FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 April 1926, Page 9

FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS.

A HANDSOME GIFT

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20,

A gift of 500,000 dollars to the University of Pennsylvania bv Mr and Mrs Henry Phipps, of New York, to he devoted to the welfare of the Phipps Institute, was announoeed at the Alumni Day exercises of the University to-day. The Phipps institute was founded by Mr Phipps for the treatment of tuberculosis under the direction of the University of Pennsylvania. The gift was made on condition that the University raise an equal amount for the institution. A gift of 100,000 dollars by the children of Dr. C. C. Harrison, former Pro'vost of the University, to further the interests of the University Museum was also announced. Mr Henry Phipps, former partner of Mr Andrew Carnegie, has made many donations. It was announced last summer that the Phipps Estate, founded by Mr Phipps, would build a 2,500,000 dollar girls’ hostel at the north-west eorneri of First Avenue and Fifty-sixth Street, the rates at which wou d, be ten to fourteen dollars a "week for a loom and seven dinners. In 1905 Air Phipps gave 11000,000 dollars to the Phipps Estate to build modern tenements and later added to this fund. In 1908 he gave 1,300,000 to the University of Pennsylvania to build the Phipps Institute for the study and prevention of tuberculosis. In the same year he gave 500,000 dollars to Johns Hopkins University for the study of insanity. Later girts to the Phipps Institute aggregated 2.000,000 dollars. Mr and Mrs Phipps in 1924 gave 1.000,000 dollars more to Johns Hopkins University for the psychiatric clinic on condition that the University raise another million. In 1902 Mr Phipps sent 100,000 dollars for the relief of destitute Boers, making the gift, it was learned later, under the pseudonym of “Andrew White.” Many oif his benefactions, it is known, have never been made public.