The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-03-07
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MT. UNION COLLEGE.
Correction Facts Decisive OF the Crisis Of this
BeneflclaI InatltntlOn.

citizens Of Mt. Union, Alliance and
vicinity, benefited by the location Of Mt.
Union College, not having duly compile
ted their subscriptions (now so success
fully under way for the additional build
ings with improved grounds, thereby Sc
curing the liquidation Of all Indebtedness
Of this Public Institution, certain dam
aging reports have been started, and
have been made very injurious to this
College. AS items of general interest af>
iecting the public at large, this matter, ,es-
pecially fearful exaggeyatiOH OF the in
debtedness, has been communicated in
varied forms by correspondents to papers.
until it has by copying been widely pub.
lished throughout the entire country.
Therefore, in behalf of the trustees,
patrons, faculty, and students, earnest
ly ask you to allow me space in your
friendly and impartial paper to state the
facts and acts, from which the public can
draw correct conclusions.
While it is fact that his College is in
need Of the designated additional builds
ings and grounds, it is equally true that
the citizens locally benefited should, in
accordance with equity and universal col
lege economy, generously provide all
needed local Improvements, and that
persons at distance should not be asked
to donate funds for this purpose:
THE ONLY INDEBTEDNESS,
tits also fact that ,at the close Of our
country's war, when the attendance of
students had greatly decreased and the
private boardingshouses previously used
had chiefly been turned to other purpo-
ses, no persons could then be induced to
invest capital in the erection or furnish
ing of such buildings. Consequently, the
Trustees had no course left them but
either to allow the College to go down
without their even having an offer then
of suitable grounds and buildings at an
other place where the College would be
built up and its patrons and patronizing
territory preserved and its students pro-
tected, or to incur its existing indebted
ness by the purchase of the ten acres Of
additional grounds and the erection and
furnishing of the commodious Boarding
Hail. This latter course was deemed
necessary in order to secure students III
numbers sufficiently large (under the
special advantages of an abundance of
good and cheap rooms and board) to
pay, by means of cheap tuition, the curN
rent internal expenses of the College, i'm
Guiding the salaries of the professors. Our
citizens, not yet recovered from their de-
preston occasioned by the war, could
not then furnish even part ofthe means.
This liability. caused by securing these
grounds and the Boarding Hall, is the
0NLy debt which the Trustees have ever
placed on the College, or intend to place
on it. The Trustees have the provisions
made, and will promptly liquidate this
entire indebtedness Of the College, when
the citizens of Mt. Union; Alliance and
vicinity, enjoying its local advantages,
provide the requisite funds for the pres
ent needed local Improvements. But it
was not until considerable time after the
erection of this College Boarding Hall,
thai" the citizens of Mt. Union have built
private boarding houses and dwellings
that can now pleasantly accommodate
with good and cheap rooms and board
over thousand students"
tits likewise fact, frequently and pub
licly stated, that unless the subscriptions
had begun before the end of last term,
with a reasonable prospect of going on
regularly and harmoniously to speedy
and successful completion, so as without
stopping to secure generously, in accor-
dance with the plan of the Trustees, am.
pie funds for the needed additional buildS
ings and improved grounds and consee
quent prompt liquidation Of all indebtede
ness, the College could not and should
not, in its present locality, 60 on to ac.
complish the definite Objects of its dis
tinctive Plan ofdoing the greatest educas
.tional good to the greatest number ofour
country's youth.
AS TO THE o-oPERATIoN-NEW SUBJ
RIPTIoNS-INTERNAL WORKINGS.
Never before have the citizens Of Mt
Union, Alliance and vicinity worked to-
gether, as NO7V, with the, complete hars
mony, earnest determination and aps
preciating love for the College, in CONS
mon with the trustees. patrons, faculty,
and students, to advance permanently
the distinctive Purpose andinstrumental
Objects of this College, and especially
to provide by donation ample funds for
the designated additional grounds and
buildings
Thirty.two thousand dollars have re-
Gently been subscribed by citizens Of
Mt. Union to purchase materials and
erect at Mt. Union anew Museum Builds
sng.-payable when not less than $751;
900 in collectible funds are secured for
this Building, Also liberal amounts have
been subscribed by citizens Of Alliance
10 purchace for this College the Alliance
College Building. Also, large amounts
ofgenerous pledges have been made, by
liberal persons of means at distance,
for the liquidation of the Boarding Hall
debt, and for additional General Endow-
ments,-condtioned, however, on secure
ing at Mt. Union at least $4,000 for a
new Museum Building, and on securing
at Alliance and vicinity sum sufficient
to purchase the Alliance College Builds
ing and its repairs, or an sqHtOaleHt sum
to be used by the Trustees in making at
Mt. Union Improvements additional to
the $35,oooNMuseum Building.
1t is an obvious fact that the internal
life of this college was never so healthN
full or vigorous as now. The late Chief
Justice Chase, acting as one ofits trustees,
understood this vigor when he expressed
his conviction that "Mount Union is
among the best, cheapest, and most pros
gressive ofAmerican Colleges, rendering
a thorough integral Christian education
in any Department accessible to all. !"
In accord with this idea, the Term just
closed has been one of the largest and
most healthful and successful winter
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