RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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These fall within the special fields of concentration
of the present program in the humanities.
Among them are:$4,500 to Columbia University
for reorganization of the work in drama; $3,500
to Professor Howard Mumford Jones of the-University
of Michigan, to assist him in his work on
the history of American cultural development
from 1700 to 1770; $1,500 to the University of
Texas to enable Miss Fannie Ratchford to complete
a study of community life in the period of
Texas colonization; $3,060 to the League of
Nations Library, Geneva, for an assistantlibrarian
to develop the medical and social sections
of the library and for research in the field
of public health; $2,500 to Professor William M.
Randall of the Graduate Library School of the
University of Chicago for a survey of source
materials in research libraries of the Near East;
$2,400 to enable the Vatican Library to produce
a Spanish translation of the Vatican cataloguing
rules for the national libraries of South America;
$1,000 to Dr. F. J. P. Schauwers of the Royal
Library of Belgium, to aid him in studying methods
of book classification in American libraries;
$3,000 to Harvard University to enable Mr.
Francis C. Jones to prepare a book on China for
the Modern States series; $2,400 to assist Mills
College, California, in developing Far Eastern
studies by obtaining the services of Miss Helen
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