...believed strongly in helping others. She established the Russell Sage Foundation, which was dedicated to the "improvement of social and living conditions in the United States," and founded Russell Sage College in upstate New York to train young women entering the field of social...

...ns from Mrs. Sage "for the purpose of maintaining a fund or funds, and applying the income thereof to the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States of America," has been an exponent of this larger philanthropy. With resources of some fifteen million...