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...hospital units were still separate entities. In 1938 a medical economist named Clarence Rufus Rorem, using the remnants of a Julius Rosenwald Fund grant, made a survey of the scattered hospitalization plans, sold them on forming a national organization. Rorem is now the $15,000-a-year national director...
...average U.S. student is "overeducated . . . one who thinks he knows all the answers." The critic was Chicago's Edwin R. Embree, president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Added Dr. Embree: the average U.S. undergraduate lacks curiosity, has little or no understanding of his own motivations, is intellectually unfit to have a vote in world affairs. The cause: too much natural science, "too much fealty to the rote of the textbook." Suggested improvement: more attention to the social and psychological sciences...
...After a performance ... in an abandoned loft . . . Miss Dunham was summoned to the board room of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, which offers scholarships and fellowships for the study of Negro life. . . . When she stood before the professors and other astute ladies and gentlemen of the board, a committeeman asked politely what study she would like the fund to finance for her. 'It's a bit difficult to describe exactly,' she said. 'Do you mind if I show...
These hard words were written, in a recent American Mercury article, by Zora Neale Hurston, B.A., Litt. D., Rosenwald and Guggenheim fellow, about some of the U.S. schools fostered by her own Negro race. The better U.S Negro colleges, long aware of the unsavory reputation of such institutions, combined their fund-raising efforts two years ago under the sponsorship of John D. Rockefeller Jr.* This week the United Negro College Fund, headed by Sperry Corp.'s President Thomas A. Morgan, opened its second annual drive, for $1,550,000. The Fund may not include every good Negro college...
Claiming that the "white man is offered his last chance at the peace table of the world," Edwin R. Embree, President of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, told last night's joint forum audience at Radcliffe's Agassiz Theatre that "he will not get it if he insists upon the present phantasma-goria of caste and complete superiority over all the colored races...