By the Associated Press
Salisbury, N.C., Jan. 12—Plans are under way now to make Catawba College, located here, a grade A college when it opens its doors here next September. A local committee headed by H.A. Rouzer has just been appointed to conduct the drive in this city and the surrounding counties to raise $250,000 and other committees are seeking enough money elsewhere to increase the endowment fund to the size required by the Southern Association of Colleges to be classed as a grade A college.
The plant of the school, situated on the Mocksville road, is said to be worth approximately $400,000. The officials state that with the $200,000 that Dr. Elmore Rhodes Hoke, president of the college, is raising in the northern states, the $250,000 expected to be raised in the counties surrounding the school, and the $150,000 already donated to the institution by the Reformed Church of which denomination the school is a part, that the endowment fund will be sufficiently large for the grade A rating and that it expects that the school will open next September as a full accredited grade A college.
According to the president, the school will carry the A.B. and B.S. courses and will have one of the best faculties in the state. He also expressed the opinion that students should not specialize in any subject until they had received a general training and said that for that reason he had recommended that only the general courses be included in the curriculum of the institution when it first opened.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, January 12, 1925
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