The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10
The Dallas College.


The world moves. Events O
great Importance are transpirina
with wonderful rapidity. Large
plans of progress and development
are eliminating. Our educational
interests are aking form and dircc
ton. They who stand still or move
slowly in this age of lightning
trains and telegraphic dispatch, will
bo left behind in the race.
Recent events, in which we are
all deeply interested, render it ad-
visable to make this communication
to the citizens of Dallas.
The announcement made edito-
rally, few days ago, that fifty
thousand dollars have been secured
to the Dallas College is true, but II
considerable part of that amount
has been raised outside of Dallas,
as endowment. The fifty thousand
dollars to be contributed by the cit
izens of Dallas for building purposes
have not been secured. No serious
apprehensions, however, need be
entertained us TO final success.
Hundreds of our people have not
been called upon, and many of our
most liberal and prominent men,
who have promised us assistance,
and assured us that they will not
be behind the foremost in this en-
terprisc, have not yet made their
subscriptions. When these are SO.
cured and the city thoroughly can.
vassed, we hope to foot up good
deal more than fifty thousand dol
lars. Let IL be distinctly under
stood that every dollar contributed
in Dallas, no matter what the
amount, goes directly into the build
ing fund.
AT the present low rate of mate
rial and labor fifty thousand dol
lars will erect by far the most mag
nitf'cent college edifice in the State,
with ample room for the accommo
dation of one thousand students.
If this does not meet the ambition
of our people, and if they will con,
tribute tho means, we will erect
still more elegant superstructure,
at a cost of one hundred thousand
dollars, which shall excel in archi.
tectural beauty any college edIfice
in the Southern States. And if our
people generally will contribute to
this enterprise with their accus
toned liberality, this latter can be
easily accomplished.
In the meantime, we have sent
out Brothers Williams and Park,
both live men, to raise an endow
ment fund of one hundred thousand
dollars, while Brother Drane is CON-
pleting the building fund in Dallas.
The success of this enterprise is
no longer problematical. This is
what we have promised and labored
to secure. But now there is con-
trancendently more i'm
portant within our reach, and ev-
cry way worthy of energetic effort
10 secure.
The Baptist Educational Conven-
Lion, composed Of delegates from all
parts of the State, has just been held |
ut Bremond. ask special atten.
Lion to the following quotations
rom its minutes.
"lt shall provide Immediately to
raise the sum of s25O,0 to estab-
ish and endow one institution of
higher learning for the State, and
hat whenever said sum is raised,
and 500, 1000 collected and invested
1T interest, the donors shall be call
I'd together in such manner as TO
secure their voice, and
they shall locate the Institution in
such place as shall present to their
Judgment the largest pecuniary con-
connected with the best
general eligibility for an institution
Of b igher learning for the denomi- |
nations of the State" "All interest
collected from funds not designated |
shall be equally divided between
Baylor University, Waco Universe
~ and Dallas College, or such of
Ihese Institutions as may have a
school in active operation"
1t will be seen from these extracts
hat Dallas College has been placed
by the denomination on an equality /
with Baylor and Waco Universities. |
We receive one-third of the interest
from the endowment already raised,
and that shall be hereafter raised by
The Centennial Committee, till the
$3.50, ,00e secured, and the Universi-
Iy is finally located.
As the University for the whole
State is.to be located at the place
that shall offer the "largest pecuni-