CAMPAIGN FOR $200,000 CEDARVILLE COLLEGE llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Cedarville Ohio, August 1921 CEDARVILLE COLLEGE PLACED UPON A PERMANENT FINANCIAL FOUNDA- TION MEANS AN ASSOCIATION COLLEGE WHICH WILL APPEAL TO THE BEST YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN OF AMERICA. o s '. WE MUST MAKE CEDARVILLE AN ASSOCIATION COLLEGE WE MUST— AND WE WILL CAMPAIGN FOR $200,000 Expansion and Endowment Fund For Cedarville College BY THE UNANIMOUS VOTE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF CEDARVILLE COLLEGE. A VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN IS TO BE WAGED DURING THE NEXT FEW WEEKS FOR THE PURPOSE OF INCREAS- ING THE PERMANENT EXPANSION AND ENDOWMENT FUND. .d of Cedarville College: In this booklet we have tried to give you 0 H ft 3 3 O i — i 3 & >> •H 3 ft 0 ft ft ft 3 ft 0 3S ft ft o 0 >> 0 3 >>3 3 ft o 3 0 3 3 > 0 , r- M 3 3 ft 0 3 Es 0 ft 3 bD 0 ft O 0 3 0 0 •H O 0 ft 3 3 ft 0 ft ft 0 'H £1 3 ft •H 3 ° 3 ft 3 H ft O 0 ft ft ft! -3 o 3 3 O 0 3 3 •H +j 0 O 0 3 — 3 3 0 H 3 ft ft 3 0 * ft ft ft 0 ft •H 0 3 •H 3 0 3 bD X > H 43 > ft M 30 a 3 3 0ft 3 3 •H •H X ft 3 O hD 3 ft ■H 0 ft O 0 ft ft 0 O >» 0 3 3 3 • te: 0 3 . 0 ts 3 0 0 3 0 8 bD 3 O 3 3 •H ft 3 •H • ft ft 3 0 ft ft 0 3 3 >> 3 3 ft ft 0 •H a 3 ft 3 1 — 1 ft H H 0 ^ 0 ft 3 0 3 'ft a 0 ft ft H O ft 0 8ft 3 ^ 0 3 ■H > 0 0 • 0 *H ft •H > 3 0 3 •rH 3 3 • 43 ft 44 ft ft ^ > 300 0 ft ft >> ft O •H 0 0 -H i — 1 O -3 ft ft 3 3 ft 1 — 1 O 3 3 3 003 i — 1 3 1 — 1 3 0 0 0 H o 3 3 ft 3 0 0 •H ft 0 3 3 ft 3 0 ft H « O H ft >> ^ 0 3 3 O 3 ft 3 3 3 o ft 0 0 >> bD 0 O 0 0 i — 1 £h o ft 3 •H 3 3 ft 0 ft 0 ft 3 a ft o 0 C\2 3 3 ft 0 3 bO *H ft -H 0 0 3 • 0 m= 3 ft >>3 3 ( D ft 1 | 1 1 * •H bD ft 0 0 ,Q 0 o 0 ft ft o i — 1 3 0 co ft 3 p> 3 bO bO 0 i — I i'H ® 3 ft 0 0 Jxft 1 — 1 ft 1 — 1 O 0 0 O ft ft ft ft 0 ft O ft -H 0 -p 3 3 H •H 1 — 1 H 3 1 — 1 ft O O ^ ft 3 -H >> 3 H 3 3 -H •H 0 3 ft O 3 ft 0 0 3 H -H ft 0 > > a 3 ft ft O ft ft 3 a ft 0 ft > ft 3 3 & a •H 3 3 O gs ft >03 3 •H 3 3 0 ft 0 0 ft 0 3 a 0 •H 3 3 ft ft ft ft 0 •H 3 -H O ft 3 0 3 ft 0 3 0 0 3 •H O ft 0 3 a 3 3 0 ft ft 0 Q 3 O 0 ft & 3 ft ft ft 3 O 0 ft ft O O Yours for our Beloved College, Rev. Homer McMillan, D.D. , Rev. David McKinney, D.D., LL.D, w § EH < ft ft co - ft Q 0 0 0 -P 0 3 3 H -O Pi . 0 • Q • ft •* P3 » — — H PQ 3 3 3 ft . 1 1 • ft 3 - 3 3 ft O CD > Ch a O ft ES ft 3 0 -p >> ft ft S 0 -ft 3 3 3 •rH 3 0 I— 1 — 3 0 ft -H PQ H 0 1 — 1 3 1 — l < ft 3 — 3 ft a > 0 ft! 3 3 & 3 O bD 02 • 1 — 1 ft 0 • ft 0 •H ft C O • . 0 3 • 3 • O 0 ft 3 PM 3 ft g; ft • • S a a ft § 3 0 3 cti ft 0 • 3 • 0 bD •H •H . 3 . 0 O 3 . K p> 3 1 — 1 1 — 1 < 3 1 — 1 a O 3 > 1 — 1 O 1 — 1 1 — 1 £ 3 • 0 O 0 • 3 0 ■H •rH -> O h W O ft ffi rs gS ft & ft ft § THE FIRST BUILDING OF CEDARVILLE COLLEGE. HERE IS WHERE THE COLLEGE ORIGINATED SEPTEMBER 19th 1894 4 CEDARVILLE COLLEGE WILL BE BIG ENOUG H— I F YOUR HEART IS.” Origin of the Movement u A T A BOOSTER meeting which filled the Opera House May 20th when the Alumni and citizens of Greene County and other friends spoke, action was taken, in substance as follows: It is the conviction that Cedar- ville and community should, and can, raise at least $200,000 for equipment of Cedarville College. The Board of Trustees met, and feeling that new life and larger days are at hand, the Board was enlarged to fifteen members. The Alumni Association also feeling that new life and larger days are at hand, took the following action which was confirmed at the annual business meeting with regard to the campaign : “Resolved, That the Alumni of Cedarville College at the annual banquet of the Alumni approve the action of the Asso- ciation Committee setting up the objective of $100,000 as our portion for the enlarged program of Cedarville College to be used largely for endowment; and that we authorize our Association Committee to project this campaign and pledge ourselves to give our very best efforts to the attainment of this end.” The Reformed Presbyterian Church has already pledged $25,000 and one of our Alumni has “pledged him- self” for $10,000, thus you see we have an encouraging start. The Present Crisis ■y^HTHIN the past few months conditions have developed which demand that a general movement be inaugurated to provide needed buildings and an increased Endowment to prevent the College from going to a neighboring city and thus largely lose its present spirit and usefulness to the community, Greene County and the Church in general. Unless these Build- ings and Endowment shall be provided Cedarville College cannot be rated by the State Association Institution. What is Meant By An Association College 1 N ORDER to be accredited in the State, a College must meet at least the following requirements: 1. Buildings and equipment to the value of $100,000. 