Campaign for $200,000 Expansion and Endowment Fund for Cedarville College

12 CEDARVILLE COLLEGE WILL BE BIG ENOUG H— I F YOUR HEART IS.” serious fact that without the increase in salaries the quality of the professorate will deteriorate and the students and the people get a correspondingly inferior quality of instruction, a thing which cannot be considered for a moment. It is well to recall here that the cost of educating a student is three to four times what he pays in fees for his education. To maintain the standard of education which Cedarville has given in the past, requires then the increased endowment asked for. To broaden its curriculum and to provide instruction in new de- partments demanded by the public requires still further en- dowment. “So far I have spoken only of the requirements to re- tain the College for Cedarville and strengthen the teaching power which is, of course, most important. But buildings to work in and convenient and comfortable quarters for the students to live in and the facilities for the activities of student life outside the classroom are essential elements of successful and sound education. On account of the housing conditions in Cedarville, the College has been confronted with the prob- lem of properly housing its students. Heretofore they hav.e not had the proper advantages. The Institution cannot hold its place in the educational world and allow such conditions to continue.” “A gymnasium or general athletic and social building for the students should be the first building of this nature to be erected. There is absolutely no provision now worth men- tioning of this kind. We have learned by experience the es- sential value of physical training. Practically all Association Colleges have made physical exercise of some form com-