Elon University - Phi Psi Cli Yearbook (Elon, NC)

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Njneteen Ttvent tration a challenge was received from the Hon. Francis Asbury Palmer of New York City to donate $30,000.00 to the college provided $12,000.00 could be raised from the Church. This challenge was accepted and with great difficulty the amount was raised, which was known as the Twentieth Century Fund. This circumstance placed the college out of debt in 1902 and gave it a plant complete so far as it went, and an endowment of $30,000.00. The attendance began to mcrease under these signs of progress and sta- bility, and the need for an enlarged plant began to gain ground. Upon Dr. Staleys resignation from the chair of the presidency in 1906, Dr. E. L. Moffitl was chosen his successor. Then followed a period of expansion in the college plant. The West Dormitory was erected, electric lights, steam heat and running watei were installed thoughout the buildings, bemg furnished by a central power plant. These improvements necessitated the raising of $50,000.00 to take care of the indebtedness incurred. Dr. Moffitt immediately set to work to raise the Special Fund of Fifty Thousand Dollars, but before the campaign was completed illness so seriously depleted his health that he retired from the presidency in June, 1911. At this point Dr. W. A. Harper, our present president, who was elected at the age of twenty-eight, then the youngest college president of the South, took up the work where Dr. Moffitt had left off and completed the raising of the Special Fund. During the early years of his administration the plant enjoyed further expaniion, the Alumni Building being constructed in 1914 and paid for by the raising of the Alumni Fund. Following in the wake of this addition the oung Ladies ' Hall and the Young Men ' s Club House were erected, with the further additions later of the Laboratory Building, the College Farm, and the West End Hall property. In 1915, after an investigation conducted by the United States Bureau of Education and the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction, Elon was rated as a standard college. The high water mark of the present administration, however, was reached when the $125,000.00 Standardization Fund as permanent endowment for the college was under- taken in 1919. The president took the field in the spring of this year, and instead of $125,000.00 being raised, more than $380,000.00 was subscribed. It is also expected that the recent Men and Millions Forward Movement of the Church in 1920 will net the college $250,000.00. The Southern Christian Convention, which fosters Elon, has in mind an ideal small college as evidenced in their determination set forth in the 1920 convention at Raleigh to add to the plant the following buildings: a Science Hall, a Fine Arts Building, a Library and College Activities Building. It was also suggested that a Law Department might profitably be added. Already plans are being laid for the erection of the Science Hall in the near future. Page tXDchc

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She has a Tvorld of ready wealth. Our minds and hearts to bless .