Excerpt from Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 30: May, 1930 That the, University was in need of a larger endowment fund for gen eral endowment purposes was force fully stated by Dr. Barbour, who stressed the immediate necessity of building an addition to the John Hay Library and the pressing need for a College Infirmary. In addition, the President called his audience's atten tion to the sterling men of the Brown Faculty (some of whom are staying at the University in spite of promising offers elsewhere), who are deserving of considerably more compensation than is now available to give them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.