RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

296 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
scholar appointed for this duty at the Fogg
Museum is Mr. Taizo Nonaka, a graduate in
fine arts and Oriental history from the Imperial
University.
General Program
Though continuing to give limited aid to the
appropriate bodies for promoting humanistic
studies, the Foundation isterminating its general
support of university research in the humanities.
In past years the Foundation has made term
grants to seven American universities in support
of their general research programs of this nature.
The universities which have received such assistance
are Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Johns
Hopkins, Michigan, Princeton, and Yale. A
five-year grant of the General Education Board
made to the University of Virginia, terminating
in June 1935, was for the same purpose as the
aid of the Foundation to the institutions named
above.
During the year grants to these eight universities
for advanced work in the humanities
came under review. An analysis was made of the
humanistic studies now going on at these institutions
under general grants from The Rockefeller
Foundation and, in one case, from the
General Education Board. These grants had
already been reduced as to annual amounts and
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