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OGLETHORPE UNIVERSI TY BULL ETIN

VOL. I. Februa ry, 1916. No. 4

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postoffice at Atlanta, Ga.

OGLETHORPE

ADOPTS ASSEMBLY'S

DEFINITION OF A

SOUTHERN

PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY

In accordance with an official notification sent to Dr. H. H. Sweets, Chair-
man of the Executive Committee of Christian Education of the Southern
Presbyterian Church, on October 22, 1915, and in accordance with statements
made to various Synods of our Assembly during the fall of 1915, and in ac-
cordance with statements published in the religious press of our Church,
during the fall and winter of 1915. Oglethorpe University on February 1, 1916,
adopted the following resolutions :

RESOLVED (1) That the definition of a Southern Presbyterian University
adopted by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United
States. -(See Minutes page 31, 1915), be adopted by us as follows:

Those schools, colleges and universities whose charters or constitu-
tions require that at least two-thirds of their trustees shall be elected, nomi-
nated or ratified by some court or courts of the Presbyterian Church in the
U. S.; whose presidents or principals are members of the said Church; all
the members of whose faculties are members of some evangelical Church, a
majority being members of some Presbyterian Church, and which require
a course in the Bible, shall be classed as Southern Presbyterian institu-
tions."

(2) That in accordance therewith, "two-thirds of the members of our
Board of Directors" upon their election by this Board must be ratified by
the session of the Presbyterian Church in the United States to which the
particular member belongs.

(3) That this action be referred to our Legal Committee with instructions
to take the necessary steps to conform our charter and by-laws thereto.

(4) Resolved that by thus adopting and conforming to the definition of
a Southern Presbyterian University as laid down by our highest court, we
again express our loyalty to all the great educational ideals of our denomi-
nation, and our desire to have the love, support and confidence of the whole
Assembly.

The Church court which will have the control of the ratification of the
members of our Board of Directors will be the sessions of the Southern
Presbyterian Church, who wi 1 thereby control Oglethorpe University. This
method of control is ideal for the following reasons :

1. The Church Sessions have built Oglethorpe University and have a right
to control it.

2. They are specially charged by the Constitution of the Presbyterian
Church with the control of Church benevolences.

3. They are best informed of all our Church courts as to the qualifications
of the appointees.

4. They are nearest to the Presbyterian ne anl e whose sacrifices built and
whose sons will attend Oglethorpe.

5. They are freest from Ecclesiastical wrangling which, more than any-
other one thing, has hitherto kept our Church from having a university.

6. In them alone of all our courts the private affairs of the university
may be discussed without every newspaper hackwriter publishing them to
the world.

The movement to refound Oglethorpe University was begun and its charter
obtained before this definition was either proposed or adopted, and the change
in the government of Oglethorpe University is made in order to conform
strictly and loyally to the definition of the Assembly.

Oglethorpe, our Southern Presbyterian University, will therefore be owned
and controlled by a Board of Directors, each of whom, forever, must be a
member in good snd regular standing of a Presbyterian Church, and two-
thirds of whom must be ratified by the session of the particular Southern
Presbyterian Church to which the member belongs. One or more members
of this board will be secured from each strong church in the Southern
Assembly and this General Board of Directors will meet once each year,
commencement time, on the university grounds in Atlanta, to inspect their
institution, to review all matters of large importance in the life of the
university and to give directions to the Executive Committee which will be
elected by them, and from their number, and which will look after the
details of management of the institution between the meetings of the Board
of Directors.

Nothing more ideal has ever been proposed in the management of an
institution. Excepting only the Sessional ratification of the directorate it
; ^ already in operation and its perfect practicability is largely responsible
for the marvelous success of the institution.

Birdseye view of Oglethorpe, the great Southern Preshyterian university that is
being built in Atlanta by the loving sacrifices of thousands of devoted Presbyterians all
over the South. It is strictly Class A in every respect. It is first of all our Southern
Presbyterian institutions to formally and officially adopt the strict definition of a
Southern Presbyterian I'niversity as laid down by our Assembly. Its destinies rest
in the hands of the most loyal and devoted of our Southern Presbyterian ministers,
officers and laymen. Dr. J. I. Vance, pastor of our largest Southern Presbyterian
church, is president of the Board of Directors. Dr. I. S. McElroy, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ga., is chairman of our Church Relations Committee.
Dr. Dunbar H. Ogden, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, Ga., is
chairman of our Faculty Committee.

Among other prominent members of our Executive Committee are Dr. J. W. Bachman.
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Chattanooga, Tenn., and Dr. Melton Clark, pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church, 'Greensboro, N, C. The first vice-president of the Board
of Directors is Mr. J. T. Fupton, well known and well loved Presbyterian layman of
Chattanooga, Tenn. The second vice-president of the Board of Directors is Mr. Geo.
W. Watts, whose name is a synonym of devoted Preshyterianism all over our Assembly.
The third vice-president of the Board of Directors is Mr. L,. C. Mandeville, an elder in
the Preshy terian church at Carrollton, Ga., whose many generosities have endeared him
to thousands. The fourth vice-president is Mr. D. I. Mclntyre, a loyal member of the
West Fnd Presbyterian Church of Atlanta.

Of the Board of Directors itself about twenty-five' per cent are pastors of the
Southern Presbyterian Church, about twenty-five per cent are elders of the Southern
Presbyterian Church, about twenty-five per cent are deacons of the Southern Presby-
terian Church and about twenty-five per cent belong to the cream of the laymanship of
the Southern Presbyterian Church.

0gletf)orpe Untoersrttp bulletin

Vol. I.

EXTRA EDITION JlJNE 1916 EXTRA EDITION

No. 8

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postoffice at Atlanta, Georgia

THE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE AT
OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY

I

EDWARD CHARLES GRUEN,

Recently elected head of the School of

Commerce, Oglethorpe University

N establishing her School
of Commerce, Oglethorpe
University has taken a
splendid forward step in
supplying the needs and perfect-
ing the ideals of the Southern edu-
cational world.

The great mass of American
colleges were originally founded
by church organizations whose
principal purpose as frequently
expressed was, "in order to supply
our church with an educated min-
istry."

These were the first colleges in
America and their curricula were
planned for students for the min-
istry, for the preacher and the
dominie. Slight cnanges were
made in them to accommodate the
lawyer and the literary man, but
otherwise they held rigidly to a
certain formal type ot education
represented today by the strict
Bachelor of Arts course in our
American colleges.

Since these schools would not broaden themselves, other institu-
tions supplying new needs sprang up outside. Such were the tech-
nical, the agricultural schools, and the various scientific schools.

But while courses have thus been shaped in various institutions
for the mail who may wish to be a minister, or a teacher, or an engi-
neer, or a mechanic, or a farmer, it is only recently that some of our
leading American universities have offered courses designed for the
student who expects to be a business man.

One reason for the failure of so many schools to take care of this
tremendous body of students lies in the fact that it is practically im-
possible to operate successfully such a series of courses without the
use of a great city as a laboratory of instruction.

The location of Oglethorpe University in the suburbs of Atlanta,
Georgia, supplied this fine opportunity which the management of
the institution has been quick to grasp.

The School of Commerce at Oglethorpe, which will open with a
Freshman class in the fall of 1916, consists of a full four years' course
in studies relating to practical business administration and indus-
trial life. Upon its successful completion the degree of Bachelor of
Commerce is conferred upon students pursuing it.

The courses in the School of Commerce, as outlined below, are
equivalent in dignity and importance to the courses offered in the
Schools of Arts, Science and Literature. It is no longer necessary
for a young man who expects to spend his life in the business world
to pursue a course of study specially adapted to a student for the
ministry, nor to waste his time in studies that are of no value what-
soever to him in the years of his after life.

Parents who wish their sons to come home from college inter-
ested in the business lives which they are to lead, and equipped to
lead them, will note that commercial history, commercial law and
practical accounting, with such languages as Spanish and German,
necessary nowadays to all well educated business men, have taken
the place of Latin and Greek in the School of Commerce and that a
student who expects to be a merchant or a banker, or a business
man of any good type will be thoroughly drilled, through his studies
and lectures, in the facts and principles of the world in which he is to
live.

OUTLINE OF COURSES OFFERED IN THE SCHOOL OF

COMMERCE LEADING TO THE DEGREE OF

BACHELOR OF COMMERCE.

Freshman. Sophomore.

Hrs. Hrs.

Bible (1) 2 Bible (2) 2

English (1) 3 English (2) 3

Higher Commercial Practical Accounting 3

Arithmetic (1) 3 Chemistry (1) 3

Stenography ) Political Economy 2

Typewriting (1) 5 German (2) 2

Bookkeeping ! French (2) or (and) 2

Any two of the following: Spanish (2) 2

Spanish (1) 2.

apamsn u) <s \

French (1) 2 ( 4

German (1) 2 > or

Economic History (1) 3 ^ 5

17 to 19

Required hours: 17 or 18

Junior Senior

Hrs. Hrs.

Psychology and Theism, Ethics,

Moral Philosophy 3 Evidences of

Four Electives 12 Christianity 3

Four Electives 12

15

15

The electives in the Junior and Senior years in the Schools of
Commerce must be chosen from courses offered in the History of
Commerce, Commercial Law, Commercial Geography, Economics,
Political Science, Sociology, Printing, Publishing and Advertising,
Business Statistics, Mining, Manufacturing, Transportation, Finance
and Accounting, Banking and Insurance, Forestry and Agriculture,
History, Science and Modern Languages.

In addition to the courses in the regular departments above indi-
cated, the business life of the city of Atlanta will be used as a labor-
atory for the instruction of our students in every phase of modern
business world. Prominent business men of the city will be used
as lecturers in various phases of the commercial life of our country,
in which they are expert. Actual inspection and work in some of
the greatest business concerns of Atlanta will be given to those
students in the higher classes who desire especially to acquaint
themselves at first hand with the workings of great commercial
enterprises.

The courses in the School of Commerce are designed and offered
specially for those young men who expect to give their lives to busi-
ness affairs and who desire to devote their entire time while in col-
lege to the study of those subjects which will be of the greatest
practical use to them in their business careers.

Oglethorpe thus takes a position of leadership in recognizing
Business as a profession of equal dignity and depth with the so-
called "learned" professions.

-

WHAT 18 THE USE OF A UNIVERSITY
EDUCATION?

(From the Westminster Magazine)

Our friend, Mr. Holmes, of the real estate firm of Holmes &
Luckie of this city, tells us an interesting story which deserves
wide circulation.

Fifteen years ago he left his home in Mississippi to try his for-
tune in Atlanta. Shortly after his arrival in Atlanta he was met on
the street by a friend who learned that he was looking for a posi-
tion. The friend told of an opening in the Fulton Bag & Cotton
Mill, and offered to introduce him personally to the manager.
Mr. Holmes gladly accepted the offer. The manager of the mill
asked him what college he had attended. Mr. Holmes explained
that he had only a high school education, but expressed his willing-
ness to undertake anything and to prepare himself by any work
necessary. The manager took his references and a week or so later
when Mr. Holmes called to learn what disposition had been made
of the matter, the manager told him that of all the references that
had come to their desk, his had been answered with the words of
highest praise, but that the position demanded a college-bred man

and consequently they felt that it would be unwise to employ him.
The salary attached to the job was $125.00 per month. Within a
short while a college graduate was enjoying it. Mr. Holmes later
began his career in Atlanta on $50.00 per month with a mercantile
concern. The advantage of an education is not the equipping of a
man to make money, but the development and stimulation of his
every power for the enjoying of life and making the most of his op-
portunities. Yet a college education is a magnificent financial asset.
Mr. Holmes began with a handicap of $75.00 per month because he
had not gone to college.

In telling us the story, Mr. Holmes said he thought this chapter
from his own experience might be useful to us in impressing upon
some young man or his parents the importance of a first-class col-
lege education.

