Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-06
DAKOTA WESLEYAN OUT OF DEBT
President Kerfoot BeEIns Campaign
for New BuiIding.

for New Building.
with the entire debt on Dakota ives
leyan university paid, President Samuel
Kerfoot has commenced on the task q
providing for some additional and highly
necessary buildings. For years the ath-
letic side Of the college has been permitted
to take care Of itself to a certain extent.
in that the men who formed the teams OF
foot ball base ball. basket ball and track
events have had no place in which to do
their spring or fall training or for. exer-
else in the winter months,
The pr~oject-~which President Kerfoot
has mapped out means the expenditure o.
Sl0o, 900 for two buildings-one a gym
naslum and social hall, and the other for
a science hall. A fund Of something like
5000 has been started BY the college stu
dents and got together through entertain.
mehts Of a lecture course nature. This
gymnasium and social hall will be equipped
with reception hall, psrlors and an ada
cent gymnasium room, which can all be
thrown into one vast room when occasion
requires. Rooms for The debating soc, ties
have been planned to be placed on tbs
second floor, which will be convenient and
comfortable. Everything In the building
will be modern, and it win be provided
with a swimming pool, shower baths and
all the paraphernalia Of the athlete.
In addition to this building will be
erected a science hall which will be uJil-
lied for the development of chemistry,
and all the sciences, together with a mu.
scum, and an assembly room which will
seat at least 1000 students.
Such, IN a general way, is the outline
Of the institution to provide for the future.
President Kerfoot has already started on
the financial part Of the undertaking, and
the nestegg for the great fund necessary
has been made possible through the gener-
osity Of James J. Hill of Great Northern
railroad fame. In the early fall DR.. Ker-
foot had an afternoons conference with
Mr.. Hill concerning the needs Of the col
lege in the way of an endowment and new
buildings, and the railroad magnate gave
the president a tentative promise that he
would make a large donation, with some
provisions attached. Mr.. Hin has made
good his word and in a letter to the pres
ident this week he made the tender OF
$4,000, providing $4,000 additional would
be raised. Mr.. Hill eased up a bit on his
proposition when he SAID that he would
let $4,000 Of his donation become avail
able TO help out on the 500, 900 project I'm
the erection Of the two buildings. This
will serve as a greater impetus to raise
the money within a shorter time,
President Kerfoot has started the cam
paign for the money,r and S10o,oOO of the
quarter million will be created into an
endowment fund for the institution. DR..
Kerfoot said that more than 500, 1000 would
have to be spent in the buildings as no
doubt a central heating plant would have
to be installed. These buildings Will bring
the college into the foreground and will
hA an1al a. nnN zNz-g. ~
educational institutions in the state. A.
Wallace MoCrea, an architect of New York,
has already sent out some suggestive
plans and sketches which appeal very
strongly to the president, and show the
general outline OF some six new buildings
grouped on the campus in the array which
Ii the ambition OF the president.
A new science teacher was added shortly
after the opening OF the fall term in the
person Of Prof. Pinch, who is greatly appre-
ciStsd for his thorough and advanced work,
and which can be compared in a very
favorable light with any institution Of sim
liar facilities, Prof. Pinch did graduate
work at the University Of Wisconsin.
The musical department Of the college has
been greatly improved in the last year, and
has been strengthened by the acquisition
of Marc ID, Lombard, who Is now at the
head Of the plano department. Mr.. Lom-
bard has just instituted a series of four
concerts which will be held throughout the
year, and which will act as tests for the
students, not only making them systematic
in progress, but will also convey to the
people something of the work that is being
done. The first of these concerts was held
Thursday night. The force in the Con-
servatory OF Music is being worked to the
limit at the present time and an additional
teacher will have to be secured before long.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN,