A gift of $50,000 to the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research from the Mallinkrodt Chemical Works of St. Louis was announced yesterday by Provost Buck.

Under conditions of this grant, funds will be available for use without restrictions in the field of chemistry, with the University having free choice as to its allocation.

In accepting the gift, Provost Buck indicated a belief that "Management now realizes it can best serve the cause of private education as a free enterprise, if it provides free funds without attaching limiting restrictions."

Paul C. Smith, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, has been named as chairman of a committee of newspapermen to raise funds for a Nieman Follows Room in the new Graduate Center, Donald H. McLoughlin, chairman of the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research, announced last Friday.

The announcement was made at a meeting of alumni at the University Club in New York, marketing the first anniversary of the establishment of the Foundation. Also at the meeting, state chairmen reported on the Foundation's $1,000,000 drive to help finance the Graduate Center.