Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-10-14
ia. SULLIVAN, CHM.
ACCEPTED CHARGE OF THE
DRIVE FOR WISCONSIN COL
LEGES IN MARATHON co.

John A Sullivan, general manager
of the Great Northern Life Insurance
company, who has accepted the chair
manship of Marathon county for the
Wisconsin Colleges Associated, is busy
selecting members of the Marathon
county executive committee, and ex-
poets to announce it's personnel with
in a few days. Mr. Sullivan is exer-
cising great care in choosing the
members of the committee with the
purpose of making it representative
of the full and united educational sem
timent of the county. AS soon as the
membership is decided upon a county
conference will be called for a gen.
eral explanation of the work.
Proving Popular
The campaign of the associated col
leges is becoming popular wherever
the object is explained, because it is
appreciated that there are no more
vital forces for good in the state than
the smaller colleges and that upon
their prosperity to considerable ex-
tent depends the prosperity and adj
Vancement of the state as a whole
especially in the way of education and
culture. 1t is appreciated, also, that
the smaller colleges must be suffici-
emily endowed to enable them to do
their part in educating the ex-service
men, who are clamoring for an edu-
cation.
Especially gratifying is the earnest
support being given the movement by
the University of Wisconsin. Presi-
dent Il. A. Birge has given the cam
paign his hearty approval and urges
that it may be made a success.
Union Is Appropriate !.
'Such a union of educational forces
f. peculiarly appropriate at this
time," he said, "a generation or two
ago il sufficed if the college served its
local community and expressed the
lie of learning as held by those of
the faith which founded it. Today the
principles which shape the lives of the
nations and of the world are every
where being tested and questioned by
agencies which are at least national in
scope If your college ideal of the
union of learning and religion in the
service of the commonwealth, is to
have its influence, it must be main
tanned and enforced by the united
powers of all those who hold it. Be-
yond, therefore, and above the good
which will come from the financial
success of your campaign, place the
result to the state of this union of its
colleges. Let me therefore express
once more my cordial sympathy with
your movement and my best wishes
for its success"
Realizes the Need
of Harvard University appreciates the
need OF the smaller colleges He
writes:
''At the present day our colleges
and universities are hard pressed to
maintain themselves and render their
service to the public, because the rise
in the cost of living has cut the pur-
chasing power of their professors sal
aries in half. and there is no prospect
that prices, though we hope that here
after they may be reduced, will fail to
the old level. For practical purposes
the endowments have been cut down
TO 4 point where, without large addi-
tions, they will not be sufficient to
procure teachers of the calibre needed
To train our youth. This would be a
calamity which the richest nation of
the face of the earth ought not, and
1 believe will not, refuse to avert"
The Membership
The members of the Wisconsin COL
leges associated are Marquette Uni
Versity. Beloit, Campion, Downer, Car
roll, Lawrence. Milton, Northland and
Ripon colleges, which are appealing
TO the people of the state for $4,000 600
to be distributed among the nine in
stitutions on the basis of student at
tendance and to be used by them in
meeting theiT immediate and most
pressing needs.