...William H. Glasson Copyright © 1911 by Duke University Press 1911 The Rockefeller Commission s Campaign Against the Hookworm William H. Glasson, Professor of Economics in Trinity College The organized campaign on American soil for the eradication of hookworm disease began in the island...

... Copyright © 1911 by Duke University Press 1911 The Report of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission After my article on the Rockefeller Commission s campaign had been put in type for this number of the Quarterly, the Commission made public the report of its administrative secretary on its or­...

... of the emigrant from an old home. The bibliography of 226 items by almost as many authors suggests that the subject has not been entirely ignored. It may be that some day, as Mr. Holbrook hopes, some funded professor will tell the story that is needed. Harry R. Stevens. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. By Mary Ellen...

... who launched these enterprises were Andrew Carnegie and the senior John Davison Rockefeller. These foundations have contributed more to shape some aspects of the present American society than most of us realize. The authors of these two books undertake to explain in some degree how this has been done...

.... The beginnings of the museum can be traced to 1926 when John D. Rockefeller, Jr., authorized his agent W. A. R. Goodwin, a local Episcopal clergyman, to commission a study of Williamsburg s eighteenth-century buildings. During the following year, Goodwin, with his backer still un­ known, bought much...

... betterment work. The October, 1915, number of the Bulletin contains an address by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to the employees of the company, an address made by Mr. Rockefeller before a joint meeting of the offi­ cers and representatives of the employees, and a statement of the plan of representation...

... vention of tuberculosis on the model of public health programs that the Rockefeller Foun­ dation had launched elsewhere outside the United States well before 1910.2 It would play a key role in the development of the French The South Atlantic Quarterly 93:2, Spring 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University...

... entirely ignored. It may be that some day, as Mr. Holbrook hopes, some funded professor will tell the story that is needed. Harry R. Stevens. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. By Mary Ellen Chase. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. Pp. 159. $3.00. In this short biography Miss Chase has drawn an unforgettable...

..., and Rufus Fearing Dawes. While of much value for its discussion of public questions, it also has the character of a family memorial. The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission has issued its Fifth Annual Report for the year 1914. The five-year period for which the Commission was established came to an end on De­...

.... Presi­ dent Alderman, of the University of Virginia, is also expected to speak on the same day. Dr. George E. Vincent, President of the Rockefeller Foun­ dation, has recently published an interesting review of the work of the Foundation in the year 1917. During that year the Foundation expended...

... of Zola’s Therese Raquin and Frank Norris’s McTeague. The recipient of grants from the NEA, the Rockefeller Founda- tion, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Bell has also recieved an Obie Award for sustained achievement...

... tory of the Standard Oil Company. This immensely popular study, serialized in McClure s Magazine over a nineteen-month period (1902-1904), was reprinted in book form in 1904. It described, in colorful detail, the methods by which John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and his associates had established...

... to results. Mr. Rockefeller was at hand to give the million of dollars with which the General Board began its work, and the choice of Mr. Bald­ win as chairman was natural if not inevitable. If the plan was Mr. Rockefeller s own he deserves praise for his breadth of view and his readiness to recognize...

... foundations are established', and these are determined as a rule by the donor. Each involves the element of time. (a) There are unlimited trusts, such as the Rockefeller ones, of which both income and capital are subject at all times to the discretion of the trustees. (b) There are restricted trusts...

... losses. The Rockefeller Foundation, in its work for the eradication of hookworm and malaria, is showing that it is cheaper to prevent disease than it is to have it. Malaria, which greatly reduces the working capacity of the population, is being brought under control by the Rockefeller Foundation...

... of American language and literature, aided in my endeavors by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Institute, other American donors, and Swedish authorities. Among the publications of the Institute, under my guidance, were theses on such subjects as Noah Webster, Mark Twain, Cooper, and Indian languages...

...) and by universities such as Stanford and UCLA, experienced in overseas exchanges. However, the efforts of even such generally knowledgeable organizations are inhibited not only by a tissue of interrelated folkways and eco­ nomic conditions but by unavoidable circumstances of language as well. In 1957, the Rockefeller...

... provided for such dispensaries. There have been examined in the campaign against the hookworm dis­ ease up to the present time 216,616 persons, and 122,656 per­ sons have been treated. The work is conducted under the auspices of the North Carolina State Board of Health, assisted by the Rockefeller Sanitary...

... qualified to write on his present subject. This book is the out­ come of prolonged research, sponsored in the later years by the Guggen­ heim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Professor Morris s approach may be characterized as psychological rather than...

... himself with a good book on prairie settlement, The Sod-Rouse Frontier, and other studies of the westward movement. Having received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, he accepted a leave of absence to undertake the present work. The result is an illustration of the persistence of old values...