It will be.

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The above design shows come facts not generally known. It will be noted
that the earnings of the graduates of various schools vary surprisingly. The
common school graduate begins low down in the scale and at the age of 20*reaches
his maximum of about $15.00 per week. The apprentice rarely gets higher than
$50.00. The technical school graduate begins below $15.00 and goes something
higher than $30.00 on an average. But the University trained man, beginning at
the highest figure of them all, keeps steadily above them all.

This diagram is of the greatest significance to young men who are now choos-
ing the institution which they expect to attend during the coming years and
whose imprint and influence will determine the value of their lives, both to
themselves and to society.

<%letf)orpe Umbersittp bulletin

Vol. I.

August, 1916

No. 10

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postoffice at Atlanta, Georgia

ATLANTA MINISTERS AT OGLETHORPE

On Monday, June 19th, the Presbyterian Ministers' Association of Atlanta met in
the first building of Oglethorpe University and took occasion to inspect thoroughly the
new structure.

From the very beginning of the movement to build a great Southern Presbyterian
University in Atlanta, this magnificent body of men have been solidly back of the plan.
By resolutions, encouragements of every kind, and by a subscription of over a thou-
sand dollars, the Presbyterian ministers of the city have done their part in giving
Oglethorpe to the nation. Dr. Dunbar H. Ogden, pastor of the Central Presbyterian
Church is their personal representative on the Board of Directors, where he stands at
the head of the Faculty Committee.

By unanimous resolution the ministers of the Association have decided that every
Presbyterian Church of the community unite in the great Oglethorpe Jubilee which is
to be held in the auditorium Sunday morning, September 24th at 11 o'clock, in cele-
bration of the opening of the Institution.

Practically every member of the Association was present to inspect the first build-
ing of the University. Reading from right to left of the picture their names are as
follows: J. S. Lyons, S. W. Reed, Carl Barth, A. R. Holderby, Robert Ivey, A. A. Little.
R. E. Carson, D. N. Mclver, Thornwell Jacobs, L. B. Davis, J. C. Patton, R. O. Flinn.
G. R. Buford, D. H. Ogden, Arnold Hall, Linton Johnson, W. E. Hill.

The photograph was taken immediately before the entrance of the Administration
Building.

The work at the University is proceeding steadily and will be complete by the first
of September.

The prospect for the opening of the Institution with a full class on September 20th
is promising. Matriculations are being received steadily and the Board of Directors
and the Faculty are greatly encouraged at the prospect.

<gleti)orpe Untoersittp bulletin

Vol. I.

September, 1916

No. 11

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postoffice at Atlanta, Georgia

To the Founders of Oglethorpe University

ANNOUNCEMENT and INVITATION

We are at last able to send to you the glad news of the opening
of Oglethorpe University.

The day which will thus signal the consummation of the hopes
and prayers of so many thousands of her Founders is September
20, 1916, at which time the fall term begins.

On Friday, September 22nd, the Board of Directors will meet
in the first great building of the University at 2 45 p. m.

On Saturday evening eight to ten p. m., September 23rd, the
building will be thrown open to the visitors and friends in our first
house-warming and reception to the Board of Directors, on the
university campus.

On Sunday morning, September 24th at 11 o'clock in the Audi-
torium of the city the great Oglethorpe Jubilee will be held.
Every Presbyterian Church in the citv of Atlanta will unite in

thus celebrating the opening of the University. A most interest-
ing program for this event is in preparation, including some beau-
tiful musical numbers rendered by Mr. Chas. A. Sheldon, Jr., mu-
nicipal organist on the great city organ ; the singing of "Fair Alma
Mater Oglethorpe" by Miss Edith McCool ; five minute addresses
by Dr. Thornton Whaling, President of the Columbia Theological
Seminary ; Mr. Asa G. Candler, Mayor of Atlanta, Hon. Hoke
Smith, Senator from Georgia ; the singing of the first Oglethorpe
hymn : "God Bless Our Alma Mater" by the Oglethorpe students
and an appropriate sermon by Dr. J. S. Lyons, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Atlanta.

All the friends of Oglethorpe University are invited to the
Jubilee, not only, but to the house-warming and reception as well.

MAGNIFICENT FIRST BUILDING at OGLETHORPE

Presbyterians everywhere will be interested in a description of
the first magnificent building of Oglethorpe University which is
nearing completion on Peachtree Road, Atlanta, and which will be
ready for occupancy for the first class of the University on Sep-
tember 20th next.

To begin with, the building is constructed of beautiful blue
granite, brought one hundred miles from near Elberton, Ga., and
practically given to the institution by friends in Atlanta who own
the quarry. The building is trimmed with Indiana limestone and
covered with heavy variegated Vermont slate of the same sort
used on the newer buildings at Princeton. The building is as fire-
proof as human skill can make it, being constructed entirely of
stone, with brick and hollow tile partitions, of steel, concrete and
slate. The slate roof, for example, is laid in a bed of concrete
which rests upon steel plates and this in turn is supported by steel
rafters, there being no wood of any sort on the roof. The floors
are of similar construction. The plastering is on steel meshing,
above which is a five-inch air cushion, then comes a layer of steel
plates over which some four inches of concrete and stone is poured.
Above this comes three inches of cinder concrete through which
the pipes of the institution run, and on top of this the wooden or
tile floor is laid. Every electric wire in the building is run through
an iron conduit. The heating plant is in the sub-basement, where
also the garbage incinerator is located. The dining-hall. kitchen
and pantries are large and commodious, being capable of accom-
modating approximately four hundred (400) students. The refrig-

erator, which is being built by the McCray people is said by them
to be the finest college refrigerator in the United States. In the
building is located the college store, selling the students all the
necessaries of their school life. In fact, the institution will be a
complete little city in itself, having its own store, bank, postoffice,
express office and railway station.

The dormitory facilities of the institution are absolutely un-
equalled in the South, if anywhere in the Nation. One entire dor-
mitory section of thirty rooms is arranged en suite, consisting of
bed room, private bath and study. The bath rooms are all trimmed
in white tile and the rooms are all handsomely furnished. The
lighting is on the direct-indirect system, Mazda bulbs throughout.

The Great Hall is particularly attractive. All of the offices,
administration rooms and the Great Hall are trimmed in quartered
oak with beautiful gothic carvings. The architecture of the entire
institution is collegiate gothic. The thought underlying this build-
ing is that the men and women back of Oglethorpe are not trying
to build another college. They are building a different "kind" of a
school from any that has hitherto been constructed in the South-
ern States. It is not going a bit too far to say that there are not
offered on the American continent any facilities superior in com-
fort, elegance or efficiency to those that Oglethorpe offers. The
President of the institution frequently refers to this first building
as the Dean of the faculty. It will be perpetually a teacher, every
principle of dignity, solidity and genuineness, beauty, honesty,
durability, and efficiency is to be found in both its interior and
exterior. Each room is an instructor in personal conduct. Yet all
of the splendid conveniences and facilities of this building are of-
fered at practically the same cost of inferior accommodations, with
which the reader is so familiar. The building could be set down
on the campus of any institution on this earth and the President
of the institution would point to it with pride as one of his hand-
somest, best planned buildings. The building is valued at an even
$200,000. The actual money going into it is about $160,000. It was
constructed during the worst days of the panic following the decla-
ration of war in Europe, at which time most of the contracts were
made effecting a saving variously estimated from $25,000 to $40,000.
This would also include contributions of material, such as stone,
and brick, making a total value of approximately $200,000.

It will be noticed that Oglethorpe is building for the centuries
and not for decades. The terrible danger feared by so many pa-
rents and common to so many students that the personal habits of
the young men at college degenerate for lack of the proper esthetic
surroundings has been obviated there. Not a dollar has been wast-
ed, but not a dollar has been spared in building an institution, every
niche and corner of which will eternally teach the good, the true
and the beautiful.

OGLETHORPE JUBILEE

(From Atlanta Journal, August 27, 1916)

Presbyterians and their friends will unite Sunday morning,
September 24th, in what will be one of the biggest educational
jubilees ever held in the United States, celebrating the opening,
September 20th at Silver Lake, of the revivified Oglethorpe Uni-
versity, which suspended during the Civil War at Milledgeville.
The Jubilee will be held at the Auditorium at 11 o'clock, with a
score of city churches taking part by sending their entire congre-
gations. The public is invited, and it is believed the great struc-
ture will be filled.

Charles A. Sheldon, municipal organist, will have charge of the
music, which will iti elude some numbers of special interest. Among
these will be a solo by Miss Edith McCool, "Fair Alma Mater
Oglethorpe," and a chorus by the Oglethorpe students under the
direction of Custis N. Anderson, entitled "God Bless Our Alma
Mater."

James R. Gray, chairman of the executive committee of the
Board of Directors of the University, will preside over the exercises,
and the opening sermon will be preached by Dr. J. S. Lyons, pas-
tor of the First Presbyterian Church.

Preceding the sermon will be five-minute messages delivered
by distinguished guests Asa G. Candler, representing the City of
Atlanta ; Senator Hoke Smith, representing the State of Georgia,
and Dr. Thornton Whaling, President of Columbia Theological
Seminary, Columbia, S. C.

A feature of the occasion will be the academic procession from
Taft Hall to the platform of the Auditorium, composed of the mem-
bers of the Board of Directors, the faculty and the students of the
University, representatives of the various educational interests of
the community, venerable alumni, and others.

Contemporaneous with this event will be the meeting of the
Board of Directors, and many distinguished educators from all over
the South are expected to be present. The University will have
opened on the preceding Wednesday. Advance matriculations
already have guaranteed a brilliant beginning.

The first great building of the University is now practically fin-
ished and furniture is being placed in the various rooms, both dor-
mitory and administrative. It is conceded that there is no hand-
somer college structure in the country than this first building of
Oglethorpe.

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

VOL. I. October, 1916 No. 12

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postoffice at Atlanta, Ga.

Enrolled to Capacity, Oglethorpe University,

Future Oxford of the South,

Begins First Year

WARD GREEN, IN THE ATLANTA JOURNAL.

Single Building Near Silver Lake Is Model of Classic Perfection
From Parapets to Basement.

One of America's greatest universities opened Wednesday morning
in a single building on the outskirts of Atlanta, near Silver Lake,
six miles from the city.

This is the university's first year, but already it possesses a spirit,
ideals and legends. The university has but one building, but it is a
marvel of style and construction and in it are incorporated the quali-
ties of another Oxford. It, the building, is the personification of all
the university stands for.

To realize this fact to the full, you yourself will have to visit
Oglethorpe university the housewarming Saturday night will be a
good time and walk through it from top to bottom. Enter the boy's
rooms, which are more like hotel suits than ramshakle college dormi-
tories. Step along the noiseless corridors floored in heavy tile. Touch
the solid oak, the walls of lasting stone. Go into the basement to the
perfectly appointed kitchen, where a gleaming refrigerator in white
tile and German silver stands. And stop for a while in the lofty
lobby and look up at the coat-or-arms of Oglethorpe bedded into
the wall like the heraldic emblem of some English house of ancient
lineage.

Then only will you understand that in Oglethorpe, the South has
not the nucleus, but the already realized dream of southern educators
for years the ideal scholastic institution.

There are seventy-five students enrolled in the Freshman class at
Oglethorpe. That is the present capacity of the institution.

One of them arrived in Atlanta for the first time Tuesday. He
was met at the train by a committee from the Atlanta Club of Ogle-
thorpe. Seventeen Atlanta boys enrolled in the Freshman class have
organized themselves into a voluntary committee of welcome.

"We will meet you at the train," they wrote all prospective stu-
dents, "We'll take you to the university. Wear the college colors
Old Gold and Black that's all that's necessary."

That was the spirit of Oglehorpe already acting. At other colleges
they meet freshman with "pie checks" and "keys to the campus."

