Sheldon Jackson Correspondence 1895-1951/Box 1/Fd. 5

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February 20, 1901. <br> C.O.P.Y. <br> Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D. D.? <br> Bureau of Education. <br> Washington, D. C. <br><br> My dear Dr. Jackson: <br> Your various letters relating to a preposition of Mrs. Thaw with regard to the Collegiate Institute have been received and carefully considered - first in conference and yesterday by the Woman's Board. I am obliged to say to you that the Woman's Board did not receive Mrs. Thaw's proposition with favor and for the following reasons:- <br> The Woman's Board has mad a proposition to Sheldon Jackson College regarding the Collegiate Institute which holds good until May first, 1901 and until the terms of that proposition, by which the Woman's Board would turn the Collegiate Institute over free of charge on certain conditions, had been either accepted or declined by the trustees of Sheldon Jackson College, it was not proper for them to consider any other proposition. This was the first reason for their refusal to accept it. They regarded themselves in honor bound to convey the Institute to the Trustees of Sheldon Jackson College, if by a given date those trustees meet the conditions imposed regarding its future maintenance. <br> In the second place we observe you say in one of your letters to Mrs. Thaw, -"If it should meet with your approval to give $2,000 without interest for five years I feel confident that under the impetus of your example I can find two or three other ladies that will contribute certain amounts annually - the aggregate of which will support the preparatory department for this five years." I infer from that sentence that you had the idea that you would secure the advantage <br><br>