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...total benefactions distributed to outside institutions up to June 30 of this year amounted to $39,715,720. By direct appropriation the board has devoted $15,894,355 to universities, colleges, schools, educational conferences, rural organization work, and farm demonstration work. Out of funds held by the board "to be applied for such specific objects within the corporate purpose of the board," as might be directed by John D. Rockefeller or his son, gifts of $13,554,343 to the University of Chicago and $10,267,022 to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research were made...
...work of Professor Carver in the important work of rural improvement is another example of the place which is being conceded to university-trained men in the public service. Although the fact has been widely recognized recently, it is notable that very few Harvard men appreciate the place which members of the Faculty hold in the estimation of experts all over the country. A large number of professors here have in the past held municipal, state, or federal positions and have achieved works which receive more recognition outside than within the University. With this in view the CRIMSON proposes...
Engineering H9P, 2hf., on Rural Sanitation, will be given on Wednesdays and Fridays at 12 o'clock by Dr. John W. M. Bunker. It is open to students in the School for Health Officers, and to other properly qualified graduate students in Harvard University. This course deals with the principles and practices of sanitation and hygiene as applied to farms, summer resorts, camps...
...Carver will take up will be a continuation of the study begun last year of the marketing and distributing of farm products. The Department of Agriculture has striven to advance methods of production and to facilitate the marketing of the products raised; the present movement is to take up rural organization and co-operation to secure the best results for a community. Secretary Houston believes that in the interest of economy and of the advancement of agriculture the time has come to give particular attention to this rural organization...
Professor T. N. Carver's appointment as director of the "Rural Organization Service," a new division of the Department of Agriculture, is an advance in his career as an economist. He has studied carefully and made extensive investigations into rural conditions, both here and abroad, with especial view to the scientific betterment of agricultural methods; and no one is better fitted to take up the difficult task of organizing our rural communities along the lines of greatest economic efficiency. Professor Carver will now have ample opportunity to apply and test the theories which he has formulated as a result...