The new boy motored to Oglethorpe out Peachtree road, past the
end of the Brookhaven car line, past sunny lawns and pillared man-
sions and stretches of brown fields and woods burnt with the first
flame of autumn.

At the top of the grade near Cross Keys his companions pointed
northwest. "There's Oglethorpe," they said.

In the distance a bulwark of gray stone, a roof of gray-green tiles
girdled with a parapet of gray, reared itself from a raw, red eartli
around it against a woody background of green and gold. The sun-
light glanced from many windows and a line of Tennyson flashed
across the new boy's brain, "The splendor falls on castle walls and
snowy summits old in story."

They stopped him for a moment before the vaulted entrance.

"This step," somebody told him, "is nine-inch granite, set in con-
crete. You'll find that's true of everything in Oglethorpe permanent,
lasting. It was built to stand forever."

Built to Stand.

The new boy looked up. High above a bronze sun dial cast a
shadowed line across the hour. A little lower, his eye fell on the
coat-of-arms of Oglethorpe three boar's heads on a field argent,
slashed with a black chevron. And still lower an inscription was
carved, just above the entrance, into the solid rock :

"A search is the thing He hath taught you,
For Height and for Depth and for Wideness."

That, too, is the spirit of Oglethorpe, they told him- here he would
be taught to search for a man's wideness.

"This is the loafing room, the college lobby,' 'they said, just inside,
as he entered a lofty reception hall, the registrar's desk to the right
and in front of him a spreading fireplace.

They are proud of that fireplace at Oglethorpe. They see a future

in which it will always burn warm in the memories of generations
of Oglethorpe students.

It is built of limestone, flanked by settles of solid oak, the mantel
of oak hand-carved, the coat-of-arms above the mantel of oak, the
walls inlaid with oak, all of that same solidity, all carved by hand.
There is a Dickensonian touch to it that conjures up pictures of
winter nights and smoking back-logs and flames roaring up the yawn-
ing chimney. Somehow, too, it brings back fragments of "Tom
Brown at Oxford."

The entire first floor at Oglethorpe is taken up with class rooms
and office rooms and corridors and laboratories. Even in these
though they are trim and business-like there has been carried out
that Gothic style of architecture which stamps itself on everything
in the building, even to the electric lights. The files of student's
chairs, the blackboards, the professor's rostrums, all are expensively
new, yet there is an indescribable touch of dignified age about them.
Mission furniture has given you the same feeling, no doubt. This
is because money has not been spared at Oglethorpe. Only the best
was bought, and the best is always free from the flimsy and the
gaudy.

The Best of Everything

"We could have built six college buildings of a kind, instead of this
one with the same money," Dr. Thorawell Jacobs said. "People have
asked us, for instance, why did we not buy a cheaper refrigerator,
instead of putting all that money in one that is as good as you can
find in any hotel in the country. But we wanted to do this thing well
if we did it at all. Why spare a little money when it meant a little
less thought toward a man's stomach? We are teaching our students
to do the best thing; shall we not show them we are doing the best
for them?

This was the ideal of construction which has been carried on out
at Oglethorpe even to the plastering. It is like no other plastering
in Atlanta, but is old English, made with great outlay of time and
money here in Atlanta. And ceilings and walls gleam like the polished
floor of a skating rink.

Oglethorpe is fire-proof. When you traverse its corridors, you
step on solid tiles set in concrete ; when you go through swinging
dors, they are of steel ; when you ascend the stairs unless you want
to take the electric trunk elevator your feet rest on steel and con-
crete.

There are three floors and two basements. The top floor is dormi-
tories. The cost of the smallest room among them is $25 a year, the

price for a month in an ordinary hotel. Yet few hotels in the country
have better facilities.

Here is one room that is typical, planned for two students : It is
a big room, with wide, deep-set windows. It is steam-heated of course
and a wash-stand in the corner provides running- water, hot and cold.
Electric lights are set in the ceiling. Like all the lights in the build-
ing, they do not shine in the eyes, but are indirect. There is not a
double bed in the building. Two students in a room are given their
either two single beds or one "double-decker." The latter are spe-
cially constructed, one a single bed on top of another, like upper and
lower berth. The beds are massive and the mattresses are five
inches thick. Two bureaus solid oak again are in the room for
two students ; there are solid oak chairs ; and in the center a big
double desk of solid oak.

Just outside, in the corridor, a door leads to a bathroom that would
do credit to any country club in the land. The showers are modern,
the floors tiled, the place is spick and span as the shower at the
Y. M. C. A.

"Our idea is to give a man respect for his body," said Dr. Jacobs.
"I have seen boys straighten their shoulders when they came in here.
No rich man's son ever had a better shower room than this. It will
not lower him. No poor boy could have a greater spur to physical
ambition. And the room is for the rich and poor alike."

Private Suites Too.

On the second floor 'besides a library already well equipped with
valuable and necessary volumes are private suites which students
may have if they wish to pay the price.

The suites comprises a study on one side, a bed-room on the other,
with private bath between. The walls are 12 inches thick, shutting
out all sound, the transom is made of heavy ground glass, invisible.
Suites are well equipped with showers or tubs, the low, deep kind
set against the wall and in the floor such as you find in up-to-date
hotels.

"That is not a luxury," said Dr. Jacobs, "it has simply demon-
strated that tubs like this are better than any other kind of tubs."

Not six colleges in America, he said, have private suites such as
these at Oglethorpe. There are a few in eastern universities, but if
you are looking for them, you had better go to the Knickerbocker
and not college.

The first basement is planned for four dining rooms. The kitchen
would rejoice a housewife's heart. The refrigerating system is the
last word in sanitation, cooled with a continual flow of iced air, elec-

trie lighted, tiled with white tiles. Even the room for the servants
on this floor is perfectly fitted.

The second basement has a furnace and a steam heating and an
incinerator in which to burn garbage.

There is no back entrance to Oglethorpe university. So said Dr.
Jacobs when he had stood where the back entrance should have been.
There was the same vaulted roof as at the front, opening on a sort
of bridge of red drit that led to the woods of Silver Lake.

"See that dirt bridge?" said Dr. Jacobs "It has been built to lead

'to the site where our next building will go. We don't know where

our next building is coming from, but we have faith and trust. That's

the reason there isn't any back door, and no back yard. Everything

here leads forward, not backward."

Thousands of Atlantans Attend Opening Re-
ception at Oglethorpe University

(From the Atlanta Constitution).

With a crowd present that fully realized the hopes of the officers
of the institution, Oglethorpe university was thrown open to the peo-
ple of Atlanta last night at a house-warming and reception held in
one building of the college.

All Atlanta had been invited and it appeared that all Atlanta had
accepted the invitation. A conservative estimate of the crowd that
visited the college between the hours of 8 and 10 o'clock places the
number at between 3,000 and 4,000 persons. At one time the four
floors of the building were all filled with a waving mass of people.
Rooms and halls were crowded to their capacity.

Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, president of the college, was very enthusi-
satic in talking of the keen interest shown by the people of this city
in the opening of the university.

Great Demonstration.

. "It is a great demonstration for a great university by a great peo-
ple," he said in talking of the visitors during the evening'. "It shows
the interest taken by Atlantans in what might almost be termed an
Atlanta institution. It is that in construction, for every piece of
material used in this building has been purchased in Atlanta or through
Atlanta people.

"But we are not through yet. This is only the barest beginning
of what is planned for the future. In starting this university we have

acted as if we had been building every one of the different units of
the college at the same time.

"We have in this one building everything that the university stands
for and everything that it plans to inculcate into the minds of the
students. We have no idea other than to teach our students the
best, and we have given them the best in the construction of this
building, believing that in it they will find nothing to lower their
thoughts from the high standards they will be taught in their class
rooms.

"Every line of the building is expressive of the highest qualities to
be found in a man's life. It expresses honesty, sincere purpose, sta-
bility and durability in its every detail. In this way it parallels what
the college will teach to its students.

"Like the beginning of a noble character in manhood, it has been
started with only the best of principles and the firmest of foundations.
It is lasting and will be here for generations.

Emblematic of the Best.

"There is no university in this country that can surpass it in con-
struction of its buildings. The building is truly emblematic of the
best that can be found in the manhood of the human race.

"I have seen the boys entering the doorway and have watched
them as they get into the main hallway and lounging room and their
eyes first catch the homelike and comfortable appearance of every
detail. They brighten and brace up their shoulders as if they had
just been shown the true inspiration and were placed on the straight
path. That is the kind of thing that we have sought in the construc-
tion of this building.

"If you will go through the dormitories carefully and look closely
at the rooms you will not find any evidence of other than a pride in
their appearance. Each room has its pictures, pennants, and its
posters, but there is no evidence of any disfiguration of the walls.
That is the way our students feel toward their institution. We have
taken a pride in giving them our best and they have seen, and
appreciate.

"The college is young in resources, but we will grow. We have
faith in our constituents and in the people who have helped. We
have gone ahead with our work as if we already had the university
completed and all the money that will be needed in hand. We feel
that the pride of the people in what we have accomplished thus far
will assure that in the very near future the name of Oglethorpe uni-
versity will stand for the best college in the south, if not in the coun-
try. It is truly coming and the time for the realization of this

hope is not far distant. In three short years I expect to see other
buildings, how many I can't say, just as fine and just as stable, with
the same air of durability, on these grounds. And all will be expres-
sive of the best that can be obtained."

Rejoicing for Good Work.

The crowd last night was cosmopolitan in every respect. There
were women and men in evening dress and the latest fashions, girls
in evening gowns that dazzled, and along with them, joining in the
spirit of the evening, were people dressed in the attire of business
life. The evening was one of general rejoicing for the great good
work. People forgot their personal appearances to talk of the
wonderful thing they had seen.

The building is expressive of permanence in every feature. Opening
into the main hall is the office of the registrar and the president.
The walls are of hard white plaster specially prepared. Every piece
of wood in the structure is oak, finished in mission style and without
a high luster it has the appearance of having been built for
years instead of months.

Directly in front of the main doorway is located the lounging room
for the students. This is the first room entered. There is a huge
old-fashioned fireplace built of brick. Over this is found the follow-
ing inscription cut into the rock.

"Square round and let us closer be, we'lMvarm our wintry spirit,
The good we each in other see, the more that we sit near it."

Goodfellowship, companionship and comradeship are found in that
inscription. It is expressive of all that the college stands for to the
students and all that it hopes to instill in them for each other.

On the main floor are found the class rooms. Each is fitted with
the best of furniture. Going up to the second and third and fourth
floors are found stairs built of concrete with iron balustrades and
handrails of oak. Every door leading to a stair is of steel with steel
frames. The other doors are of solid oak.

Dormitories a Feature.

The dormitories are one of the features of the- building. They are
situated on the third and fourth floors. No detail for the comfort
of the students has been overlooked. Everything is there that can
make for a home-like air and for comfort. There are no double beds.
Each room is equipped with two single beds of iron, white enameled.
Lavatories and baths are of white tile. The students are given their
choice of showers or tubs. In every room is a large students' table,
capable of holding all the books necessary for its two occupants.

in Atlanta to Celebrate the

versity Gathered in the Auditorium
ening of the Institution

There are several suites of rooms in the dormitories. They consist of
a study and bedroom with a bath between. In every particular the
rooms for the students are fully the equal of anything to be found in
any college in the country.

The college has begun this year's work with an enrollment of
about seventy-five students. The building is now holding sixty-one
students and is about at capacity. This is the freshman class, and
is considered a remarkable enrollment for the first year of a
university.

The main floor and the large lounging room were beautifully deco-
rated with flowers and plants last night. The stairway was almost
hidden in a mass of bamboo and vines. Roses and ferns, palms and
evergreens were on every hand. An orchestra of five pieces rendered
selections during the evening.

Great interest was displayed by the visitors in the pictures of
General James Edward Oglethorpe hung in the office of the president
just off the lounging room.

Picture of Oglethorpe.

