Earth to Air

"My family," said Daniel Guggen-- heim, famed copper man, in sending a $500,000 check, last week, to New York University for the foundation of a College of Aeronautics,* "has long been identified with exploration beneath the earth. We have tried to assist in developments which would make mining more safe as well as more profitable and therefore of the greatest economic value. I have learned through my son, Harry F. Guggenheim, who was one of the first civilians to enter aviation and was a naval aviator overseas during the World War, of the plans of New York University to establish a School of Aeronautics in its College of Engineering.

Thus does Daniel Guggenheim turn from the bowels of the earth to the heights of the heavens to do for the air what his family has done for the ground.

Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown accepted his munificence " in the spirit in which it was offered."

* There had previously been at New York University a full four-year course in aeronautics--the only one in the U. S.