The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-02-25
MAKING PROGRESS.
ENCOURAGING Report of the Ma
tional University Enterprise.
OPPOSITION GRADUALLY GIVING WAY
And Powerful Friends Rallying to the
Support of the Scheme That was
Close to Washington's Heart
Material Aid Promised.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-In reply tC
an inquiry into the present status and
prospects of the national university en-
terprise, ex-Gov. John Wesley Hoyt,
chairman OF the national committee,
says good progress seems to be making
in all quarters unless it be in the sen.
ate. There opposition has occurred oi
ecclesiastical origin in committee, ano
this, in connection with the other cir
cumstances has simply delayed action.
Nevertheless, the friends of the meas
ure are confident of early and favorable
results.
Meanwhile the work of the national
committee, says Mr.. Hoyt, has been
vigorous and fruitful of good to the cause
in many ways; in the addition of many
distinguished names to it's already for
midable list of members, including
those of eminent statesmen and OF some
60 college and university presidents.
besides the great number already en-
listed-among them the heads of the
University of Virginia and of dozen
or more institutions of the religious
denomination for a time supposed
to be against the national movement,
but now known to be, for the most
part, in sympathy with it; in the
awakening of deeper interest through
out the country, as well as among
public journals in all sections; and,
finally in the enlistment of a number
patriotic men and women of fortune
some of whom are seriously consider
ing the offer, in advance of endow
ments of departments, professorships
lectureship and fellowships in the com
ing university.
The most notable of the many aids
actually rendered to the national uni
versitv committee in the recent past
are these:
l. The voluntary gift of 81 800 by
Mrs. Phoebe A. Hurst, of California
and district of Columbia, for the salary
of the chairman's secretary during SIS
year just passed.
2. The support accorded by the
George Washington Memorial associa
ton, under the lead of Mrs. Ellen A
Richardson, Mrs. Phoebe A. Hurst
Mrs. Ex-S enator Brice, of Ohio, anC
other distinguished women of the
country-an association which has
among it's officers the presidents o.
the National Council of Women
the Worlds w. C. L. u; the
General Federation of Women's Clubs
+ the National university committee o.
the Daughters of the American Revo
luton; the Columbian Daughters o1
America; the General Society of United
States Daughters of 1912; the DANES
of the Revolution; the Ladies of the G.
A. R.; the Kings Daughters, and per
haps yet Other national organizations
President Charles A. Bell, of the Amer
lean Security and Trust Co., Washing
ton, ID. c., acting as treasurer.
The immediate object of this G.. w
NJ. association is the raising of $780, 900
for the first national university build
ing, to be erected on the site selected
by Washington h imself and reserved
for university purposes by the pend
/ ing bill To this end, and for the fur
ther support of the national university
cause, it has formed state and congress
sional district committees of intuen
tial women in nearly everyone of the
| states, all of which are preparing fol
special contributions in small amounts
on Washington's birthday and until
the whole amount is raised. 1t is be
lieved by Mr. Hoyt that they will sue
cecd. and that ere the final date, de
cember, 1899, congress will have done
| it's part also.
3. The offer is just now made by Gen
J. B. Henderson, LII. D., late United
States senator from Missouri, ,and now o.
| this city, to be one of the 100to pay into
the treasury of the university of $1Ot
each until congress shall have done as
much. His object is to encourage the
creation of special fund of $4,000
| for some important chair in the uni
versity and there is no objection or
his part to the taking of any number
of such shares by any one contributor
while preferring, in the interest o.
| the cause of the university
| that the distribution should be as wide
as the country itself. The nationa
committee assumes that this example
of Gen. Henderson will be prompt,
| followed by liberal friends of the en-
| terprise, and that the institution whe1
once established by congress will, a
| Washington believed, become SO popu
lar as a center for patriotic gifts as fo
| the most part to relieve congress of de
mands of government appropriations.
Persons wishing further information
are referred to ex-Gov. john Wesle,
Hoyt, chairman of the National univer
sity committee, Washington.
THE DIVERS AT WORK.