A large painting by Mrs. J. R. Gregory, the Atlanta artist, is hung
over the old-fashioned brick fireplace. This was the gift to the col-
lege of Mrs. J. M. High. It shows General Oglethorpe in the dress
of an officer.

On the wall close by are two small pictures. One is a framed
copy of the coat of arms of the house of Oglethorpe. Just below it
hangs a photograph of the famous painting by William Hogarth, pre-
sented to the college by Judge E. C. Kontz, who obtained it on a
recent trip to England.

The original of this picture is a painting made in 1729 and shows
the meeting of the committee of the house of commons at Fleet
prison at the trial of Bambridge. In this painting General Oglethorpe
is shown as the chairman of the committee. It is highly prized by
the officers of the college.

Dr. Jacobs has framed a diploma given Sidney C. Lanier, the famed
Georgia poet, by the university in 1860. It is signed by Samuel K.
Talmage for the college. This attracted a great deal of attention.

The visitors were met last night by a reception committee com-
posed of the members of the executive committee and the faculty
and their wives. Among those receiving the visitors was, Mrs. James
Woodrow, aunt of President Wilson. Mrs Woodrow and her hus-
band were both great friends of Sidney Lanier. She came all the
way from Columbia, S. C., to be present at the reception last night.

Despite the fact that the college is located about a mile and a half

from the end of the car line on Silver Lake, there was no difficulty-
experienced about getting to and from the grounds. Through the
kindness of a large number of friends of the university, there were
sufficient privately owned automobiles to more than take care of
:he people both to and from the reception. This detail was handled
excellently.

This morning at 11 o'clock the final chapter in the opening of the
great university will be written when all the Presbyterian churches
of the city will gather at the auditorium in an Oglethorpe university
jubilee. And again all Atlanta is invited to be present. Dr. Jacobs
hopes that the building will be filled to capacity and with the interest
displayed last night there is every prospect of his hope being fulfilled.

Thousands Rejoice Over the Opening of the
New University

Leading Presbyterians of South Address a Great Throng at
Jubilee Exercises Held at Auditorium.

LETTER FROM PRESIDENT READ TO BIG AUDIENCE.

Mayor-Elect Candler, Senator Hoke Smith, Rev. J. S. Lyons and
Rev. Thorton Whaling Made Addresses.

Four thousand Presbyterians and friends of Oglethorpe university
of all denominations attending the jubilee exercises at the Auditorium
yesterday morning bore witness to the joy of Atlanta and the whole
south that a great institution of learning that was dead has at last
risen from the tomb with the promise of a vast and significant future.

It was indeed an auspicious occasion, an occasion looked forward to
with eagerness by those who for the past five years had labored so
faithfully for the new birth of a grand old institution that had gone
down in the wreck of a great war, an occasion that will linger in the
minds of all who participated in it as one of their most cherished
memories. Most splendidly did every detail of the scheduled program
measure up to the requirements of the hour.

It was a perfect day, such a day as comes even to Atlanta only in
the fall of the year; the music was carefully planned and magnifi-
cently rendered to impress the audience with the solemnity of the
event, and the speakers were of the leaders of the Presbyterian
denomination and the south.

Cheering Messages Read.

Messages of encouragement and good cheer were read from the
president of the United States and the president of the board of
trustees of the university, both of whom, regretting their inability
to be present, expressed an abiding personal interest in the welfare
of the institution and the purposes it was founded to foster.

It was shortly after 11 o'clock that the board of directors, faculty
and students of the university and the guests of honor, all robed in
the scholastic cap and gown, walked down the middle aisle of the
Auditoruim to the music of a march specially composed for the occa-
tion by the city organist, Charles A. Sheldon, and took their seats
on the platform. A large crowd had been for sometime already
assembled awaiting the opening of the exercises and listening to a
medley of old hymns from the big organ.

Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, in his speech introducing James R. Gray.
chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors, as the
presiding officer of the occasion, gave a brief resume of the history
of the old Oglethorpe. He said that at the opening of the nineteenth
century there was not a Christian institution of learning in all of
the southland below the Virginia line. The idea that fruited in
Oglethorpe and several other Georgia colleges had its birth in organi-
zation of the presbytery of Hopewell, in 1796, an act the significance
of which had almost been lost sight of and forgotten in the wreck
of time.

This meeting led to the organization of the Georgia Educational
society in 1823, out of which the three great ante-bellum denomina-
tional institutions of the State Oglethorpe, Mercer and Emory -
later grew. Oglethorpe was first in the field and for a time excelled
both of the others in wealth and influence. As first in origin, she
had the choice of name and location. Her founders selected the
name of the father of the commonwealth, James Edward Oglethorpe,
and located the college at Milledgeville, the capital of the state. He
referred to Sidney Lanier, Joseph Le Conte, Dr. Talmage and others
of world-wide reputation who were connected with Oglethorpe, either
as students or professors.

Address of Dr. Whaling.

The first speaker presented by Mr. Gray was the Rev. Thornton
Whaling, president of Columbia Theological seminary, at Columbia,
S. C. Dr. Whaling laid great stress on the cordial relations formerly
existing between old Oglethorpe and the seminar)-, relations which
he expected to see now resumed under auspices more fruitful than
ever before. The seminary of the Southern Presbvterian church, he

said, had been founded in Georgia along with Oglethorpe college
and later transferred to its present location.

It had drawn largely on old Oglethorpe, both for its students and
its faculty. Among others he cited the names of Thornwell and Dr.
James Woodrow, uncle of President Wilson, who had gone to the
seminary and accomplished memorable work there after Oglethorpe
had gone down. He cited a number of leaders in the Presbyterian
ministry who had been benefited by its training among others, Dr.
Axson, father-in-law of the president.

Columbia was now in a position financially and otherwise to do
greater work for the denomination than it had ever accomplished in
the past, and it welcomed the advent of the new Oglethorpe as its
greatest ally and scource of strength. He expected to see all of the
graduates of Oglethorpewvho were ambitious to enter the Presbyte-
rian ministry flock to Columbia for training for their professional
training, and thereby both institutions would be of inestimable assis-
ance to each other and the cause of Presbyterianism throughout the
south.

Mayor- Elect Candler Speaks.

The second speaker on the program was Mayor-elect, Asa G.
Candler. He said that he spoke as the representative of another
denomination, a denomination that had five times the numerical
strength of the Presbyterians, but was lacking, he was sorry to
say, in some of the qualities which had given the Presbyterians a
moral and spiritual strength out of all proportion to their numbers.

Mr. Candler alluded facetiously to the black gown he had been
persuaded to don for the occasion, declaring that he, whose educa-
tional advantages had been, indeed, limited, felt very much out of
place in the garb of a scholar. Educational advantages were not in
the lot of the pioneers of the city, he said, and many of the cultured
of the present day would be amazed and somewhat mortified at the
ignorance and uncouth manners of some of their immediate ancestors.

The speaker was an ardent believer in Christian education. When
it came to that he was a Presbyterian and a Baptist, as well as a
Methodist. The foundamentals of Christian birth held by all the
denominations must be made the foundation stone of the education
of our boys and girls, he said. There was plenty of room in Atlanta
he declared for both Oglethorpe and Emory. The city welcomed
the new institution and would open to it its hands, its heart and
the speaker lowered his voice for humorous effect its pocket too.

At this point Mr. Gray reead a message which had been addressed
to him by the president of the United States, and one to Dr. Jacobs

by the Rev. Dr. James I. Vance, of Nashville, president of the board
of the board of trustees of the university.

President Wilson's Wire

President Wilson wrote as follows :

"Shadow Lawn, September 14, 1916.
"My Dear Colonel Gray: I wish with all my heart, that it were
possible for me to attend the reopening of Og-lethorpe. Some of
the most interesting memories of my life are connected with what
my father and my uncle, Dr. James Woodrow, who was a professor
at Oglethorpe, have told me of the former days of the university,
and I feel almost a personal affection for it. Its work in the past
was very distinguished and I hope and believe that its work in the
future will be. I sincerely regret that I cannot be present to express
my deep interest and my sincerest wishes for its immediate and
continuing prosperity.

"Cordially and sincerely yours,

(Signed) "Woodrow Wilson."

Dr. Vance's Letter.

Following is the letter of Dr. Vance, full of enthusiasm and good
hope for the great task undertaken by the founders of the university:
Rev Thornwell Jacobs, D. D., Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Ga.

My Dear Dr. Jacobs : The friends of Oglethorpe university have
every reason for rejoicing.

The past is precious, the present is marvelous, and the future is
glorious.

Considering the indifference which faced the movement at the
beginning, the hostility which has been encountered from some who
we had every reason to suppose, would be its staunchest friends, and
the substantial progress which has been made despite this indifference
and hostility, Oglethorpe as it greets us today is little short of a
miracle.

There is but one explanation. It is the hand of God. We may
face the future with a quiet conscience. The movement has passed
the experimental stage. It remains for us to satisfy the church as
to the relations which are to be maintained between it and the uni-
versity, to conduct the work in such a way as to deserve the confi-
dence of all right thinking people, and to press upon the generous
hearts of the friends of Christian education the meritorious appeal
of Oglethorpe.

God being our Hope, we will do this, and doing this, we shall see
our university making its way into a realization of the plans and
hopes of its founders and friends.

Deeply regretting that imperative duties elsewhere make it impos-
sible for me to. be present and participate in the jubilee exercises,
I remain,

Faithfully yours,
(Signed) James I. Vance.
Nashville, Tenn., September 18, 1916.

Senator Hoke Smith Speaks.

After the singing of a hymn by the congregation and the taking of
the morning offering, Mr. Gray presented Senator Hoke Smith as the
next speaker. Senator Smith said that in his younger days he had
not been very enthusiastic for denominational education. As he had
grown older and wiser, he said, he realized that he had been in error
and that Christian education filled a want that could not be satisfied
by mere secular training. He had seen so many young men of bril-
liant natural parts and great attainments fall by the wayside before
the fearful temptations of life, he said, that he had reached the con-
clusion that success must be based upon something else than mere
intellect. It must be grounded in character. The training of the
mind alone will not save the young man from the temptations of
the hour.

The speaker said that he had been away from home so much of
the time during the last five years that he could scarcely realize the
great work that had been done when he was taken Saturday over the
grounds of the new universities and shown just what had been going
on. He paid a high tribute to the Methodist and Presbyterian denom-
inations, lauding the former for its enthusiasm and the latter for its
stability. In conclusion he said :

"Atlanta needs both of these great institutions. The boys and girls
of the south need them. We congratulate you for Emory and Ogle-
thorpe ; we rejoice with you in Oglethorpe and Emory. Under the
hand of God, we expect that both of these great institutions will be
source of strength to the young of our section, training them in the
service of the people and of Him."

A short sermon was preached by the Rev. J. S. Lyons, pastor of
the First Presbyterian church.

Dr. Lyons' Sermon.

He read a brief passage from John's gospel wherein Christ showed
that it was necessary that He die in order that the fruit of His life
might be made manifest, as the grain of wheat must perish in the
soil before it can bear fruit. He said that this was a Christian para-
dox, one of those super-truths which are hard to believe, but which
are the most vital of the truths we have. He said that the insistence

on the importance of these super-truths was the explanation of Ogle-
thorpe's reappearance, the sole excuse for its existence. The truths
taught by the mathematical and physical science are essential and our
youth must be instructed in them ; but the super-truths of Christian
doctrine are more vital still, he claimed. They must not be lost sight
of if our young men are to be trained to lives of highest service and
usefulness to themselves and their kind, he said.

Beautiful Music Feature.

The musical features of the exercises were the subject of much
praise. A magnificent humn, entitled "Fair Alma Mater, Oglethorpe,"
composed by President Jacobs, was beautifully rendered by Miss
Edith McCool. Another hymn also composed by Dr. Jacobs, entitled
"God Bless Our Alma Mater," and set to the tune "Adeste Fidelis,"
was sung by the Oglethorpe students on the platform under the direc-
tion of Custis N. Anderson.

