The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-15

49, Gertrude .Brougfton '99, Arthur
j. Bolinger '05, Maude Bishop '96, Rad
M. Lee 'O8, Arthur j. -Carruth, jr, '0S,
William P. Snyder '0S, Wistar P. Will
liams '08, George White '0S, Professor
Harshbarger and DR.. j.. D. Clark.
From Mr.. Harrison.
Mr. Hiram B. Harrison, financial
agent of Washburn, has written the
following explanation for the State
Journal:
Referring to tie discussion of the
plan of Washburn college to sell TWEEN
ty acres of the college campus includ-
ing a strip some $40 feet wide along
the east border, your readers may be
interested in some considerations
which moved the trustees to this ac-
ton.
'F'irst-However hard pressed the
college is for money, and the need is
very great, the plan contemplated does
this land for maintenance but places it
all into the endowment fund the inter-
est only to be available. It is simply
converting nonproducing property into
permanent producing asset.
"Second-The trustees have studied
the matter very carefully and from
every standpoint. They conceive Wash
burn to sin its infancy and are lay
ing plans for large development They
have brought the college to it's present
standard of excellence They are do
ing their best to safeguard it's splendid
traditions and to meet it's growing
needs. One of the stern facts which
perhaps weighs with them more than
with some others is an annual item of
some $50 900 for maintenance whose I'M
renting proportions they must meet
month by month.
'Third-The endowment is lament
ably small and less than that of any
college a 81 n1o a-I1
burn is doing twice the work meas
ured in terms of students being edu-
Gated of any college of her grade.
"Fourth-The terms of the deed for
the campus leave wholly to the dis
erection of the trustees the disposition
ofs the land for the benefit of the col
lege and the trustees have ever been
men mindful alike Of their legal and
moral obligation.
"Fifth-From eighty to one hundred
acres would be an ample campus for a
college five times as large as Wash
burn is at present and if you multiply
the Washburn- of today by five YOU
will fulfill the dream perhaps of the
most heroic men who have thought
deeply upon the subject.
"Sixth-Just ordinary men who do
things may be open to the indictment
of the artist but such ordinary mortaIs
with their feet on the ground and their
something to be said in favor of the
better dwellings, which will face the
campus from the new street and the
better care of a campus which is not
quite so far afield.
''Seyenth-And finally-It is gratify-
ing to me personally to find SO many
expressing themselves as vitally inter-
ested in the policy and welfare of
Washburn. During the brief period 1
have been seeking ways and means to
meet the deman l for money for the
growing work have not always found
the ready response which this present
interest warrants. The pressing need
of Washburn is for increased endow-
ment The endowment should be a
million and the plans of the trustees
contemplate such an achievement
With million dollars of endowment
Washburn would be sunexcelled among
the colleges of the United States. It
may interest some one who sees these
lines 60 know that $4,000 given now
would at once bring. to- the college an
additional $4,000 8ffered by Mr.. An
drew Carnegie.
yours for greater Washburn,
HIRAM B. HARRISON. -