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| Cincinnati, January 1880 To the President of the Executive Board of the Union A.H.C., M. Loth Esq. Dear Sir Permit me to call your attention, and through you also the attention of the Executive Board, to the necessity of procuring or erecting a suitable building for the Hebrew Union College. With the beginning of the next scholastic year the H.U.C. ought to have, and most likely will have six classes, to which every next year another up to eight or nine classes will be added, according to the law |
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| governing it. The college beyond any doubt being a success, it will occupy within two years more room than we can get in any temple or any other building at our disposal. The college library also, having now upward of two thousand volumes and will naturally increase year to year, requires a place of safety and stability, and the honor of the institute as well as of the Union requires, that a permanent building should be owned by it, where its offices and archives might be permanently placed. Legislation on the subject, in the various sessions of the Council, I believe, favors the erection of a college building, and the cause requires it. I have no doubt, it is also your wish and desire, that the Hebrew Union |
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| College be located, permanently in a building of its own. ?Also the bird findeth a house, and the wild bird a nest, where to place her young ones?; why should not the Hebrew Union College find a permanent house, where to educate the future teachers and advocates of Judaism. A college building might be erected with, or without a ?Home? for students. Without a home for students, a three story building of 50 x 60 feet wide suffice. This would give dwelling for a janitor in the basement, six schoolrooms 20 x 30 each, viz. two on the first floor and four on the second, one library and office 20 x 60 on the first floor, one hall of 50 x 60 on the third floor, and a center hall of 10 x 50 throughout the building. This would suffice for the next half |
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| century. Such a lot of 50 x 80 or 90 can be bought at $7,500.00 in a good location; and a building of the above description can be erected, I think, for $20,000.00, a plain substantial; structure; so that the whole need not cost more than $27,500.00. A college building with a ?House? for forty or fifty students would cost, according to my calculation about $60,000. It need not cost more. It is not for me to suggest, how the money might be raised to that purpose, but I think, it could be raised, if a separate building fund was established, two or three regular agents were appointed to receive donations for this particular purpose, as I know our people are neither too poor nor to ungenerous to contribute to this purpose. I think the money could be raised in |
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| a reasonably short time. But as said, it is not for me to suggest, I can only urge the matter and advocate it, if officially adopted. None can better appreciate than myself the work which you, dear Mr. Loth, have done in establishing and maintaining this Union and this college. Therefore I think I can safely place also this point in your hands, and you will certainly do the best in your power. Your best Obedt. Serv. Isaac M. Wise |
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