RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE HUMANITIES 301
B. Chapin during a three-year period; $1,500 to
the University of Chicago for the materials and
expenses of Mr. H. G. Creel in teaching Far
Eastern history; $1,000 to Princeton University
for the materials and expenses of Mr. Robert
K. Reischauer in the teaching of Far Eastern
modern history and political science; $500 to the
Art Institute of Chicago for international collaboration
in completing a definitive study of
prints relating to the Japanese theater; and $500
to the University of Colorado for the materials
and expenses of Mr, Earl J. Swisher in developing
a college program in Far Eastern studies.
Outside of regular appropriations for grants in
aid, the Foundation made available during 1935
further emergency research funds for deposed
European scholars; of these funds $25,390 was
used for aid to scholars in the humanities. At
institutions in Europe and the United States
in 1935 there were working in the humanities 26
deposed scholars who were partly supported by
funds granted by The Rockefeller Foundation.
Former Program *
Yale University
Excavations at Dura-Europos
A grant of $30,000 has been made to Yale
University toward the support of its excavations
at Dura-Europos in Syria during a two-year
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