MEMORIAL IS FAVORED
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan Gives Approval to Plan for University at Dayton.
Approval of Mrs. William Jennings Bryan of the plan to build a $6,500.000 Bryan Memorial University at Dayton, Tenn., was announced by F. E. Robinson, president; H. H. Frasa, secretary; and Sue K. Hicks, of the executive committee of the Bryan Memorial Association, after a conference with Mrs. Bryan at her home in Coconut Grove last night.
The association which the three officers represent was formed in Dayton, Tenn., and all are residents of that city, though Mr. Hicks, who was prominent in the prosecution of Mr. Scopes has definitely decided to locate here. It is proposed to raise the sum of $6,5000,000 by popular subscription and erect a university on the Dayton site selected by Mr. Bryan in the closing days of his life for a boys' college.
Five million is to be used as an endowment fund. The reminder will be put in buildings. Fundamental principles of religion only will be taught in the university, and the officers of the association last night expressed themselves as certain that the people of the country would gladly give the amount asked to perpetuate the memory of Mr. Bryan's last great stand for religion.
With the approval of Mrs. Bryan to their plan, Messrs. Robinson and Frasa will return to Dayton today and begin a national campaign to raise money.
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