The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-06-05
OPPOSE EPROPOSED
DORMITORY SITE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
PROTESTS AGAINST THE
PROPOSED LOCATION
OF NEW DORMITORY
Informed There il Disposition to
Place 1t on Back of Old Cam
pus.-Logical, Dignified
Protest is Made.

Learning unofficially that the arch
itect and the State Bond Improve
ment Commission contemplates lo-
eating the new dormitiory at the VI
S. C. W. on the back portion Of the old
campus and not on the new land re-
Gently donated to the college by the
city the Chamber Of Commerce has
voiced the protest Of the community
against the proposed site
The protest is a dignified and court
eous presentation Of the sentiment
and feeling of the people of this com
munity, and it covers every phase of
the question. The text Of the protest
follows:
To the Honorable State Bond I'M
proyement Commission,
Jackson, Mississippi.
Gentlemen;
The Chamber Of Commerce Of Co
lumbus and Lowndes County. having
heard, on what it believes to be good
authority, that the State Bond I'M
provement Commission has under con-
sderation the erection Of the large
student dormtory in the park of the
college grounds, would respectfully
give the following reasons why this
contemplated action. if a fact, should
not be taken:
/. That this land. which is in the
very heart Of the City of Columbus.
was originally donated to the college
by the City Of Columbus; the Cham
Der Of Commerce, according to its
best information beheYes. that while
no sucH nsseis alton was made in the
deed. that ii was mutually understood
at the time Of the transfer that the
park was not to be used for sites for
buildings but was to remain az a place
Of attraction for the college and the
City Of Columbus. The Chamber of
Commerce would respectfully repre-
sent to the Commission that to To-
cate a large building south Of Shat
tuck Hall would cause not only the
destruction Of a number Of fine trees
but would destroy the said piece Of
ground as a park.
2. That the City Of Columbus made
the recent donation Of land to the
college on what it believed to be the
imperative necessity Of having ad
1itional land on which the new build
ings contemplated in the bond act for
the Mississippi State College for Wo-
men could be erected; that the in
formation of which the belief Of this
necessity came either from the Com
mission directly or from a duly ac-
credited representative Of the Com
that at a forum meeting Of
the citizens Of Columbus called by the
Chamber Of Commerce for discuss
ION Of the question Of the donation
of this land to the college, those who
this mass meeting Of citi-
zeus. stated in their speeches on what
they considered unquestioned author
ity that the Commission would not
consider the erection Of the new build
ncs provided for in the bond bill un-
M the necessary land on which these
buildings could be erected had been
provided, a. there was not suitable
land for such buildings On the then
present college land; that to now To-
cate the largest Of the proposed
Buildings cr the old land. on a place
vh,er Che citizens Of Columbus be-
ferrF che Commission had decided
va- not suitable. would, without amy
intention ON the part Of the Commits
sion. in cffe,t. be bad faith with the
.lzsns Of Columbus. especially with
those who. believing they acted on
Hrec. information from the Commits
Han represented to the voters that
such an addition of land to the coll
eEe was absolutely needed in order
hat the college might get the advm.-
age of tine new buildings provided
=5r I'M tine bond act
g. That to place this building Ira the
park az the proposed place would
mean the practical destruction e the
present athletic field Of the college.
.t has taken years and a considerable
.xpgldil1re Of money 20 get this field
r condition: that the track ant ce9--a
.rr just UeW rettiug sufficiently
lacked 60 have them in first class con-