The Saint Paul globe., 1901-01-02
REJOICING At CARLETON
SECURE DIR. PEARSON'S
GIFT
Is RAISED BY THE COLLEGE
Addition to the Endowment of the
FaribauIt College From the
Chicago PhiIant nthrOpist
Is $4,000.

NORTHFIELD, Mimi, Jan. There
is rejoicing among the faculty, students
and friends of Carleton college over the
fact shat the remaining S50,0G0 of the
$lC0 coo to be raised in order to secure DR..
Pearson's gift of $5O0C0 has been secured
and today the college has a new endoW
ment of S15O,0O0.
At commencement time one year ago
D. X PearsOns, of Chicago, made the
college a proposition that If it would raise
the sum of 100000 from other sources
he would give $4,000 to the institution
$4,000 of this amount was to be forthcoE-
ing by June l, 1900, and the remainder
by Jan /, 1901. Upon the securing of the
first half of the 100000, DR.. Pearsons
agreed to pay one-half of the amount
pledged by himself. An active canvass
was begun by President Strong and by
June l he had obtained the required $780,,
600. DR.. Pearsons, with his characters
tic promptness, paid over $4,000, thus
making the institution richer by 600.
The raising of the remaining $50,00c
has been attended with moro difficulty,
and at the close of school for the holiday
= recess nearly half OF the amount was
still to be secured. The students pledged
over $4,000 toward the endowment fund
Thursday evening last the amount still
to be raised was $15,000 with but three
days remaining. That evening an offer
came, stating that If the city of North
field would pledge $4,000 the other S1d,
OO0 would he forthcoming. canvass
of the city was at once begun and the
citizens of Mortified generously re5pord-
ed, as they have ever done to such calls,
and the amount was secured.
New Years Day thus sees the instttu-
ton richer by s15O,00O endowment as a
result of DR.. Pearson's generous gift.
The trustees, faculty and students, to-
gether with those Immediately connected
with the college, have given about So,
O00 Of the 100000 required to be raised.
The first large endowment of the col
leGe was made by William Carleton, of
Charleston, Mass, who gave the sum
of $4,000, which was devoted by the
trustees to the general endowment fund.
The name of the institution, which had
been Mortified college, was changed to
Carleton college, in recognition of Mr..
Carleton's gift. Miss Susan Willis, after
wards Mrs. Carleton, was among the first
who responded to Carletons growing
needs, and gave the college $1,000.
Willis hall is named in her honor. \
granddaughter of Mr.. Carleton, Miss
Lucy Packard Currier, created a fund
designed to provide for nonresident lee
turers.
The John Chandler Williams fund was
founded by John Chandle~, one of the
early settlers of Chicago, and is devoted
to the endowment of the chair of mental
and moral philosophy. The presidents
chair is also endowed by the Martha
Walker Wilkinson fund IT'D Horatio
Nelson -Brinswade fund endows the chair
of Latin and literature.
In 1883 DR.. Edward H. Williams of
Philadelphia gave to the college the sum
of $l2,000 to meet the expense of erect
ing science building. The gift W S a
memorial to his son, who had but re-
Gently died. The science building wac
named accordingly Williams hall.