Harkness to Harvard

Inevitably does the name HARKNESS evoke Yale University. Yale's Memorial Quadrangle was given by Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness. There is a William L. Harkness Hall. And sadly do Harvard men recall that day in December, 1924, when a University Theatre was given to Yale by Edward Stephen Harkness, Yale '97. For, immediately, Professor George Pierce Baker of the famed Harvard 47 (theatre) Workshop was invited to the Yale faculty of Fine Arts to teach dramatics with the Harkness theatre as laboratory. Immediately, Prof. Baker accepted.

Last week came news that Edward S. Harkness had more than made amends to Harvard. With an initial gift of $3,000,000, first given anonymously (TIME, Nov. 19), and with promise of $10,000,000 more he has made possible at Cambridge, Mass., the Oxford & Cambridge (England) idea.

Long have certain Harvard trustees, professors, athletic coaches preached the advisability of having several small autonomous colleges united into one large university.

Although the Harkness name has been graven most deeply and often at Yale, it is spread generously among institutions throughout the land. Recently the Albany, N. Y., Medical College received $250,000 from Edward Stephen Harkness. Not long ago he gave $1,000,000 to the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University).

Among other institutions to which Mr. Harkness has given $100,000 or more are Mount Holyoke College, Stevens Institute, the Union Theological Seminary, Wellesley College, Colgate University, St. Andrew's University, Scotland.