The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-19

ury old and has helped TO establish
more than a score Of successful COL
| leges, OF which Western Reserve uni
versity art Cleveland, and Oberlin col
1ege, Ohio, Wabash in Indiana, Carrie
ton in Minnesota, and Iowa at Grinnell
| Iowa, are examples. In all its history
| IL has made but one failure. and thai
| defunct college survives in a successful
academy of high rank. The Education
Society is unlikely, to say the least, 10
fan here.
| Besides wealthy gentlemen, who
| have given large sums to help other
| colleges, are carefully watching our
progress here, intending TO aid US liber-
ally, when they find the institution has
already acquired such hold on local
! support as to warrant outside friends in
believing in its future usefulness. One
| of our eastern friends has. within four
or five years, distributed more than a
| million dollars among half a dozen
| western college+has more millions to
| give for like puIpOseS-and is deeply
| interested in our work. AT the right
time he will help.
During my fourteen years connec-
| ton with a college in Missouri, nearly
$4,000 900 was gathered for the establish
ment and endowing of that college,
chiefly by my own personal solicitation,
under the Endorsement of this society.
still retain the acquaintance and friend
ship of those bountiful friends Of col
iege education, one of whom contribut-
ed to the Missouri college referred to
$4,000. This gentleman is now an Of
ficer of the Education Society. These
friends viii help me again
Again Wichita offers great and in
vt5tfng field for the building UP of true
college. The boomers of 1ss7-sS must
have thought so, surely, or they would
not have begun universities, two deep,
at each of the four corners Of the city.
Sober men still believe there is room
here for one college at least The sec
rotary Of the Education Society says
the field is bigger and the outlook for
an important college at FNairmoupt bet
ter, than in any other instance of col
lege founding by his society. The great
ness OF the opportunity Will insure to
us the means TO achieve the work, If We
ourselves are strong and faithful.
but if the society thinks so highly
of the opportunity for college building
here why does it not at once fork over
the money and so insure success?
Wichita will welcome a million or two,
or even hundred thousand
mo doubt, but that is not the policy
of the society. Like Providence, the
Education Society helps those who
help themselves. Appreciation and
support by the home constituency, as
we'll as clear prospect OF large future
development and usefulness, are sine
qua non for a young college receiving
from the Education Society more than
a mere temporary and tentative sup
port. And this policy is wise and just
for all interests What costs individ-
uals or communities nothing Is COM
monty little priced and nothing worth"
But you must remember, professor,
that times are hard and the community
is for the time being poor. s., 900 or S.
500 is a big sum to ask of Wich5ta just
now
81 must beg to differ. I once knew q
hamlet in Michigan which had only 300
people. no one Of whom was possessed
Of property to exceed s25, 900, to con-
tribute $4,000 for a proposed college in
the midst of them That gift secured
for them a college of very high grade
OF scholarship and great usefulness,
with an annual attendance Of hundreds
of students.
I'm 1878. backed by friends IN Mich!-
gan, Ohio ard the east, offered to the
citizens of Springfield, Mo, to furnish
$50, 900 and build up a college for them
on condition that they would furnish
the like sum. The people soon subscrfb-
ed over $4,000 for the project, and
Drury college, owning a plant worth
more than $3.50, 900, having n production
endowment OF $500. 600. and enjoying
steadily growing patronage of about
five hundred students, Is the present
grand result. Even grander results are
probable at Paramount The outlook
for outside help for the Wichita enter
prise is far brighter than that at
Springfield at the beginning
Are you making progress IN your
work?''
Certainly. The attendance OF stud
ents IS steadily growing; our stem heat
ing plant is nearly completed; We are
making steady progress in securing the
means for paying all our bills. We
shall stick to the subscription list till
the whole sum needed is pledged. We
are going TO win. This little crisis in
the history OF the school over safely
passed, the road TO permanent prosper
ity is open
YOUR BOY WON'T LIVE A MONTH
So Mr.. Gilman Brown OF "a NIL ST.
South Gardner, Mass, was told by the
doctors. His son had Lung trouble,
following Typhoid Malaria. and he
spent three hundred and seventy-five
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