The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-17
J. s. COLLEGES
 RAISING LARGE ENDOWMENT FUND
Quarter Billion Being Sub scribed Throughout the
 United States.

American universities, colleges and other institutions of higher learning are engaged in raising additional en- dowment amounting to more than a quarter of a billion dollars, accord ing to a statement made by Eliot Wadsworth, chairman of the liar ward Endowment Fund, in the liar yard Graduates" Magazine" Of this Harvard aims to raise s15, ,250,Ooo, of which almost $12.ooo,ooo has been subscribed.
 MT. Wadsworth has gone to Flu rope to attend the first congress of . the League of Red Cross societies in Geneva as one of five American dele gates. He was a former vtce-chatr- man of the American Red Cross, and because of his work in that orgariza- tion he recently received the Dis tinguished Service Modal awarded by the President
 '"The fact that individuals had any definite responsibility to the main tenance of our educational machinery l was hardly recognized" says Mir. ! Wadsworth. '+Citizens voted once a i year for members of the school ! board, college alumni voted at com | mencement for alumni directors and 1 members of the governing board 1 This, to a large extent, was the meas ure of our interest and thought" :! Continuing Mir. Wadsworth says: 'fWitEl constantly increasing em- pllasis the fact has been borne in upon educated men and women that the schools and colleges needed their individual attention. We began to l realize that our whole educational 1 system was in danger of deteriora 1 ton, or even disaster.
 Hundreds of institutions have been brought to a realization of the ! seriousness If their financ condi- !-tions by the rising costs of 1919, with the result that campaigns for addi- tional endowment have been inatgu- rated with a total amount asked for running over $25o,e0o. .ooS. Cities and
 towns have faced the same problem 1 Demands for additional pay by l struggling teachers have been insist ent. Special elections have been
 held; taxes have been levied to meet
 his universal cry from a hardpresset ! profession.
 Together with the growing sensf
 of danger threatening our institu
 tions, there has come a constantly
 growing cry for more education More and better education for tho
 masses; a higher and broader in
 tellectual development of the college
 students, has been advocated in nl uncertain terms. No political speecl , is complete without it's mention O
 our needs for better Americaniza ten which means, as funda
 mental, better education. No discus
 sion of the industrial problems whicl
 confront the country fails to brin.
 forth the need of 8 better under
 standing between, employer and em 7, ploye. Many methods for bringin1 hi 2h ar nrt Il every one of which involves nor education
 And so, side by side have arise1
 these two great changes in pubH
 sentiment First, a sense of respo~ > sibility among individuals for tn q :. support of the educator and the up 1 1 holding of the standard of education u second, the realization of the enor ' nous importance of universal an II proper education in the future devel .s opment of America
 MT. Wadsworth lays stress upo T.. the practical support given by tn '5 late Henry c. Prick who '+wrote i i" his will a testimonial as to h
 opinion of the value and importanc
 of our institution of higher learning
 MT. Rockefeller he says, "has e7 II pressed, in no uncertain terms, h y feelings as to the importance of higl A CT education to this country by h III gift of $5o,000,000 for distributic
 among colleges of the country"