RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 1O$
S0MMAR7 OF NEW FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
MADE BY THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION AND THE SOCIAL
SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL, 1924 TO I93S
Administering
Agency 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 19311932 1933 1934 193S
Rockefeller
Foundation 16 24 44 48 45 43 44 73 60 44 53 35
Social Science
Research
CouncU .. 15 12 17 17 25 28 25 30 15 13 13
Total 16 39 56 65 62 68 72 98 90 59 66 48
3. Grants in Aid
As in preceding years the Foundation continued
in 1935 to provide limited financial assistance
for the research of individual scholars and
for small institutional projects. The funds given
by the Foundation for this purpose in the United
States are in the hands of the Social Science Research
Council and are reserved exclusively for
individual grants. The Social Science Research
Council expended $22,125 for aid to individuals
in 1935, awarding forty-eight grants in amounts
ranging from $200 to $700. The officers in the
Paris office of the Foundation have followed a
somewhat different policy in making European
grants. There the primary purpose is to aid
former Foundation fellows in the completion of
work undertaken during the fellowship period.
A secondary aim is to provide for a modest institutional
research program within the fields of
recognized Foundation interest. In 1935 six
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