The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-13
FINANCING YALE
COLLEGE IN WAR
is A PROBLEM
Students and Scientists Pre-
pare to Serve Country
College Faces In
come Loss.

New York, March 13.-Ready to
give a great part of its students and
the services Of it's faculty and labora-
tories to this country in case OF war,
Yale University is now facing a grave
financial crisis in the event of an out
break of hostilities, according to re-
ports received at the headquarters OF
the Yale Alumni University Fund AS
ISOLATION in this city. With at least
a third Of their undergraduates be-
lieved to be preparing to rush to arms
at the first call, the college authori-
ties at New Haven anticipate g. cor
responding cut in the main tuition
and room rent items Of their income,
with practically no way of cutting
down the heavy overhead expenses of
their educational plant. Unless all the
graduates of Yale rally to support
their university in such a patriotic
sacrifice, it's very existence may be
threatened, the alumni who have al
ready given 100000 for it's running
expenses are informed.
With every facility of it's great en-
cheering, chemistry, physics and cleo
trical laboratories already pledged to
the nation with the services Of its
scientific workers, ,arough Director
Russell HI. Chittendon of the Sheffield
Scientific School, who is acting as
chairman of the Nation, Research
Council, the work Of Yale can not be
cut down to save a few labor, supply
and salary costs in case Of an exodus
Of students from classrooms and dor
mitoriese to mobilization camps, it is
pointed out. With the enlistment of
only a third of their tbirty-three hun
dred students, a reduction of over
$25O,0OO in the annual revenue that
helps maintain this $40,000,00O edu-
cational plant would result from lost
tuition and rent fees alone, Yale grad
yates are assured, which must be add
ed to the deficit at which it is already
operated. Since contracts for life or
a term of years are made with almost
all Of the teachers Of the faculty, any
further desertion Of the campus for
the military camp must mean in fl
nancial terms either the suspension
Of Yale's activities or her support by
graduate subscription through the
possible period of war, it is prophe-
sled.
That the twenty thousand Yale
graduates, scattered throughout the
country, will without exception rally
to the support Of their university at
this trying time, as they have regu-
larly in the past, was asserted today
by officers Of the Yale Alumni Uni
versity Fund Association, who are
ready to receive contributions Of as
few cents or as many dollars as each
can afford from every one Of this
graduate army. While over quarter
of the Yale alumni have heretofore
regularly offered sums Of any amount
to this fund, which has raised from
seventy to ninety thousand dollars
each year since 1910 to help run the
university, it is expected that practic-
ally every Yale man will this year
take the chance to help his college
face this emergency.
yale has never needed the COOP
Grafton of all her sons so vitality as
she does at this peculiar time'' said
Henry s. Brooks, chairman of the
Yale Alumni University Fund Asso-
citation, at it's headuarters, so Wander
bilt avenue, in this city today. eve
are confident that the university can
count upon the voluntary backing of
every one of the alumni in this crisis.
when they learn of the serious situa-
ton to which it may be brought.
Every Yale man, no matter what his
means may be, can help his univer
sitys now through the class agents of
our fund, in close cooperation with
the faculty and other authorities at
New Haven. We are not urginp-
and need not urge-Yale men to helm
tide their college over a critical ner-
iod, in case Of war, with what contri-
buttons they choose to make. Yale
will live as long as any of her 1oval
sons are alive"