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The $90 million grant to medical schools will be in the form of endowments, to help strengthen the instruction of medical students. "Unless the increasing financial needs of medical education are met," says the foundation's announcement, "the present high standards of medical training in the U.S. will undoubtedly be lowered.
Funds urgently needed to improve the teaching in medical schools are generally unavailable or inadequate."
* Commenting on the much-debated activities of the Fund for the Republic, an autonomous child of the Ford Foundation (TIME, Nov. 28), Ford wrote in a letter last week: "Some of its [the Fund's] actions, I feel, have been dubious in character and inevitably have led to charges of poor judgment. What effect my comments may have remains to be seen. I am satisfied, however, that no public trust can expect to fulfill its responsibilities if it does not respond to intelligent and constructive public criticism."