The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-03-21
Mount Union College Correction
Facts Decisive Of the Crisis OF
this Beneiicent Institution.

zeps Of Mt Union, Alliance and vi
cinity. benefited by the location Of
Mount Union College, not baving
duly completed their subscriptions
(now 80 successfully undsr way for
tho additional buildings with i'm.
proved grounds, thereby securing
the liquidation Of all indebtedness
Of this Public Iustitution, certain
damaging reports have been started.
aud have been made very injurious
to this College. As items OF general
interest affecting the public at large,
this matter, especially fearfal er
aggeration Of the indebtedness, has
been communicated in varied forms
by correspondents to papers, until it
has by copying been widsly pub
lished throughout the entire ooun.
try.
Therefore, in behalf OF the trus-
tees, patrons, faculty, and students,
1 earnestly ask you to allow me
space in your friendly and impartial
paper to state the actual facts aud
acts from which the public can drew
correct conclusions.
While it is fact that this College
is in need OF the designated aiii-
iioual buildings an1 grounds, it is
equally true that the citizens locally
benefited should. in accordance with
equity and universal college econo.
my. genero isly provide, all ueslsi
local improvemsn snts, and that per-
sons at u distance shoul1 not bs
asked to donate funds for this local
purpose.
THE ONLY INDEBTEDNESS.
1t is also fact that, at the close
OF our countrys war, when the at
tendance of students had greatly
decreased and the private boarding.
houses previously used hal chiefly
been turned to other purposes, no
persons could then be induced to
to invest capital iu the cree
ton or furnishing of such bail1iug..
Consequently, the Trustees had no
course loft them bat either to alloS
tue College to go down without
their even having an offer theu of
suitable grounds aud buillings ut a.
nother place where the College
would be built up aud its patrons
and pttrou;zins territory preserved
ana its students protected or to in
cur its existing Indebtedness by the
purchase OF the ten acres OF addi
tional grounds aud the erection and
furnishing of the comuodious
Boarding Hall. This later course
was deemed necessary in order to
secure students iu numbers sulfi-
ciently large (unasr the special ad j.
vantages OF an abundance of good
and cheap rooms and board) to pay,
by means of cheap tuition, the cur.
rent internal expenses Of the College,
including the salaries Of the profess
ors. Our citizens, not yet recovered
from their depression occasioned by
the war. could not then furnish
even part Of the means. This Ii
ability, caused by securing these
grounds and the Boarding Hall, is
the only bebt 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 in-
dsbtness of the College, when the
citizens of Mt Union, Alliance and
vicinity, enjoying its local advanta-
ges, provide the requisite funds for
the present needed local improve
ments. But it was not until con,
siderable time after the erection oil
this College Boarding Hall, that
"the citizens of Mt. Union have built
private boarding houses and dwell
ings that can now plesently accom-
modate with good and cheap rooms
and board over q thousand students.
1t is likeswise fact, frequently
, and publicly stated, that unless the
subscriptions had begun before the
end of last term, with reasonable
prospect OF going on regularly and
, harmoniously to u speedy and sue
cessful completion so as (without
stopping) to secure generously, in
accordance with the plan Of the
, Trustees, ample funds for the needed
additional buildings and improved
grounds aud consequent prompt
. liquidation of all indebtedness, the
College could not and should not,
in It's present locality, go on to ac-
, complish the definite Objects Of its
distinctive Plan Of doing the great
est educational good tc the greatest
, number of our countrys youth.
(: Az TO THE co-oPERATIoN-sEw SUB
scRIpTIoSs-IsTERSAL WORKINGS.
Never before have the citizens OF
Mt. Union, Alliance and vicinity,
worked together, as no0, with the
complete harmony, earnest determi.
nation. and appreciating love for the
College, in common with the trus'
} tees, patrons, faculty, aud students,
to advance permanently the distinct
i've Purpose land instrumental OBJ
Ijects of this College, and especially
TO provide by donation ample funds
for the designated additional
, : grounds and buildings.
Thirty two Thousand dollars have
recently been subscribed by citizens
! of ut. Union to purchase materials
and erect at Mt. Union new Muse
um Building,-psyable when no,
Iia.a tt.c SqE 0()(l in collactibla funds