Cedarville College Bulletin, October 1915

CEDARVILLE COLLEGE BULLETIN 15 (I) One of these is t~e ma.tet-ial equipment. This is an age of college buildings and endowments. Colleges emerged from an epoch of neglect and poverty in the opening of the nineteenth century into an era of favor and enrichment at the close of the nineteenth and the opening o,f the twentieth centuries. Within the last forty years the irw1·ease in the income of the higher institu- tions was from two and a quarter millions to almost fifty. million dollars a year, more than twent-y-fold; and the value of their build- ings and grounds grew from forty-eight and one-half millions to nearly three hundred million dollars. The opinion is general and deep-seated that the opportunities which colleges afford, the services which they render, and the demands which they are called upon to meet require an adequate equipment and endowment. Nothing can live long or accomplish much without money and means. The ideal college should have endowment and buildings enough to meet the re- qui"rements of the state systems of education,. and to fulfill, moreover, its own peculiar mission satisfactorily to all concerned. The minimum standard set forth by the Association of Colleges in Ohio is reasonable. A co11ege plant should consist of a main hall of administration and instruction, an assembly hall, dormitories, a sci- ence hall, a library, and a gymnasium, all commodious and properly equipped. The grounds should combine the campus and enough ad- ditional land for all outdoor sports and elementary agricultural ex- periments. There should be endowment sufficient to establish chairs in Religion, Science, Mathematics, Phi!osophy, .History. Education, Ancient and Modern Languages, and Oratoi-y, besides funds to maintain nhysical culture and provide scholarships for needy and de8erving students. A college with such equipment and endowment could be established in a community like this, where eX'nenses of material and living ap- proach a minimum at a first cost not to exceed $350,000. Cedarville College, with its present endowment and buildings rep- resenting $150,000, must, on such a calculation, raise $200,000 more than it now has. This amount wou!d provide for the necessary en- larging and remodeling of the present buildin,gs, the erection of the other buildings needed, the endowment of chairs at present not pro- vided for, and the support of worthy students not now cared for. Cedarville College, representing in buildings and endowment the sum of $150,000, presents a splendid nucleus around which to build up a strong and useful institution. It affords an inviting opportunity to this community to invest some of its material resources in a cause which will result in inestimab1e returns far and near and through untold generations. Though only twenty-one years old, Cedarville College has gradu- ated nearly two hundred young men and women and given partial p1·eparation for life-work to upwards of two thousand others. These are found in all honorable pursuits and in every part of the earth interested in the advancement of the general good, and rendering commendable service. Most of them have come from the farms and villae;es of this community. They represent in their own temporal worth many times the money value of Cedarville College and its g-rounds; .while in training and character their wice is beyond all human reckoning. Much of what they represent and are they owe directly to Ceda:rville College. What they received :from Cedarville Collee,-e has not only helped to make them what they are, but has given oriceless satisfaction to their parents, and added incalculably to the welfare of humanity. In view of a11 this, Cedarville College is not only an opportunity to the people of this community to invest material resources, but it