The Gavelyte, February 1911

The Gavelyte. VOL. VI FEBRUARY 1911. NO. 2. A Preliminary Report. REV. C. A. YOUNG, '00. The revelation of the last number of the Gavelyte, that a bare dozen of the Alumni subscribe for it, is rather disheartening to one who entertains some hope for the future of the College. Such a lethargic condition is certainly just– ification for the cpmmittee appointed last June, and of which I was made chair– man, to arouse some enthusiasm among the Alumni on behalf of the College. A colored preacher of the South said his method of getting up a sermon was first, to gib de facs, second, to gib de splanashuns, and third, to get up de rousements. The "facs" have been given; the "splanashuns" are self-evident; it is about time to "get up de rousements." The committee on "rousements" may seem to many to need a little of the same remedy, but while we have not made much of a demonstration, we have nevertheless been doing some thinking :;i,nd planning, and have been seeking ad– vice from different quarters. At the request of the Alumni Editor of the Gavelyte, we outline the follow- ing tentative plans and suggestions: First, the creation of an Alumni Endowment Fund. It is not to be expect– ed that the graduates of a college shall do much in a financial way for their alma mater in the years immediately succeeding graduation. Most of them are just getting started in business or the professions, and have all they can do to meet the necessary claims that are made upon them. We cannot therefore ex– pect the Alumni of Cedarville College to give any large sum of money to the -College for some years to come. But we believe they can, even without waiting to get rich, do something that wi11 be worth while, provided they all work to– gether. "Many mickles mak a muckle." It is on this principle, that we pro- pose this plan. Briefly, the plan is for each graduate to give a dollar a year for every year _ since graduation and to continue to give at least this much in the years to come. 1f every graduate wculd do this, we could hav_e $800 to start with, and assuming that thQ number of graduates would remain constant, in the years to come, and assuming that thEy would continue t o give one dollar ea.ch per year, the Fund Learing interest at six per cent. would in ten years amount to over $3500, and in thirteen years to over $5000, and in twenty years would be sufficient to endow a.