Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-17
HARVARD ASKS ITS SONS
FOR LARGER ENDOWMENT
meets High Cost OF Living Problem
With Campaign Among It's
Graduates.
NEED TOLD BY DIR. LOWELL
Cnivcrsity's President Declares No
Community Can Afford to Have Its
Teachers Disconnected Because
or Too Small Salaries.


OF Too Small Salaries.
Harvard University has felt the high
cost OF living, simultaneously with
other institutions, and to meet the diff
hcuity is now campaigning among her
graduates for money to be used as adj
ditional endowment. The tentative
total is @ilooo.ooo. although it is the
intention to receive all ovcrsubscrip-
lions.
when interviewed regarding the need
for this money. President Lowell said:
"rhc new world has had cast upon
1t by the war many new responsible
ties We have to shoulder. TO some ex-
tent, the INDUSTRIES Of Europe We
have duties. material, financial. and
political towards the rest OF the world.
but we have another duty. too, and
mat Is intellectual. Our young men
formerly have gone abroad TO be cdu-
Gated. but it is now for us to educate
them at home, and make ourselves not
only center Of Industry, not only the
greatest Industrial nation in the world,
but the greatest intellectual nation in
the world. II |, is to be done. it must
be done with the aid OF and mainly
by means Of our universities.
VIII Not Give Up Traditions.
That is the question that lies be-
fore US today and il will be solved.
The question is as 10 where II shall
be done. Those OF US who are Harvard
men VIII say she has been the FIRST
in time. and We do not contemplate that
she shall forsakc her traditions. We
are trying TO teach the youth. and you
know and 1 know that you all feel
that the workman is worthy Of his
hire. and he is not receiving II. That
hire must be Increased. and it must he
Increased very largely, not only FOR
teaching but for the other things that
nation to carry knowledge. We must;
have sufficient teachers TO enable the
greatest among them TO give UP their
classes for year or two. ana write
books, to make permanent what they
know. and not let their knowledge die
| with them. We want something which
viii enable us to do the things when
will permit those contributors to come
out. II is pathetic at times TO see the
POSSIBILITIES which we have IN INA, a..
rection, and which are cramped Simply
because we have not the means.
Mu.t Not Underpny Teachers
| II, docs not pay the community 20
| underpay it's professors. and That :
wha, we are doing today. The cost 2:st
= don't oft"f know oS k HTs m Gc do Know
II is costing a great deal more now
for on professors 10 live, and ! know
that some Of them arc quite unable to
live as they should. What professor
wants is not fortune. but enough
e, live comfortably in the scale o.
live. and he wants TO educate his chill
dren as highly as he vas educated
his old age. And in another way the
question appears. 4 public. man. at
you underpay any body o. men IN the
community they vii! be DISCONNECTED.
to have discon,ented is the class that
teaches your youth.
This Is the first time tho University
has turned to her sons as whole. The
dear old mother is sitting there ready
10 do !, greater work than she has
ever done. tor the country WHICH
people OF the world are looking, and
We turn 70 our sons and ASK i thsy
"Harvard Is one, Of course. OF many
the others il We can convince Inc
community OF what a university stands
for in the life OF the people. our peo-
pie will rise and support their univer
Most Enduring of All.
did II ever occur TO you that tho
founded are his universities? Did it
eyer. occur 70 you tina, the universities
since then? The University o. Paris
has seer. AL the ,unheavais tina, have
within sound OF the Sorhonnc. and has
survived them az oxford and Cam
Of Ire Roses and through the En-lish
Revolution, and have continued TO be
just as vital and just as strong as
they ever were before. why? Because
the university really contributes to
the highest in civilization and CON
tributes something that is eternal
We are AZ a crisis in the history
OF our country, where the question to
he determined is not whether we are
in danger from a foreign power. but
whether the American people viii rise
TO the height which they can rise 10
and be one OF the greatest peoples
which the world has ever known
1T has been rather striking TO look
back on two races in the past. There
arc two great maritime countries in
the ancient world. one was named
with Rome and was afterwards con-
qucred Carthage has left not one
remnant Of thought of any kind.
Carthage was a great commercial
power. She was the mistress OF the
Mediterranean. but she has left ahso-
we are aware. of any consequence TO
affect the progress Of mankind. There
was another maritime power. not so
large not so powerful. that also was
overcome by Rome but that place has
stamped itself upon tho civilization of
VIC cannot think apart from the
thoughts of Athens.
AT the present day America has
her choice as TO whether she will he u
Carthage or an Athens in the future
world We can make ourselves simply
a great commercial nation, or We can
make ourselves one OF the great leaders
OF thought in the world. Through our
colleges il is possible and essential
that we put forth our great intellectual
power. If we are truly to he leaders
of the world"