Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1919 — COLLEGES ENTITLED TO SUPPORT. [ARTICLE]

COLLEGES ENTITLED TO SUPPORT.

Educational institutions are now watching the progress of the drive for a Harvard fund of $15*250,000 with the greatest interest. Princeton already has started its drive for $14,000,000; Cornell is asking for $5,000,000 and Bryn Mawr is seeking to raise $1,000,000. The purpose •is the same in all cases, to insure an equipment that will prove less inadequate and a staff of professors which* shall be less lamentably underpaid. The authorities at Bryn Mawr intend to increase the salaries of the faculty 25 pter cent. In the Harvard drive substantially m ore than halfHf the fund already has been subscribed and the success of the campaign is assured. Boston and New York has been indulging in friendly rivalry for the honor of subscribing the greater amount and the Bay state metropolis is leading at present. The attitude which the business men generally are displaying is indicated by the willingness of a prominent financial leader to head Princeton’s drive, even though not an alumnus of • that institution. The movement has now spread to the point where it has affected the entire country, and if the endowed universities are successful it will mean that the legislatures will be approached at the next sessions for increased appropriations for state universities. Indiana perhaps more than any state in the union of equal size and prominence has been handicapped by insufficient funds for its universities. Politicians endeavoring to make a record for economy have quibbled over every penny to Purdue and Indiana universities. As a result many of our prominent educators, men with national reputations, have been drawn to other states where their services were recognized by the payment of more adequate salaries. Indiana university alone has gained a name a sthe “mother of college presidents” from the .umber of her faculty members who' have accepted high positions in other states. This speaks ill for the future of our Hoosier institutions. It is no exaggeratfon to say that Indiana has lost enough big men to fill the important chairs of any great collage. Unless the members of our legislature have vision enough to realize the incalculable injury they are doing our institutions the state will sink belo wthe level to which it has clung as a leader in the country’s educational life.—lndianapolis Star.