The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
PRINCETON STARTS
$14,OOO,0OO DRIVE
Alumni From All Parts Of the
Country Attend Conferences
at University.
AID FOR LOYAL FACULTY
Larger Salaries Part Of Plan
in Campaign to Increase
Endowment Fund.
Special Despatch to TEE Sun.

Special despatch 10 TIE Sun.
PRINCETON, N. j., Sept 26.-With a
gathering of alumni from every section
of the country, Princeton formally be-
gan a national campaign to-day for an
addition of $4,000. 900 to the permanent
endowment fund Of the university. At
the morning conference addresses were
delivered by President John Grier Hib-
ben. Henry B. Thompson OK New York
and Wilmington. Del. chairman of the
general committee, and J. o. H. Pitney,
district chairman for New Jershey. At
dinner at the Nassau Club this eve
ming. attended by seventy-five delegates
to the conference, Mr.. Thompson an
| nounced that subscription to the fund at
the end Of the first day totalled ST.
CSC, $50
The money to be raised by the cam
paign. which will last from four to six
months. will be devoted to the immediate
and urgent needs of the university. In
creases in the salaries of professors and
instructors on the university faculty will
require two of the fourteen million
dollars
For New Professorships.
Three millions will be devoted to es-
tablishing new professorships and as
sistant professorships Another three
million will be devoted to the school of
engineering. two millions to the depart
ment of chemistry, and a million each
to the endowment OF the preceptorial
system, which always has been Prince
tons chief pride. and to the establish
ment of regional scholarships.
Amounts varying from $4,000 to
5000, 900 will be applied to the following
funds: the university library, financial
aid for students, the school OF archi-
| lecture, the department of astronomy,
graduate fellowships. university religious
work. and the extension of McCosh
walk.
Mr.. Thompson in his opening address
at the morning session said: "Our
| meeting to-day will have a tremendous
| and vital bearing on Princeton's future.
| We have reached a crisis in our history
which must be met Princeton's needs
were never greater nor were her oppor-
| tunities ever greater. Our campaign ID
| planned on simple lines--a personal APP
| peal to every Princeton alumnus and
every friend of Printcon to help the uni
versity In the crisis"
Mr.. Thompson then outlined the or
ganization plans. All the speakers laid
| n
substantial increase in the salaries OF
| every professor and instructor.
| Praises Work of Faculty.
| President Hibben said that the real
have been the members of the university
faculty 1.-THE teachers OF our land,
he said, ''have given their life's blood
TO impart vitality and vigor to our in
| stitutions of learning. At Princeton
we must have resources adequate to en-
, able us to keep our best men and to add
to our faculty from time to time the
strongest men we can secure.
There is a danger menacing not only
Princeton. but the cause of education
generally because of inadequate salaries
We must, in concerted action with other
educational institutions, endeavor to re-
store the prestige OF the teaching pro-
fession."
The meeting this afternoon was de-
voted to a consideration of the specih7
needs of the various departments OF the
university. Members of the faculty. In
Guiding the heads of all the departments,
gave short ten minute speeches on the
needs in their divisions.
James NJ. Barnes OF New York pre-
| sided at the evening meeting. The
speakers included Dean Andrew Fleming
West OF the Graduate School, w c.
Proctor of Cincinnati. Prof. Wilson Far
rand of Newark and Cyrus H. McCor-
mick of Chicago.
! The members OF the general committee
are Henry B. Thompson, New York.
chairman; James Barnes. New York,
v'ce-chairman President johns Greir
Hibben. Princeton; Henry B. Fine,
Princeton: William Church Osborn,
New York: J. o. II. Pitney, Newark ,
Charles Scribner. New York; w. +.
Hope, Henry c. Irons, Percy r. Pyne I'd,
C. w. Halsey. d. Q. Brown, G. w. Per-
kins, Jr., Ivy L. Lee. s. A. Lewisohn,
Parker d. Handy and Henry Fairfield
Osborn, all OF ew York city; Curtis NJ,
Wilcox, Defiance. Ohio. and NJ. Taylor
Pyne. Princeton.