Two New Gifts.

Two new gifts to the university were announced by Mr. Gray.
One was a gift of $5,000 by Dr. and Mrs. W. S. Kendrick, of Atlanta,
the interest on which is to be used to assist worthy young men
through college. Dr. Kendrick is the medical director of the Southern
States Life Insurance company. The other gift was one of $10,000,
the name of the benefactor reserved, to be used for a hospital to be
connected with the institution along with other gifts that may be
made for the same purpose.

Mrs. James Woodrow.

A venerable visitor who was present and to whom allusion was
made by several of the speakers, was Mrs. James Woodrow, widow
of Dr. James Woodrow, of old Oglethorpe, and aunt by marriage
of President Wilson.

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

VOL. II. November, 1916 No. 1

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postoffice at Atlanta, Ga.

Let All the Nation Join In Giving

Oglethorpe University a

Library !

(From The Atlanta Journal.)

A great university on the threshold of its life should have a
library befitting its high character, its splendid ideals, the great
benefit it brings to the south, and its place in the rearing of com-
ing generations of southern men.

It is in the power of the South and her people to give Oglethorpe
university such a library, or at least, the foundations of a library
which may one day become the peer of any in the United States.
And it can be done with such small cost to anybody that the plan
proposed today should enlist the help of every man and woman in
the state.

A BOOK SHOWER FOR OGLETHORPE.

That is the plan. It is very simple, but its possibilities have no
limit. Let every man and woman in the south who can do so give
one book or one set of books or as many books as he pleases to

the library of Oglethorpe university. It is a little thing for anybodv
to give, but with many giving, it will scarcely be a matter of days
before the shelves of the university's fireproof library room will
bristle with the books which the south's own people have given for
the education of the south's own sons.

ANY KIND OF* STANDARD BOOK IS WELCOME. On the

shelves of your own library there are books which you know and
love, but which you would hardly miss if /they were gone. Give them
to Oglethorpe. The university has no library at all now, so that
no matter what books you give, they will be welcome. But let them
be good books! The gift should be worthy the giver. Standard
novels are not out of place in a college library, but the need is for
SOLID books, the old classics, reference works, books which have
stood the test of time. For instance, a set of Dickens or a set of
Thackeray would make a fine gift. So would Dr. Eliot's famous
rive-foot shelf.

SOUTHERN LITERATURE PARTICULARLY IS WANTED. It

is the purpose of Oglethorpe, a southern institution to the core, to
gather in its library the works of southern authors, books about the
south and southern men and women. A selection of this kind from
your library meets the university's ideals exactly.

There was a day when Oglethorpe university had a library. But
it was scattered far and wide when the old university succumbed in
the dark hours of the south. In that library were books of priceless
value, gems o>f the old south, books which cannot today be duplicat-
ed HUNDREDS OF THOSE BOOKS ARE IN ATLANTA. When
that library was scattered, the books stayed right here. Today some
of them are submerged in old trunks, dust-gathering on shelves in
forgotten attics and storerooms. They may be in your own home.
What a fine thing it would be to restore them to their rightful
place ! Look for them today and give them to Oglethorpe.

Every man and woman who gives a 'book to Oglethorpe may in-
scribe in it his name, so that he will be known to Oglethorpe stud-
ents of the future for his part in founding the university library.
Decide today what books you will give. If it is a single volume,
mail it to the LIBRARIAN OF OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY or
bring it to THE JOURNAL OFFICE. Sets of books or many books
will be called for b& the university authorities if the donor does not
wish to send them himself, or bring them in person to the university.
If such is your gift, write THE BOOK SHOWER EDITOR of The
Journal, describing the books and giving your name and address.

LET'S MAKE THIS BOOK SHOWER A CLOUDBURST!

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

VOL. II. December, 1916 No. 2

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postoffice at Atlanta, Ga.

TO THE FRIENDS OF OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY

At the request of the management of Oglethorpe University,
Mr. Henry E. Harman, the well-known poet and writer, has con-
sented to lead our efforts in- the collection of a really wonderful
library of Southern literature. He outlines the plans below.

Can you not help him and us to effect this great thing,
not only for the University, but also for the "Land we Love?"

I have undertaken the work of collecting a library of South-
ern literature for Oglethorpe University for two reasons ; one is
to assist Oglethorpe and the other is from the love of this kind
of work. I feel that there is a splendid opportunity to put into
this University a collection of books, bearing directly on South-
ern literature, which will have the greatest practical value on
literary productions in future years. I do not know of any insti-
tution in the South which has made a specialty of getting to-
gether a complete collection of all Southern books, and I believe
that we would be able to put such a collection in the library
at Oglethorpe, provided the friends of the institution, throughout
the South, will assist us in this undertaking.

That such a collection of books is an absolute necessity at
this time, goes without saying. What we want at Oglethorpe is
a collection of books by Southern writers which will be invalua-
ble to coming generations. We want to make this collection
so complete in the way of Southern literature and Southern his-
tory that the future historian can come to Oglethorpe to write
any phase of Southern history he may wish, and find within its
walls the necessary data from which to work.

In order to give you a clear idea of what we want in this
collection of books, it is necessary to go somewhat into details.
For instance ; we would like to have and will have, if they can
be secured, all of the histories which have been written of the
several Southern states, also biographies of Southerners, both
local and otherwise. We also want descriptions of local history,
scenery, land marks, etc., in fact, we want everything that can
possibly be secured of a historical nature which bears upon any
part of the Southern states.

Another collection of old literature which will be necessary
and which we shall seek, will be literary magazines, published in
the South prior to the war. Among these I will mention the fol-
lowing: DeBow's Review, Niles Register, The Land We Love,
Southern Magazine, The Southern Review, Russell's Magazine,
The Palmetto, Southern Bivouac, and others. I have already
collccted a complete edition of the Southern Literary Messenger,
edited for a number of years Try Edgar Allen Poe, in Richmond,
which was one of the leading literary publications in the South
from 1830 to 1863.

Prior to 1840 the South perhaps led all other sections of the
country in literary magazine publications. In addition to the
papers mentioned above, there were a number of other literary
publications in the South during the early part of the last cen-
tury, which we shall also endeavor to secure. There are many
families which have odd copies of the above magazines, and we
are going to ask that they send these to us, to assist us in
making up complete files of these various publications. There
will doubtless be some individual who would be very glad to con-
tribute complete sets of some of these magazines for use in the
University. As these early publications contain some of the fin-
est literature produced in tin's country during the first half of
the last century, it is easy to see how necessary and valuable a
complete collection of these magazines will be to Oglethorpe.
We want specially to impress upon the friends of the University
to make as liberal contributions of this kind of literature a* they
possibly can.

Aside from the above contributions, we wish to secure
copies of all books published by Southerners upon whatever

subject, which people may have and be willing to contribute.

In many of the larger towns and cities, historical handbooks
have been issued from time to time describing the early history
of such place, together with descriptive articles of historical
scenes, etc., and we would like to have a complete collection of
books of this character. Also in some cases these books are
practically out of print and we have to depend upon the friends
of the University to send us copies from their private collec-
tions.

I have only given in the albove a brief outline of the work
we have in mind, but this is enough to show the collection of
books we have undertaken. We appeal to all individuals through-
out the South, who wish to see our section develop a literary
future. There is no better way to help this cause than to con-
tribute to this collection of books on Southern literature. Al-
though it may only be a single issue of a magazine or a singly
copy of some unknown book, the gift will be very much appre-
ciated, and by everybody taking an interest in this collection, it
can, in a few years, be made one of the most valuable in this
country.

Mark all items you send with your name and address, so
your name will appear in our catalogue, as a contributor. Ad-
dress all books to me, Atlanta, Ga., and a receipt will be sent you
for each item.

Yours very truly,
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 1, 1916. HENRY E. HARMAN.

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

VOL. II. January, 1917 No. 3

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the PostofEce at Atlanta, Ga.

GOOD NEWS FROM OGLETHORPE.

During recent weeks two happenings of large interest to all the

friends of Oglethorpe University have added much to the spiritual
and material power back of this great movement.

One of them is the organization of the Woman's Board of the Uni-
versity in Atlanta, and the pledging of between one and two hun-
dred of the, leading women of the city to devote their earnest en-
ergies to the development of their school.

The other is the magnificent backing of the Synod of Georgia at
their last meeting, including the gift to the institution of between
three and four thousand dollars.

The Story of the Organization of the Woman's Board.

One of the most remarkable gatherings, even in this city of re-
markable gatherings, was the assembling of approximately one hun-
dred of the representative women of the city of Atlanta, at the home
of Mrs. Thornwell Jacobs, Saturday afternoon, November 25th, to
organize a Women's Board for Oglethorpe University.

The purpose of the Board is to aid the University in every wise
and efficient way, with counsel of and guidance by the proper au-
thorities of the institution. Already more than one hundred of the
finest workers and most representative women o'f the city have
tendered their services and joined the organization. Their activi-
ties will be directed toward the support and development of Ogle-
thorpe in every phase of its growth and activities. Each of the la-
dies will be assigned to the committee on which she feels hest able
to serve. These committees cover the various departments of the
University, and among them are Ways and Means, Finance,
Grounds, Press, Entertainment, Hospital, Music, Library and Art,.
Refreshments, Transportation, and such other committees as it may
seem wise to the Board from time to time to appoint.

The authorities of the University welcome the formation of this;
organization with the greatest joy. The mere fact that they have
promised a devoted allegiance to the enterprise alone has its own
genuine value, but those who know the women of Atlanta, with their

marvelous capacity for earnest and consecrated work directed by a
swift, and accurate intelligence, will realize best what must be the
results of the efficient aid which they will give to this great enter-
prise.

What the Synod of Georgia Thinks of Oglethorpe.

The fine friendship of the Synod of Georgia, and her interest in
the great undertaking of the founding of a Southern Presbyterian
University, was never more fully illustrated than at the recent meet-
ing of the Synod, held in Dalton, November 14-18.

At this meeting, three separate resolutions of encouragement and
approval were passed by the Synod, and one fine deed in the form
of a gift of cash was recorded on her minutes. This latter consists
of instructions given to the commission of the Donald Fraser High
School, authorizing them to turn over to Oglethorpe University a
fund of something like $3,000.00. The Commission on Donald Fraser
High School reported that they found it to be the opinion of the
stockholders of that institution, including the Synod's trustees, that
their corporation should be dissolved and its business settled in a
legal way. In their report they recommended J:he following resolu-
tions, which the Synod adopted :

1st. That the Synod's trustees, S. L. Morris and I. S. McElroy.
he and they are hereby instructed to unite with the other commit-
tee of the Donald Fraser High School in securing a dissolution of
.this corporation and the settlement of its business according to the
provisions of the law of the State of Georgia.

2nd. That the aforesaid S. L. Morris and I. S. McElroy, be and
they are hereby instructed to receive a receipt for all funds due to
this Synod as a result of the dissolution and settlement of this
business of the Donald Fraser High School, and said trustees are
also instructed to deliver all such funds to the Board of Directors
of Oglethorpe University as a foundation for an endowment fund in
said Oglethorpe University, to be known as the Georgia Professor-
ship.

In the report of the Permanent Committee on Christian Education
and Ministerial Relief are to be found these good words:

"Especially do we note with gratitude the auspicious opening of
Oglethorpe, a new Southern Presbyterian University, and pray that
this may yet be the earnest of a long and uninterrupted career of
increasing service to the church and world of this institution now
by the grace of God made alive again."

