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Rosenwald Fund. In 1914, Julius Rosenwald, most notable of Chicago philanthropists, established a co-operative fund for helping southern Negroes to education. By report last week 3,400 school buildings have since been erected. Public school authorities have contributed $8,402,580 to the total cost of the scheme, white citizens $694,142, Negro citizens $3,110,410 and the Rosenwald Fund $2,621,814. Alfred K. Stern, executive director of the Fund, commenting on this report, stated in The Survey: "The most outstanding feature to my mind is the fact that the Negroes have contributed about as much...
...Carnegie Fund. The Carnegie Corporation, by report just out, made grants of $6,000,000 its last fiscal year. To Libraries, $4,500,000 was given; to Fine Arts, $600,000; to research, $375,000; for adult education, $300,000. Million dollar grants by educational foundations are reported to be rarer. There are still 50,000,000 U. S. and Canadian people without access to local public libraries...
Employers will give 2% of their payrolls, employes 1% of their wages to an unemployment fund...
...University of Toronto in 1910, and later journeyed to reside at Balliol College, Oxford, until he won an M. A. Well-to-do, he accepted a post on the faculty of the University of Toronto and led for a time a graceful existence. As administrator of the Massey Educational Fund left by his grandfather he enjoys the distinction of being culturally a power. Upon quitting the University some years ago he became President of the Massey-Harris Company, from which he resigned to become Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet of Premier King...
...School campaign for a $5,000,000 endowment fund opened on October 25, to be carried on as a nation-wide drive, making its appeal not only to Law School graduates, and lawyers alone, but to any who are anxious to see an improvement in the legislative and judicial branches of the government. "Vast funds have been given to research in the fields of medicine and science," read the appeal that opened the drive, "but in the extremely important field of jurisprudence there have been no large endowments for research that would result in as lasting good as medical...