RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
grant was made to the University of Paris to aid
in its establishment as a European center of
realistic research in the' social sciences. This
grant had been under consideration even before
the Foundation began its program in the social
sciences. Negotiations begun in 1926 with representatives
of the former Laura Spelman Rockefeller
Memorial, and continued after 1929 with
officers of the Foundation, finally resulted in
1934 in a formal request from the University of
Paris for an appropriation to further research
in the social sciences, for which a base had been
carefully laid. In view of the protracted negotiations,
the relatively retarded development of
realistic research in the social sciences in France,
and the importance of the projected program,
the trustees of the Foundation acted favorably
on this request and made $25,000 annually available
over a period of five years.
The program receiving support at the University
of Paris is an interesting one. An advisory
council has been created including the
deans of the faculties of laws and letters, the directors
of several university institutes, and the
representatives of such institutions as the College
of France, the Institute of Economic and
Social Research, and the Center for the Study of
Foreign Relations. The program of projects now
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