And then, after the President of the University, by invitation of

the Synod,' had made an address outlining the history and ideals
of Oglethorpe, the Synod, by a unanimous rising vote, adopted the
following resolutions:

"The Synod of Georgia has heard with pleasure the admirable
address of Thornwcll Jacobs and take this occasion to assure him
again of our sympathy with the great work of refounding Ogle-
thorpe University for our Southern Presbyterian Church to the
glory of God. We assure him our great pleasure in the remark-
able success that has attended his efforts in securing subscriptions
that already aggregate more than $700,000.00, and in building one
of the largest and finest fire-proof college buildings in the South,
and in selecting a faculty conspicuous for scholarship and Christian
character, and in attracting that remarkably large Freshman class
of choice young men with which the University began its first ses-
sion in September, 1916. We commend most cordially to the liber-
ality of our people the claims of Oglethorpe University, with the
hope tbat the endowment fund of the Georgia Professorship may
soon be completed and tbat other Synods may follow the example
of this Synod in the endowment of Synodical Professorships in
this great Presbyterian University.

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OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

VOL. II. February, 1917 No. 4

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postoffice at Oglethorpe, University, Ga.

GOOD NEWS AND THANKS.

We wish to thank all of the many hundreds of founders of Ogle-
thorpe University who have sent their checks, fulfilling- their
pledges to aid, during the month of January.

As a result we are able to report that the collections for the
month have reached approximately $11,000.00. These checks have
come from literally all over the United States, but chiefly from the
South, of course. They have -come from big folks and little folks,
from old folks and young folks, from rich folks and poor folks, from
Church societies, Ladies Aid societies, Missionary societies, Sunday
Schools and Sunday School classes, and indeed from everv sort and
condition of men.

The largest amount that we have received during the month from
one source was $500.00 from an Atlanta corporation, the next
largest was $425.00 from an Atlanta Presbyterian, the next largest
was $400.00 from a friend in New York.

Yet, perhaps the largest of all would be found among the $1.00
and $2.00 checks, many of which have come to us from generous
hearted 'little boys and girls, and men and women.

Accompanying them have been many dear and lovely letters from
hearts warmed to aid this great enterprise. We take the liberty of
printing one of these, without giving the name of the dear little girl
who wrote it :

Murfreesboro, Tenn., January Sth, litlT
Dear Dr. Jacobs :

I thank you warmly for the nice letter von sent to me I will
always try to prove a friend to Oglethorpe University. I always was
happy to think that some time I will own $50.00 iu that great Univer-
sity. I am only ten years of age but am trying hard to earn the
money I pay you with. * * * * I know it seems crazy to be (for
me to be) writing- to a man I do not know very much but you write
me so many nice letters that I could not help from writing to tell
you what I think about Oglethorpe. I have joined the church and I
want to be a missionary some time.

Yours truly.

You dear little girl, no gift has come to our office which is ap-
preciated more than yours. May you have all your heart's wishes
fulfilled and may God bless and keep you and all of your sort forever.

* * *

We are reminded in this connection of a verv beautiful stanza in
the poem read by one of the distinguished galaxy of Southern poets
on the occasion of the laying of the cornerstone of the first building of
Oglethorpe. It is by Samuel Minturn Peck, author of "Swinging in
the Grape-vine Swing," and it reads thus :

"God bless the men benevolent,

Who give this structure to the skies

For them no grander monument

In carven grace can ever rise.

No need of marble or of brass

Have they to keep their memory bright

Time cannot dim

The fame of him

Who writes his name with light."

The new year thus opens promising beautiful things for our en-
terprise. Just two years ago we laid the cornerstone, and these are
the things that the Oglethorpe founders have done since that time.
They have enlarged the subscription list until now it is. about $700.-
000.00. They have completed the first great building of the institu-
tion, which is universally conceded to be the highest class academic
building in the Southern states, and worthy to be compared with any
college or university building in the world. They have secured for
that institution the following public utilities: A United States Post-
office, a Southern Express office, a Telephone and Telegraph office,
written assurance of an extension of the Atlanta Trolley line system
and actual extension of bus service in the meantime, a Railway Sta-
tion immediately opposite the campus, and the extension of the City
Water System to serve the institution.

And perhaps best of all, they have organized a brilliant and godly
f acuity, and have assembled the largest first class that any similar
institution ever assembled in the history of this section.

For all of which we return, thanks to Him from whom cometh

every good and perfect gift.

* * *

Read also this final word, which is an appeal: The finishing
touches have just been put on our first building. The closing bills
for the payment of it have accumulated. It is a wonderful building
and we have received $1.25 worth for every $1.00 that we have spent
on it and in it. It is all we can do to pay for it because our pledges
are annual pledges and do not mature immediately.

So, will you not send us your check, if you have not paid all that
is due on your pledge, and thus gladden our hearts and aid the insti-
tution of which you are one of the founders?

If you have paid in full, and can do so without great inconve-
nience, send us an extra check to be credited as advance payment on
your promise. Some time when you are able, come out and see your
school, for it is yours and will ever be.

Heartily yours.

THORNWELL JACOBS.

President.

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

VOL. II. March, 1917 No. 5

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Georgia
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as seeond-elass mail matter at the Postofflce at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A GREAT FIGHT FOR A SPLEN-
DID ENTERPRISE.

In January and February we made an appeal to all of our patrons
to send a substantial payment on their subscriptions, and wherever
possible to pay in advance.

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During these months we "received many encouraging letters.
Here, for example, is one from a little friend in Memphis, Tennessee,
that lies the right ring in it:

Memphis, Term., Feb. 9th, 1917.
"Dear Dr. Jacobs :

I am so pleased to be able to hand you $10.00 herewith, on my
subscription of $50.00 toward the Founding of Oglethorpe University,
where I hope to go some day for my education. I am just nine years
old now. I shall try and pay all of my subscription before a very
long time.

"Wishing you every success, I am,

"Yours sincerely,"
We like to publish these letters from the boys and girls because
they mean so much. Who knows but what this little man may be a
student or a professor or a giver of a building to Oglethorpe in the
davs to come?

And here is a letter from a man who is out now bearing part of

the burden of life. He also is doing his part, and it is a good part,

and his check for $10.00 was very much appreciated:

Pensacola, Florida, Feb. 7th, 1917.
"Dear Friends :

"I am enclosing herewith my check for $10.00 to be applied on the
$20.00 balance now due by me to the University. I am sorry that I
cannot pay it all at this time, but will remit the remaining $10.00 on
March 31st.
"With best wishes, I am,

"Yours very truly,"

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And here is a short note from Brownsville, Tenn., which is typical

of very many that we receive. It does our heart good for a letter to

enclose the money not only, 'but the good wishes and high hopes and

earnest prayers of the sender :

Brownsville, Tenn., Feb. 14, 1917.
"Gentlemen :

"Enclosed is a money order for $3.00, covering the balance of my
subscription. I am also sending sincerest wishes for the fullest suc-
cess of the University,

"Yours truly,"

And now March has come and we are in the midst of settling the
last hills on the first great building of the University. It is said to
be the highest class academic structure in the Southeast and one of
the finest in the nation.

For every $1.00 that has gone into it, we believe that we
have secured $1.25 worth of result. All of our contracts were made
at the time of low prices, and this building, built and equipped today,
would cost us over $200,000.00.

We need every cent we can get to meet these bills. We have,
daily, reason to know that the friends of Oglethorpe University are
the best friends in the world. Among these you are one. Please let
this paragraph be a personal appeal from all of the men who have
been, intrusted in the work of administration of your institution, pray-
ing of you to send a check for every cent that you can on your sub-
scription NOW.

The work of the University is progressing happily. Between sixty
and seventy boys are in the first class, the Freshman class, in the
academic department. Next year there will be two classes, and the
following year three, and so on until both the under-graduate and the
graduate schools are filled.

We have also become the happy recipient of a magnificent six-
inch refracting telescope, valued at approximately $2,000.00, but
priceless on account of its intimate association with the history of
Old Oglethorpe.

Dr. James Stacy, who was rn alumnus of the University of the
class of 1849, and who was noted as a lover of astronomy during all
of the many years of his ministry at Newnan, possessed a telescope
which was famous all over Georgia for its clearness and size, it being
generally esteemed as the finest telescope in the state.

Dr. Stacy was one of the last living members of the board of
directors of the Old Oglethorpe, and when he died, leaving the tele-
scope to his nephew, Mr. Thomas Stacy Capers, now studying at
Princeton University, it seemed to Mr. Capers the fitting thing that
this telescope should be given to the New Oglethorpe as a memorial
gift from the old alumnus and director.

The authorities of the University in accepting the instrument
have named it the "Stacy-Capers" telescope, uniting both the mem-
ories of the uncle and, the generosity of the nephew.

The telescope has arrived safely and is being set up for the use
of the classes in astronomy.

# # #

But the main thing that we wish to say in this bulletin is : " Please
do all that you can to help us pay these bills. ' '

<gletf)orpe Entoersfttp bulletin

Vol. II extra edition APRIL, 1917 extra edition No. 6

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Georgia
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postoffice at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

The School of Commerce at
Oglethorpe University

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pjN ESTABLISHING her School of Commerce, Oglethorpe Uni-
versity has taken a splendid forward step in supplying the
needs and perfecting the ideals of the Southern educational
world. The great mass of American colleges were originally
founded by church organizations whose principal purpose as frequently
expressed was, "in order to supply our church ivith an educated ministry" .
These were the first colleges in America and their curricula were
planned for students for the ministry, for the preacher and the dominie.
Slight changes were made in them to accommodate the lawyer and the
literary man, but otherwise they held rigidly to a certain formal type of
education represented today by the strict Bachelor of Arts course in our
American colleges.

Since these schools would not broaden themselves, other institutions
supplying new needs sprang up outside. Such were the technical, the
agricultural schools, and the various scientific schools.

But while courses have thus been shaped in various institutions for
the man who may wish to be a minister, or a teacher, or an engineer, or
a mechanic, or a farmer, it is only recently that some of our leading
American universities have offered courses designed for the student who
expects to be a business man.

One reason for the failure of so many schools to take care of this
tremendous body of students lies in the fact that it is practically impos-
sible to operate successfully such a series of courses without the use of a
great city as a laboratory of instruction.

The location of Oglethorpe University in the suburbs of Atlanta,
Georgia, supplied this fine opportunity which the management of the
institution has been quick to grasp.

The School of Commerce at Oglethorpe, which opened with a Fresh-
man class in the fall of 1916, consists of a full four years' course in

studies relating to practical business administration and industrial life.
. Upon its successful completion the degree of Bachelor of Commerce is
conferred upon students pursuing it.

The courses in the School of Commerce, as outlined below, are equi-
valent in dignity and importance to the courses offered in the Schools of
Arts, Science and Literature. It is no longer necessary for a young man
who expects to spend his life in the business world to pursue a course of
study specially adapted to a student for the ministry, nor to waste his time
in studies that are of no value whatsoever to him in the years of his after
life.

Parents who wish their sons to come home from college interested in
the business lives which they are to lead, and equipped to lead them, will
note that commercial history, commercial law and practical accounting,
with such languages as Spanish and German, necessary nowadays to all
well educated business men, have taken the place of Latin and Greek in
the School of Commerce and that a student who expects to be a merchant
or a banker, or a business man of any good type will be thoroughly
drilled, through his studies and lectures, in the facts and principles of
the world in which he is to live.

Courses of Study 1917-18

The School of Commerce with its allied departments has as its central
idea the presenting of a course of study designed to give an adequate and
thorough preparation for a business career.

It should not be confounded with the well known "Business College,"
as the Manual Training School is often confounded with the Engineering
College of a University.

A School of Commerce does not turn out stenographers, typists and
book-keepers; it produces accountants, managers and executives.

OUTLINE OF COURSES
Accounting
1. Elementary Accounting. A thorough study of the basic theory of
accounting debits and credits, and the obtaining of a knowledge of the
methods and forms used in the recording of transactions; and the com-
pilation and interpretation of statements based thereon. Lectures and
practical work. Six hours a week. Required of all Freshmen in B. Com.
course.

