South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-26
MAKE SOUTH BEND COLLEGE
TOWN ALSO.

The disclosure made by Prest James A. Burns OF
Notre Dame university at the dinner at the Oliver
hotel Monday night OF the expansion plans OF that
institution should fill every South Bend citizen with
enthusiasm. AS disclosed the dinner. Notre Dame
has grown from a mere shack" through so years
until II today occupies % buildings and has
received but $4,000 by way Of endowment. while
Purdue and the University Of Indiana have been
receiving from the state for their maintenance ap-
proximatey a half million dollars year. Notre
Dame is now asking for a million dollar endow-
ment and for a million dollars additional to be used
for building purposes. If it succeeds in raising
this sum. which it undoubtedly will. South Bend
will have at its outskirts one Of the real great
universities Of the country.
The people Of South Bend should their whole
share 20 make The tendency will be TO endow
the community with an atmosphere that it sorely
needs. II we innoculate our great industrial
enterprises and spirit Of commercialsm with a
little Of the college spirit. the humanizing
Auence would be well worth all II can cost US DR..
c. A. Lprincott hit the nail pretty squarely the
head when he called attention 20 the need through
such institutions OF training the feelings and emo
ton Of we'll their intelligence. They
need it well as specialization for the various walks
Of life.
The endowment from the rockefeller foundation
Of S25OOOO gives the university a good start on its
endowment fund. 1t that through tho
alumni and friends Of the university s75O,OO0
be raised to make up the million and that the mil
lion shall be held in perpetuity the earnings be
employed as salaries to lay professors and in
structors Of the university. With those additional
instructors buildings will of course neces-
sary and also a larger student body. Or. to re-
verse the situation. Notre Dame has already
grown its present buildings and equipment and
buildings such contemplated, and more in
structors are necessary If the institution is go
ahead That also means If it is not 10 stand still
go backward.
This latter to be sure, South Bend does not want,
afford, and will not have. The city will do
Fart; that is the people of the city will. We
TO become something of a college town well
Industrial center. from two TO
four thousand outside students here every year,
spending from $500 $1,000 apiece. that will pass
into the local circulating medium. That means
a million half million dollars
brought into the city and spent here annually;
pretty good profit any investment that the city
may make in the proposed expansion. Notre Dame
would become of biggest enterprises; the
making of men from such materials boys
and exactly the kind Of that the world needs
to solve its future problems.
DR.. Burns is undertaking task
merely proving himself equal to the emergency.
Already register the institution is filled
the coming year, so far as ro6ming quarters at
university. classroom facilities go
out overcrowding. 1t is probable that from 500 TO
1000 young will to be turned away this
year and their opportunity for higher learning cut
off. because Notre Dame is already
hopes to become; what it is planning to become.
Plainly enough then. the university at crisis.
Two million dollars is a lot of money but this is
a big country, the Notre Dame alumni is scat
tered everywhere-and it is close to South Bend.
The crisis will be Lassed
One Of the sad sights Of life is man getting
his old whisky bottles and rinsing them 10 &C
cumulate farewell kick.
a boy has a tough life. Just the baseball
son gets we'll under way. he has to begin examining
for school
Considering some of the stun that is written. it's
wonder there isn't more insanity among proof
readers.
When you think a newspaper story Is Wild, you
ought TO see stuff we can't print.
The backyard garden isn't as attractive when it
comes time to transplant the tomatoes
If rents so much higher, may have to live in
houses wheels