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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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CHURCH AND STUDENT 259 site represented an investment of $107,000, and it has been almost invaluable to the student body. Meanwhile the Y. W. C. A. had occupied across the street the home formerly used by the two Associations, worth perhaps one-fifth as much. Early in 1911, having received $20,000 as a gift from Congressman McKinley, and $15,000 as a loan, it also set out to raise money for a permanent building, and obtained a total of $50,000, with which a structure bearing a tablet in honor of Congressman McKinley's mother was erected. Mr. McKinley ultimately canceled the loan and paid to the Association the total amount exclusive of his gifts which the building cost, thus making the whole structure a memorial to Hannah McKinley. Both associations are constantly active in ways religious, social, and charitable, and their membership in 1914-15 approached 1,500. The work of the various churches for the students, now a feature of life at Illinois almost unique, was in its beginnings when Dr. James came, but quickly assumed great proportions. The* lead was taken by a denomination which did not enroll a great number of students—the Episcopalian. In 1904 it opened a house which afforded room for'lfc few students, with much success; and early inji^OS^as a result of efforts by Edward Osborne, Bishop of Springfield, ground was broken for a residence hall, completed that summer, for over thirty girls. The Presbyterian church had begun its activities among tie students only a year later than the Episcopalian, and in 1909 these flowered into the purchase of a house to serve as a men's dormitory. Two years later Congressman McKinley gave $30,000 to be used, with other funds already raised, in erecting a students' Presbyterian church in honor of •
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