The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-20
COLLEGE APPEALS
TO TARDY DONORS
Asks Payment of Outstanding
Subscriptions to Secure
$4,000 Fund.
TIME LIMIT EXPIRES APRIL 1
Failure to Collect by That Date
Threatens Expansion Of
Richmond College.

Eleven days remain of the fve-year
campaign mapped out in 1908 for rails
Ing an additional endowment of $500. 900
Tor Richmond College. with which to
take care of the greater institution
now building at Westhampton. From
Richmond College authorities came the
announcement yesterday that although
the time limit for collections expires on
April ]. large amount in subscrip-
! IONS sun remains unpaid and seriously
| threatens the plans of extension.
The campaign for an additional en-
dowment fund of 100000 was launched
under the most favorable auspices five
years ago. Under the plan, S35O.0OO
was TO be raised in Virginia. the Cen
eral Education Board. OF New York.
promising an additional S15o.O0o con-
diuoned on the raising of the larger
sum within the specified time In a
ten-day campaign the citizens of Rich
mond subscribed more than 100000 Of
the sum to be raised in the State
Many Of the Richmond donations took
the form of scholarships of 81 900 each.
given by men and women desiring to
niemor1alize kindred and friends by
aiding deserving girls and boys TO
get an education. The city took stock
in the new college as part of great
civic enterprise. realizing the need OF
well-endowed local institution. where
graduates of the city and suburban
high schools and academies could con-
l!Huc lnclf framing.
May Cripple Expansion.
If Richmond College is to get all of
the sl5o,O00 promised by the New York
Education Board. the subscriptions
must be in hand by April /. The col
lese authorities are busy winding up
the momentous campaign, and appeal
to all donors of scholarships and other
forms of subscription to make settle
ment within the coming week
Failure to collect outstanding sub
scriptions within the specified time
limit will, it is stated, seriously inter
may cripple the scheme OF expansion.
Most of the new endowment fund is
TO be added to the permanent endow-
ment. Tho proceeds arising from the
sale of the present college plant and
grounds will he applied to the con
struction OF new buildings at West
hampton
Buildings Going Up.
At the new site an army OF work
men is busy building Greater Rich
mond College. On the high ground
south Of the lake. towards the, Cary
Street Road, the great building of the
Woman's College, an immense Gothic
structure. looms conspicuously. Trees
and shrubbery are being set out on
the grounds. and already the landscape
has undergone a remarkable transfer
nation. Roadways have been cut out
bridges built gradings made. and the
setting of the new college rendered at
tractire. This group Of buildings makes
up the coordinate institution for wo-
men, which is 10 he under the same
corporation, with the college for men
on the opposite side of the lake
Two OF the mems buildings are go
ing UP. work on the new stadium is
progressing, and, soon as the street
railway loop is moved the foundations
for the large administrative group of
buildings Will be laid. The street rail
"ay viii terminate near the new ath-
letic field. a hundred or so yards back
from the lake, and the grading for the
new track il about ready.
The buildings of the enlarged college
will cost 100000, aud the equipment
and Improvement OF the grounds will
bring the amount UP to more than
$l,000,00o This will he one OF the
largest college plants in the South
and one OF the two or three academic
Gothic types of architecture in the
South. The present Richmond College
expects TO occupy the new site in 1914,
when the college for men and the col
lcgc for women will open AT the same
time