ABSTRACT
The world has proved over and over again that men do not live by bread alone. An appropriation was also made to the American Council of Learned Societies, a federation of organizations devoted to humanistic studies, and a pattern of support was developed which was to be faithfully followed by the Foundation in later years. The International Education Board, of which Flexner was the director of educational studies, soon joined its sister organization in entering the humanistic field. When the Rockefeller Foundation, in the reorganization of 1928, took over the humanistic studies from the General Education Board and the International Education Board, it created a division of the Humanities of which Professor Edward Capps was the first director. The aristocratic tradition of humanistic scholarship undoubtedly had its values. The manipulation of the substances of literary and linguistic history vitalized graduate studies and brought new interests to the fore; it stimulated pioneer work in many directions.
