Evening star., 1927-04-21
YALE ENDOWMENT
| CAMPAIGN OPENS
Dinners Held "Around the
| World" as Local Alumni
Fl Meet-Taft Speaks.

Yale's appeal for a 100000 en-
alpWment fund was launched ias'
might over two radio networks capable
of reaching Is 100000 listeners, Dis
1inguished alumni, including Chief
Justice William Howard Taft and
Arthur Twining IIadley, president
emeritus, and President Angel OF the
university. broadcast at Yale dinners
held around the world. The din
ner here in Washington was at the
Carlton Hotel.
\ Chief Justice Taft spoke from his
home here in Washington and his
voice was carried to all parts of the
country. The Chief Justice made q
Strong plea for the contributions to
the endowment fund. which is 10 be
used to pay more adequate salaries 10
ihe teachers at Yale and to provide
additional instructors and professors.
The Chief Justice said, in part;
Cost Now Greater.
/ "The field of the college as now de-
yeloped into the university is far
wider than ii was in our day and
the needs of a university are SO diff
Ierent, the cost is SO much greater,
the burdens imposed on the president
and faculties are so much heavier
the necessary buildings and the plant
so much more expensive, that uni
Sersity like Yale, which has only its
alumni and its friends To look to To
meet the demands for progress, must
ask her sons for real sacrifices TO pay
back what they owe her.
"Men who in this day and genera
fion enter the teaching profession and
who devote themselves to that life
have elected to give up life of ease
and luxury and financial success.
They do not expect TO be rich, but
thew cannot effectively do their work
at all unless they can be reasonably
assured that their families may have
the necessities of academic life and
environment which men of culture
and of taste must have. They must
know that their own boys and girls
will have as good an education and
the same opportunities for develop
ment as they had. Without this we
shall not secure the men we need.
Here is today's crisis. We have
everything in the old university but
reasonable funds 10 support those
who. day in and day out. are Yale.
Shall we give the play and leave
Hamlet out?
Small Sums Count Up.
twenty nlllllOtS Is II great DiS sum
even in these days, and of the many
thousands of Yale alumni and stu
dents to whom we. look. a great many
win say, What's the use Of my con-
trihuting? What l can possibly give
will be nothing but drop in the
bucket as compared with such fund
as that. That is a fundamental
error The contributions of the rich
are most important, just as they are
important to the tax gatherer, but the
great bulk Of what goes TO support the
Government comes from those who
are in moderate circumstances.
More than $50 Yale men attending
the dinner here cheered the remarks
of the Chief Justice. The local speak
ers at the dinner included Miss Mabel
T. Boardman, former District Commits
sioner, who holds a degree from Yale;
Prof Chauneey B. Tinker of Yale
and John Hays Hammond. Walter
Bruce Howe, chairman of the local
committee, presided; introduced the
speakers. and explained the plan of
campaign. which is to be followed in
the intensive campaign which the din
ner last night opened.
S10,00O,000 Already Pledged.
It was announced that even prior
TO the opening of the campaign. ap-
proximately 100000 had been
pledged Mr.. Howe announced that
about S26 900 had been promised here
In Washington. Washington's quota
is $3.50, 900.
Miss Eoardman predicted that Yale
would succeed in its present drive,
animated by the same spirit which
has kept her in the van in education
and on the athletic field.
DR.. George +. Vincent was the ma