2. Practical Accounting. A continuation of (1), developing from
the basic principles and methods to the methods, forms and statements

used in the different types of business enterprises, including also accounts
of executors, trustees, receivers, etc. Six hours a week. Required of all
Sophomores in B. Com. course.

3. Accounting Problems and Theory of Accounts. A development
of (2), taking up problems bearing on the special cases studied, and from
the solution of these problems, developing the various points of theory
there illustrated. C. P. A. problems form a large part of the material used.
Six hours a week. Required of all Juniors in B. Com. course.

3. Cost Accounting. A study of the principles and practices in this
particular branch of accounting. A budget set is used in order to illus-
trate the detail of this type of work. Six hours a week. Elective in Junior
and Senior years.

3. Accounting Mathematics and Statistical Presentation. A study of
the higher mathematics used in the higher branches of accounting Alge-
bra, Analytic Geometry and the Calculus in so far as they are of value
in accounting work. Also study and practice in the graphical represen-
tation of statistics and tables in reports and publications. Six hours a
week. Elective in Junior or Senior year.

4. Auditing Practice and Procedure. The principles and practice of
auditing are studied, examples of actual business and audit reports being
used. Considerable laboratory and practical work is incorporated. Six
hours a week. Required of Seniors in B. Com. course.

4. History of Accounting. A study of the history and development
of accounting principles to the present date, and a discussion of the pos-
sibilities of the future. Three hours a week. Fall Term. Elective in
Senior year.

English

1. English. Three hours a week. Required of all Freshmen. See
announcement of Department of English.

2. Commercial English.- Three hours a week. Required of all
Sophomores. See announcement of Department of English.

Bible

1. Bible. Two hours a week. Required of all Freshmen. See an-
nouncement of that department.

2. Bible. Two hours a week. Required of all Sophomores. See
announcement of that department.

Languages

Two years' work taken in Freshman and Sophomore years in either
French, Spanish or German is required. See the announcements of those
departments for details.

Commercial Law

1. Commercial Law. Contracts, agency and partnership, corpora-
tions. Personal and real property, guaranty and suretyship. Three hours
a week. Required of all Freshmen in B. Com. course.

2. Commercial Law. Insurance law, negotiable paper, banks, bank-
ruptcy and receivers, income and inheritance tax. Three hours a week.
Required of all Sophomores in B. Com. course.

Economics and Allied Branches

1. Economic Theory. A study of the basic theory of economics,
particularly in those phases bearing most closely on activities of the busi-
ness world. Three hours a week. Required of all Juniors in B. Com.
course.

1. History and Geography of Commerce. A study of the economic
history of the world up to the present day, and a development from it to
the present geography of commerce. Three hours a week. Required of
all Freshmen in B. Com. course.

3. Corporation Finance. A study of the methods of promoting,
underwriting and floating of a corporation, covering issuance and sale of
securities, underwriting, kinds of stocks and bonds, holding companies,
receiverships, re-organizations, etc., of such concerns. Three times a week.
Required of all Juniors in B. Com. course.

3. Advertising. A study of the basic principle of advertising, its
theory, psychology and technique; the preparation of copy, comparison
and study of advertising mediums. Six hours a week Elective in Junior
or Senior year.

3. Insurance. A study of life, fire and other forms of insurance,
developing the fundamental theories of each, the principles of rates and
rate making, mortality tables, agents and agencies, etc. Three hours a
week. Elective in Junior or Senior year.

3. Selling and Credits. Covering selling principles and methods,
analysis of markets, opening new territory, records, canvassing, selling,
campaigns, credit agencies, other sources of credit information, credit
records. Three hours a week. Elective in Junior or Senior year.

3. Buying. A study of markets and other sources of supply, prices
and discounts, records and reports, turnovers, customs and practices in
various fields. Three times a week. Elective in Junior or Senior years.

3. Transportation. A study of traffic conditions, including the va-
rious lines of railroads, their locations and extent, policy, sources and
character of traffic, also usual methods of handling and tracing freight,
dealing with claims, etc.; also conditions as existing in other countries in

comparison with the United States, and the possibilities of the future.
Three hours a week. Elective in Junior or Senior year.

3. Money and Banking. A study of the essential features of a circu-
lating medium to be used as money. The Uni- and Bi-metallic Theory
Gresham's Law. The theory, principles and practice of banking. The
regional and bond banks. Domestic and foreign exchange and the bank-
ing principles of other countries. Three hours a week. Elective in Junior
or Senior year.

3. Principles and Economics of Engineering. A study of engineer-
ing operations, particularly as regards factory operation, mass produc-
tion, etc., touching wages and wage systems, principles of manufacturing,
factory location and construction, etc. Three hours a week. Elective in
Junior or Senior year.

3. Labor Problems. A study of organized and individual labor,
sources of labor, unemployment, labor unrest, profit-sharing and similar
plans, welfare work, etc. Three hours a week. Elective in Junior or
Senior year.

3. Personal Efficiency. One's efficiency in his daily life, routine and
relation to others is the main topic here. Methods of developing this
efficiency, development of memory, systems and schedules, etc., are con-
sidered. Three hours a week. Elective in Junior or Senior year.

MISCELLANEOUS COURSES

1. Stenography and Typewriting. A thorough training in these im-
portant branches, using a standard system in each case, with a sufficient
amount of laboratory and dictation work. Six hours a week. Elective in
any year.

2. Chemistry. Elementary Chemistry. See announcement of that
department. Three hours a week. Required of all Sophomores in B. Com.
course.

3. Psychology. A study of the principles and theories of this sub-
ject, particularly in its application to business life. Three hours a week.
Required of all Juniors in B. Com. course.

4. Vocational Training. A study of the known methods of analysis
and vocationalization of mankind. The methods of Blackford and others
are explained and discussed, also psychological tests, and other similar
material. Three hours a week. Elective in Junior or Senior year.

In addition to the above listed subjects, other electives will be offered
as the demand arises. Also, the students in the B. Com. course may choose
electives from other departments, provided the subject and amount of such
electives meet with the approval of the head of the School of Commerce

For further information, catalog, entrance blanks, etc.. address the
President, Oglethorpe Universitv, Ga.

EDUCATION AND CAREER5-

The facts are drawn from the United States Bureau of Education and interpreted
by Mr. N. C. Schaeffer, the efficient state superintendent of public instruction for
Pennsylvania. The proportion of students in various kinds of educational training, as
well as of no education, is shown to scale. Similarly, but on a different scale, the
shaded area shows the educational training received by the 10,000 men whose careers
have been such that their names were selected for "Who's Who in America." The
value of educational training in the successful lives of prominent men is clearly shown
in that 77 per cent of such men in "Who's Who" are those with college and university
training, while less than 14 per cent of them had only a common school training and
no man without some kind of education was found to have had a sufficient successful
career to be counted worthy of a place in the list. In other words, if young men aspire
to serve their country and this generation to the best advantage, they stand no chance
whatever of so doing if they have no education, only one chance in 9,000 of such
relative success if they have only a common school training, but from the above diagram
they seem to have at least one chance in 40 of reaching such success if they have
obtained a college or university training or its equivalent.

What Is the Use of a University
Education?

(From the Westminster Magazine)

Our friend, Mr. Holmes, of the real estate firm of Holmes & Luckie
of this city, tells us an interesting story which deserves wide circulation.

Fifteen years ago he left his home in Mississippi to try his fortune in
Atlanta. Shortly after his arrival in Atlanta he was met on the street by
a friend who learned that he was looking for a position. The friend told
of an opening in the Fulton Bag & Cotton Mill, and offered to introduce
him personally to the manager. Mr. Holmes gladly accepted the offer.
The manager of the mill asked him what college he had attended. Mr.
Holmes explained that he had only a high school education, but expressed
his willingness to undertake anything and to prepare himself by any work
necessary. The manager took his references and a week or so later when
Mr. Holmes called to learn what disposition had been made of the matter,

the manager told him that of all the references that had come to their
desk, his had been answered with the words of highest praise, but that
the position demanded a college-bred man and consequently they felt that
it would be unwise to employ him. The salary attached to the job was
$125.00 per month. Within a short while a college graduate was enjoying
it. Mr. Holmes later began his career in Atlanta on $50.00 per month
with a mercantile concern. The advantage of an education is not the
equipping of a man to make money, but the development and stimulation
of his every power for the enjoying of life and making the most of his
opportunities. Yet a college education is a magnificent financial asset.
Mr. Holmes began with a handicap of $75.00 per month because he had
not gone to college.

In telling us the story, Mr. Holmes said he thought this chapter from
his own experience might be useful to us in impressing upon some young
man or his parents the importance of a first-class college education.

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the earnings of the graduates of various schools vary surprisingly. The common
school graduate begins low down in the scale and at the age of 29 reaches his maximum
of about $15.00 per week. The apprentice rarely gets higher than $20.00. The
technical school graduate begins below $15.00 and goes something higher than $30.00
on an average. But the University trained man, beginning at the highest figure of
them all, keeps steadily above them all.

This diagram is of the greatest significance to young men, who are now choosing
the institution which they expect to attend during the coming years aud whose iuru-int
and influence will determine the value of their lives, both to themselves and to
society.

These findings on the "Money Value of Educational Training" are the result of
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Mechanical Engineers. It is worthy of careful study.

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Make May a Great Monti

When the shock of the great war came we wondered
what would be the effect upon the collections of pledges
made by the many friends of Oglethorpe.

The effect was less than was to be expected. Even so
great a cataclysm could not separate our friends from us.

And as we look forward to May we are hoping for splen-
did receipts.

Will you not help us to make this month one of great
and good results.

If you owe anything on your pledge send it in at once.

If you do not oh, how much an advance payment would
be appreciated.

And if you have paid in full help us with another check.

It is a great fight for a great school in which we are
engaged your school, for you are one of the founders of it.

And the picture on the other page shows you how well
the money has been used with which you have already en-
trusted us.

We are hoping and praying for a great month in Mav.
Help us to make it so.

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

VOL. II June, 1917 No. 8

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postofflce at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

OGLETHORPE AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

In view of the recent action of our General Assembly as quoted
below, the Board of Directors of Oglethorpe University, in regular
annual meeting assembled May 29, 1917, appointed the under-
signed committee to draft and send out to our friends and to all
concerned the following statements :

It was and is the aim of the founders of Oglethorpe Univer-
sity to establish a really great Institution, loyal to the ideals and
faith of Presbyterianism and owned and controlled by Presbyte-
rian men. To this end the charter, by-laws and subscription lists
of our Institution were so shaped as to guarantee perpetually such
loyalty as well as such ownership and control. As our work pro-
gressed, we found among our friends and supporters as well as
among those who were not so much interested in the movement,
some who felt that the General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States should be offered the ownership and
control of the Institution under the proper legal terms and guar-
antees. Having this in mind, we appointed a committee to con-
fer with a committee that had been appointed by the General
Assembly to see whether some such plan might not be worked
out to the satisfaction of the University and the Church. These
committees met in Atlanta February 13-14 and after conference,
our committee understood that the following would be reported
to the General Assembly as satisfactory :

1. The title to the property of Oglethorpe University shall be made so that its
ownership shall be vested in the Presbyterian Church in the United States and so
made that it can never be alienated from the ownership and control of the Presbyte-
rian Church in the United States except by the direction of the General Assembly of
the said Church. The best way to accomplish this under the laws of Georgia will
have to be determined by competent legal advice.

2. Every member of ithe Board of Directors of Oglethorpe University shall be a
member of the Presbyterian Church in good and regular standing.

3. The members of the Board of Directors shall be elected for life by the Board
of Directors, but the selection of two-thirds of the members of the Board of Direc-
tors shall be ratified by the sessions of the respective churches to which they belong
before their election shall be counted valid.

4. The members of the Executive Committee, which is the real governing body

of the institution, shall be elected by the Board of Directors, but the election of no
member of the Executive Committee shall be valid until it has been ratified by the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.

