The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-28
IT Is DOING FINE.
Fairmount College and its Prospects Out
lined by Dr. Morrison.

lined by DIR. Morrison.
"Weil, professor, how does Paramount
college open?" asked a reporter of DR..
Morrison yesterday.
VERY well, indeed, taking account
of the circumstances of the case. as the
short notice of the new ADMINISTRATION,
lack of advertising, the prevailing pow
erty and the present unfortunate do
mestic quarrel about whisky. We have
just about fifty students, of whom
eleven constitute our freshman class.
This number, though small, when COM
pared with the great classes Of the old
eastern colleges. is really large, and
much larger than the first Classes in
some of the most famous colleges. We
shall have several more freshmen.
Students for the academy or prep ara to-
~ classes drop in every few days and
we expect our present numbers Will be
trippled before the year ends.
'.How about your standard of instruc-
ton and training, as compared with
the standards of old established col
leges?"
Our requirements for admission 10
the freshmen class are substantially
the same as those of the best western
and eastern colleges, for example Fan
saS State University, Oberlin college.
Drury college, Amhurst ana Dart
mouth Students from our classical
course would doubtless enter the same
grade at any of the colleges mentioned,
and my able collea CUES of the college
faculty are doing admirable work in
the class room.
But how can a new college, probably
paying small salaries. promise as ac-
complished instructors and as high a
grade in instruction as the oil and
| wealthy colleges 2"
1.-The successful young college VIII
generally select young men for is
chairs of instruction such as have dis
tinguished themselves as scholars in
! college and have then taken special
! post graduate studies at Harvard, y ale
Johns Hopkins or III Germany. Enthu-
siastic, apt TO teach, their reputation 10
make, they throw themselves into their
work with a forgetting devotion
that produces the very highest results.
The distinguished Professor George b.
Adams. professor of history in Yale
| university. was for ten years at the
head of the department OF history in
Drury college while l was president
of that college. and he made his repu-
tation there. Two or three of his col
leagues while in Drury are now hard
" less distinguished than himself, as
Professors in Dartmouth, Yale and 9TH
er eastern colleges. The best scholar
ever educated at Bates college, Maine,
| is a member OF the present Fairmount
| faculty"
What are your resources? How with
fifty. or even a hundred and nifty schol-
airs at thirty dollars apiece yearly, can
you pay your teachers even small sal
aries? Won't Paramount soon so the
way Of the other college attempts here
die of hamilton and debt?
TNas WV, II =
an endowment Of $50, 600, bearing inter
| est at o per cent. The American Edu-
cation society of Boston. which in half
a century has helped TO eSta bNsln more
| than a score of our best western col
| leges. has pledged 70 Paramount college
| for i've years an annual appropri2 ton
| Of $1,000 for the payment Of salaries.
| This sum together with tuition fees IS
sufficient for the present Meanwhile,
work is being induStriously done 20
gather adequate permanent eadow-
n,ant Wealthy friends in Illinois, New
| York. Ohio and New England are ready
| 10 contribute literally for this purpose
| when they see that the college is ready
| for their help"
isn't Paramount ready now 10 re-
csive the aid OF such friendsT''
NO. the home field Is not vet devel-
| onad The attendance OF students has
Tot quite reached the desired clTnen-
sions The building IS still incomplete
Il lacks adequate means for suitably
heating il for the winter. The college
has not the money with which 20 pUr-
chase heating apparatus and put the
building in good order.
How large a sum IS needed for these
| PURPOSES"
twenty-five hundred dollars. II
Wichita viii at once supply US with
this small sum We will speedily double
the attendance OF students and raise
our endowment 20 $l0o.o2o.