The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-10
IT Is p WINNER
Fairmount College Is on the High Road to
Permanent Prosperity.

IT Is q WINNER
Fairmount College IL on the High Road TO
Permanent Prosperity.
Fafrmo,,nt COLLEGE Of this city Is fos-
tered by the Education society of Bos-
ton by an annual contribution Of 1000,
and the AID of its powerful influence m
securing an adequate endowment in the
east. That society has helped 20 build
such strong colleges as Western Re
serve University. Cleveland, and Ober-
line College N Ohio, Wabash in Indiana,
Beloit in Wisconsin, Knox in Illinois.
and a score of others. giving thus TO
American colleges and education during
the half century Of Its existence many
millions OF dollars.
Paramount College at the ouset takes
as her standard of scholarship and
training the high standard Of the Illus
trious New England colleges. When
her educational machinery shall be full
in operation her best students viii pass
readily to the typical eastern colleges
without change of grade, and, PROBABLY,
without examination
The college has permanent faculty
OF seven able and experienced nStruc-
porS-to add Others as as the classes ad-
vance and the patronage demands.
Sufficient apparatus is already in hand
for illustration in teaching science.
1t was organized asa college in Sep
tember. Fairmount as yet has but one
college class, freshman, comprising
twelve members; small compared with
the large CLASSES of the old colleges at
the present time, but large, compared
with the usual initial classes OF new
colleges. The academy in its four
classes comprises about fifty students
additional Frequent aSseccions occur
and largely increased attendance is
expected next term.
Since August the trustees have ex-
pended about 81, 900 in constructing new
recitation rooms and IN repairs They
are now erecting a steam heating plant
10 cost about $1,000. The Ladies library
club are also raising money TO TT UP a
barge room in the basement of the col
lege for the growing library and mus
cum.
The citizens of Wichita are expected
TO furnish the 81, 600 needed TO cover the
expenses of the heating plant. Money
for this purpose cannot he had from
abroad Already good progress has
been made in securing the amount from
our public spirited citizens. To make
the burden Of this appeal as light as
possible, each contributor OF 500 Sc
cues a free scholarship in the institu-
ton, good for five years, or fifteen
terms; each contributor Of $780, a schol-
arship for seven terms; each contrubu-
tor of s25, a scholarship for one year
These scholarships are transferable and
good until 1905.
So soon as the money for the heating
plant is raised the president viii go
east in quest of permanent endowment
Clear indications already appear that
this search for endowment will surely
succeed His almost unexampled
achievement in raising funds for Drury
college, at Springfield, Mo-, while presi-
dent of that now strong institution, Is a
guarantee of a like success here, II pro-
perly supported by Wichita.
Confessedly, the present Is "a bad
time TO raise money for any public OBJ
ject, especially in Wichita. But the
sum required (s2 .OoO properly distribut-
ed need not be onerous to any. Other
communities under circumstances not
very unlike our own, and far like pub
lie interest, have bravely shouldered
even heavier loads. Besides, the sacri-
flee which this effort for Paramount
may cost individuals will bless both
college and community. by knitting
them closely together, and by inspiring
the triumphant success of one OF the
MANY ambitious college" ventures of
I
Wichita
Success now means, within five years.
a we'll equipped school with an annual
attendance OF 500 students from abroad,
yielding TO the business interests of the
city an annual revenue Of not less than
500 900.
Rev. F. /. Ferguson, secretary OF the
Boston Education society, in urging
DR.. Morrison to accept the presidency
of Paramount college, said: IF there
is any just cause for founding and de-
veloping colleges in the west, there IS
certainly field for one in Wichita
am familiar with the location of our
other institutions and state to you what
/ have often repeated, that not one of
them has so large a. constituency as our
institution at Wichita
I'VE have abundant faith in the fu-
ture of that institution, and will cor
dfatly sustain the man who assumes the
headship. . 1 write you very en-
uhusia stically because have very large
hope, founded, believe, on careful OBJ
servations''
Funds for the college are to be paid TO
r. L. Holmes. Esq, treasurer, ia North
Main street, Wichita