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Show Remembers Small College The Pyramid hastens to commend com-mend the example of the late Dr. Charles W. MacFarlane, of Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, who, after leaving a bequest be-quest of $500,000 to Yale university, univers-ity, changed his will because Ik thought that the same amount of money if it "were left to a smaller small-er and less prosperous university would do more good." It might be worth noting that in 1931 the endowment of Yale university was $87,918,017, which as any reader will admit, is some endowment, although it is far behind be-hind that of Harvard, with $1C3,-087,473, $1C3,-087,473, and only ten million ahead of Columbia university which struggles along on an endowment of merely $77,513,532! Against these huge sums one must compare hundreds of struggling strug-gling institutions in the less wealthy sections of the nation, which have annual ibattles to get the cash necessary to run another year. Surely some benificent man or woman of wealth might come to the rescue of these colleges, most of whom are doing wonderful wonder-ful work in educating raw young people into better mn and women. |