Refund

Over the $25,000 gateway to Northwestern University's downtown Chicago Campus at Lake Shore Drive and Superior St. is a wrought iron sign. Last June workmen chiseled out of it the word "campus," substituted the word "gates." Then it read Alexander McKinlock Memorial Gates. Few people noticed the change, however, and not until last week did Northwesterners learn that their university's famed McKinlock Campus had been renamed the Chicago Campus.

Reason for this apparent slight to the name of the late, socially prominent George Alexander McKinlock, onetime utility executive and a generous Northwestern benefactor, was quickly explained.

George McKinlock pledged $250,000 to Northwestern in 1921 to buy nine acres on Lake Shore Drive for a campus for professional schools,* to be a memorial to his son, Lieut. George Alexander McKinlock Jr., who was killed by a German ma-chine gun near Soissons in 1918. Later he added to his gifts to Northwestern, donated some $500,000 all told. He also gave $500,000 for a freshman dormitory at Harvard, which his son had attended.

A few weeks before his death last December, 78-year-old Philanthropist Mc-Kinlock asked the Northwestern trustees to cancel his contract to finance the campus. His holdings had depreciated so greatly during the Depression that he could not meet his pledges. Last week Northwestern made public an agreement which showed, that far from being spiteful towards a former benefactor who had had misfortune, it had made an arrangement with him to change the name of its campus and refund to the McKinlock family in five annual installments $155,717 which he had already paid.

*Northwestern's main campus is in suburban Evanston. On its Chicago Campus are medical and dental schools (for which Mrs. Montgomery Ward gave $3,000,000), a law school, a business school.

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