The Gavelyte, March 1913

CEDARVILLE COLLEGE A F O RWARD i\!OVEMENT should be started at once. Let an eme• gency fund o f three to five thousand dollars be rai ed in the immediate community (the college adds five to ten dollars to the value of t>very acre of land for miles around and helps the business of Cedarville) to continue for five years. Adv e rtise the college and by the end uf that period let the Roard see that ano ther hundred thousand dullar is added to the endowment and the co llege will b e a permanent and table institution as it well deserves to he. If you wi h to safe-guard your children i11 the form1tive per iod of life, end them to this sa fe, sane, con- trvative, yet progres.;;ive in titution at Ceda rville. If you wish to wisely in – vest your money, contribute to this school, and in so doing you will have a share in the training of hundreds of young people who will in the future years become leaders in church ,,nd state, and you, will live on and on with influence o f the college and o lay up trea ure in heaven . W ebs ter, in the celebrated Dartmou th case before th e Supreme Court, said: "She may be little, but there are those that Jove her,'' and so we say concerning Cedarville, "She mr1y be ·little. but there are those that love her," and hy the grace of God and through the liberality of the people she is going to grow larger. A FRIEND u F CEDARVILLE COLLEGE. Poignant Problems of 3 Our A1nerican Cities. J. EARL ~I'CLELLAN, '13 . In the annals o f American history we find nothing so startling as the accounts of the growth of the city· from the time of it birth in the New ~nglan d colony, in the eventeenth century, to the present time. This growth was not so rapid during the eig\1t een th century, bu t very p erceptible during the niReteenth. In th e beginning of t he latter cen tury there were only ix citie s in the United States with a population of eigh t thousand or over; at the dawn of the twe ntieth century then· were hve hu1,dred and furty-six. ln 1800 our urban population w<1'- four per cent., anti in !HOU thirty-three per ce ut. At this rate of increase l!:HU v.ill find ou r American city popuLHi on rnrpassing our rural by twenty-one m Ilion. Tl ,is increase uf population and size ha been accompanied by in– crease of we .tl th and power, making the city the center of strength. At hist we think only of th e wea lth and glory o f the city, but soon we per– ceive a sh adow coming over the horizon, and we are forcerl to leave the land of sul!shine. That shadow I cau ed Ly the g reat proble ms which the growth ul the city l1as brought about. Th ese problems are deep, ponderous and s1·emi11~ly i11extricable, cau~ing thoughtful cit izen . to seek earnestly th e sc,lu– tio11 uf such question. as ivi · righteou n es , immigration, and the moral e leva – ti1J11 "f the city '11,e 11rst pr,,1>le111, th;.it 11f r·ivi, · rigliteu11 11e . , is ,,ne o [ the most p ressing,