The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-25
LINCOLN AND LEE
. TO Be NAME OF
/. GREAT UNIVERSITY
Institution Planned at Kan
SaS City CIimaxeS Forty
Five Years Effort.
RI United Press
KANSAS CITY. Mo-, March U.s.

RI United Press
KANSAS CITY. Mo-, March U.s.
the State line between Kansas
ID Missouri here Kansas City is
prepared to build one of the great
educational institutions of the ma.
ton.
Lincoln and Lee university. so
named to honor two Of the United
States greatest heroes, will memoir
ialize the reconstruction of the re-
public and will serve tho education
al reeds of one of the most populous
territories of the great middle West.
Climaxing a movement started
forty-five years ago, the acquisition
of 261 acres of land in one of the
most beautiful sections of Kansas
City furnished stimulus for con-
certed effort to build n university
in Kansas City, the geographical hub
of the nation.
Woman Gave Site
Mrs. Kate w. Hewitt of Kansas
City donated LAG acres for the site
and the city added lis acres by pur.
chase. Donation of the land was i'm
mediately followed by drive for
funds on the part of several Mis-
souri, and Kansas Methodist Episco-
pal church districts, representatives
of which will control the affairs of
the institution.
More than $1,SO0,00O already has
been subscribed for the original fund
of $5,O00,000 with which to start con.
struction of buildings and commence
instruction.
1t is the aim of the sponsors to
offer a curriculum that will be Sec
ond to no other and to provide build
ings and equipment for the univer-
sity as fast as increasing registration
demands them.
Congress will be petitioned to erect
a shrine on the campus to depict the
college spirit of Lincoln and Lee. IL
is planned TO inter the bodies of an
unknown Confederate and an I'M
known Union soldier in the shrine.
1t would be made the final resting
place of martyred heroes, the burial
ground of civil strife between the
States. Lincoln and Lee aims to gem
crate the spirit that inspired the re-
union of the North and South.
Promoters of the university point
to the fact that Kansas City is the
meeting place of the North and
South and an ideal location for a uni
versity with the spirit and purpose
it's founders have conceived.
400 Students Now
A dental college with 400 students
already has been absorbed by the
university, which recently was
granted a charter. One of it's great.
est departments will be the medical
school, which will fill a long felt
want in this territory.
A college of arts and sciences will
be the foundation for the institution.
When necessary buildings are con-
structed, departments for instruction
in law, commerce, engineering,
music and vocational subjects viii
be added. 1t is hoped the college of
arts and sciences will open for the
1928 fall term.
Leaders of the endowment cam
paign are seeking $5,OO0,00O with
which to found Lincoln and Lee. or
that amount. 100000 will be ex-
pended at the outset for buildings,
81, 900 900 will be set aside for endow'
ments and $1,OOO,0OO for main
tenance.
Bishop Ernest L. Waldorf is presi-
dent Of the university corporation
recently formed, and Bishop William
f. McMurray is vice-president. A
board of seventy-five members, Sc
lected from the Methodist church dis
tricts will form the directorate. a
board of eleven members VIII be
vested with power of regents and
will actively direct the affairs of the
university.