The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
Will Raise the Money to Secure h.
 StitutiOn. BUSINESS MEN TO BEGIN WORK TODAY Committees Namsd to Guar
 antee Success. If Capital City Will Raise $2o, 900 It will Have Good opportun-
 ity to Compete For
 Great School.

With enthusiasm, representative citi- zens of Montgomery last night pledged their support. to the raising of funds to secure the location of the Presbyterian College for Men in Montgomery, at a called meeting of the Commercial and In- dustrial Association.
 These men were of every class and creed. There were Presbyterians at the meeting but there were Methodists, there were Baptists, there were Episcopalians, there were Catholics, there were Hebrews. They were at the meeting for the inter est of Montgomery, and they believed that Montgomerians would make no mis- take in assisting financially and in every other way toward the raising of the fund.
 committee was appointed of fifteen representative business and professional men to assist the Presbyterians of the city in raising fund which would make Montgomery easily the mostattractive bidder for the location of the college.
 This committee will meet today and will al once begin a thorough canvass of the city for subscriptions to the fund.
 MT. Glass Explains It.
 F. P. Glass, chairman of the Steering Committee of the Presbyterians to raise the $25,0OO and secure the grant of land for the college location. brought the mat ter DefOre the Association.
 MT. Glass explained the movement. He said that for several years it has been planned by the Alabama Synod of the Presbyterian Church to establis5 Pres byterian College for Men in Alabama. Those plans have reached tangible shape, and at a meeting of the Board of Trus- tees of the Alabama Synodical College for Men. on April 6, bids will be received and a call will probably be made for meeting of the Synod to decide 1t.
 Several cities are already making strong bids for the location. The City of Bessemer has been very active. and re- ports from Anniston and Selma indicate that those cities will make every effort to secure the institution.
 The scope of tho institution, said Mi. Glass, is not only 10 turn out gradu- ates with a bachelors degree, but to turn out young men we'll fitted in 'evciy way to successfully combat the battles of life. The plans of the institution con- template not only educating young men in the academic branches, but to edu- cate them in vacations. which will be Of practical benefit to them in the earning of their daily bread
 t is the intent of the institution 10 Nave the students finances play as small part in his collegiate career as poss:- ble The institution plans to get young men from the highways and byways, who have character and a desire for ed ucation, bring them to the college and grant their desires. providing for their finances during their stay in college. The 900 fund, he said, would only be q beginning. If the college was a success, tho Presbyterians of the State would in- crease the endowment and at the end of a generation the endowment would prob- ably be several hundred thousand d)l- lars. The President of the College fir Mer had informed the speaker that the 1ollege was already the beneficiary Tn the wills of several persons of affluence