Morris tribune., 1913-10-24
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Says the Minneapolis Journal in
its issue of Oct. IL Fifty thousand
dollars was the sum named in check
received yesterday by Erik Waldo
land, ,reasr rerS6f St. Olafs college, a
gift to the institution by James ].
Hill. The money, together with
100000 already donated to the col
lege rom he jubilee fund raised by
the aited Norwegian Lutheran
church Of America, viii be the col
lege's |rst permanent endowment.
The interest, estimated by Treasurer
Waldeland at something like $4,000,
is to be devoted to the operative eX-
penses OF the inst.t-5io@ The United
Norwegian Lutheran church Of Amer
lea started out eighteen months ago
to raise $1,000,0000 by 1915 as a ju-
bilee fund, in commcmoration of the
twenty-fifth year CT its foundation.
The organization. composed of 1900
Lutheran congrega items in tie North
west, received its charter N 1900
A committee, headed by Mr. Waldo
land and Professor John Nathan Kill
dahl, who occupies the chair Of re-
ligiOn in the St. Olafs faculty, called
on the pioneer railway man of the
Northwest at the latter's Office in st.
Paul at the time and told him Of their
plans. and that S250,000 of the ex-
| pected $1,000000 was to be devoted
to st. Olaf's as an endowment fund
eff you gentlemen will raise 5000
COO within the year for that college"
Mr.. Hill told them, come to me and
will give you the other $4,000 nee
! essary." At the end of the first year,
Jan 1, 1913, the committee informed
Mr.. Hill that the 100000 had not
been subscribed but that they hoped
to have it within few months.
take six or seven months more, and
| il you get the money, come to me
for the s50,000," was the way the
Great Northern man phrased it.
Treasurer Waldeland and Professor
Kildahl officially notified Mr., Hill
Sept that something like 100000
/ had been raised for the jubile8 fund,
and that 100000 had already been
turned over by the United Nor
wegian Lutheran church of America
to the officers of st. Olaf,s college,
| True, to his pledge the. railway mag
nate forwarded his check yesterday
| for the $4,000 "This endowment
fund will be of great assistance to the
| College of St, Olaf" said Mr.. Waldo
land. This educational institution.
with its 500 young men and women
students, a faculty of thirty-five, and
. constantly increasing expense, has,
on an average, fallen about $4,000
behind it's receipts annually. This
t, deficit has been met BIZ our united.
organization, or. really, the 1,6OO con-
! gregations composing it. This en-
dowment fund will be invested in
| farm loans and an assured income
of about $4,000 per year will go
| long way to putting the institution
| upon a firm financial basis. We have
/ at Mortified a school of some mo-
ment in the educational world. Forty
acres of land are devoted to its pur-
POSES, and only last year we in
! vested $4,000 in a new dOrmitory
for girls, the college being co-educa-
tional, 1t is our purpose, of course,
i to add to this endowment until, like
many of the country's prominent and
leading educational institutions, we
can place it upon a financial basis
that will guarantee it's perpetuation
as school for the Norwegian and
Swede of the Northwest This en-
dowment fund will enable the trustees
to go ahead with many new and nee
essary Improvements"
The retiring American minister to
Norway, Lauritz Swenson, is to re-
turn to America in short time, as
his successor, Mr.. Schmedemann of
Milwaukee, is now on the way to
Christiania to relieve Mr.. Swenson of
his duties. During the time Mr..
Swenson has been in Norway he has
made more personal friends than any
i other foreign representative has ever
made in Christiania; and no wonder,
therefore, that number of men and
women, counting among them some of
the most distinguished names in the
country, arranged farewell banquet
for him and Miss Swenson, which
took place on Thursday, Sept %, at
the Commercial club headquarters
Among the members of the arrange
ment committee were such people as
c. Berner and ]. Lovland, both speak
ers of the storthing: Gunnar Knud-
sen, at present prime minister; Con
sui F. Herman Gade; Hieronomus
Hyerdahl, president of the city coun-
Gil; N. Thlen, foreign minister, and
several others of the most distinguish
ed people, all with their wives. The
.Anglo4American club a few days af-
forwards invited Mr. Swenson to a
similar affair, as he has been one of
their most popular members during
his stay is Christiania In spite of
all this popularity on the part of Mr..
Swenson, and in spite of all the ar
ticles which have appeared from time
tn time trying IN nY.itiOicn tba onDo;,,4