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THE BEGINNING OF THE MOVEMENT 91 Austria $ 10 London $ 10 Spain 10 China 5 Switzerland 5 Burma 10 Germany 20 Madras 10 Siberia 10 The Congo 25 Australia 10 St. Helena 10 Africa 10 Sandwich Islands 5 Egypt 5 Dublin 25 Siam 5 Clipstone, Eng 5 Japan 20 This made a total of not quite one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars which, added to the Chicago pledges, made a total includ- ing Mr. Field's gift from all sources of five hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars. The report of the Board concluded as follows: In founding the new institution the Board has had three objects in view as to its character and conduct. These objects have been constantly before the minds of the secretaries, have been everywhere presented by them in the same terms, and are perfectly understood by all the subscribers to the fund. The new University is to be a Christian institution. It is to be forever under the auspices of the Baptist denomination. It is to be conducted in a spirit of the widest liberality, seeking thus to deserve the sympathy and co- operation of all public-spirited men, and inviting to its halls the largest possible number of students from every class of the community that it may give to them a true Christian culture. During the anniversaries a great meeting of all the Societies was held at the Auditorium, then newly completed. When the time allotted to the Education Society arrived Secretary Gates said: I hold in my hand a letter. It bears date of May 15, 1889. It was written by Mr. John D. Rockefeller. In this letter in which he agrees to con- tribute six hundred thousand dollars toward the establishment of a new insti- tution of learning in Chicago, he conditioned his gift on the raising of four hundred thousand dollars more, on or before June i, 1890, those pledges for four hundred thousand dollars to be satisfactory to the American Baptist Education Society and himself. During the progress of our canvass Mr. Marshall Field offered to this Society a most admirable and exceedingly valuable site for the new institution of learning, and he also conditioned his gift on the completion of the four hundred thousand dollar fund according to the terms which Mr. Rockefeller had made.