The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-17
VERMONT ACADEMY
TO RAISE $4,000
Campaign Begun for Rebuilding Farms
worth Hall-Large Enrolment
Means New Dormitory

An active campaign has been begun |
Tor securing funds with which to re
build Farnsworth hall at Vermont
academy, which was burned three wears
ago \ large increase in students
makes a new dormitory a necessity.
and an appeal is being made to All
friends of the academy TO meet the
emergency
Since Farnsworth hall burned. all
effort has been made to clear the acad-
envy of debt. The mortgage indebted
ness has been paid and the floating in
debtedness has been provided for Last
spring, Henry l.. Bowles, 81. of Spring
field promised to give $4,000 toward
the new building on condition $50, 600
should be raised. 1t has been impossi-
bic to do very much until now in Sc
curing subscriptions, but few thou
aSnd dollars have been pledged.
Plans for the new building have
been practically adopted 1t will be
constructed on the old lines in order to
secure the architectural unity of the
campus. The interior, however, will be
in accordance with the most approved
plans for dormitory construction On
the first floor, at the front, viii be
large foyer. In the rear of this assem-
| bly, hall will be rooms for students and
masters. The second floor will be given
TO single rooms, and the third floor
viii be of the dOrmitory type of con-
struction for younger boys, with a low
| er school study room for evening use.
In the basement will be ample show
| ers, lockers, game rooms, and store
rooms.
| The appeal which is being sent out
| is signed by George b. Lawson, princi-
| pal, formerly of this town, and in part
it reads as follows:
Coming ut a time when the acad-
emy was laboring under distressing
financial difficulties, the fire was a ter
rifc blow. 1t threatened the very life
of the school. Only by tremendous
Istruggle and the generous help of
friends have we been able to recover.
Today, however, we face a most
promising future The finances of the
school are in better shape than they
have been in years. New students have
come to us in such number that both
our present dormitories are full to
Overcrowding Furthermore, present
indications point strongly to very
large enrolment for another fall.
ITO provide room we must have a
new dormitory. Never was a need
greater 1t would be a thousand pities
. ut our Splendld progress were 70 De
hindered for the want of accommoda
tion.
"a campaign has been started for
l$50,000 Fifteen thousand dollars has
come from our always loyal alumni. AS
a rule our alumni are not wealthy, sc
that we must seek the aid of outside
friends We venture to hope that you
will help ms in raising the balance
$50 900
From the year of its founding, the
academy has rendered special encour
: agement to Vermont boys who hay,
had hard time to get start. There
!, fore, we feel that the academy has
contributed in no small measure to thu
ibetterment of the commonwealth.
J. 'The academy bears the state name
e 1t is the only strictly boys school il
It the state It is a Vermont schoo
worthy of the support of all friends o
Vermont. The high character of tn
work it is doing in the wholesom
training of boys, backed by its 3S year
i of strong history, places it in the from
- rank of the state s educational institu
tons