The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-22
After Hearing Flea of State Capital Delegation, Official Board Decides to Go Ahead
 With Building Program at Present Site of the School
GIRLS DORMITORY WILL
 BE BUILT IMMEDIATELY
0ratory Flows Freely as Two Sides Appear Before Body. ThoTington Heads Montgom- cry Delegation, While De-
 BardeIeben Leads Others
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Amid cries of touchdown Au- burn" Auburn crossed Montgom- ery's goal line for six points and rm- mediately made touchdown for an- other score in the game before the trustees Thursday afternoon. The game ended ' to 0 for Auburn.
 Montgomery offered tract of land of 5000 acres and S300,000 to be spent in building if the college was moved there.
 For the removal of the Alabama Polytechnic institute from Auburn to Montgomery will not receive the support or sympathy of the board of trustees. After oratory which continued for an hour and half, the board, at 5:15 o'clock this aft ernoon, voted unanimously for the construction of q girls dormi- tory at Auburn and adopted reso- lution calling upon all friends of the institution to get behind Auburn and make the school one of the greatest in the south.
 Every member of the board of trustees was in his seat when the session was held and every member voted "Aye" when w. K. Terry or Birmingham offered a resolution which expressed the opposition of the board of trustees to the proposal for the removal of the school to Montgomery The resolution re- ceived the second of Senator John A. Rogers of Gainesville and was accepted without a word being spoken other than the preliminary speeches preceding the resolution.
 Building Hcgins At Once
 Construction work will be started at once on the girls dormitorv which will be built with funds do- mated by the people of Alabama. The contract vas awarded to George 0. Clayton & Co, of Atlanta, on the bid of s97,693 to which will be added small amount for extra mak- ing the contract price a little more than s103,000. The Atlanta company was the lowest of several bidders who made proposals to the building committee last month. The building committee referred the bid to the entire board at the request of the delegation of Montgomery business men who desired to request the board not to award the contract or to start any building or expansion operation until the legislature had determined whether the institution should re- main at Auburn or be removed to Montgomery.
 Montgomery's day came today. For 45 minutes representatives of the city appealed to the board of trustees not to take further steps toward the de- velopment of the institution until the legislature had spoken to Mont gomery's invitation. For 45 minutes other friends of Auburn urged the board not to delay the construction work, declaring Montgomery's pro- posal was not in line with the best interest of the institution and in- sisted that nothing could result from the agitation other than the post ponement of the financial help for which Auburn had appealed so long
 Invitation Discouraged
 Montgomery will have to write the bill before the legislature and pre- sent it's invitation. but there is gen. eral invitation that no further ef- forts be made as the construction work on the dormitory will be started at once.
 The resolution adopted by the unanimous vote of board of trustees which recommended that further agitation and a proposal be stopped follows:
 "The board Of trustees of the Ala bama Polytechnic Institute has given very careful and patient considera- tion to the representation made by a number of Montgomery citizens Tn relation to the question of the pro- posed removal of the college from Auburn to Montgomery. The matter has been fully discussed pro and con in the public press in this state and we have read with interest all that
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