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...regents' resolution was occasioned by an offer of $600,000 from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research at Wisconsin. Without making their self-denial retroactive to previous gifts from the "lobbying" oil interests, the regents refused. Regent-Novelist Zona Gale filled a page in The Nation with their reasons, which boiled down to: the social danger of domination by wealthy donors and civic pride in the fact that Wisconsin stands fifth among state-supported universities in the size of annual appropriations, its income equaling revenue from an endowment of 20 millions...
...last session of the [state] legislature," he did not persuade his colleagues to make the resolution retroactive to the medical research money, $5,000 of which had been spent or allocated, nor to $218,000 in the past accepted from the Carnegie Fund for teachers' pensions. Zona Gale, authoress-trustee (in effect) : "A question of fundamental democracy is involved. The University should not accept such gifts no matter how far backwards...
...Regent Zona Gale was instructed to ask the Madison, Wis., telephone operator to connect her with Editor Frank in Manhattan without further delay. A deputation of the Regents was appointed to pack suitcases, entrain and wait on Editor Frank in person...
...Regent Zona Gale at the telephone...
...Zona Gale, The Biography of Blade. Editor Carl VanDoren. Century...