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

6 CEDARVILLE COLLEGE WILL BE BIG ENOUG H— I F YOUR HEART IS.” Need of Expansion and Endowment C EDARVILLE College needs the endowment asked for in order to become an Association College. Cedarville can become an Association College if our people will help. OUR ONE NEED IS THE FUND OF $200,000. One of the chief Inspectors of the Department of Public Instruction made an investigation of Cedarville College not very long ago. In his report he closed with these words, ‘‘Cedarville has one of the best little colleges that I know, but in a very short time it must have more equipment, and at least two of its departments must be divided, making four instead of two.” Cedarville College has, even now, a large part of the physical equipment of an Association College. The Institu- tion has a distinct asset in her President, Rev. Wilbert R. McChesney, A. M., Ph.D., D.D., a man of adequate prepara- tion, great enthusiasm and devotion, entire honesty and abil- ity. There is little doubt that the $200,000 will be secured, and when it will have been realized, Dr. McChesney will be in a position to meet other standard requirements, and he is fully disposed to do so. Though Cedarville College is not a great distance from the goal of an Association College, still it must press forward, and at once. Let us be very serious; to delay will mean a loss, and possible disaster. The realization of the $200,000 means a permancy, a larger student body and a stronger force of workers to send forth each year. No College is Self Supporting N O ASSOCIATION College is self-sustaining. The tuition which a student pays amounts to only about one-fourth the full amount that it costs the College to provide the course of study for him. The difference between the tuition and the actual cost is met in State Schools by taxation; and in private schools by free will offerings or by the income from a permanent endowment fund. If the student were compelled to pay the full cost of his education, many of the very best students, the men and women who work their way through college, and who afterwards form the backbone of our scholarization, would be deprived of the advantages of a college education. Cedarville College stands for clean cut, upright manhood and womanhood. Her students have made good in the work for which the Institution prepared them. Now is the accepted time to place Cedarville on the same footing and in the same class with the standard colleges of the country. We are con- fident that our people have pride enough in this institution to properly equip and endow it so that Cedarville shall be able to offer the same advantages offered by standardized institu- tions. We stand face to face with a crisis in our educational work. Our plans are ahead of many institutions that are now rated as standard. Our location is unexcelled. Our Faculty is well prepared. The hundreds of students who have at- tended our college stand for the higher type of American manhood and womanhood. The one task now before us is to provide Cedarville College with a sufficient Expansion and Endowment Fund to properly operate an “up-to-date” insti- tution. This simply means that she MUST have at least $ 200 , 000 .