2. A library of not less than 10,000 volumes in addition to public documents. 3. A Faculty of at least six professors giving their entire time to work of a college grade and not to exceed 15 hours a week apiece. 4. An Endowment Fund which yields an income of not less than $10,000 a year. CEDARVILLE COLLEGE LIBRARY. THE GIFT OF ANDREW CARNEGIE. 1905 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 . CEDARVILLE COLLEGE WILL BE BIG ENOUG H— I F YOUR HEART IS. 7 Should We Cease Work On Account Of the Times? A DEPRESSING time is upon us. We are in the period of of an industrial crisis. The tendency is to grow de- spondent and to abandon Christian endeavor. This we must not do. That we should be economical is evident, but we can also stand by the work which is preparing young men and women for the gigantic task of reconstruction after this brief period of depression, and also for the divine work of preparing the world for the coming of its rightful Ruler, the King of Kings. THE GRAVE DANGER is, that if we do not push ahead now with all possible speed, the life of our College will be im- periled. At a meeting recently held in a neighboring State for the purpose of rallying the people to raise an Endowment for a college, the President of the College said, in substance: “Among all the grand and notable institutions of which our country boasted at the beginning of the depressing times which swept over our country in 1894, I believe I may safely say that not one survived except the endowed college.” This means that in the stress of the times the colleges that were not permanently endowed — perished. Whatever we do for Cedarville College must be done NOW — and done quickly. If we press forward NOW and do our work in a whole-hearted manner, the results will be great in the saving of our Institution which is essential to the wel- fare of our youth. Output T HE WORLD needs honest, upright men and women in business. Many young men and women have received training in our College; lawyers, doctors, merchants, farmers, teachers, clergymen — in fact, they are in nearly all the various vocations and are a force for righteousness in their community. This will indicate the output. Shall the work cease for the lack of sufficient support? This movement for an Expansion and Endowment Fund MUST enlist the interest of not only the Alumni and friends everywhere, but especially of every citizen in Greene County. We ask them all to unite at this time in raising the desired amount of money. They can do it if they choose to do so, and surely they will not for- sake Cedarville College in this, her hour of need — and her need is your need. Advantages of An Association College ^pHE LAW of Ohio and many other States provides that the Superintendent of Public Instruction may grant to grad- uates of an Association College a high school teacher’s cer- tificate without examination. This is an advantage to those who desire to teach, and it is an incentive to the student to attend an Association Institution. On account of the laws and regulations many colleges have either been closed within the past few years or have united with other institutions, or they are struggling along in an unrecognized, unstandardized con- dition. A PORTION OF CEDAI : -LE COLLEGE CAMPUS “CEDARVILLE COLLEGE WILL BE B I G E N O U G H — I F YOUR HEART IS.” 11 The Needs of Cedarville College “ EDARVILLE College does not exist for herself; nor I . does any absolutely free untrammelled democratic institution. She can only exist and can only have ex- isted for this quarter of a century because she serves the people. The Institution is only an organization for the spend- ing of those gifts entrusted to her for the higher educational good of the part of the country she serves. Cedarville Col- lege has no selfish purpose or aim of her own to accomplish, no propaganda to perpetuate or stimulate ; no party or divis- ion of the people to please or displease. Those men who are associated in the management and direction give of their time and ability for little or no financial return, as in the case of the Board; or for an admittedly inadequate remuneration, as in the case of the teaching staff. Surely then, Cedarville Col- lege does not exist for herself. She will be lost to Cedarville unless the funds are forthcoming which will make it an Asso- ciation College. In asking for money, she but says to you : ‘Our power to save or standardize Cedarville College is de- termined by what we get.’ It is our part to tell you what is the cost of saving her and it is your part to give it. The College is only a limited reservoir and only as much can be taken out of it as has been put into it. ‘‘The community in which the Institution is located has proved that it produces a breed of students, scholars, and leaders of thought second to none, indeed it has become al- most a by-word. The youth of our community must, then, de- serve the best facilities for the best kind of education that can be offered, and it is the duty of their parents, that is, of the public in a democracy such as ours, to provide these. It ought to be galling to our proper pride and a shame to ourselves if our sons and daughters have to go away from Cedarville for any part of their education except for certain highly special- ized advanced post-graduate courses. Cedarville College need, therefore make no apology for appealing to the people for all the money needed to retain it in Cedarville and to make it an Association College, that is, to equip it to meet the needs of young men and women wishing to prepare themselves for any walk in life. “So much is needed that an inventory of all our needs might appear somewhat extreme, but if we could be given immediately all we need, perhaps we could not apply it judiciously. A college must grow by stages and I propose to give a list of those things which we need most, and which we can provide immediately if we have the necessary fund. This is the first stage of needed growth, and the need is seri- ous and absolute. “That the College will be lost to Cedarville and thus largely lose its present spirit and usefulness is certain unless we properly endow it — and endow it NOW. “In the forefront of these immediate needs, I put the in- crease of endowment necessary to enable us to increase salaries by a reasonable per cent. It is very obvious and a 12 CEDARVILLE COLLEGE WILL BE BIG ENOUG H— I F YOUR HEART IS.” serious fact that without the increase in salaries the quality of the professorate will deteriorate and the students and the people get a correspondingly inferior quality of instruction, a thing which cannot be considered for a moment. It is well to recall here that the cost of educating a student is three to four times what he pays in fees for his education. To maintain the standard of education which Cedarville has given in the past, requires then the increased endowment asked for. To broaden its curriculum and to provide instruction in new de- partments demanded by the public requires still further en- dowment. “So far I have spoken only of the requirements to re- tain the College for Cedarville and strengthen the teaching power which is, of course, most important. But buildings to work in and convenient and comfortable quarters for the students to live in and the facilities for the activities of student life outside the classroom are essential elements of successful and sound education. On account of the housing conditions in Cedarville, the College has been confronted with the prob- lem of properly housing its students. Heretofore they hav.e not had the proper advantages. The Institution cannot hold its place in the educational world and allow such conditions to continue.” “A gymnasium or general athletic and social building for the students should be the first building of this nature to be erected. There is absolutely no provision now worth men- tioning of this kind. We have learned by experience the es- sential value of physical training. Practically all Association Colleges have made physical exercise of some form com- □ □ □ CEDARVILLE COLLEGE WILL BE BIG ENOUG H— I F YOUR HEART IS.” 13 pulsory for every student. A modest equipment today would cost $75,000; but for approximately half this sum a useful beginning might be made. This would call for the immediate provision of about $40,000. “Equally necessary is a Dormitory and a center for the use of the women students; one that will house all of them and provide the needed public rooms and allow for expansion, will cost about $40,000. “Another building in the forefront of our needs is the Science Hall to house the various laboratories, Chemical and Biological, and Geological Museum, Class rooms, Lecture rooms and Reference Library. 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