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would deny his own views. In considering these minds we are considering the minds of the future leaders of the world. He compared undergraduate life here to that of the European student who drinks and fights for amusement. The undergraduate of fifteen years from now may be a champion of woman’s suffrage and he will think none the less of him for that. The times will change and prejudices may be swept away. The 20th century will be a grand era. The future student may enjoy superior advan tages to what we have. Woman has been treated as a part of a machine, useless without man. She has, however, won her way in the educa tional world and is acknowledged as an inde pendent, reasoning being. He discussed at some length the ethical ideas of the undergraduate, and closed by referring to the religious attitude of the student. At the annual meeting of the Board of Trus tees of Kalamazoo College, a statement was made concerning the success of the effort to increase the endowment and pay the indebted ness. Of the $50,000 of the proposed addition to the endowment, more than all is raised if $5,000 of the alumni professorship endowment is in cluded, and it is believed very little remains to complete that. As the time which this $50,000 must be secured does not expire until Novem ber, there can be no reasonable doubt of the success of that part of the plan. Of this addi tional endowment, Kalamazoo furnishes $25,000 as follows, namely: The citizen’s professorship, $20,000, the Edward Israel Instructorship $3,000 the bequest of the late E.G. Huntington $2,000. Contributions of the indebtedness are not equally full. Of the $18,000 required, the First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo, has raised a little more than $2,000, and other churches so far as known, have aggregated $4,000. It is believed that many churches have not yet reported col lections made on the first and second Sundays in June. If there are no such to be reported, there remains $12,000 of indebtedess to be provided for. In view of this fact, and believing that the entire debt should be paid before any further liabilities are assumed, the Board decided to adjourn till July 30, having first extended the time in which collections can be made for that object to the same date. The question of resuming College work in September, is therefore held in suspense a few weeks longer, and it remains for the friends of the College to be active and earnest, during these few weeks. While it seems to the under graduate mind that the action of the Trustees was not the best, we hope that the effort requir ed will be made at once heartily and unitedly. If the work of the College is suspended at all the the Kalamazoo Citizens’ Professorship is forfeited. The generous gift of Mrs. Israel deserves special notice. It consists of the money now in the ‘Treasury of the United States due to her son, the late Lieu’t Edward Israel, Astronomer of the Greely Expedition to the Arctic seas, being his salary for the entire period of his service, amounting to a little more than $3,000. It is to constitute the beginning of an endowment for the “Edward Israel Instructorship.”. Commem orating a very scholarly and honorable young man, as well as expressing a sorrowful mother’s deep affection, it cannot fail to speak perpetually to the students of the College, inciting them by the example of the one, and restraining them by the influence of the other. All honor to the manly and noble Edward Israel, and to his gen erous and broad-minded mother. The Alumni Association of Kalamazoo College held its annual meeting at the Burdick Tuesday, June 16th, at 7:30 p.m. H. B. Colman, Vice president in the chair. H. B. Taft was appointed chairman of a committee on nominations. J. Hicks, the treasurer of the fund intended to endow an alumni professorship when it shall become sufficient, reported that the fund amounted to $1,500. This fund is not available for any use until it reaches the sum of $5,000. Mr. W. H. Davis of Chicago, telegraphed that he would give $500 toward the $5,000. Other mem bers present added $1,800 more. S. G. Cook, of Minneapolis, was appointed as committee to report measures for increasing the fund, which will be set apart for an alumni professorship when it reaches $25,000. Association then adjourned till 2:30 p. M., of the following day. At the adjourned meeting of the alumni asso ciation, W. G. Howard was elected president; L. H. Trowbridge, vice-president ; Eliza W. Tay lor, secretary and treasurer; H. B. Colman, F. M. Hodge and A. G. Fuller, comprise the executive committee. R. O C. Mosher and Alex ander Hadlock were instructed to arrange for the next alumni catalogue.
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Kalamazoo College Index
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Thu, Jan 01, 1885
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