Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-04-25

winter or their all-year home. After
the requisite land has been secured,
then the rest of the nation, which, it
is we'll known, regards Washington
with different feeling from that in
which any other American city is held
will have its chance.
Through the month of March a cam
paign has been under way here to
raise a fund Of $500 900 to be added
in case one of the sites in cOnsidcTa-
tiCn is selected, to an equal amount
secured COnditiOnally some time ago.
Meetings are being held, filled with the
same enthusiasm as when a deter
mined congregation of church-goers
urge each other to subscribe more
literally for a new church building
President Charles w. Needham of
the university, Professor Mitchell Car
roll, chairman of the endowment funG
committee, Commissioner H B. T.
MacFarland, and several other gentle
men prominent in the district nave
famed the flame Of liberal giving at
meetings under the auspices of a COM
mittee Of citizens and another Of tue
alumni of the institution. The sub
scription is a popular one, with only
few very large individual amounts,
and with many Of moderate SIZE.
A site will shortly be selected from
among three or four that are under
consideration. Probably the one most
| fn I'D Nv
citizen is that known as the Dean
property, conveniently located in lie
northern part of the city 1t is a
tract of land of somewhat more than
nine acres which has been repeatedly
proposed as a site for the new white
house and is ideal for the purposes of
the university. 1t would afford an
elevated campus such as is fondly re
membered by alumni of Amherst Cor
nell and Williams, for instance, and
give a spectacular outlook over the
city.
George Washington university lacks
only its permanent site. 1t has an
hOnOred history, immense assets in
the way of governmental departments,
bureaus and museums, and a broad
comprehensive policy that BELTS an
institution aspiring to be the chief of
its kind anywhere. Since its founda-
ton as Columbian college in 1922, it
has grown with the capital city from
a very small beginning to giant size
and international reputation. It's en-
dowment in 1872 by the late W. w
Corcoran was designed F'to make the
college a university" and a university
| it accordingly became the year follow
| ing, with departments of law ard
medicine as well as Of the various
academic studies.
In 1902, with the election of Dr..
| Needham to the presidency, the insti-
| tuition entered mon a new era of
! growth. The meme Columbian, 50
easily confused in the poplar mind
with Columbia university in New York
City, had long been regarded as IN
! fortunate, and proposal has arisen to
carry out IN the name as well as il
the fact the ideas which George Wash
ington had in mind when he bequeath-
| ed fifty shares of the Potomac COM
pany, of the value of eleven pounds
each. for the establishment of a uni
versity in the District of Columbia
The provisions of Washington's will
were never executed, but the thought
of executing the expressed wish of the
first president had long been shared
by hundreds of thousands Of Ameri-
cans. The assistance of such patrf-
otto organizations as the George
the local branch of the Sons of the
American Revolution was already In.