(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
The “Robert and Agnes Cohen House” will be added to the group of college buildings of Rice Institute through the gift of $125,000 by George S. Cohen of this city.
On the occasion of his mother’s seventieth birthday, Mr. Cohen announced his gift of $100,000 for the erection of the building and $25,000 for its maintenance. The house is to be for the use and accommodation of the faculty of Rice Institute.
Plans are now being completed by William Ward Watkins of the Institute, and the board of trustees of the Institute has announced that the building probably would be ready for occupancy by the end of the current year. This building will be the first on the campus financed by a gift to the Institute’s board of trustees.
JEWISH COMMUNAL ACTIVITIES
The Tenth Annual General Meeting of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Montreal and of its fourteen constituent societies and welfare agencies will be held on April 10. Al Lesser, President of the Federation, will preside.
Annual Reports of the affiliated groups will be presented and Boards of Directors and Trustees-at-Large, both of societies and of the Federation will be elected.
The expansion of the Federation’s work is shown in the annual printed Report for 1926. The expenditure figures therein for the years 1917 and 1926 indicate a gradual rise from $121,235,00 in 1917 to $211,230,00 in 1926. The respective figures for administration for the foregoing periods are $10,855,00 and $16,288,00, indicating the greatly increased amount of social welfare work of the Federation.
BREVITIES
A bill to prohibit the establishing of a tuberculosis sanatorium within two miles of any village without the permission of the village and town officials was vetoed by Governor Alfred E. Smith. The bill, it was stated, was aimed particularly to prevent the Jewish Consumptive Relief Association from starting a hospital on the Rollin White farm near Goshen, N.Y.
The Relief Association has appealed from the decision of the Department of Health Commission which heard its petition for permission to establish such an institution.
Health Commissioner Nicoll approved the plan, but his vote was offset by the town health officer.
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