The Passing of Amity College.
Amity College, located at College Springs, Page county, is about to be closed to open no more. Lack of support is given as the cause. The school has never had an endowment and competition had been too great for it. The college was founded in 1855 by a company of 12 abolitionists from Pennsylvania who sought two years for a location, finally deciding on the present site. The location is ideal and a town was laid out to provide for future growth; the location of     other towns in the vicinity and the failure to get a railroad combined against it and the dreams of the founders were never realized. The school has always maintained a high grade of scholarship and at times has had as many as two hundred students whose credits were accepted by the larger colleges without question. Young, strong, scholarly men have been called to the presidency and have wasted the best years of their lives in trying to put the school on a paying basis but in vain, each in turn gave up the struggle and now it has come to the point where a substantial endowment must be raised or the school close.
Of course when the town finds they are likely to lose the school they will wake up and do something for they are really proud of their college. There are enough well to do farmers in the community to put the school on a good financial basis and they must do it at once. A movement is already on foot to raise $100,000 and it is said that Andrew Carnegie has promised a substantial donation in case the town comes up with their part of it.

Published in the Bedford Free Press, Bedford, Iowa, May 23, 1912.

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