Moors' Funds To Aid 'Cliffe Grad Center

Radcliffe's planned $2,000,000 Graduate Center appeared sure of becoming a reality yesterday when President Wilbur K. Jordan announced that the estate of John F. Moors had left the women's college over a million dollars.

Moors' is the first large gift to be announced by the Annex since the campaign to raise money for the graduate Quadrangle began last Nov. 20.

Of the $1,093,835 bequest, $843,385 was given for unrestricted endowment and $250,000 to form the Ethel Paine Moors endowment fund. The majority of the gift seems sure of going toward the much desired center.

At the time he announced the opening of the campaign drive last fall, Jordan had stated, "Only one element is lacking to give the Radcliffe graduate school the full stature of greatness. It requires a physical center: there is no focus which is so necessary for the growth of cultivated human beings."

Plans call for beginning construction on the buildings, to be located back of the Radcliffe Health Center on Brattle and Ash Sts., sometime next March. The College hopes to have them in operation by 1956. The new Quadrangle is planned to house approximately 150 students with additional meeting and dining facilities for 300.

The gift came from Radcliffe's greatest single benefactor. Moors' previous gifts to the College had included $5,000,000 for unrestricted endowment, $700,707 for Moors Hall, and $5,000 for Holmes Hall. Moors headed the Harvard Corporation from 1917 to 1929 and served on Radcliffe's governing board for 50 years.

The highly organized national fund drive has been under the direction of Harry B. Taplin, assistant to the President. He and Jordan have traveled extensively to raise money for the structure. The $2,000,000 goal includes a sum