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These gifts do not approach the dimensions of the Mellon Foundation's $15 million gift to Yale University last spring, but Harvard's President Nathan M. Pusey and new Program chairman H. Irving Pratt of New York are now pushing for the large gifts, hoping that the end of the recession will spur these...
...told me just how to proceed,'' says Mellon. "He advised me what subjects to take in medical school. He said not to study tropical medicine, that if I came there he could teach me more tropical medicine in a week than I could learn in school in three months." The Mellons moved to New Orleans. Larry completed his premed work in two summers and a regular term at Tulane University, and ground his way through Tulane's Medical School in four years. "I didn't know whether I was going to be able to make...
Originally Mellon had planned to set up his hospital near Africa's Congo River, then he switched to Haiti because its population is denser and its medical needs acute. Ninety miles from Port-au-Prince, in the Artibonite Valley, Mellon found a site and began to build...
Quiet, white-haired Dr. Mellon and his wife, both Disciples of Christ, still exchange letters every month with 81-year-old Dr. Schweitzer in his jungle headquarters at Lambarene. As the hospital was about to open its doors, Schweitzer wrote: "The beginnings are always difficult. But you are courageous...
...year than in all the years from 1776 to 1933. Research expenditures by the Government, inconceivable in 1900, now total more than the entire cost of Government in that year. There were only two nonprofit scientific organizations in 1936: Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio and Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute for Industrial Research, with an annual volume of $1,100,000; now such institutions total 48, take in $100 million yearly. Moreover, the total U.S. research effort is growing at the rate of 10% to 12% a year v. an average annual increase of 3% in the gross national...