By the early 1900s, it was clear that more funds would be needed for the Brooklyn Institute to adequately sustain the Biological Laboratory. In 1902, the Wawepex Society hinted that, perhaps, Columbia University could manage the Bio Lab property more efficiently than the Brooklyn Institute. When the director of the Bio Lab at the time, Charles Davenport, heard that the Brooklyn Institute's lease might not be renewed, he beseeched the Wawepex Society to reconsider. His letter to a Wawepex Society member, dated July 13, 1902, describes his confidence in the potential of the Bio Lab and his ideas for its future. In one particular section of his letter, he describes the high caliber of students at the Bio Lab. He states that all students "are at work at 8 a.m. and work until 5 or 6 p.m. If the students go bathing on hot days at 5 o'clock it is because the bath enables them to work better... no loafer or mere pleasure seeker is admitted to this Laboratory, if I know it." The first page of Davenport's stern letter is shown above.