Show COLUMBIA LACKS FUNDS President Butler Makes an Earnest Plea for Endowment in His Annual Report New ew York Nov No 10 1 President But Butler Butler ler of Columbia Colum la university makes a plea Ilea for further endowments In his an annual annual annual nual report to the trustees of the uni university university made public tonight President Butler says that the amount of ot gifts received In money during the amounted to and on the sub of gifts adds From the report of the treasurer It will vilf be seen that for the year yeat ending June 20 O 1907 the deficiency In the cost COit of maintaining the educational work of cf If the university reached the large sum of This sum is exclusive of at the interest t charge of ot Naturally N this result is ground for grave concert concern i It points once more and with new em cm emphasis emphasis to 10 the undeniable fact that Co lumbia university Is not sufficiently endowed to carry on the work which has bas been laid upon it It The cost ost of ot in instruction Instruction j Is constantly Increasing and the number of students grows steadily larger As was shown In m detail In be the last annual report the salaries paid to the teaching staff are far tar from what they should be Much that Is urgently demanded is 15 either not undertaken at atall ataU atall all aU or is insufficiently provided for It is js within the mark to say that rn ad free income of at a year ear is an absolute necessity if th university university sity is n not t to restrict Its educational edue duc opportunities No o effort must be spared to provide this for sum sun without It we must face lace grave embarrassment in the tIle immediate future |