Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-02
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
ARE DOING THEIR PART
Wonderful Response Is Made by
Virginia Students in Appeals
s. for War Work.
LARGE FUND is NOW ASSURED
y. NJ. c. 4. and Y. W. G. a. Join
In Movement TO Support War
Councils and to Keep Alive Stu
dent Movement in Other Nations.

dent Movement in Other Nations.
IL this war Is going 10 teach anything
TO hitherto sclf-centered nation 1t is
SRcriGcial giving. Great campaigns for
great causes have ceased to be q nine
days wonder, and have become every
day occurrences. and i'll each case the
. mass of the American people is COM
ing nearer to an ideal of thoughtful
and unselfish service. Moreover, the
n changing viewpoint is in no way lin
4 tied to the older men and women OF the
81 country. Perhaps this last fact can find
no better illustration than the magnif-
cent and heroic respons, which has
been made by the students OF the coun-
try in the establishment OF the student
friendship fund OF 100000, which
has recently been completed in joint
campaign by the Student y. NJ. c. y.
and Y. ". c. a. Of America. The plan
had its origin III conference OF stu
i dent secretaries of both the y. NJ. c.
a. and Y. W. c y. and OF student
h volunteer representatives,, held at
Niagara in September. and all other as
s ISOLATION work in the coneges or
America has given place to the raising
of this student friendship fund. The
< fund, which is now assured VIII be
i dedicated to four great objects: 90 per
cent will go TO the prison camp work in
3 war-swept Europe; 20 per cent to the
Y Y. W. c. A. War Council fund; 20 per
4 cent to the Y. NJ. c. A. War Council
s fund, and 10 per cent to keep alive
q the worlds student movement in the
warning countries.
George Irving, executive OF the stu
& dent war fund and editor of the North
4 American Student. says that the college
men and women OF America have set
standard Of giving that this country
3 has never seen before
STUDENTS OF VIRGINIA
IN THE VERY FOREFRONT
1t will be a source OF deep grat;iica-
ton to Virginia people to know that
the students OF this State are in the
very forefront in the proportion OF
/, money raised for this fund No col
K leEes in the country have given more
literally.
In charge OF the work in Virginia
were Miss Margaret Flenniken. repre-
( senting the Y. W. c. A. and J. II. Lang
ston, representing the Y. NJ c. a. 1t is
a notable fact that these two. with the
help Of the students themselves have
accomplished the task, as only in a
very few instances were they able to
secure outside speakers. So effective
has been their work that the goal OF
$4,000 in Virginia. set by the students
< themselves, has been increased TO over
$4,000. OF this the men gave over
S2e,000 and the women over 10000; the
colored students, $500.
Special mention should be made of
heroic giving on behalf of the co!ored
students. Their spirit and their sacri
flee has not been surpassed.
F,,I 81, e .
has been most impressive" said Miss
Flenniken. in reviewing the campaign.
"Of course. some are giving easily out
& of their abundance, but many are maxi
ing sacrifices. which are little short OF
heroic" Social affairs being
trimmed down TO the limit of simplicity.
Girls are giving UP party frocks and
christmas gifts. and men are cCrtai!
: ing fraternity banGuets and making
heroic sacrifices TO save for the fund.
The student secretaries all over the
country who have been raising this
fund have Initiated the heroic spirit in
the colleges by their own sacrincial
giving.
Many students must actually earn the
money before December Is, the date for
4 pledge payments.
Girls who have only S. 4 month
4 spending money have mortEaGed their
. allowances for the next 1--WE months
! in order to give $40 In our college
faculty member gave the money
Z which she had saved TO buy her doc
tors hood. When il is taken into con-
sideration that this is by no means
\ the only war work that the students
are doing: that last year they raised
s. S250.o0o for similar fund: that they
are participating In the Red Cross and
! every kind of relief work. il seems
rs II the people of Virginia have as
Z much right 10 be proud OF their col
lesc girls and boys rs they were OF
} their business men and women in the
great Liberty loan drive.
The following is the complete list
of Virginia colleges ard the amounts
contributed by each:
Women'A Colleges.
Sweet Briar College-over 1000. co
Hcllirs College .'........... $500 90
FarrVille State Nornfal-oyer 1900 90
Randolph Macon College $50 $500 q }
WAsthamntcn College ....... 100000
Martha Washington College. zoo. 90
Suilins Coilege 10000
Virginia lntcrmont College :. 1000. 90
Virginia College ..... ] 600 on
Hnrrisonburg state Normal 7je 90
Randolph Macon Institute 700 co
s Fredericksburg State Normal 500 20
Blackstone COiic.c .. hnn ou
& stuart 1taIl .'............... $500
AYerett College ......... 35n On
Southern Seminary .. a1l "a
= Stonewall Jackson College or an
1 East Radford State Normal 200 IA
!, Elizabeth College ... 1IC 10
I Shenandoah Collegiate Insrtc 81 %
II BridgCwater College ~ ~ on
( eastern Co!icge ........... y 90
4 Miller School ............. coo,
Mary Baldwin not heard from
Total .................... $40 o. 2 o6
Mem, Colleges.
s. University OF Virginia e5oo no
Washington and Lee MN
# Virginia Military Institute 4.onn.up
b Virginia polytechnic Institute OGo.o,
Il Medical College 81 Virginia
$4,000 for arnlulaucc) o5ncnn
L lsastern CoiieRe ............ 2.C2G.0O
q Randolph Macon College Gon0n
= Hampd en- Sidney College C2oo0
" Richmond College ... 7p,0c
= Emory and Henry College rIaGn
& Roanoke College .... z-+cn
gsRridE ewater College ~ j.ro
e William and Vary College :sGGo
9tFpiscopai High School tlrrnn
* Virginia Theological Seminary ln16o
Is Chatha Training School a6o 40