Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-20
PRINCETON DRIVE 1
STARTS TONIGHT
Philadelphia District to Open
Campaign for 81 100000
at Informal Dinner
NATIONAL GOAL s14,ooo,0 900

The national Princeton endowment
fund campaign for $4,000 900 opens
tonight in the Philadelphia district with
an informal dinner at the Princeton
Club, 1923 Locust street. The cam
paign will continue for two months.
The quota for the Philadelphia dis
trict. which is bounded by Williamsport
on the north, Harrisburg on the west
and includes the state of Delaware on
the south, is one and half million
dollars.
Henry Thompson, national chairman
Of the campaign, will outline the
method of soliciting funds at tonight's
meeting, and Alexander Van Rcns-
selaer, chairman of the Philadelphia
district committee of fifty teams, will
also speak.
John Greer Hibben, president of
Princeton, has been invited to address
the meeting.
1t is planned that the anticipated
$14 ZOO. 900 to be realized in this cam
paign will he used ms follows.
A $1,000 900 endowment for the i'm
mediate increase of salaries to a point
more commensurate with the present
conditions of living.
A So 900 900 endowment in order to
endow professorships and assistant pro
fessorships at present dependent on
general funds
A 81 .000. 900 endowment in order to
place the preceptorial method of in
ttruction on better footing.
Three hundred thousand dollars is
necessary for additional dormitory space
to. relieve the university of burden
entailed IN remitting tuition fees of stu
dents with limited means.
In order to bring to the University
students of limited means from outlying
sections of the United States, and in
accordance with Princeton. the plan of
AmericaniZing America. a foundation OF
81 600 900 is necessary for scholarships.
In addition to 1877 individual memorial
endowments perpetuating the names of
Princetonians fallen in the service OF
the country.
$500, 900 for Library Maintainance
A foundation of 5000 900 will be de
voted to the extension and the main
tainance of the university library
So .OOO, 900 to erect and equip new
laboratory of chemistry and to provide
a requisite staff of instructors; 81, 600, :
OOU for the completion of the school OF
engineering; $3.50 900 for the develop
ment of the school of architecture
$3.50 900 for the department OF astron :
omy: $3.50 900 for the extension OF NC
Gosh hall, the student clubhouse; $l5,
600 for graduate fellowships, and $2oo,
600 to assure the wider scope and
greater effectiveness of the universlts
religious activities. The total pudge'
b.
The Philadelphia committee com
prises, besides Mr.. Van Rensselaer,,
Malcolm Lloyd, vice chairman ). Nc
Kean Bayard, treasurer Edmund BAY
ly Seymour, secretary. The executive
committee consists of Major Charles },
Biddle, DR.. Charles d. Hart, Bayart
Henry, Stacy B. Lloyd, j. kearsley
MITCHELL John S. Newbold, Isaac W
Roberts, Il. Williams Roberts, a. ii
+ Winterstein and Joseph II. Mooiston:
The honorary advisory committee III
cludes William p. Barba, B. Dawson
Coleman, DR.. Edward =. Davis. Sus'
sex d. Davis, Agnew 7. Dice, George
Dallas Dixon, George w. 9. Drexel
William Warner Harper, DR.: james
Hendrie Lloyd, William l.. Mclean
Levi l.. Rue, Isaac Starr, DR.. Samue
S. Stryker, DIR. James O., Wilson,
Laird II. Barber, of Mauch Chunk
Pa; G. A. Endlich, Reading, Pa.
Henry A. Fuller, Wilkes Barre, Pa.
George Gray, Wilmington, Del, Albi
3. johnson, of Rosemont, Ia. Horati.
q, Lloyd, Haverford, Pa; David Il
Marvel Wilmington, Del. w. Hey
ward Myers, Hayerford, Pa. William
A. Patton, of Radnor, Pa; james
Pennewell, Dover, Del; Samuel Rea
and Henry Tatnall, of Bryn Mawr
Pa, and James Stewart, Chambers
huru Pa