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/.. a hundred dollars she had earned washing dishes. A soldier in the Army Air Corps visited Dr. Talbot while on furlough and laid three hundred dollars on his desk. He said, "I have saved a little and I want the Lord to use . it. When the War is over, I hope to . come back here as a student." The response of the Biola students was equally amazing. Most of them worked, when work was available, earning from twenty-five to fifty cents per hour . Despite the lack of student grants and aids, and the usual lack of funds for education in many homes because of the Depression, the students gave liberally . Those living in the dormitories were divided by floors, each floor pooling all its gifts to purchase blocks on the Board. Several blocks were purchased during the drive . With response from these sources, the indebtedness was finally liqui- dated . Biola no longer had to fear the loss of the buildings through fore- closure or sale at public auction . Now it could concentrate on paying the regular expenses and the salary of the faculty and staff, which had been in arrears for a long time. Any surplus funds could now be used to expand the programs and develop new ones to help prepare the School to meet the post-war needs in various fields of service and ministry. The liquidation of the total indebtedness was a major milestone in the history and develop- ment of Biola University as it is today .
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