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With the onset of World War I, Hale organized the National Research Council to coordinate and support scientific work on military problems.

While he supported the idea of federal appropriations for science, he took exception to a federal bill that would have funded engineering research at land-grant colleges, and instead sought to raise a $ 1 million national research fund entirely from private sources.

To that end, as Hale wrote in the New York Times: