Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-07
$4,000 GFI OF
". c. PROCTOR IS
/ DENIED PRINCETON
Clash Over New Site Causes
Donor to Withdraw Offer
for New Building.

PRINCETON, Feb. denomination
has been obtained Of the report
that William C. Proctor, president of
the Proctor & Gamble Company, OF
Cincinnati, has withdrawn his offer to
donate $3.50, 900, made to Princeton Uni
versity.
The reasons he gives are that there
have been changes made in the plans
and interference in the arrangements
for the new building for wnicn the
donation was intended. A member of
Inc family last night stated that a let
ter from Mr.. Proctor is in the hands of
Moses Taylor Pyne. Of New York.
chairman of the board Of directors OF
Princeton University, with instructions
to place it before the board at its next
meeting Wednesday.
The gift was made by Mr.. Proctor
y May It carried several conditions,
amcng them being a stipulation that
$500,000 more be secured before May
l, 1910, and that a site f. the college
suitable to the donor be chosen by the
trustees Mr.. Proctor is of the class
of 1883 and Professor West was one OF
his tutors In college and then. as now,
MS class friend. Dean West presented
his ideas for the graduate college to
Mr. Proctor and the later made the
offer to tn university.
TIE gift was accepted Professionally
pending an adjustment of the fut IRE
policy of the college. He suggested
that the college be built upon the goli
links a considerable distance from the
part of the campus now in actual use
IL academic purposes. Objection was
n ade to this location on account OF
the fact that it would be separated
f I'm the undergraduate departments
and might tend to become exclusively
u~ndemocratic and out of line with the
future policy of the university as a
whole.
There are strong influences at work
to bring about d school that shall be
wholly democratic I'M open to every
man qualified to pursue graduate stud
les without regard to any other char
acteristic except fitness. Whether
there was any definite opposition to
this idea in any of its essentials or not
its supporters and the men who wished
to guide the use of the Proctor gift
were never harmonious. Mr.. Proctor
could not be brought to consider any
plan but that Of a college situated IN
some such place as the golf links, Of
by itself. =
1t is known that the majority OF the
trustees are not in accord with the
most essential aspects Of the Proctor
West policies. n they did not bind
themselves to them in the provisional
accordance of the gift. Little, If any,
of the talk heretofore current about
the problem has been official or accu-
rate.
Both Professor West and President
Wilson have declined to talk. M. Tay
Tor Pyne. of the trustee committee OF
the Graduate School. and other trus
tees have been silent also. The &C
ceptance of the gift resolved itself int
an academic technical question of jus
how the school should be administered
and there arose a difference of opinion
In the matter. There is no doubt what
ever that among the trustees Presiden
Wilson's ideas find more favor tina
those of the dean and the donor.
The discussion up to this time ha
been merely to bring Mr.. Proctor II
look at the matter from the same poin
of view as they.