The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-10-26
Wealthy Colleges.

The Roanoke Tim,s has the following
interesting estimate of the amount o
donations given American colleges during
the present year, and compares the sue.
cess of Virginia's university with wealth
Ter ones.
If the year 1899 now fast drawing to q
close has been remarkable in most re.
spects it has certainly rot been less 80 in
the number of donations and requests to
the cause of education in this country
There has never been ii like period in the
history of the nation in which such vast
sums have been devoted to the advance
ment of American youth. BY those who
have taken the trouble to look up the
figures it is said that the total sum set
aside for this purpose amounts to SIS
1206l7, which is lj,63!. 461 more than
for the whole of last year. There are still
two months of the year left aud it is prob
able that the figures will grow even larger
in that tune. The individual donations
number twentv-four and range from $780,
600 to SIj,0OO,OO0 These are distributed
about MS follows:
Mrs. Leland Stanford, TO Leland Stan.
fora UNIVERSITY at California, $lj0O0. 900:
estate O! John Simmons for female col
lege, Boston, s. 900, OOO Henry c. Warren.
81 900, 900; X. c. Billings, $I00,0OO; Jacob
Schitt, $780, 900; Edward Austin, $500, 600,
to Harvard College; q. ". CLAYTON, for a
university at Denver, 81 COCOON =. D.
Armour, 10 Armour Institute, $3.50 900:
Maxwell Someryile, 5000 ,000, and Andrew
Carnegie, $780, 900 to University Of Penn
sylvania; Samuel Cuppes, to Washington
University, 100000; Lydia Bradley, to
Bradley Polytechnic Institute, $j0O,O0O;
Marshall Field aud j. d. Rockefeller, TO
University of Chicago, $4,000; Edward
Tuck, to Dartmouth College, 100000, j !
D. Rockefeller to Brown University, $780, |
200; Caroline l.. Macy, to New York |
Teachers College, $500, 900; Edward Aus
in, $500, 900. and h. c. Billings, $ljO,OOO
o Massachusetts, Institute of Technology;
}. &. Marsh, to Yale, $lj0,000; unknown
lonor, to WESLEYAN, $l00,000; George r.
Berry, to Baltimore Female College, $780,
100; Il. d. Rockefeller, to Dennison Col
eye, 100000; W. X. Vanderbilt, to Van
erbilt University, 100000, and an un-
nown donor to Princeton, 100000.
The total of these twenty-four donations
S s2l,3Sj,000. With these enormous
cures in sight it cannot be wondered at
hat man. of the institutions named are
BILE TO blow horns of the very richest.
lrgest aud loudest type. Ii is worthy of
ote, however, that our own University of
irginia, which has never been the recip-
mt of donations or endowments that can
4 any way compare with these, is never
leless holding its own and that by reason
its Owl inherent worth alone il has not
My managed to command the patronage ,
the ablest and best people in the land, :
ut is steadily growing. With all their ,
ches and opulent INDEPENDENCE none of
lie above named schools have been able
} establish higher standard than our
Sn nor to send men into the world with
etter claims TO the honors conferred d
Don them. Indeed, at no time since the t
vii war from which our college suffered '
} acute!y for reasons that are obvious. I
is there been nm attendance as large a. r
at OF the present year. We're this d
ni'ersiy made the object OF requests d
I'd donations such as some of those above "
,med, the position of usefulness and in t.
lence it would attain would he far above d
at of its more wealthy rivals. a