Four thousand dollars of the Beloit subscription had been collected and spent putting up the bare brick walls of Middle College.

The evidence

• “When Bushnell came on April 27, 1848 the college had no money. The Beloit subscription of seven thousand dollars had dwindled to five thousand; of this, four thousand had been collected and spent in the summer of 1847, in putting up the bare brick walls of Middle College, the cornerstone being laid June 24. For six months previous to his arrival Middle College had stood fi.oorless, windowless and roofless, without any means to finish it.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/15-colleges.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 327 / book p. 300

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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