The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-22
WANT $4,000
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all the remaining days of this week
II Fairmont is to achieve her mark
Of $4,000 by Sunday, at which time
the intensive campaign closes here.
The subscriptions that are being
secured are payable in five equal an
nual installments beginning with the
opening of the next college year and
Fairmont people, especially those at.
filiated with the Methodist Episco-
pal church, promise to do their part
to the fullest extent. Wesleyan has
had a long and an honorable hisory
and some Of the leading men in public
life, in every profession and in ev'
cry branch of industry in which the
! state engages are products of the in
stitution. No institution In the state
is better known to the general Fair.
mont public than Wesleyan. Annually
for a number of years her football,
baseball and basketball teams have
staged one or more games in Fair.
i mont. Always the members Of her
teams have conducted themselves in
the most sportsmanlike manner and
have proved to Fairmont's citizenry
that Wesleyan develops an admirable
product from whatever standpoint her
men and women are judged. On the
occasion of these games, too, Fair
mont has at various times been De-
! seiged by Wesleyan's entire student
body and the fine spirit that is develop
ed there is exemplified in the conduct
of her young men and young women
here. Hence, Wesleyan Is so well
known in Fairmont that 1t is not
necessary for the workers to have to
prove that the institution is one worthy
of support, nor is it necessary for
the fact to be stated more than once
that for Wesleyan to be compelled to
close her doors would be nothing short
of calamity that would be statewide
in its effect. All Methodism must
especially rally to the support of this
great and worthy institution, and all
public spirited citizens, no mater with
what church organization they are
affiliated, must fully sense the respon'
sibility that rests upon them in this crl'
tical hour of Wesleyan's history. Wes'
leyan is truly one of the bulwarks
of Christian Education in West Vir'
ginia and for her to be compelled to
close her doors would be an unpreced'
ented thing in the history Of Ameri'
can colleges and would reflect indef'
initely on the citizenship of the state
as a whole. Yet, If this 100000 OF
endowment is no secured Wesleyan
must close her doors. Under pres
ent conditions, suffering annual heavy
financial losses, beseiged on every side
to increase the efficiency Of her teach
ing staff and to add new departments
pressed, too, for the payment Of her
unsecured outstanding obligations
Wesleyan is truly fighting with her
back against the wall with no alterna'
tive, in the case Of failure in this 81
gantic enterprise, but to cease to play
her important part in the educational
work of the Commonwealth
Telephone reports from Buckhannon
at noon today were to the effect that
total of S241, 415 In binding pledges
had been actually received at the Of
flee and filed. OF course, all reports
from last Sundays work, which was
big day all through the state, were
not in and this total will continue to
grow, but the fact remains hat almost
$26O,OO0 in bona fide pledges music
be secured within the next two weeks
or the entire amount pledged up to
this time will be void, All pledges
made are conditioned on the securing
of the entire amount for which the
college is asking, because It is realized
by those in charge Of the destinies OF
the institution that nothing short oil
the amount asked for will Adequately dc
the work that Wesleyan mus do II
she is to serve her constituency as she
should.
The campaign is not hopeless by any
means, because the report from Buck
hannon stated that eight thousand
dollars were received in the first
mail this morning exclusive Of the
Fairmont contribution for yesterday
but approximately eighteen thousand
dollars per day must be secured from
now till the night Of June 8, which
is closing date, or the campaign will
close. This means that heroic work
must be done and Fairmont must dc
her part,
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