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I have gone over this and subsequent mmoranda dealing

with various phases of programs to go into force during the current

year and in 1930.It has also been useful to compare these rnemoranda

with the European budet of the D.K.E. which you prepared last Flay

for O'B and myself.

Looking broadly at the problem of s:ptematizing our various

types of work exclusive of surveys and capital projects it seems to

m that a description cpld be rmde of these different types of work

which muld be clear and helpful to the Trustees,  and a different

description could be made which would be riore useful to us as ad-

ministrators in search of certain results. To put it in an other

way, you can describe in term of ends and objectives the work you

have in mind in mtdical sciences. This is substantially what I find

in the recornadations of the Executive Coinmittee presented at the

Trustees' meting of J'anuary 3rd as a program of activities looking

to the advancamnt of' knowledge. Sow, with the same ends and objectives

in mind I would like to present another statement of the sam  programs

but this tim

in terms of the mans and methods to be employed.

If a

parallel is of any use in explaining myself, om might say that the

program of a concert is definable in terms of numbers,  composers and

players, but that for those in charge of realizing the concert,  tb

program Is really more imdiately concerned with hiring the auditorium,

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moving the pianos, selling the tickets and providing the lighting,

accommodations, etc.

It occurred to IIB that it might be?usefhl thing to write down

in a vertical colm~~~ the programk we contemplate (exclusive of capital

aid)  and then in a horizontal column to mite som of the main adminis-

trative questions which we meet in carrying out these progrEsrams. This I

have done, as you will see, on the succeeding page, and I feel that such

a method of treating our programs will at least have the afivantago of

clarifying in my own mind the status of SORB of our undertakings.

Furthemore, I am rather inclined to believe that this table sugges+~S

mthods of classification which are both rapid and clear and whirth would

facilitate our work on the financial side. In other words, I Propose

for 1930 a classification of programs based on the way that these

programs are handled in preference to a classificatlon based upon tht'

somwhat more abstract term of the objectives to be accomplished.

Kiss Crowell is not here and this accounts for ~v not having

consulted her or incorporated.'any of' her programs in this mmorandum.

Comment on Table

At present one of the most difficult Points and one in which Dr.
Tisdale also finds much trouble.  ProbabJp the only way to make
this item automatic would be to reserve a sum of $200 pr fellow,
per par for equipmnt,  but this Procedure would be always open
to a certain degree of abuse.

There is som administrative work in comunicsting with publishers
and dealers and in listing jOUT%h subscribed to, etc.,  but this
is satisfactorily attended to by K. 3oillot without taking my of

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The fimm Of $3,000 is, Qf course, arbitrary,
for swveys, for special publications and for conferences might, of
Course , Occasionally exceed this sum,

Grants in aid, grants

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d) In the f'uture as in all but a few cases in the past. no grant

for any faculty, for literature, will exceed $3,000.

e) In most of tha developmntal aid centers experience has shown
  that the annual total for stipends is within [8,000 since not
  all th available. places are occupied.

f 8c. g) ?!ew York has a decision on the establislmnt or discontinuance
    of the general program, the Paris Cffice settling matters of
     de tail.

If the attached table suggests to you classifications of

practical utility it would be helpful to have nams for t?;e different

types of aid , names which would be at once brief and descriptive. I

would suggest that programs involving a single appropriationand not

recurrent annually should have the name of "Grants" and that programs

involving the possibility or certainty of recurrent annual appropriation

should be referred to as "finds". Thus, the first 3 items might me31

be called "Grants in Aid" and it ray be noted that this group has as

its objective item: V,VII-3 r) 4 111-1 of the yogram presented to the

Trustees on January 3rd. The next 5 items might be called "Travel

grants"; they serve items VII-1 and 2 particularly. Laioratory

equipent for travelling fellows; Laboratory eqyipmnt for recipients

of developmntal aid and literature programs I would group under the

term "Equipmnt ,Fund"; this is for objectives V and VI. It will be

noted that literature is rapidly becoming a minor elemnto The next

3 items could be grouped under a program that might be called "Fellowship

Fund" for ob2ective VI. 4id to leaders, assistance to promising men and

assistance to hold occasional individuals at important work (e.g.Cairns)

night be called "Fund in support of leaders", inasmuch as the implication

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of special merit in the case of the younger individuals is useful to

keep in mind although I would not wish to  confuse promising younger

mn with individuals of established teachin@; or investigative ability,

This would sub-serve points I1 and IV of the Exlscutive Cormnittee's

recmndations of January 3rd. The last 2 item, nmly: Fluid

Research and bid to London ?Snits, exclusive of U.C.H. I have grouped

together under the title of "Fluid Research Fund" though I expect

that fluid research mthod of appropriation would be in practice confined

to Bperica for at least the next two years and although it might be

possible to find satisfactory conditionsiin certain countries here .

This concerns particularly item 111-2,

If you ask IIB to calculate the amounts of money to budget

against the above six categories for 1930 I should be glad to re-examine

the following rough estimate:-

Grants in aid # 30,000

E qu i pms nt  fund                     30,000
Fellowship fund (including $15,000

Travel grants 10,000


                            100,000

Fluid research fund, not more than 10,000

to K.R.C. and $15,000 to Notgemin.)

Fund in support of leaders 30,000

So far as I understand the possible aid given to London

units exclusive of U.C.H.,these estimates involve a total of

$ 210,000

and I would like to point out that according to ecclosed table from 7 to

11 of all these programs are subject to decision in ;!ew York. Consequently

the difference between the present sum to be administered by the Faris

Office and that proposed is largely under your own control.

In closing I would say that I may have gone too far in suggesting

so complete a realigmnt of our programs but that I, in any accase,

am very sure that your cornrrents on the points which I have marked with

a red question-mrk will help a great deal in clarifying my mind

regarding certain phases of your plans.

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