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CAMBRIDGE.—The retiring Vice - Chancellor, the Rev. G. A. Weekes, announced on Oct. 1, that the University has received an offer from the International Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation of a gift of £700,000, of which £250,000 would be for the proposed new library and the remainder “for certain new developments in the physical and biological studies of the University.” The gift is conditional on the University raising the money required to complete the whole scheme. As regards the University Library, it will be remembered that provisional plans for a new building costing £500,000 for construction and maintenance have been under consideration, and the Finance Board decided that £250,000 could be raised to enable a portion of the work to be started. The Rockefeller gift of £250,000 would make it possible to proceed with the whole building at once. The remaining £450,000 is offered towards necessary developments of physical and biological studies, the complete scheme of which will cost £679,000; the University has thus to raise a further sum of £229,000 in order to be able to accept the Rockefeller gift.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 122, 556 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122556a0
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