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A I R P L A N E P I C T U R E O F M O S T O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y CAMPUS L O O K I N G S O U T H FROM T H E O L D GYM. T H I S AND T H E Gym Annex are in the front center with the new Testing Laboratory just south. Power house and various Engineering laboratories are shown in front at the left. Continuing south on the left we find Natural History, Chemistry, Chemistry Annex, Old Agriculture, Music Hall and New Ag. At the extreme left rear are the Women's Residence Halls and Woman's Gym. The round dome of the Auditorium looms up in the center with Old University Hall, Law, Administration, Woman's Building and Lincoln Hall on the right. The Library, Commerce and Administration at the rear center and the Armory and Stadium tie up this view with that shown in Bulletin No. 1.

Noteworthy Gifts to Other Institutions

H E Rackham Foundation, which gave to the University of Michigan $5,000,000 for t h e extension and development of its Graduate School, has increased this gift to $6,500,000 in order to make thoroughly adequate the development contemplated. Gifts t o t h e University of Chicago during the month of December amount to over a quarter of a million dollars, including a contribution of six thousand volumes to the university library. T h e largest anonymous benefaction is for $100,000 to be added to the endowment for teaching and research in chemistry. Included is a gift of $85,000 from the trustees of the estate of M a x P a m for the creation of a professorship in comparative law. Northwestern University a n d its friends are thrilled over a recent gift of $7,000,000 from the estate of Roger Deering, whose grandfather gave the magnificent Deering Library already on the campus. This gift will be used for endowment only, none of it being used for any of the new buildings on the campus. Harvard University is m a k i n g s o m e extensive plans for its 300th anniversary in September 1936. It is taking steps to organize what is called a tercentenary fund, two features of which will be university professorships provided for by independent foundations of $500,000 each; and the other, prise scholarships for which endowments are provided by bequests of $25,000 each. One university professorship has already been donated by Thomas Lamont of New York. It is our understanding that the university professorships will not necessarily be a rigid part of the various departments in which their work will be carried out but will operate more as free lances and the income from the $500,000 donation will take care of a separate unit including the professor's salary, assistants and various laboratory facilities, so as to allow the utmost freedom in virgin fields of research. T h e prize scholarships have in plan the idea of placing two scholarships in

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every state in the Union. These scholarships will, by their competitive feature, enable H a r v a r d University to gather a group of young men of exceptional ability and give them the benefit of the highest facilities as developed at H a r vard University. This plan has been already carried out in part, last fall's freshman class having eleven such scholars chosen from the states of the Middle West. Our University H i g h School is particularly fortunate in having James Tobin, son of L. M. Tobin of the Athletic Department as one of the two senior scholars chosen from the state of Illinois and Richard Noyes, son of P r o fessor W , A. Noyes as a junior scholar under the same system.

It is understood that the tercentenary fund will be used exclusively for developing this plan as stated, none of it being diverted to new buildings or equipment. H a r v a r d University has also received a recent gift of $2,000,000 from Lucius N. Littauer of New York City for the establishment of a Graduate School of Public Administration. Yale University w a s r e c e n t l y b e queathed $1,000,000 by the will of Charles H o w a r d W a r r e n , formerly treasurer of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, as a memorial to his son. The bequest is to aid young men of limited means in securing educational advantages.

Recent Gifts to the University of Illinois

Quite a number of gifts have been reported by the Board of Trustees during the first six months of the fiscal year. While there is insufficient space to list all, some of the more important of these are as follows:

Abbott Laboratories; for research in chemistry $ 300.00 Federal Cartridge Company; for promoting 4-H Clubs 500.00 Frigidaire; some air-conditioning apparatus for the Warm Air Heating Residence. .. 300.00 Oscar Mayer; 2 Paintings to be hung in the Student Center Union Building. Mrs. F. L. Stevens; 4,000 pamphlets from the Library of the late Professor Stevens for the Department of Botany. Student organizations to the Student Center for furniture, games, etc. 585.00 C. B, Young, '91, Estate; a bequest of the bulk of his estate for furthering education of women in the University available at the termination of a life interest to two cousins. Helen James Frazer, '11, Winnetka, daughter of former President James; to be used as an endowment for yearly lectures on Government. . . . 5,000.00 Rockefeller Foundation; to assist Professor Rose in research in amino acids 5,000.00 Judge Harker; addition of $1,000 for law scholarships making a total of $3,000 endowment for scholarships for law s t u d e n t s . . . 1,000.00 Prest-O-Lite Storage Batteries Co.; for research work in chemistry for 1935-36. Same was done last year. 2,000.00 Josiah Macey, Jr., Foundation; for Dr. Culler's work in the Department of Psychology 750.00 Textile Foundation; for research work in chemistry 600.00 Dr. David Kinley; four rare Chinese embroideries. Standard Brands; for work on skin, continuing research of 1931 and 1933 , 1,750.00 Phenolphthalein Research, Inc., New York; for one year to continue chemical researches sponsored by the same company ($3000 for the year 1934.35) 7,500.00 Public Works of Art Project; a collection of etchings and wood block prints owned by the Federal Government but permanently loaned to the University. Ella Sachs Platz Foundation; for College of Medicine r e s e a r c h . . . 400.00 Mead Johnson & Company; for research in the Department of Surgery. 200.00 Various instruments from the Sangamo Electric Company, General Electric and the Reynolds Electric Company, total value about. 285.00

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