The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-22
Angell Answers
 Tax Threat At Yale
Points Out That College Contributes Annually to New
 Haven, Millions of Dollars
fine millions annually.

nine millions annually.
 "Yale University makes an in, valuable contribution to New Ha1 lie health services. In the New Haven hospital, which last year cared for over 10000 patients, and in the Dispensary clinics, which gave over 63,0OO treatments, the University pays the salaries of the chiefs of service and the full time staff who are professors and teachers in the Yale Medical School. Last year the University made a direct cash contribution to the hospital of $90,00O, the larger part of which was given by the Foundations interested in the Yale School of Medicine. From 1927 to 1880 there was given to the Uni- versity $4,25O,000 for the erection of buildings upon the hospital grounds, which together with other gifts from generous benetactors, have made the New Haven Hos- pital plant one of the most perfect anywhere to be found. All this is without cost to the city, having been chiefly supplied by non-resi- dents, and is used for the benefit of the citizens.
 q must omit detailed mention of the services rendered by the Department of Public Health, the clinics conducted by the Depart. ment of Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene, the Clinic of Child De- velopment and the cooperation Of the University with the City De- partment of Health. the Visiting Nurse Association, the Community Center, and the Crippled Children's Aid Society. Suffice 1t to say that all these activities are extremely important.
 1t is almost impossible to list all the contributions of a more general character which the Uni versity makes to New Haven. l mention only a few at random.
 Ut offers free to the pubic hundreds of lectures by distin- guished men and women from all over the world. Its great collec- tion of books is open to ctitizens. Its superb Gallery of the Fine Arts is likewise open to them. The Peabody Museum is constantly open and in 1880, as a typical year, some 95.000 people visited It.. The
 JDlNeTSlIY COuuuCIo III ee oPSSAS~sSS provided building children's mu- scum carried on in cooperation with the city schools. Deficits of the New Haven symphony Orches- tra are met by the University and innumerable concerts and recitals by artists of the first rank are made available to citizens.
 "All these procedures involve drafts on University funds, many of them heavy, and yet there are those who feel that on top of its large tax payments and the mill lions it adds to New Haven income. unless cash gifts for the adminis- tration of the city government.
 "It has been easy to show that the University contributes annu- ally to New Haven millions of dol lars in addition to large payments in taxes; but, after all. the essen- tial gift of the University to the city is to be found in the constant presence of a great historic spirit ual force whose cultural benefits can hardly be exaggerated and cer- tainly cannot be measured by any merely monetary standard. To set about imposing taxes on such an institution is not only 10 threaten 1t with speedy financial ruin, for it could not face such inn posts and least of all in times such as these, when its income has been gravely curtailed, it is also to as- sure beyond all peradventure the drying up of benefactions from private individuals the world around, who cannot be expected to entertain any enthusiasm for in of this city. The University would ing to pay the administrative costs vesting their own resources in help quickly find itself unable to com. pete with the great institutions of the world in bringing here emil nent scholars and affording them the means with which to prosecute tehir studies. Yale would ulti- mately sink to the level of a third rate purely local college and that is a result which no intelligent citizen of New Haven will for moment contemplate. much less will the citizens of Connecticut en- dure it."
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