Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-04-17 | Page 2 | Cornell Alumni Organize Plans for Alma Mater

CORNElL ALUMNI ORGANIZE PLANS fOR AL ALMA MATER NEW EW YORK April 1 17 Cornell i.-Cornell Cornell alumni has organized or a body hod to bo be known as tho the council who whose e purpose shall bo be to promote systematic donations donations dona dona- to tho the university on the part of ot of alumni The Tho movement was f started tart last t fall tall but bUl tho the organization was not j until yesterday when a a. meeting meeting- was held of ot the Cornell alumni In hi this city In Ina Ina a a. nutshell tho the plan Is to Induce In uce every alumnus or former student to give a stated sum to his alma mater each 3 year This Is similar In a general way war to tho the plan tan In n In Princeton Yale ale and Harvard Hanani According to tho preliminary arrangements arrange arrange- arrangements ments of tho the tho council shall be composed of o fifty tift members ten ton at largo and ono one appointed from each of tho the lost last forty classes Each 3 year ear the tho newest class clus names a member who displaces dis places tho member from tho the older class The terms of oC office aro are for live IWo years and tho the members are appointed b by classes l nt at each of their five fio 3 year car reunions There Thero h la is to ho bo a It paid secretary rY to do the tho IoU soli citing This work will be bo I supervised Erl h by byan byan an executive committee of ot five mem mem- bers ben Princeton's systematic sY tic giving In thelast the tho last Jast four 3 years cars has 11 totaled more than and as Princeton has approximately approximately matel graduates 8 or former students stu sta- dents Cornell has hns or more tho the ams are arc sanguino as to the result of ot their project It Is In hoped to raise at least In tho the first year