Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-27

ovn institution Colby. wants him to re-
turn for another season, and he must
he must take one or the other. So. If the
university wants the man she must speak
at once. The acting president then peused
to give the people chance to make their
offers. Treasurer Martin said that DR..
Shute. dean of the medical faculty. had an
announcement to make. DIR. Shute said
that at meeting of the faculty Of the
medical department held last evening it
was unanimously voted that the members
OF the faculty should pledge themselves to
contribute $500 annually to the new fund
for five years, this meaning j total sub
scription of 50. 500 toward the S75,G9O need
ed. DR.. Shute vent on to describe how
poorly the medical school is provided for.
having no endowment, and being sustained
solely by the tuition fees OF the students.
The faculty, he added. have assumed the
payment of about 600 interest on a sink
ing fund annually. and contemplate max
Ing other subscriptions to the good of the
school. but the members were eager to do
this service to the university. This an
nouncement was received with grea, en-
thusiasm.
Some Generous Amounts.
Mr.. Martin added to the spirit of generos-
ity that was taking possession Of the au-
dience by saying that Justice Cox of the
District Supreme Court and a member of
the law faculty had agreed to give 800
annually for five years. making a total
contribution of $500
He likewise announced that another
member of the law faculty, who modestly
desired that his name should be kept
secret. would give a similar amount. 1t
was one Of the conditions of the gift that
his name be not published.
Next arose DIR. Theodore Gill from his
plecO on the platform with the simple an
nouncement that he would give $500 to
the fund. Mr. Wilson. president of the
Alumni Association. gave an equal amount,
and once more Treasurer Martin came
forward with the subscription Of "A generous
man. too modest to allow the of his
name. This time the anonymous con-
tributor gave $500.
Encouraged by this success Dr. Greene,
who had been engineering all the pro-
ceediEgs in the search for funds, appealed
to the folks who could not give quite such
large amounts. He had not spoken long
when Prof. Harry King arose and donated
500. Then DR.. Sterling Ruffin stood in
his place in the audience and gave $50.
Mr.. Gardiner Hubbnrd's Talk.
There was a brief lull in the giving and
DR.. Greene introduced Mr.. Hubbard, presi-
dent of the board of trustees, who told
some matters that DIR. Greene's modesty
did not relish Mr.. Hubbard related how
in the search for a new head the commit
tee had first held negotiations with the
Chicago University for several months. but
the plans fortunately, he thought. finally
came to naught, and then the committee
realized that the very man for the place
had all the time been acting as president
pending the selection of a permanent sue
cessor to DR.. yelling. But DIR. Greene,
when urged to accept the presidency, de-
clined, on the ground that he did not feel
qualified, and that he believed that his
duty was to his congregation. So, after
some hard, but unsuccessful. work with
DIR. Greene, the committee was forced to
go elsewhere. and had finally found in DR..
N ha aN
Greene, to fill the vacant chair. Mr.. Hub
lard confessed that he had sort of sneaked
IN this talk. as he knew DR.. Greene would
not have called upon him If he had but
known what he was going to say. But he
felt that it was due to DR.. Greene that
the truth should be known.
Some More Subscriptions.
By this time the rain was falling hard,
and some of the people had left in a hurry
In their zeal to avoid getting wet. But
the torrent became too severe, and so. as
Dr. Greene remarked, the folks We're proyi-
dentialiy bottled up so that they might as
we'll give to the fund not. One by one
the names We're added to the list. At last
Dr. Greene tried to raise an extra thousand
end called for ten men to give 500
each. He finally had all but one, and then
it announced that an anonymous
friend on the platform had agreed to give
$50 the moment the tenth hundred was put
up. so that the next man who gave 500
virtually presented the university with
$50. Mr.. George L. Wilkinson was the
bidder for this honor, and his hundred
practically closed the lists of the opening
Sivers.
During the evening the names of. Profs
Sterrett Munroe Hodgkns Gore and Mon
tague, all members of the alumni associa-
ton, were entered on the lists for $500
each.
Treasurer Martin then announced that
about $4,000 had been subscribed in ALL
and Prof Otis T. Mason was on his feet
in moment with very pertinent ques-
ton:
What is to be done to get the other s25,-
UO0?' he asked
Mr.. Martin replied that there would be
meeting of the soliciting committee of six
teen at the university at 8 o'clock in the
morning for the purpose of starting at once
the work of raising this deficit
Prof. Mason urged that an effort should
be made to interest the younger graduates
of the university, who, while unable to give
large sums themselves might interest
some elders with means. At this Rev. Mr.
Stevenson of Anacostia arose and said
tt at he would be one of twenty men to
guarantee to collect a sum of 5000 before
ext Monday morning. This declaration
was heartily applauded.
Must Know by Monday.
Prof Mason was eager to know how long
DIR. Whitman would wait before the case
should be settled, and he was told that he
must be given his reply by next Monday,
and Prof. Mason again urged that some
thing be done Immediately to interest all
the alumni and to make it positively GER
tain that DIR. Whitman would accept the
call. This spirit spread among the younger
men present. and one of them went at
work at once among his associates as soon
as Mr. Wilson had informally declared the
meeting adjourned, and in few minutes
he Mastered to the desk, where the treas
urer was porting over the figures, and briefly
announced:
MIR. Martin here are ten fellows who
pledge themselves for $50 apiece, making
$500 for the fund"
1t was generally believed by those of the
trustees who remained on the platform and
witnessed this incident that the same
spirit would result in rapid closing of the
gap between the funds in hand and the
funds desired if it were more widely known
how readily this young canvasser had sue
ceeded in organizing his block of ten.
List of New Givers.
Counting all the subscriptions announced
last evening the list of new givers to the
fund reads thus:
Myron NJ. Parker. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 81 900
Members of medical faculty.......... $500
Judge Cox. .......................... 800
Anonymous member of law faculty. 800
Rev DIR 7 Mcbride Sterrett I'M