size of the donations and bequests to
educational and charitable institu-
tions and to works of public welfare.
The General Education Board alone
appropriated more than s7,682,000 to
colleges and universities, and 1t de-
voted to other purposes an amount
which brings its total appropriations
up to $3S,561 900. The Carnegie Cor
poration added to it's benefactions
SIT 7,462,000. GEORGE T. BAKER gave
s., 100000 to Cornell University,
EDMUND C. CONVERSE left valuable
contribution to the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art and $4,000, 900 to hospi-
tails and colleges, and in the will Of
MAX G. BRErTENBAcH distributing
S., ,O00,0 twenty-five Of the fifty-five
bequests were of either charitable
or educational nature.
This country was not the sole ben
eficiary of these bounties. The press
ing and immediate needs of other
lands were met, as we're the cultural
and educational demands of countries
still suffering from the effects Of the
world war. For the famine stricken
districts of Russia S20,000,000 was
appropriated by Congress to be ex-
pended for seed grain, corn, preserved
milk and other food supplies and for
the transportation OF these supplies
TO Russian ports. Earlier in the year
the nation generously responded to
the call for food and clothing from
the people Of the war devastated
regions of the Near East and from
the sufferers by the three great Chi
nese floods. It also sent s7,250,00O to
the relief of the famine stricken dis
tricts of China. There were besides
some notable private benefactions
to institutions in foreign lands;
CLEVELAND II. DODGE gave $50,000 to
Robert College, Constantinople; JOIN
WANAMAKEH erected building in
Moscow to aid the Young Mems Chris
tian Association in its Russian work,
and the Rockefeller Foundation ap-
propriated 27,OOO,OOO crowns for the
Institute Of Health at Prague and
$3,000,0O0 for the University OF
Brussels.
The year has also seen the COM
pletion Of the Pekin Union Medical
College and Hospital, which was
built and equipped by the Rockefeller
Foundation, and its dedication on
September 16. The beautiful memorial
quadrangle with the Harkness tower
at Yale, the gift to the university Of
Mrs. STEPHEN V. HARKEEss Of this
city. was opened early in the year.
The building to be used by the Wis
iting Nurse Service and erected by
Mrs. JACOB II. ScHIFF as a memorial
to her husband is nearing compile
ton. as is the Fifth Avenue Hospital.
formed by the union OF the Hahne-
mann Hospital and the Laura Frank.
lin Hospital. and built largely with
the help of funds collected in New
York city. The new home being built
for the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children, for which Mr..
and Mrs. AuGUsT HEcKscHER gave
$4,000, 900, is so we'll under way that
its occupation within a few months
seems now certain. The project for
a great center Of medical teaching
and research by the alliance Of Co
iumbia University and the Presby.
terian Hospital, which had been for
some time under consideration, be.
came an actuality in the last sum.
mer through gifts Of site, buildings
and endowments amounting to more
than s1t 100000.
Besides bequest by Mr. CoNvERsE
TO the Metropolitan Museum Of Art
this institution also benefited by an
art collection valued at 1000. .OOO
presented 10 IL by MroHAEL DRErcER.
The Brooklyn Institute OF Arts and
Sciences was enriched By a gift OF
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