Rockefeller Board Grants $634000 For Education
The General Education Board funded $634000 for colleges and schools. Gifts are largely endowment oriented, often contingent on beneficiaries raising matching funds. Recipients include Converse College, Drury University, Franklin College, Franklin and Marshall, Huron University, Pennsylvania College Gettysburg, and others totaling $1.228 million in appropriations. Separate sums support education for Southern Black students, agricultural demonstration work, and Southern state university secondary education programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Converse
Spartansburg
Drury
Springfield
Franklin
Ind
Franklin and Marshall
Lancaster
Penn
Huron
Pennsylvania
Gettysburg
Souther
Iradford Knapp
South
Dreadnought Wyoming christened by Miss Knight in Philadelphia
Miss Dorothy Eunice Knight christened the battleship Wyoming at Cramp Shipyard Philadelphia in the presence of Governor J M Carey and Navy officials. The dreadnought, 550 feet long and 93 feet wide, displaces 26000 tons, with 12 12 inch guns and 21 5 inch guns. It will house 54 officers and 1030 enlisted men and is one of six first class battleships under construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Dorothy Eunice Knight
Jesse Knight
Wyoming
Cramp Ship and Engine Company
J. M. Carey
Meyer
Navy Department
Delaware River
Underwood & Underwood
N. Y
Governor Foss Attacks Sanitaria Administration
In a message to the Legislature yesterday afternoon Governor Foss sharply criticised the administration of sanitariums for consumptives at Rutland North Reading Lakeville and Westfield He said Rutland has habitually put many cured patients on the payroll and that it is impossible to believe 345 patients at the institution require 189 attendants to look after them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foss
Rutland
North Reading
Lakeville
Westfield
Harpham
State sanatoriums face calls for tighter business controls
Governor rejects many improvement appropriations and halves others. Report by Harpham and Coe examines four state sanitaria for consumptives at Rutland North Reading Lakeville and Westfield. It highlights high costs and bloated staff ratios, urges a unified, efficient management and potential savings through businesslike reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L. Harpham
H. J. Coe
Rutland
North Reading
Lakeville
Westfield
Jutland
SAY FOSS IS WRONG
Replies to Governor Foss general criticism of the State sanitaria arrive at the Post. Dr. Bartlett notes the Rutland Sanitarium employs 26 to 30 staff with large facilities, arguing the number of attendants is far smaller than 189 and costs about 10.24 dollars per patient weekly. Dr. Cabot says he will review the governor’s full message before commenting. Jeremiah Smith Jr. defends Rutland as economically run, citing roughly 10 dollars per patient weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foss
Bartlett
Rutland Sanitarium
State Board of Charity
Rutland
North Reading
Arthur T. Cabot
State Commission On Hospitals For Consumptives
Jeremiah Smith, Jr
The
East Boston Marginal Railroad Bill Advances Out of Committee
The East Boston Marginal Railroad bill emerged from the committee on railroads with a unanimous report. It calls for a capital stock of 200000 dollars, of which 120000 dollars shall be issued, and plans an electrically operated line connecting the water front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Boston
Committee On Railroads
No Restraint Bill Passed by Senate
Dr Vernon L Briggs wins Senate approval for a measure to bar restraints in insane hospitals statewide with no dissent. The bill, likely to pass the House and be signed by Governor Foga, allows restraints only in extraordinary emergencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Vernon L. Briggs
House
Foga
Also Mentioned on This Page
John D
New York
General Educational Board
John D. Rockefeller
Hanover
Portland
West Retail L.tracy
B.V. D. Underwear
Ilor
Nien
Oxfords
Hamburg
Atest Dreadnought
Miss Knight
New Grass
Vermont
I. Oke
D & Ae
York State
Cae
Ete Satan Ata
U.S. Gov
Aquinas
Booth
Everett Spring
Jamaica
Via
California
Gordon
Sean Portmoore Farreses
Milwaukee
Bot. Bot
Rth
the Ginter Co Cor
Union Sts
Washington St
Bet
Temple Place
Canal St
Sch Inc
Tremont St
Carpenter
Carpenter-Morton
Arenas
Tom England
ASAN
Boston
MASS
Criti
Wewenglands
Children’s Oxfords
Galace
New England
Nashable Natural
Children’s Union
Ferris Good Sense Waists
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!