Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-11-05
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f e m ale College.

TINS institution is now permanently located on
Union Hill
The college corporation has purchased the edi
fee hitherto known as the Worcester Medical
College, and besides the grounds owned bv tbe
Medical College, some six more acres of land con-
tiguous have been purchased
The negotiations just completed have necessa-
rlly been somewhat protracted, on account of the
number of persons interested and the nature ~
the negotiation ITSELF
Citizens residing on Union Hill and vicinity
have given the Female College twenty-five thou
sand dollars, as special bonus for its being 10
Gated where it is. And this they have done in
aooltlon to two thousand dollars subscribed by
them on the general subscription list making in
all, twenty-lour thousand dollars contributed bv
those interested in the Union Hill location This
is little more than half of all now contribute
by the city of Worcester, forty-four thousand be.
ing the total amount. Among those who have
made the largest donations on Union Hill NAV
be mentioned the following
John F. Pond $4,000; VIM H. Harris. gl-
500 Larkin Smith Sll00; A. Friend gl500.
Edward Earle some $500; Benjamin Wadsworth
$500; Darius Rice $4,000
The locating committee, so far as l am inform
ed, entertain very high opinions of the business
integrity and business of those with whom the
negotiations have been carried on. The o nerous
offers, in connection with a location, made by
persons residing in different parts of the CITY
indicate enterprise and public spirit in more than
deserve very honorable mention in this respect:
Samuel Davis, Rejoice Newton, ESQ John Ham.
mond, Q. B. Hadwen John Barnard Josiah Brit
tan,andWm r. Hooper, Esq. The offers from
these gentlemen were worthy of the men, and of
their munifcent city. And the CORPORATION TO
an individual, regard the contributions by the
city Of Worcester, taken separately or as whole
as indicative Of marked generosity.
As the Financial Secretary of the Board, / must
acknowledge my high admiration of this marked
hon nj Enld ass.
God bless this city, and make her as she seems
destined early TO become, in every sense the Jew
el city of this Mother State of the Republic
At a meeting Of the corporation, held the six.
teenth and seventeenth Of October, plan Of
buildings was nearly determined upon and will
probably be as follows The present edihce is
to be heightened one hundred feet. Two other
buildings, exactly like the ones exhibited by
myself while obtaining subscriptions, are to be
placed, one fifty feet south and the other fifty feet
north OF the present building, when heightened,
on Providence Street.
This will give front Of nearly six hundred
ieet and provide rooms for four hundred students.
August, 1856.
1t voted also to put the expense of board. tu.
ton, and use OF furnished rooms, at seyenty.6ye
dollars per year, or the same as the expenso AZ
Mount Holyoke Female Institution
We are making vigorous efforts to raise nj least
two hundred thousand dollars in New England az
tue odslb OF TINS NolleRe between seventy and
eighty thousand have already been secured.
Francis Wayland, Jr., Esq, Of this city, Is the
Treasurer Of the Corporation, to whom subscrib-
ers can pay their installments and save the ex.
pense Of collecting by personal application
We are very much needing what il due on the
subscription list in order to 20 on vigorously with
our work.
l cannot close this article before expressing 10
the citizens Of Worcester my sincere thanks ior
their timely and truly generous encouragement
to our great difficult undertaking. May The re-
suits, when reached, be satisfactory reward.
A. CUMMINGS, Financial 5se'y.
Worcester, Nov. 9th.