RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE HUMANITIES 263
upon the world today. Applied studies of language
have their value for progress toward that
distant goal, and when concerned with the realities
of daily use can open the way to a more rapid
transmission of knowledge internationally. Even
a rudimentary knowledge of oral and written
English, for example, enables the citizen of any
country to gain new resources of knowledge and
culture. These general considerations are strikingly
illustrated in efforts toward mutual understanding
with the Far East, where language differences
are primary obstacles.
With the increasing interest in programs of
specific concentration, there has been a further
diminution in grants for the general support of
humanistic studies. This appears in the record of
grants to the American Council of Learned
Societies and to the American universities that.
have had funds for that purpose over a period of
years. A few other appropriations were made
during 1935 to maintain and to bring to completion
projects that had support under former
programs. ,
American Program
Museums
Brooklyn Museum. Training of Museum Personnel
The sum of $44,000 has been appropriated to
the Brooklyn Museum for the training of personnel
in the use of new techniques in the visual
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