The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-06
COLLEGES JOIN
WILSON TRIBUTE
More Than Hundred Participate ir
National Tribute to Former Presi
dent.

NEW YORK, Feb. More than 100
colleges in the country have taken
steps to participate in the national tri-
| butte to Woodrow Wilson through a
foundation to provide awards for dis
tinguished public service 1t was an
nounced tonight by Professor Stephen
P. Duggan, OF the College of the City of
New York and the chairman OF the ed
ucational committee OF the Woodrow
Wilson foundation.
Many college and university presi-
dents have become identified with the
| movement, and committees have been
appointed to carry on the work At
Yale every graduate school as well
as the college has been organized and
in addition the chairman and the ex-
ecutive chairman of the executive
committees in the campaign for
$1,000,000 or more are Professor Irving
Fisher and Professor Ray westerfield.
both of Yale.
At Harvard the movement is being
headed by Prof Ernest Hooking, of the
philosophy department At that uni
versity there has always been a strong
Wilson club, and upon the occasion Of
the former presidents birthday re-
Gently hundreds of undergraduates and
members of the faculty of that institu-
ton signed a greeting to Mr.. Wilson
Al Princeton, where the campaign is
in charge of Dean Henry B. Fine, the
movement is to begin as soon as the
mid-year examination is finished, it
was announced. but already a large
number of subscriptions have come
from Princeton students and alumni
who desired to pay a tribute to Prince
toms former president.
At Johns Hopkins the work is in
the hands Of DR.. John H. Latane, who
in addition to the work entaiied by'his
membership on the Maryland commit
tee of the foundation. has spoken in
behalf OF the Wilson awards at other
colleges. President E. A. Alderman is
chairman of the work at the Univer-
sity of Virginia and will also be a
member of the board of trustees of the
foundation.
1t was reported at headquarters to-
day that among the first colleges to
take up its subscription to the fund
was the University of Oklahoma, whore
$226.77 was collected. Haverford col
Iege, with 81 professors, sent subscrip-
items from 20 Of them. At the univer-
sity of Chicago. the foundation has an
enthusiastic worker in Prof William
r. Dood. VII" l." also been a speaker
for the movement. a&T SO
From the I'll, ersity Of Kentucky
it was reported by President T. L. Nc
Vey that the quota was oversubscribed
"a hours before the beginning of the
campaign. A similar report came from
the University of the South, where the
quota was oversubscribed by % per
cent.
Among the women's colleges where
the foundation is receiving much sup
port are Radcliffe. Smith, Nassar. We'll
lesley Goueher, Mount Holyoke and
Bryn Mawr.
DIR. Duggan, speaking of the work
being done by the colleges, said that
It is not the intention OF the committee
TO get large sums from these institu-
tons, but rather to get the widest sort
of endorsement of the tribute in the
form OF small subscriptions.
At national headquarters in this city;
at $50 Nassau street, it was reported
that more than 1000 subscriptions have
CO4hS Il otAl NC" l "a y S1aIS ~ At4s14i Va
have been brought to the office with
out being personally solicited. Many
others have been brought to the wo-
mems committee office at 126 East
seth street. Beverly Bayne BushmanI
was one of the subscribers today. Her
contribution was given in the name OF
her son, Richard Stansbury Bushman.
In the contributors in the past "a
hours were Mr.. Edmund Baylies, Al
bert E. Bobo, F. VI. II. Daley, Joseph
A. Kellogg. Charles A. Kollstede, Cor
nelius A Pugsley, and Isaac NJ. Turner,
each of whom gave 500.