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sum for the very purpose of supplementing his friend's benefaction.
The Lennig fund .will not be available for some years to
come, and meanwhile, or until others shall be moved to create
such a fund, we need a maintenance fund created by annual gifts
and adequate to meet the inevitable annual deficit, and the
urgent need of expansion and improvement. Such a fund was
created by subscription two years ago, to cover a period of three
years, and was contributed by a veiy few of our old and tried
friends. A movement is now on foot to establish it in permanent
form, and to enlist as contributors to it every, available friend and
- especially the alumni, and to encourage subscriptions of small as
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well as of large sums, so that the largest possible number may
be interested. * y
I Another and most efficient source of maintenance is in
he foundation of scholarships. The veiy small number of
these that have yet been endowed in the University, and they
only to the annual value of tuition fees, is in strong contrast to
the large number which are offered in some of our larger
Colleges, and which present such attractive inducements to the
bested ablest young men. Such endowments bear the name
of the donor or a name selected by him, and are not only
perennial well springs of beneficence, but among the fittest per
manent memorials of the benefactor who creates them They
strengthen the University not only by the increase in its income
but by enabhng it to extend to deserving students that aid
without which they would be unable to pursue their chosen
I again refer you to the appended report of the Dean to
whose good judgment and eminent administrative ability the
Department owes much of its satisfactory condition, both in
improved accommodations for business and instruction, and in the
gradual development of its courses and curricula to the highest
educational advantage.
The Department of Philosophy is rapidly taking that place
ir. our system which it ought to hold as the distinctive expression
of the University idea. It was a wise thought to make the Dean
of the College Dean also of this Department. By this appoint-