Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-01-02
BUCHTEL
Will be Rebuilt.
Aside From Matter of
Sentiment
1t Is Good Business
Policy so to Do.
One Contribution Amounts to
$500.
Regular Terms Work Begins
Tomorrow.
Regular TERMS Work Begins
Tomorrow.

Head Bupchtel College n. N. IN. N
DIR. Ira A. Priest, president of Buch-
tel college, has received letter from
his old boyhood friend, Ira G. Calef, of
Washington, Vermont. The letter con-
tains more than words of sympathy
and coincidence. Mr.. Calef offers to
contribute $500 toward the erection
of new college building
Wednesday the college will open on
schedule time. Recitation rooms have
been secured and all Of the old stu
dents will be ON hand. Instruction will
not begin until Thursday.
Sentiment which moves the world
has moved the hearts of all Akron's
citizens with sympathy to the site of
our city's recent great calamity-the
burning of the main building of Buch-
tel college. There welled up from the
hearts of thousands who thronged the
streets about the college a sympathy
that was deep and abiding. As
they gazed upon that scene of awful
destruction many faces were wet with
tears-faces of those who had not
known how much Buchtel college
meant to them personally. Some hearts
overfowed when people saw the homes
Of happy and eager students go up in
smoke. others thought of the destruc-
tion of large and priceless collections;
others remembered the paternal devo-
tion Of John r. Buchtel for the college,
and shed tear as they thought of how
he had lavished all his great wealth of
prosperity and affection for the insti-
tuition whose building was in flames.
Some who watched had a more per-
sonal interest. They were professors
and teachers who for few years or
many had put their lives into the col
lege, or they were old or present stu
dents who saw their mothers in dis
tress. All were tender with emotion
and many were the words of sympathy
and encouragement for the present and
pledges of material aid in the time of
rebuilding.
Sympathy has place and power, but
many practical men looked through the
smoke and tried to realize what practi-
cal effect the burning of the college
'h'S h' h"'V ph out EItut uIu BEOMluG
city. With them sympathy was for
little driven away by the thought of
bustling business interests, and they
began process of calculation. They
knew about how much money 1t takes
to run the college each year. That was
set down on the page of thought and
then they began to calculate from the
side of the students. There are
more than two hundred in
number, counting the music students.
The practical men saw that it costs
q good sum of money to maintain
young man or woman in school, for
the housing, clothing and personal
expenses. This sum multiplied by
two hundred gave an astonishing
amount. This amount, added to that
OF the running Of the college, and
more than $4,000, was seen flowing
through many streams into the main
channel of Akron's increasing trade.
The practical men saw that had
there been no Buchtel the large en-
dowment funds from outside or dis
tant people would not have come
here; they saw that students who
come to our city from distance
and spend their money here for four
or seven years would, but for Buchtel
college, not have come to Akron but
have gone elsewhere; they were
minded that but for the "Old College
on the Hill" our own sons and daugh-
ters would have journeyed to and spent
their money in another city. The
practical men did not shed tears,
but they said "Buchtel college is
gonod business" "She shall rise from
her ashes" ''She shall live" akron
shall still boast of being a college
town."