Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-14
BULLETINS FREE ACADEMY FUND,
Subscriptions Will be Received From the Public for the
New Building for Which $4,000 More is Needed
Amount Already Raised Is Opportunity
for Philanthropy at Home-Dedicatory Exercises
With Address by DR.. Luther-Description of Building

Heading the list with a contribution
of $100, The Bulletin will receive sub
scriptions from the public in behalf of
the building fund for the new Free
Academy building which is occupied
today for the first time by pupils.
Costing approximately 100000. there
mas already been raised by subscrip-
ton and gifts the sum of about $50, 900
leaving about $4S, 900 to be raised, and
the trustees are anxious to have the
debt cleared up as soon as possible in
order to remove the encumbrance and
to permit the great educational work
to move along unhampered. During
the existence of the institution it is
conservatively estimated that the tax
payers have been saved $1,000000 in
taxes by not having been required to
maintain a high school.
The Academy was opened in the fall
of 1886, and has been free to Norwich
students with the exception of the
small fee of SO a year, ever since, bar
ring a brief time when, owing to q
period of financial depression and
failure of a portion of the income of
the school. it was necessary to charge
larger sum or temporarily close the
school. That trouble was soon met by
a liberal subscription on the part of
the citizens of Norwich.
During all these fifty-four years the
taxpayers have not been called upon
~ pciJ OIiS cent " LUZ 1iSil 6uuCdlIOlt
above the grammar grades 1t is es-
tinated that at least a tax of two mills
on the dollar would have been neces-
sary to found and maintain a high
school, which even then would not
have been upon so broad a basis or
furnish so many advantages as has
the Free Academy. 1t is believed that
fully a million dollars has been ex-
pened by the Academy in furnishing
these advantages.
1t has cost the Academy about SIS a
year for each pupil, and from the pupil
the sum of SIS has been received, leav-
ing the net amount of $50 a year
which each pupil has received as the
cost of instruction paid for by the
gifts of benefactOrs and others.
AS the school increases each year,
the cost of maintenance increases, and
were it not for gifts and legacies from
time to time it would be impossible to
carry it on. For several years, while
the income was inadequate, the trus-
tees and friends of the school raised
each year about $4,000 towards the
running expenses.
The necessity of a new building has
been neglected for a long time and
was deferred as long as possible, but
unless the full amount of it's cost can
be obtained from outside, the loss of
income from the funds that will have
to be used in payment will greatly
cripple the work of the school and any
plans for its expansion.
These facts should appeal to the
tax payers who have been and con-
tinue to be saved large sums annually,
to parents whose children have been
educated there, and former pupils who
realize the value of the training they
have received, not at the expense of
the public or of their parents, but from
the free gifts of the liberal hearted
people of Norwich.
The Bulletin will be pleased to re-
ceive any and all contributions, both
large and small, for this most worthy
object, and will present a list of these
daily The Bulletin leads the list with
a gift of $500
Contributions.
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