Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-02

year are more numerous than at this time
on any previous year. We win have moro
students next year than we have this year,
and We must have new buildings.
AS to Van Ness Park as the location of
the university want to say, that I have
no personal pride In the matter. Some have
objected to it. saying we ought to go on the
hill. where there will be an inspiration from
the vtew-the scenery. II Providence opens
q way for another site, that viii command
money, I will be in the front rank in the
hight for the new sight.
Speaking of finances: Mr. Brandenburg
mere brought friend to me the other day
with an offer Of q building to cost from
Sl5o. 600 to $4,000, which he will give UNI
friends Of the university who are making
offers Every man in the university Is
working for its development. Other condi-
tional promises insure 100000 and more.
The university is not dead; 1t Is growing
slowly. but it is only through the efforts
Of friends that it win continue to grow.
II read letter today from John D. Rookie
Teller. In which he said: We do not think
the city OF Washington a good place for
a great university But what .say other
men-Andrew D. White. President James.
President Elliott of Harvard. DIR. Gilman
and others? They say that this city is the
greatest place for one of the greatest of
universities. Every European capital has
its great university, to which the professors
and young men flock. Is the capital of the
United States with its thirty-four libraries
filled with books, with the government do
ing scientific work in all lines an excep-
ton? Think you this is not the place for
a great university? 1t has the atmos-
phere, the pulse beat of the university"
Building Fund Plans.
Prof. Mitchell Carroll, chairman of a new
building fund committee which is to raise
100000 for erecting new buildings for the
George Washington University, was intro
duced. In his remarks he stated that what
was necessary was to arouse the popular
enthusiasm of the city in favor of a great
university and getting every friend of the
university to give something If Wash
1ngtOn is loyal the country will be- sug-
gested the speaker
The plan of operation, he said, is first to
raise 100000 of the amount by getting
$1,000 subscriptions from people of the city
This Is to be done quietly. Then after con-
vocation day this year committee of 200
VIII be organized to reach the friends of
the university in Washington.
The meeting was closed by vocal solos
by MIR. Sydney Lloyd Wrightson, president
OF the Washington College of Music, and
following that an informal reception was
held.
Those Present.
Among those present were: President and
Mrs. Needham, the Misses Needham, DR..
George N. Acker, Mr.. William j. Acker,
DR.. and Mrs. c. c. zimmerman. Mr.. and
Mfs. deOrSe L. Beeier, MT. ana MIS-. II. u
Brandenburg, Mr.. Adds B. Browne, Mr..
and Mrs. c. C. Calhoun, Mr.. and Mrs. L.
w. Call, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter c. Clephane,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Weed Corey. Miss Corey.
Mr.. and Mrs. John s. Croker, Mr.. John T.
Doyle, Mr.. ]. M. Drysdale, Mr.. and Mrs
8. M. Ely, DR.. Amelia Erbach, Miss Erbach,
Horace M Fulton, Mrs. H. K Fulton, Mrs.
John Doyle Carmody, Mr.. B. c. Getsinger
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis E. Giles, Prof. and
Mrs. Percfval Hall, Miss E. A. Hance, Prof.
George N. Henning, Miss Henning Miss
Eva V. Heth, Prof. and Mrs. E. A. Hill,
Dean and Mrs. H. L. Hodgkins Miss L. B.
Holbrook, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Holcombe,
Miss H. May johnson, DR.. and Mrs. ].
Scott Johnson, Judge 1. G. Kimball, Mr..
John B. Larner, Mr.. Fulton Lewis, Dean
and Mrs. ]. Hall Lewis, Miss Ruth Nc
Gowan, Mr.. and Mrs. McIlhenney. Miss Nc
Ilhenney, DR.. and Mrs. D. NJ Mcpherson,
Mr.. L. A. Merritt, Miss Merritt. Mr.. and
Mrs. Paca Oberlin, DR.. and Mrs. D. L. Odor,
Mr.. Julius I. Peyser, Mr.. and Mrs. M. N.
Richardson, Prof. Hermann Schoenfeld, DR..
and Mrs. D. Kerfoot Shute, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. H. Singleton, Mr. and Mrs. William
Small. Prof. Charles S. Smith, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. H. Smith, Miss Smith, DR.. and
Mrs. T. W. Stanton, Mr.. H. c. surguy,
Miss Surguy. Dr. and Mrs. M. F. Thomp-
son. DR.. and Mrs. ]. Roland Walton. the
Misses Watkins. Dean and Mrs. w. A. Will
bur, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry F. Woodland. Prof.
and Mrs. Mitchell Carroll, Dean w. F. r.
Phillips, Miss Phillips, DR.. c. w. Appier.