The suggestion that the associated alumni of Cornell University raise a fund to supplement the salaries paid to professors to enable the institution to retain prominent members of the faculty who otherwise might go to other universities met with a favorable reception by directors of the association at their quarterly meeting in Philadelphia. Cornell is not so heavily endowed as some of the older universities, it was said, and it was recognized that unless the alumni were willing to assist it would be impossible to keep some of the most valuable professors much longer.
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