Evening star., 1924-02-15
c. v. j. DRIVE NETS.
TOTAL OF $399,68O.
$16,853 Is Reported as Re-
suit of Days Work at Lunch
at Willard Hotel.
VAN VLECK WINS FLAG
Deans Team Brings in Contribu.
tions of SLIPS for
81. the Day.

A grand total. Of sa99,6S0 was
reached this afternoon in the cam
paign for George Washington Uni
versity's endowment fund. OF this
sum S16,S53 was reported at the busi-
ness luncheon of campaign workers
at the New Willard Hotel.
Dean William c. Van Week. won
the American flag, his team bringing
in contributions of s1,125. 1t was de-
cided to hold the next campaign
luncheon on February % at the New
Willard.
! More than 5000 persons have now
subscribed to the fund. Gifts Of $500
from F. J. Meigs and 800 from Har-
mony Lodge, No. II. F. A. A. NJ, were
made public last night by President
William Mather Lewis of the univer-
sity
Individual honors in the campaign
among the students went to Miss
Frances Randolph, who secured
pledges from students totaling s4.620.
She will be awarded the cup presented
by the Sphinx Honor Society.
The latest report shows that 1928
scriptions, totaling ss5.7O9. Miss Mary
Louise Lemon was second in the
amount secured.
Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity won the
Pyramid Honor Society cup for the Or
ganization securing the largest total.
one captained by Miss Helen Hanford,
and the team captained by Miss Sarah
French Smith, second.
President Lewis, Mrs. James Carroll
Frazer and John B. Larner will address
a group Of New York alumni at the
Hotel Astor, New York city. tonight.
There are $50 alumni in New York and
environs and the organization of a
George Washington society will be per-
fected tonight.
Stokes Urge Endowment.
letter was today received from
DR.. Arson Phelps Stokes, former sec
retary Of Yale University, emphasiz-
ing the Importance of raising the
building and endowment fund. Two
years ago DR.. Stokes made an eNhaus-
tive study of the higher educational
situation in Washington.
His letter follows. in part:
"It has long semed to me a ma
tional humiliation that we did no,
have at the Capital of the Nation an
undenominational institution of high
Or learning adequately equipped and
endowed. I do not overlook the ex-
cellent work being done in their re-
spectiye fields by existing iastitu-
tions under the control Of various
churches, but l feel that there is a
need of a university which will have
no connection with anv one relis-
ious body, and which will be broad
er in its scope. constituency, control
and resources than any which has
heretofore existed.
1.-TWO years ago, shorty after re-
tired from my position at Yale Uni
versity, I made survey of the high
or educational situation in Washing
ton and was convinced, as the re-
suit of the investigation then made
that George Washington University
was the only institution which had
the charter. board of trustees. and
local interest to provide a satisfac-
tory nucleus for a great Independent
university really national in scope.
and laying special emphasis on ad-
vanced work in economics, law and
the other social sciences, as well as
those physical and natural sciences
in which the government bureaus
are specially strong, in addition to
continuing it's important educational
work for government employees