The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-12-18
CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED
FOR BEREA COLLEGE
Officials Of Institution Plan to Raise
Salaries Of Professors and Teachers.

BERE.A. Ky, Dec. 17.-Ini-rease in
the mazimum salary Of $4,000 a Year
paid 70 full professors and in the pay
81 assistant professors and teachers,
and the meeting OF immediate needs
Of tho Institution and pupils. are the
aims of Il campaign now under way to
raise $1,000 900 for Berea college. an
Institution founded solely for the edu-
cation Of american highlanders" from
the southern states, The fund. known
as "Berea College Necessity Fund" is
being raised under the direction Of
officials and alumni Of the institution
With the advice Of an advisory board
consisting OF notable men and women
from al parts Of the United States
Berea was founded in 1865, for the
purpose OF providing education for
mountalneers of Kentucky, Tennessee.
Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, Ala
bama and North and South Carolina.
It has never charged students any
tuition. and even in the present days
Of high prices board is provided for
students at s2.75 a week, and it Is said
that students can live at the college
Tor nine months for $3.50, Of which it
is possible for him to earn $50 by
NQfhiUB ten ftOul6 ~ week Oll lllG wi
Iege farm Twenty per cent of the
students earn all of their expenses
during the year. and another 20 per
cent use summer earnings for school
expenses. Fifty-seven per cent of the
remainder are partly self-sustaining.
There were 1854 students in Berea
college last year.
Berea provides training OF all kinds.
The mountain boy or girl can come to
the school and learn farming. nursing.
woodworking. and In fact anything
that Is OF use in normal life. The ccl-
lege department trains teachers who
expect to work in mountain schools.
According to Marshall r. Vaughn,
secretary OF the college, Bereau has
been financed during the past twenty
eight years by the personal solicita-
ton of funds by former President
William Goodell Frost and one or two
associates. During that time forty
five new buildings have been added,
and the student body Increased from
354 to 1876, and the number of work
ers and teachers from 2S to- 143. The
cost OF educating each student is
s114.5O year more than he pays. and
this year more than 500 students were
turned away. Several old stores are
used to house different departments,
and the women's gymnasium formerly
was a barn. Dormitory space is also
needed.
The campaign has been Endorsed by
President Harding The advisory COM
mittee consists OF the following men
and women:
Gov Henry j. Allen. of Kansas;
James M. Beck, New York Albert J.
Beveridge. OF Indiana; Miss Belle II
Bennett, Richmond. KY; Rev Nehe-
miah Boynton, Brooklyn; wlsiliam Jen-
nings Bryan, Lincoln, Neb: John W.
Davis, Clerksburg, w. Va; DR. Charles
w. Eliot. Cambridge Mass Rev
George "A. Gordon. Boston, Mass; MISS
Caroline Hazard Peacedale, r. L.; Luke
Lea, Nashville, Tenn; MedIll McCor-
mick. Chicago; Gov. Edwin p. Morrow,
Frankfort: Rt. Rev, William II. Man
ming. New York; 1t. Col. Theodore /
Washington, d. c.: Oscar S. |
Straus, New York; Chief Justice VIII
liam Howard Taft, Washington; Rt. /
Rev. Charles d. wlr1iams Detroit, /
Mich; Rev. Cornelius WloefflSin, New
York, and Daniel b. Wentz, Phila-
delphia.
William j. Hutchins is president of
Berea college.