Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-03-04
COLLEGES ASK
FOR MILLIONS
NearN rs Institutions of Learn
ing in the Country Now
Seek Funds.
LARGEST SUM is .S25,OOO,OOO
Northwestern Wants $4,000, 900 for
Buildings AIcne-Higher Pay for
Professors Promised by All
Campaign Committees.

New YOrk.-Nearly Seventy-five col
legeS throughout the country are con-
Quoting campaigns for endowment
funds TO increase the pay of their pro-
feSSors and TO provide new buildings
and facilities. It is estimated that the
total sought is more tHan S-0O.OOO,00O.
Five Of the largest institutions in
the country-IIarvard Princeton, CtS-
nell, Northwestern and New York uni-
versity-are engaged in campaigns,
and the total sought by these five uni
verSities alone is $1O,7O0.CJ0. North
western seeks $2J,0OO,0O0. Harvard
already has promises Of $12,0OO,0OO,
toward her desired fund Of $1J,25O,-
900. COrnels goa. is $10,OO0.0OO.
Princeton desires S14.00O0O0, and New
York university has set SG,450,0OO as
her minimum in a campaign to be
launched late this month.
Pittsburgh Wants $16,GoO,o00.
Other large sums sought by some Of
the smaller colleges carry the total
above S100,000,000 before the first ten
campaigns are enumerated. Boston
university also wants $10,0O0,0O0. The
University of Pittsburgh intends to
raise $16,000,000 in the next five years.
Oberlin college of Ohio is to raise
$5,285,0OO, and ten other colleges are
campaigning for individual funds Of
$3,0O0,000 each.
Although Columbia university here
has announced no plans for a cam
paign for funds, her president DR..
Nicholas Murray Butler, has intimated
that money might l~1 sought for the
completion of the institutions building
programs Two of Columbia's associ-
ated institutions, Barnard college and
Teachers college, are appealing for
funds. Teachers college seeks $30O0,-
900, $1,5O0,000 of which is to be used
for new library building, and the
alumnae committee of Barnard asks
100000 to complete the $1,0O0,0O0 en-
dowment fund.
All of the large eastern colleges
have committees at work in this city,
and Hunter College for Women and
New York university intend to push
their campaign for funds in the guer-
rilla warfare way because most of
their graduates live in the city. Hun
ter college is seeking $15O,OOO for an
alumnae hall, and is running it's cam
lpaign as part Of the celebration of the
if1ftieth anniversary of its foundation.
Organizations Of graduates of the va
rious colleges have been requested to
subscribe certain quotas, and the cam
paign has been carried directly to the
purse of each graduate.
Varying Amounts Sought.
Sums sought by the smaller and
specialized institutions range down
from the $8,000,000 sought by the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology to
the $10,000,000 to be raised by Ford
ham university of this city for a me-
mortal to it's graduates who persisted
in the war. Joining, too, in the cam
paigns are some of the womens col
leges, including Mount Holyoke, Bryn
Mawr and Smith college. Phillips Ex-
eter academy and Andover academy
also are on the list.
Three of the institutions that had
planned elaborate campaigns for large
endowment funds received large sums
under the will of Henry c. Prick. To
Princeton was left $10,00O,OOO, Har-
ward received S5,OO0,OOO, and $5,OOO,OOO
also was beQueathed to the Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology Massa-
chusetts "Tech" also has received in
its campaign promises of large sums
from T. Coleman Dupont on condition
that specific additional sums be sub
scribed by others during the campaign.
By far the largest sum is sought by
Northwestern university in Chicago.
Her goal is $25,O00,O0O, including S1O,-
100000 for new buildings and an en-
dOwment fund for their maintenance.
Intended expansion Of work is to be
covered by fund of S11,000,00O, and
the remaining $4,000000 is to be used
in carrying on the present curricu-
lums. According to information fur
niShed to the Vanderbilt Alumnus
the publication Of the graduates of
Vanderbilt university, the scale of pro-
fessors' pay at Northwestern also will