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A GREATER GETTYSBURG In December 1913 the trustees responded to this call by approving a campaign to raise $130,000 for a new science building ($75,000), renovations to Stevens Hall ($40,000), relocating the engineering shop ($10,000), and an infirmary ($5,000). They agreed to ask the General Education Board to contribute one-fourth of the total amount. Although the president, the financial secretary, and the principal of the preparatory department spent most of their time for nearly a year and a half in soliciting gifts, this third effort never came close to its goal. The General Education Board quickly informed the College that it made no grants to support building programs. A business depression which began in 1913 persuaded the solicitors to avoid the industrial centers and confine their efforts to rural areas, which were believed to be less affected by the economic slump, but which would probably yield smaller returns. Within a period of two years, the president and his coworkers addressed more than 150 congregations, many of which had never previously been visited by College representatives. In June 1917, two months after the United States entered World War I, the president informed the board that the building fund had accumulated $60,000 in gifts and pledges, but also that since January he had "not been able to do much in the way of soliciting for funds because of the unsettled conditions due to the world war." Small amounts continued coming in, but clearly the momentum had been lost. The campaign came to an end with about eighteen hundred subscribers contributing a total amounting to less than one-half of the goal. Much to the disappointment of some of the science professors, the trustees decided in 1915 to use the available funds to construct a new building for the preparatory department and to enlarge, rather than replace, the old chemistry building.31 The fourth fund-raising effort began one year after the 1918 armistice. Meeting jointly, the executive and finance committees of the board of trustees in November 1919 recommended that the College embark on a campaign to raise $500,000, the proceeds to be used for both endowment and buildings. When they assembled a month later, the trustees established a financial campaign committee and vested it with the authority to seek at least the recommended amount. In January 1920 this committee decided to raise the College's sights to $1,000,000, of which $600,000 was earmarked for 31The treasurer reported in June 1917 that what was known as the New Building Fund contained $60,500 in cash and pledges, an amount almost exactly equal to the costs of constructing the new building and enlarging the old one. Since more than half of the $60,500 was in pledges, the College had to borrow to meet these obligations in full. Not all of the pledges were ever paid. As late as June 1922 the College still owed the bank $17,500 on this account. 43