Cedar Day brought out the entire community to participate in its events. Stockwell to support "the proposition of giving $20,000 toward the permanent Endowment Fund of Cedarville College."9 On September 19, 1921, a notarized copy of the action taken by the Presbytery of Cincinnati was forwarded to Stockwell: That the Presbytery of Cincinnati heartily approves of the present campaign to raise funds for the Cedarville College. That the Presbytery of Cincinnati unites with the Presbytery of Dayton in a request to the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church, United States of America to appropriate $20,000 to the Cedarville College. Edward T. Swiggert Stated Clerk of the Presbytery of Cincinnati 10 In spite of the support of both the Dayton and Cincinnati Presbyteries, when the General Board of Education met on September 20, 1921, they passed the following resolution: [t was voted that no action could be taken on an informal request from Cedarville College, but that cooperation could be given only in case, through official action initiated by the col– lege trustees and the church with which it is connected, the institution should become partly under the control of the Presbyterian Church. ll Stockwell explained that while the Board appreciated Cedarville College, "the control either wholly or in part of an institution by the Presbyterian Church in the u.s.A. is the key to such cooperation as is desired."ll He averred that the only way this kind of No matter how badly the football team played, the College was still very proud of them, as this collage of pictures from the 1931 yearbook suggests. Chapter VIIl!63