The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24

any other American city IS helo' VIII have its chance.
 Through the month of March | snirited campaign has been under way l here to raise a fund of $40O,OO0 to DC | added. in case one of the sites in con alteration is selected to an equal | amount secured conditionally some time ago. Meetings are neing he.u. | filled with the same enthusiasm as when A determined congregation or I oburch-goers urge each other to sub | scrfbe more liberally for new church huiIdinr. President Charles w. Need | ham of the University, Prof. Mitchell | Carroll, chairman of the endoWment | fund committed, Commissioner n S. F. MacFarIand and several other l gentlemen prominent in the plstrice have famed the flame of liberal giv- inr. at meetings under the auspices or 1 a committee of citizens and another | oF tha alumni of the institution. The suhscription is 6 popular one, with only a few very large individual amounts, and with many of moderate size
 amons, three or four that are under consideration, Probably the most fav- ored bv the average Washington citi- zen is that known as the Dean prop ertv. conveniently located in the northern part of the city. It is tract of land of somewhat more than nine acres which has been repeatedly nronosed as a site for the new White House ana is ideal for the purposes of fine university. It would afford an elevated campus such as is fondly remembered by alumni of Amherst, Cornell and williams. for instance, and give a spectacular outlook over the city.
 George washington University lacks only its permanent site. It has an honored history, immense assets in the way of governmental departments, bureaus and museums, and . broad oomprehensive policy that befits an institution aspiring to be chief of its kind anywhere. Since it's foundation as Columbian College in 1S22, 1t has grown with the capital city rom . very small beginning to giant size and international reputation. It's endow- ment in 1872 by the late W. W. Corco- ran was designed "to make the ool- iaRe a university" and university 1t accordingly became the year follow ing, with departments of law and
 medicine as well as of the various aca- demic studies.
 In 1902. with the election of Dr. Needham to the presidency, the insti- tuition entered upon new era of growth. The name Columbian, co easily confused in the popular mind with Columbia University in New York city, has long been regarded as un- fortunate, and proposal has arisen to carry out the name as well as in the fact the ideas which George Wash ington had in mind when he be- queathed fifty shares of the Potomac Company, of the value of eleven pounds each, for the establishment of a university in the District of Co., lumbia.
 The provisions of washingtons 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 Americans. The assistance of such patriotic organ cations as the George Washington Memorial Association and the local branch of the Sons of the American Revolution was already invoked. The foundation of the Carnegie Institu- ton in 1902 gave an impetus to ad- vanced study in Washington. and con- ditions were seen to be preparing which would give the capital supreme educational advantages. Accordingly in the spring of 1904, the aniversity'si charter was revised by Congress, making the institution pon-sectariap