generous and immediate.

"To sum up, Alma Mater needs three million dollars, two million
of which must be raised immediately. Shall we be daunted by
this sum? We are justly proud of the courage and self-control
of those dwellers in College Hall, both Faculty and Students.
Shall we be outdone by them in facing a crisis? Shall we be less
courageous, less resourceful? The public press has described
the fire as a triumph, not a disaster. Shall we continue the
triumph, and make our College in equipment what it has proved
itself in spirit--The College Beautiful? We can and we must."

The response of the alumnae to this stirring appeal was instant
and ardent. The committee for the Million Dollar Endowment Fund,
with its valiant chairman, Miss Stimson, shouldered the new
responsibility. "It is a big contract," they said, "it comes at
a season of business depression, and the daughters of Wellesley
are not rich in this world's goods. All this we know, but we know,
too, that the greater the need the more eagerly will love and
loyalty respond."

Then came the offer of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars
by the Rockefeller Foundation, if the college would raise an
additional million and a quarter by January 1, 1915. The intrepid
Committee of Alumnae added to its numbers, merged the two funds,
and adopted the new name of Alumnae Committee for Restoration
and Endowment.

Mary B. Jenkins, Wellesley, '03, the committee's devoted secretary,
has described the plan of the campaign in the News for March, 1915.
As the Wellesley clubs present the best chance of reaching both
graduate and non-graduate members, a chairman for each club was
appointed, and made responsible for reaching all the Wellesley women
in her geographical section, whether they were members of the club
or not. In states where there were no clubs, state committees
rounded up the scattered alumnae and non-graduates. Fifty-three
clubs appear in the report, twenty-four state committees, and eight
foreign countries,--Canada, Mexico, Porto Rico, South America,
Europe, Turkey, India, and Persia. Every state in the Union was
heard from, and contributions also came from clubs in Japan and
China. The campaign actually circled the globe. By June, 1914,
Miss Jenkins tells us, the appeals to the clubs and state committees
had been sent out, and many had been heard from, but in order
to make sure that no one escaped, the work was now taken up through
committees