Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1919 — VANDERBILT GETS $4,000,000 [ARTICLE]

VANDERBILT GETS $4,000,000

Nashville (Tenn.) University Is Given Large Sum of Money. New York, Nov. 28.—Vanderbilt university at Nashville, Tenn., has been given $4,000,000 by the general education board to effect an entire reorganization of its medical school, it was announced here. The gift, the largest yet made by the board, comes from its general funds, the announcement says, and not out of John D. Rockefeller’s recent donation of $20,000,000 for the promotion of medical education. Detailed plans have npt yet been developed, but they will involve completion of the present Galloway Memorial hospital, with enlarged facilities for public patients, erection of an additional hospital unit, organization of a modern laboratory building, and the appointment of an Increased number of professors.