Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-16
sl,OOO,OOO RACE
FOR TEMPLE FUND
BEGINS TONIGHT
Work for ST., 100000 Endow-
ment Will Be Launched
at Academy
DOUBLE CELEBRATION
Founders Day and DIR. Con-
wells Birthday to Be
Observed
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A campaign to raise 1000, 900 endow-
ment fund for Temple University. the
great philanthroplc centre OF education In
Philadelphia will be begun tonight at the
celebration OF Founders Day of Temple
University and the seventy-third birthday
OF the Rev. Russell II. Conwell, president
OF the university, at the Academy or
Music, Broad and Locust streets
The first word of the plans for the
$1,000 900 campaign to endow Temple Uni
versity will he given in the address by
DR.. Wilmer Krusen, Director of the De-
partment of Public Health and Charities
and vice president of Temple University
The success of the campaign for slWOOOO
to endow the university would lift from
Doctor Conwel's shoulders the RESPONSE
bility of maintaining the institution ne
founded 30 years ago. trustees say. since
then. toillng incessantly, using the I'M
mense income gained from his lecture.
Acre OF Diamonds" and finding assist
arce from loyal aides, he has developed
the institution to n size accommodating
nearly 1000 students and running classes
almost continuously from in the morning
until 10:30 at night
The announcement for plan for
si,O00,000 endowment fund will he the
feature of Founders Day this year. IN
addition there will addresses by promi.
mont educators and ministers. Degrees
VIII be conferred upon former Judge Meyer
Sulzberger and John Luther Long, the
novelist Toward the end of the ceremony
the faculty of the University will present
a portrait of DR.. Conwell to the University,
through the Board OF Trustees The paint
ing. executed by Leopold G. Seyffert, takes
high rank as portrait work
The degree of doctor of laws will be
conferred upon ex.Judge Sulzberger by
John NJ Patterson, of Common Pleas
Court, No. /. John Luther Long will be-
come doctor OF letters through degree
10 be conferred on him by Judge Norris
S. Barratt. of Common Pleas Court. No. 2,
The Rev. Floyd w. Tomkins, rector of
Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal
Church. 1gth and Walnut streets, will de-
liver the prayer at the opening OF the
exercises, after an organ prelude by Philip
III. Goepp, e the music department OF
! Temple University. Henry r. Edmunds.
president of the Board of Education, will
follow him with an address.
The principal address will be that of
Edwin Il. Sparks, president of Pennsyl-
vania State College. It will be followed
by the presentation of the portrait of
Doctor Conwell, by Francis Chapman,
dean OF the Temple University Law
School. Samuel NJ. Clement. Jr, will ac-
cept the portrait for the board of trustees
and 1t will be hung later In the forum of
the university. The artist, Leopold G.
Seyffert, will then be introduced by Or.
Thomas II. Fenton, representing the Art
Club.
Thaddeus Rich dean of the music
department of the university, will play
two selections on the violin, and the de-
grees will be conferred. Doctor Con-
wells address will close the speaking
program.
At the Founders Day dinner at Temple
University last night 800 guests of the
institution heard Doctor Conwell protest
that he should not be ldollzed as great"
"Do not consider me n great man." he |
,nt fafr ma nYHf nfA
and put me on a pedestal--a man apart |
from you. In spite of what people now
say of me, let me continue as your friend, |
a member of this large family. In the |
Christian church one never looks up at a |
man; he looks him squarely in the eye.
UNLESS you treat me as man ana one |
of you, when you carry my body from |
this church few years from tonight you |
will have a hard time to find a successor |
as pastor of this church and president OF |
Temple University. No one will be Will |
ing to attempt to I'LL the shoes Of one
called great"
AT another point in his address Doctor |
Conwell divulged that his ideal of edu- |
catlonal development in this city would |
be to have a university in every ward,
in order that the poor working boys and
girls might have the same opportunities
as have the fortunate few who go TO the
big universities.
"Put your university where the student
can get TO IL easily, where 1t is n neigh
borhood affair" he said where, II
boy or girl is compelled to work part of
the day, he or she may yet attend class
es and work for a degree; where recita-
tiona can be arranged to suit the conve-
nience of those for whom the university
is established; where higher education, be
1t academic, professional or commercial.
can be obtained at minimum cost OF
time money and physical energy.
efu4 Inc he W
done" said Doctor Conwell. ''It is part
Of the program OF the larger Temple Uni
versity. and can see Its accomplishment
In the Immediate future. The university
supporting The property is increasing IN
value. The classes are getting larger each
year We are doing a big work of ex-
tension.
more than 5000 pupils. young and old.
are enrolled in our classes. The in5titu-
tion is coming into close touch with the
public schools. and 400 teachers are study
ing for degrees in our classes, many Of |
which meet in public schools for the con-
venienee OF teachers
'eThe plan which we contemplate is sim
ply carrying this work TO its logical con-
Doctor Conwell also told something Of
his own life and experiences
II worked my way through Yale Uni
versity.' lie said, and l have never for
gotten H. My brother and worked from
Z IN the morning until o'clock I'm the
hotel to get our meals, which consisted
of what was left over from the guests
tables made up my mind then that II
ever got chance 1 would help students
who were situated as we were. We had
few clothes. we couldn't Join any clubs,
3a couldn't go around with the students.
We were just ground down by poverty,
and know what that means TO student"