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Most spendthrift of U. S. foundations has been the General Education Board, which John Davison Rockefeller established in 1902 for "the promotion of education within the U. S. without distinction of race, sex or creed." By last December it had spent $255,334,670. Since 1920 its trustees, believing the future "will find means to provide for itself," have been giving away the principal as well as the income of this fund.* Last week President Raymond Elaine Fosdick reported that the General Education Board has only $8,700,000 still unpledged, will soon be liquidated...
...zoology has been due to slender, rich-voiced Dr. Edward Loranus Rice, 67, who has instructed and delighted O. W. U. students for 40 years. Last week the board of trustees announced that they had chosen Dr. Rice to take over the job of Japan-born President Edmund Davison Soper, 60. Dr. Soper, whose resignation after a ten-year incumbency was preceded by rumors of friction with alumni, will teach religious history next year at Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston...
...Georgian Plantation, the devastating abolitionist journal of Fanny Kemble, famous English actress who abandoned the stage on her U. S. tour to marry a wealthy Georgia plantation owner named Pierce Butler. No Southern writer has ever said a good word for Fanny Kemble. But last week, in Davison-Paxon's book department in Atlanta, Ga., Margaret Armstrong's Fanny Kemble, a sympathetic and excellent biography of this colorful Victorian, outsold all other titles. Elsewhere it crowded the leading non-fiction best-seller The Importance of Living, and with other serious books selling widely, contradicted the theory that summer...
Born. To John Davison Rockefeller Jr., three grandchildren; to Mr. & Mrs. John D. 3rd, their third, a daughter; to Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, their fourth and fifth, a twin son and daughter; all in Manhattan...
...MARY DAVISON BRADFORD...