The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1880-01-31
DIR. vAIDEN'S MESS SYSTEM.
An Appeal to the Legislature to Co.
operate.
UNIVERSITY OF Mississippi,
,Inuuarv 9th. 1880

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI
January 9th, 1880.
At meeting of the Faculty, held this day,
the following report and resolutions we're
unanimously adopted:
The committee appointed to consider the bill
for The erection of Mississippi Colleges, and
the beneficiary system of DR.. c. NJ. Walden,
submit the following report;
DR.. Vaidens plan of furnishing provisions
for select number of students, has proved
emiuentiy successful. The students, evident
UNSOLICITED with much care, have conducted
themselves with commendable propriety, APP
plying themselves with diligence and good
success, and promising in every way to show
that they are worthy of the splendid benefac-
ton they are receiving.
The help that DR.. Walden is aifCrding to the
seventy young men, from all parts of the
State, puts it within reach of the most limited
University curriculum. Thus giving the sons
of the poorest, opportunities equal to those
enjoyed by the wealthiest.
These bencfciaries of Dr. Vaiden's boun-
ty, while the peers of any of our students in
moral and social worth, and in successful
student work, command we are glad to know,
in rs high degree as others Of the UNIVERSE
ty, the esteem and consideration of both the
Faculty and their fellow students.
Great as are the benefits which DIR. Walden
is comforting upon these young men, and
through them upon the people of the whole
State, still greater benefits, we trust, are to
flow from the example shus set in stimulating
other persons of means in the State, to assist
needy and deserving young men in their pre-
paraton for the highest service to society and
the State,
Your Committee would further set forth
thar in order to realize the best fruits of DR..
Vaiders beneficiary scheme, and to remove
objections to it of some weight, it is altOgeth-
err necessary to erect the mess cottages, pro-
yided for in Senate Bill No -. And more es-
pecially these mess cottages are Necessary in
order that INDECENT students may avail
themselves of the mess or club system,
obtaining in all colleges more or less and
without which multitudes of men in all parts
of this great country, filling the most honora-
BILE and useful positions in all the walks
of life. could never have been educated. TUT
ton may be free, and all other expenses re-
duced TO the minimum, yet there Will be re-
Qured a sum of money annually TO meet the
expenses of boarding, quite beyond the means
of many of our people, who, when helped by
the bounty of others, become the most strik-
ing illustrations of what culture does for a
man. The mess cottage system supplies this
needed help, hence we submit the following
resolution:
|, That having witnessed the working of
DR.. Vaidens beneficiary scheme during the
last session, and 90 far into the present ses-
sion, we endorse il in its liberal provisions, in
the good fruit already borne by it, and in its
inspiring example to others, as we hope it
may, to do likewise.
. That we approve the plan of mess cot
tages, believing that by enabling the students
to board themselves, il affords the only means
by which many of the most deserving and
~ raa If no al N0n oh
tain access te our University halls.
The foregoing is a correct copy of the re-
port and resolutions on the subject of Dr.
Vaiden's beneficiary system adopted by the
Faculty. ALEX. ?. SrEwART
Chancellor.