Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1881-09-14
RICHMOND AND EARLHAM COLLEGE
A Letter from Pre.iden, Moore.
For the Palladium

1
The amount subscribed so far by tn,
citizens of Richmond and immediat,
vicinity for the improvements at Earl
| ham is fifteen hundred and thirty doliars
and fifty cents $50 5O)- a number
| of citizens will no doubt yet wish &c
subscribe. The improvements are no,
yet completed, and the money is hardly
half raised. The people are invited still
to consider not only the interests of Earl
ham, but the interests of the city in
the building up of Q college. Whatever
increases the attendance of students is of
direct financial consequence TO Richmond.
In commu nication with our citizens on
the subject, there is in nearly all cases
decided readiness to admit that 1t is
rea enable and desirable, that for the
general good of the community, the
town and neighbor hood should be liberal
towards the college.
In the extensive improvements and in
the purchase of various kinds of furni-
ture, we have employed home mechanics,
and made purchases in Richmond of ev
erything which Richmond can furnish
or make.
By the time the Improvements, repairs
and furnishing are complete We will
have put into the city here at home not
less than thirteen thousand dollars, and
this all within four or five months. Then
directly on top of that here are 100 stu
dents paying their years tuition and
board, with ali the trading in town which
they and many of their parents from
ho 10 hai
Within two weeks past have taken some
pains to find out the financial relation of
q number of towns and cities to the
colleges in their immediate vicinity.
have written to the Presidents of more
situated in about dozen different States,
the newer colleges and those with
few exceptions of moderate means and
Nearly all these have been |
heard from. The President of Adrian |
college, Michigan, says: Citizens of Adri |
an have from first to last donated about |
sity, at Irvington, says: Two hundred (
thousand. Marietta, o., says: About |
e175, 900. Dennison, o, says: Ten to |
fifteen thousand. Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity says: $4,000. Prof. Fsirchild,
town for giving only about $50, 900
that it is new town, with no wealthy |
people, but that they have built up q col |
ege from the woods Well done |
Tor them. DanvIlle has given four
thousand for their Norma,
chool, Valparaiso, has given see, 600 for
ia normal. The President OF Hanover,
nd , says $4,000 from that vicinity.
says $4,000; President Hlns-
lale, the intimate friend of President
garfield, says the citizens have given
hiram College about *25 900. This is
he college of which Garfield was once
President. The citizens allrded to are
he inhabitants of small village and
be farmers around. Buchtel, Ohio, have
.iven their college $3.50, 900; Fayetteville,
Ark., has given their institution $50 900;
'reencsstle has given Asbury 800, 900;
colorado Springs has given
colorado College $4,000 and .
inety acres of first-rate land.
imilar reports have been received from j
everal other colleges. In no case heard
rom have they given nothing. Many
ems from the correspondence of these
residents would be to the point and of
,terest to many of the readers of the
ALLADIUN but for the length of the
rticle. Jos sPH MOORE, President c