The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-03-11
COLLEGES ASK
FOR MILLIONS
Nearly IS Institutions of Learn
ing in the Country Now
Seek Funds.
LARGEST SUM IS S25,OOO,000
Northwestern Wants $4,000, 900 tor
Buildings Alone-Hieher Pay for
Professors Promised by All
Campaign Committees.

New York.-Nearly Seventy-ive COL
leses 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 1t is estimated that the
total sought is more than 2OO,OOO,OOO.
Five of the largest institutions In
the country-Harvard, Princeton, Cor
nell, Northwestern and New York uni
versity-are engaged in campaigns,
and the total sought by these five uni
versities alone is $70,7O0,000. North
western seeks S25,O00,OOO. Harvard
already has promises of $12,OOO,O0O.
toward her desired fund of S15,25O.-
600. Cornell's> goal is S10,O0O,OOO.
Princeton desires S14.000,O0O, and New
York university has set $6.45O,00O as
her minimum in a campaign to be
launched late this month.
Pittsburgh Wants S16,oo0,oo0.
Other large sulus sought by some OF
the smaller colleges carry the total
above S1OO0OO,O0G before the first ten
campaigns are enumerated. Boston
university also wants S10,0O0,000. The
University of Pittsburgh intends to
raise Sl6,O00,O0O in the next five years.
Oberiin college Of Ohio is to raise
S5,2S5 900, and ten other colleges are
campaigning for individual funds OF
$3,OO00O0 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 be 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 $3,OO0,-
900, S1,5OO,OO0 of which is to be used
for a new library building. and the
alumnae committee of Barnard asks
s5OO,OOO to complete the 81 100000 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 $150,000 for an
alumnae hall, and is running it's cam
paign as part of the celebration of the
fiftieth anniversary Of it's 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 SS,OOO.000 sought by the Mas
Sachusetts Institute of Technology to
the S10,OOO,COO to be raised by Ford
ham university of this city for me-
mortal to it's graduates who perished
in the war. Joining, too. in the cam
Daigns are some of the WOmen'S COL
reyes, AINiS ONC> D1Sh
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. Frick. To
Princeton was left S10,OO00O0. Har-
ward received S5,O0o,OOO, and S5.OO0,000
also was bequeathed to the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology. Massa-
chusetts "Tech" also has received ip
It's 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 S25,O00000, 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 S11,000000, and
the remaining S4000,00O 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.