Ogden Morning Examiner | 1909-04-18 | Page 5 | Cornell Alumni to Aid Their Alma Mater

CORNELL ALUMNI TO AID THEIR ALMA MATER Now New r cw York April 17 Cornell alumni have havo organized a body bod to be bo known as the LImo Corn lIlun council whoso purpose shall shah be bo to ta promote systematic s dona doria donations Lions to the tho university on the tho part of alumni The Tho movement was started last lait fall Call but tho the organization was not nat perfected until yesterday when a meeting was as hold held of tho the Cornell alum alumni ni nl in this city In a nutshell the tho plan is ii to Induce every alumnus or former student to ta give ft R stated stat sum sura to his Alma Mater Malor aler each year rear This Thin is sim lIal in a general way to the plan In n rogue in Princeton Yalo and Har liar Harvard vard ard According to ta tho the preliminary ar nr arrangements arrangements of o the Ule tho the council shall be bo composed of fifty members ton at largo large rind and ono one ap up appointed appointed pointed from each of the tho last forty classes ses Each year the newest class tho the names a member who wha displaces member from tho the oldest class The terms terras of are aro for five years ears and I Ithe the tho members arc are appointed by h classes t at nt each of or their ear reunions There Thero is to be bo a paid secretary to ta do dothe dothe the soliciting This work will be sup supervised supervised by an executive committee of I members systematic s giving In last four faur years rears has totalled more than and arid as Princeton has ap approximately proximately graduates or form former I or er students while Cornell has or more tho the are arc re san sanguine guine as asta to the result of oC their project I It is 19 hoped to ta raise at least in inI tho time first year I