Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-31
MRS. LOGAN'S TASK
To Raise a Million from Amer
lean Women.
A GREAT METHODIST UNIVERSITY,

The Conception of Bishop Hurst, to he
Built at the National Capital-An En-
dowment of SO, 1000. 900 Proposed and
the Buildings Alone to Cost So,ooo,ooo
A Site Donated and = s5O,ooo Pledged
by Washington People-The Promoters
Sanguine.
CHICAGO. Aug. 3i-Mrs John A. Logan
has undertaken TO raise sl,OOo,OO0 among
the women of America for the American
university, recently founded By the Meth
cdist Episcopal church at Washington.
The announcement is made in the North
western Christian Advocate, the official
organ of the Methodist Episcopal church
in the mort Invest, in its issue which APP
pears today. The university expects TO
secure fund of S10,000oOo for buildings
aud endowments, of which sum S5OO,ovO
has been donated in a site and $4,000
pledged in cash as starter. Mrs. Logan's
plan of raising a 100000 fund is to or
ganiZe the women of the nation into state,
congressional, district, and local leagues,
these leagues to cooperate with her in
raising the money to aid in this great en-
terprise.
The Whole sum for Women students.
The million dollar fund will be devoted
to the benefit of women students. Mrs.
Logan's plan being to create 100 $4,000
fellowships, that viii enable at least 100
women TO take the postgraduate course in
the great national institute to be erected
at the capital. 1t is said Mrs. Logan, who
is now at her home in Washington, Will
shortly visit Chicago to lnaugurate the
movement in the western states, where
the lady is so popular with all classes Of
people and all denominations of Chris
tians.
Conceived by Bishop Hurst
DR. Arthur Edwards. editor of The Adj
vocate, believes the American university
will within a few years become one of the
greatest institutions of learning in Amer
lea and rival any in the civilized world.
About two Years ago Bishop j. 4. Hurst,
of Washington, ID. c., conceived the idea
of founding at the capital OF the nation
great post graduate university for eX-
tended study. He foresaw that nowhere
in the United States were such facilities
for research and reference 10 be had as at
Washington, with its congressional library
and its vast treasures of a scientific nature
embraced in the National museum, Smith
soniau institute, and other public archives.
An Endowment of SIO,ooo.Ooo.
The material at hand and ready for the
US OF the stGGent, the bishop estimated,
could not be brought together elsewhere
for less than $50, 000, 900 To conceive the
plan was to act. Bishop Hurst determin-
ed to found IA National American univers-
ity with an endowment fund of Sl0,000, 900.
The citizens of Washington hailed his an
nouncemeut with delight, and a tract of
land EN- bracing 20) acres was donated as a
site and the sum of $4,000 pledged in
cash. The site lies about five miles north
of the Capitol building and is reached by
an electric railway.
Cost of the Buildings.
Upon this tract the university trustees
propose to erect the buildings as socn as
s.. oO0 coo is raised. As before stated, 49,
OOG has been pledged by citizens of Wash
ington, $780, 900 has been promised by the
Epworth league, that greatest auxiliary
of the church, while Mr.. y '-an has prom
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