The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-13
Want A MILLION.
Washburn College Sets Its En-
dOWment Mark.
To Raise That Sum Within Ten
Years.
VACANCIES ARE FILLED
Rev. L. G. Schnacke and j. w.
Robson on the Board.
7ACANCIES ARE FILLED
Glass Day Exercises Are Held
on College Grounds.

ment fund" This is the battlecry
which those of Washburn's alma
mater and those interested in the
| school will have on their lips for the
next ten years. One million dollars
In ten years is the high mark which
/ Washburnites have set for themselves.
At present the endowment fund rep
resents 100000. The increase in the
| endowment which is now planned
originated in the adoption of a reso-
luton to that effect on the part of the
| board of trustees at noon today. The
resolution was simple in form and
merely stated that such should be the
goal OF Washburn's endeavors for the
next ten years. The amount is to be
secured by pledges, and the United
states VIII be canvassed in the effort
70 IdlSe the necessary sum- It is pre-
sumed that a number of Topeka
friends OF the institution who are
possessed of wealth will be interested
suImclently to contribute literally.
Inc formal announcement of the
effort to raise this additional endow-
ment fund will be made by DR.. PIass.
president of Washburn college, this
evening at the Auditorium Dr. PIass
was reluctant to say ANYTHING abOut
the matter this noon, preferring to
make the formal announcement this
evening 1t was, however, generally
known that such action as outlined
was being contemplated.
No changes in the faculty are an
nOunced and no additions are report
ed to the endowment fund.
Two vacancies in the board of trus-
tees were filled. The place of DR..
Richard Cordley, of Lawrence, who
died during the past year, was filled
by the appointment of Rev. Leon G.
Schnacke, of Mcpherson, Kas, while
| ]. W. Robson, railroad commissioner
from Ell Dorado, Kas., was elected to
fill the expired term of c. c. X Sec
relle, of Seneca, Kas.
The usual honorary degrees will be
conferred at the graduating exercises
Wednesday morning. The board
voted to bestow the honorary degree
of D D. upon Rev. Henry Thayer.
field secretary of the Congregational
church in Kansas. Mr.. Thayer re-
sides in Topeka. Prof. L. D. White
more, superintendent of the city
many years at Washburn, will receive
the degree of Lit D., while Rev. Arch
ibald McCullaugh of Worcester. Mass.
viii be given the degree of Ii. d.
Speakers Detained by WashOuts.
Owing to the absence of DR. King,
president of Oberlin college, and Rev
Brodie of Chicago who were to deliver
addresses this morning in the college
chapel this part of the programme was
dispensed with. Both of these gentle
men are detained by washouts east of
Kansas City and will arrive some time
this afternoon.
The class day exercises of the gradu-
ating class and the planting of the ivy
at the north wall of the new library
were the events of the morning
The class day exercises took up the
major part of the forenoon. They were
held out under the open in a grove of
the campus trees just east of the Car
negie library. Chairs for the guests
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class president John Ekstrom, presided
and called upon the members of the
class for the addresses which had been
prepared, to the faculty, to the members
Of the lower classes and to the college
at large.
The graduates with their caps and
gowns made an especially pretty sight
as they grouped about the loving cup
which was passed from lip to lip and
/ pledged their unSWerVing fidelity to
their college in the future years.
The ivy grafton by Clifford Cunning
ham and the address on fellowship -bv
Harvey Phillips were especially good
Mr.. Cunningham had an especially fine
/ address and urged that the class re-
member the life and teaching of Peter
| McVicar, Washburn's former president
who died two years since. Let us"
said the speaker, cling to truth as
closely as that ivy will cling to the
walls. Let US build noble, upright lives
and remember that man who died two
years ago and who probably more than
any one else represented the upright
| type of manhood
Harvey Phillips said in part: I'VE
congratulate both you and ourselves on
the democratic spirit that is so manifest
in our college at the present time We
are proud that the class of 1905 has
played its part in the bringing about
this condition in the various college
organizations where fellowship is high
er than partsanship''
Following the planting of the ivy by
the class president the members of the
class of 1905 sang the college songs and
with this the mornings exercises were
concluded.
Dedication of Library.
This afternoon the dedicatory exer-
cises OF the new Carnegie library took
place. President William F. Slocum,
D. D., of Colorado college delivered the
address. The chapel was crowded.
President Plass introduced the speaker
who said in part: Many forces enter
into the making Of an institution Of the
higher learning just as there are many
that enter into the making of nation
or a commonwealth. There must be the
leadership of clear minded men, the de-
votion of those who are unselfish and
loyal and the generosity in word and
deed of those who understand the rela-
ton between higher education where
the moral force ideal predominates and
the true glory and safety Of the state
and country.
It is a hold upon the larger truth
that enables one to understand the
worth of the smaller One who lives
continually in the realm of small things
however necessary these smaller things
may be, becomes entirely limited bv
them. A grasp upon the larger truth
is essential for a right view of the life
of it's nation or of the Individual him
self To one person a scratch upon
rock is only a scratch and nothing
more. To another who knows some