The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-07-27
COLLEGE GETS A
neat AMOUNT

recent visit to Beloit College or Dr.
d. X. Pearsons of Chicago. Our
readers will be interested in this
sketch, since DR.. Pearsons has just
promised to give the College OF Idaho
$4,000, IL $4,000 additional is
raised for the endowment by July l,
1908. This Is said to be the 18th
college Dr.. Pearsons has adopted. If
the effort to meet the conditions i'm
posed by the doctor are met we will
hope to have the doctor visit Cald-
well in the near future, and believe
he will be convinced that the posi-
bilities before this institutions are not
excelled by any of the institutions he
has aided by his generous benefac-
lions.
The Board of Trustees of the col
leg are actively engaged In laying
their plans FOR the successful pros
ecution of the effort.
The plan as outlined is to secure
an endowment fund of 100000, to
the building fund of $4,000 for an
administration building to be erected
on the college grounds.
In whatever way the proposition
comes before this community we are
sure 1t will meet with the hearty and
liberal support of all the citizens of
Caldwell and We believe of the state
as well.
DIR. Pearsons' Immense Gifts to BelOit
DR.. Pearson paid his promised
visit to Beloit last Tuesday and was
received with the greatest enthu-
siasm by college boys and girls, fac
ulty and townspeople. He was met at
the depot by President Eaton and
President Holden of Wooster College,
Ohio, an alumnus of Beloit. A crowd
of students were at the depot, and
In their great desire to show honor
to the noted man who was their guest
they hitched themselves to his car
rage and bore him to Emerson Hall
where he was to be entertained dur
ing his. sojourn with them. The
young ladies of Emerson Hall, all
dressed In white gowns, received
their welcome guest with all due
ceremony, and escorted him to the
apartments reserved for him. Later
in the day procession of students
and alumni paraded the campus,
passing in review by his apartment
windows and showing homage to
their great benefactor as they pass
ed by.
Wednesday morning at the COM
mencement exercises the doctor
made his great speech. He told of
his first knowledge of Beloit, the
village, when in 1885 immigrant
wagons stopped at his fathers door,
ready to leave Vermont and try
their fortunes In the great west,
their destination being Beloit, Wis.
He told of his boyish longings for,
and imaginations of, that mysterious
country beyond the lakes and the
lasting impressions of this visit.
Then in 1851 when. at his wife's
suggestion, he gave up his medical
practice and started toward the set
ting sun in realization OF his boyish
longings. He told of the glimpse
caught of the new college building
then being reared as he journeyed to
GAINESVILLE, and the storm which rag
ed in his mind when fellow passen-
ger spoke of the founders of Beloi'
as college cranks," and the deter
mination formed before, but strength
ened then, to accumulate fortune
and devote 1t to just such colleges
Then he spoke in eloquent tender
ness of the faithful instructors who
In encouragement and poverty hac
stood strong and firm at their post!
and held Beloit safe through its frs
forty years. Men of self-sacrific'
and indomitable purpose were Pres
ident Chaplin, Professors Porter
Blaisdell and Emerson, and the othel
members of that early faculty.
Made cognizant OF the needs o
this striving college through DIR
Savage, DR.. Pearsons again visited
Beloit. Thirty-eight years hat
elapsed. A fortune had been real
ICED and now the time had come t.
fulfil the promise of his early years
This was eighteen years ago. N
one guessed his mission, and fey
knew who the stranger was, but whe'
he appeared on the platform and OF
fered the magnificent sum of 500
900 to the college the surprise an
JOY of the audience, the thrill of Ell
thusiasm which stirred them to fran
tic applause and widest enthusiasm
left the name of Pearsons high in tn
annals of college benefactions, an
Embedded deep in the hearts of a
lovers of Beloit. Since that tim