Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-19
RICHMOND COLLEGE TO USE
JEFFERSON CLUB BUILDING
Members Tender Quarters To Conn
mittcc From Institution for
Use During War.
WILL HOUSE 800 STUDENTS
Solves Problem for College, Which
Had Practically No rlacc tn Ac-
commodatc 600 Who Arc E>rcctcd
To Attend This Year.

Responding TO TN" request of the
Richmond College finance committee.
the Jefferson Club has offered its club
building. a; tho corner Of Allen Avenue
and Grace street. to tn" institution AS
a dormitory for it's students. The va
eating of tho building will talk. place
Within Il week. time, immediately after
suitable arrangements for til" r"mov-
ING ami disposition "f the clubs fur
Hiturc have been made.
After very brief meeting last uirht.
tho members OF the club decided that
the NtcatinE of thcir building. while
sacrifice would necessarily be great,
would he All action in direct line with
helping 10 win the war.
ON last Monday. Colonel Thomas L.
McAdams. ono Of tn" members of tho
Richmond College iiu;,ncc COMMITTEES. Of
which organization I. Z. Williams aud
President Z. W. EoatwriSht are the
TWO remaining members. approached
two former presidents of tho jefferson
club. |. !. Marcusc aud W. II. SchwarI
Schild. and asked that they take up the
matter OF turning over the c'ub to
with the president of tho club and his
board, with tho view OF securing the
building for Richmond College. On the
following evening the matter was pre-
scnted 10 tho board BY President w.
=. Nelson and a committee from the
club was appointed to meet and con-
fer with Il committee OF Richmond COL
lcEe trustees NJ NJ Mittrldorfcr.
Irving Straus and Ralph Levy formed
this committee.
NrTan EcmentS VIC" MADE by the Joint
committee which were satisfactory to
the club board. and a hurried call meet
ing OF the club members was set for
last night.
ACTUATED RS DESIRE To
SERVE NATIONAL CAUSE
Practically every active member Of
the Jefferson Club attended tho con-
ference. After a report had been made
ny resident Nelson. the following
unanimously adopted by the members:
whereas tho Richmond College has
represented that, in SIrrcudcrinS their
premises. the members Of the club will
he rendering direct and notable SER
vice in the winning OF the war, and
the club, upon receipt OF the request
from Richmord college, forthwith APP
pointed a committee to discuss ten
tatiNely the arrangements proposed
and has recon- ncnded the adoption of
the same, and
Whereas the jefferson Club is I'M
PEELED by the same high motives which
nctuatc the Richmond College in en-
deavorine TO further the national
cause: now. therefore, be ii
Resolved That tho action of the
board OF governors of tho club in re-
spending promptly aud patriotically to
the request of tho Richmond College
DC ratified and approved"
1t is estimated that the jefferson Club
building will be able to accommodate
approximately 800 students. AS the ca
pacity OF the institution for tho forth
coming year is to he 500 the problcm
formerly confronting the college as to
now the young mon are TO he cared for
is apparently solved Few arrange
mcntS for the housing OF tho students
viii have to he made, now that the
Jefferson Club is in he hands OF tho
'rd oil trustee : of the college.