5. The Executive Committee shall consist of twenty-one (21) members and each
m?mber shall be elected for a term of three years. In order that this may be carried
out in a practical manner, the twenty-one (21) members of the Executive Committee
shall be divided into three classes with seven members in each class, and at the inau-
guration of this plan the seven members in the first class shall be elected for a term
of one year, the seven members in the second class for a term of two years, and the
seven members of the third class for a term of three years, and at the expiration of
these first terms the seven members in each class shall thereafter be elected for a term
nf three years. In this way one class of seven members of the Executive Committee
will be elected each year for a term of three years, when the plan has come into full
operation.

6. All the above articles shall be incorporated into the Charter of Oglethorpe
University, and shall never be eliminated from the Charter without the consent of
the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.

7. The General Assembly, recognizing that the session is the court to which is
committed the ordering of collections, commends Oglethorpe University to the ses-
sion cxf the churches within its bounds, at the same time calling the attention of
these sessions to the importance of so guidiug the people in their giving that the
interests of Congregational, Presbyterial and Synodical Educational institutions shall
be conserved.

This commendation is given on two conditions, namely: (1) that hereafter all
moneys raised by Oglethorpe University within the bounds of Synods of our Church,
other than the Synod of Georgia, shall be devoted to the building, equipment, endow-
ment and support of post-graduate and university schools other than those now
found in the undergraduate work of our Presbyterian Colleges, unless the donor shall
specifically designate otherwise, and (2) that this commendation shall become opera-
tive only after the Board of Directors of Oglethorpe University have incorporated the
first five articles of this report into their Charter and have arranged the title to the
property of Oglethorpe University as the General Assembly may direct under the first
article of this report.

When the Assembly's Ad Interim Committee made their re-
port to the General Assembly in Birmingham, the Assembly took
the following action :

(1) That the Assembly records its appreciation of Dr. W. L. Lingle and his
associates in the arduous work they were called upon to perform.

(2) That the Assembly commend the zeal and energy of the managers of Ogle-
thorpe University, and wish them great success in building up an Institution in
Georgia, which we trust will be a blessing to generations.

(3) That the Assembly decline to adopt Oglethorpe University and decline to
commend it to the churches for their contributions.

(4) That the Assembly urge our Presbyteries and Synods to increased diligence
in building up and maintaining their schools and colleges.

This action of the Assembly we accept cheerfully and we
appreciate fully the cordial good will expressed by the Assembly
for our continued growth and greater prosperity. The Board of
Directors having offered the ownership and control of the Univer-
sity to the General Assembly feel that all has been done in that
direction that could be expected of us and that we are now in a
position to go forward with united and earnest effort for the attain-
ment of our great ideal.

Oglethorpe will continue its growth as a great Southern Pres-
byterian University, not under the control of any ecclesiastical
court, but strictly and completely under Presbyterian control. We
will proceed with our work as heretofore and we hereby invite all
forward-looking Presbyterians, ministers and laymen, men and
women, to aid us in this great enterprise to which more than five
thousand men, women and children have already pledged their
money, their prayers, and their devotion. And to our Presbyte-

Tian ministers and their sessions all over our country, we make
this special appeal, that when their local Presbyterial and Synodi-
cal Institutions shall have had ample opportunity to present their
causes to the members of their churches they may give us an oppor-
tunity of telling the "Oglethorpe Story" in their pulpits, upon the
basis of the above statement.

We look forward to a bright future with hope and faith, as
we look back upon a past rich in the blessings of God. With char-
ity toward all, with rivalry toward none, and with a love to our
"beloved church which is only equalled by our devotion to our
friends and helpers, we now begin an aggressive campaign to win
more friends, more money, and more students.

I. S. McELROY, Pastor First Pres. Church, Columbus, Ga.

J. I. VANCE, Pastor First Pres. Church, Nashville, Term.

D. H. OGDEN. Pastor Central Pres. Church, Atlanta, Ga.

E. M. GREEN, Pastor First Pres; Church, Danville, Ky.

G. L. PETRIE, Pastor First Pres. Church, Charlottesville, Va.
JAS. R. GRAY, Editor Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Ga.
THORNWELL JACOBS, Pres. Oglethorpe University,

Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Committee.

The Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors of Oglethorpe
University was held Tuesday afternoon at 3 :00 o'clock in the office
of Mr. Jas. R. Gray. At this meeting, the following officers were
elected :

Dr. Jas. I. Vance, Pastor First Presbyterian Church, Nashville,
Tenn., President.

J. T. Lupton, Chattanooga, Tenn., First Vice-President.

Geo. W. Watts, Durham, N. C, Second Vice-President.

L. C. Mandeville, Carrollton, Ga., Third Vice-President.

W. R. Hearst, New York City, Fourth Vice-President.

Jno. K. Ottley, Atlanta, Ga., Treasurer.

J. Cheston King, Atlanta, Ga., Secretary.

The three members of the Executive Committee whose terms
expired at this meeting were re-elected:

Messrs. Frank M. Inman, D. I. Maclntyre, Dr. E. G. Jones.

Reports of Committees were received and read, showing prog-
ress in the work along all lines'. A matter of special interest was
the report of the Chairman of the Executive Committee, Jas. R.
Gray, which, among other items of progress, announced the imme-
diate construction of a beautiful stone railway station for the use
of the University community.

The financial affairs of the Institution were shown to be in
excellent condition, and work in all the departments of the school
was approved.

OGLETHORPE'S FIRST COMMENCEMENT.

The first Commencement Exercises of Oglethorpe University began
with the Baccalaureate sermon which was preached by Dr. D. H. Rolston,
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, N. C, in the audito-
rium of the Central Presbyterian Church of this city at 11 :00 o'clock
Sunday morning, May 27th.

Dr. Rolston is widely known as one of the most prominent ministers
of the denomination not only, but also as a man of exceptional power
both of personality and ministry. He is the pastor of one of the strongest
and largest churches of the denomination in the whole South, and is
widely admired as a most eloquent and fascinating speaker.

On Monday afternoon there was a meeting of the Board of Directors
of the University in the chapel of the Administration Building, at 3:00
o'clock, at which many prominent men from all over the South were
present.

On Monday night there was a gathering of the students to meet with
the Alumni in the chapel of the University. Dr. Geo. L. Petrie addressed
the student body, bearing particularly in mind their desire to know
something of the ante-bellum days of the old Oglethorpe at Milledgeville.

Dr. E. M. Green, of Danville, Ky., class of '59, made a delightful
address, as also Mr. A. Pope and Mr. Lane, former alumni.

On Tuesday evening there was held the first public debate ever pre-
sented by the University, given in the auditorium of the First Presbyterian
Church, corner 17th and Peachtree Streets, at 8:00 o'clock, to which the
public generally was invited. This debate compared the relative merits
of the American and British forms of government, and was participated
in by four of the best thinkers and speakers in the first class of Ogle-
thorpe. Messrs. J. W. Faulkner and Clifford Sims presented the case in
favor of America, and Messrs. Stokely Northcutt and Claude C. Mason,
Jr., in favor of Great Britain. Mr. W. R. Carlisle presided.

The University is closing a most auspicious first year, and is looking
forward to an even more successful one for 1917-18.

Do you know of a young man ready for college whom you would like
to see educated in a strong Christian institution? Tell him about Ogle-
thorpe and send us his name.

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

VOL. II

July, 1917

No. 9

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postoffice at Oglethorpe University. 6a.

Part of the First Class at Oglethorpe University, which totalled sixty-seven
enthusiastic Freshmen. A large percentage of these men
will be back next year.

A LANIER PROFESSORSHIP AT OGLETHORPE.

Dr. Jas. H. Dillard, President of the Jeanes Fund, and one of the
most distinguished educators in our country, has given an interview to
the papers that will prove of large interest to Georgians and South-
erners, and especially to the friends of Oglethorpe University.

"I had the pleasure," says Dr. Dillard, "of visiting Oglethorpe
three weeks ago and was much impressed with what had been accom-

plishcd in so short a time at the new site, about nine miles from the
center of Atlanta. The large building already erected is beautiful
from an architectural point of view and most satisfactory in its prac-
tical uses. The best of judgment has been shown in every respect

"Over the desk of President Thornwell Jacobs hangs a framed
document which is the most interesting possession of the University.
It is the diploma of Sidney Lanier, our greatest of Southern men of
letters. Oglethorpe was Lanier's college, and it may be of interest
to state that a movement is to be started for the erection of a memo-
rial to Lanier in the revived University.

''Many admirers of Lanier, North and South, are interested in the
movement. Albert Shaw, of the Review of Reviews; Lawrence F.
Abbott, of the Outlook; Clark Howell, of the Atlanta Constittuion ;
Oswald Garrison Villard, of the Nation; Henry S. Pritchett, George
Foster Peabody and others have expressed their willingness to aid in
securing funds for the memorial. This memorial will probably take
the form of an endowment for a chair of English Literature. Mr.
Peabody, who is a native of Georgia, has consented to be treasurer
of the committee which is to be formed for the purpose of securing the
necessary funds.

"There should be no doubt of the success of the effort. I am sure
that all the school children in the South will be glad to join in honor-
ing the author of 'The Song of the Chattahoochee' and 'The Marshes
of Glynn.' The fame of Lanier has been constantly growing, and we,
of the South, will do well to honor his memory by a memorial at the
college which will always he associated with his name."

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY.

Many people in our city are interested in Oglethorpe University,
a Presbyterian Institution located in Atlanta, Georgia. A few years
ago Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, the President of Oglethorpe, visited Char-
lottesville, and told the story of old Oglethorpe University, how that
institution, at one time so prosperous, had been ruined in the fall of
the Confederate States. With thrilling eloquence he told of the en-
deavor to re-establish the University in Atlanta. The people who heard
the address were so moved by it that they made spontaneous and hand-
some contribution to the cause, amounting to more than a thousand
dollars.

The Institution was opened last Fall. It was my privilege recently
to attend the first commencement of the New Oglethorpe University,
and to take part in the Alumni exercises. Of course, there are very
few living alumni of Oglethorpe, as for more than fifty years it had no
existence. Of the class of 1859, of which I was a member, there are
four living members, all ministers. Two of these were present at the
recent meeting : Rev. Dr. E. M. Green, of Danville, Kentucky, and my-
self. There were two other Alumni present : Mr. A. Pope, of Macon,
G-a., and Mr. R. L. Lane ,of Washington, Ga. On the evening devoted
to the Alumni the chapel was filled with a sympathetic audience con-
sisting of students, faculty, and ladies and gentlemen of Atlanta.
The four old Alumni who were present made reminiscent addresses,
told college stories, and indulged in humorous references to the old
times. It was a delightful re-union in which the old men renewed
their youth, and all had a good time.

Oglethorpe has begun its new career very auspiciously. The build-
ing now completed and occupied is a gem of architecture. I have
never seen a building better adapted to college purposes. The plan
includes other buildings of the character.

The official relation of Oglethorpe University to the Presbyterian
church was very earnestly discussed by the recent General Assembly
in Birmingham, Alabama. Diverse views were entertained and ex-
pressed by members of the assembly. The final action of the General
Assembly was eminently satisfactory to the many warm friends of
Oglethorpe. In that action the Assembly commended the energy and
zeal of the managers of the Oglethorpe enterprise and wished for the
further success of the University. The friends of Oglethorpe regard
this as better than direct church ownership and control. The Institu-
tion is owned and controlled by Presbyterians, and is designed to
afford opportunity for liberal education, safeguarded by the mainte-
nance of high ideals and Christian principles.

Difficult and trying as are these times, the success of Oglethorpe
seems assured. With an honorable past in the old Oglethorpe, the
new Oglethorpe looks into the future with bright hopes of expanding
usefulness and great achievement. George L. Petrie, in the Char-
lottesville Progress.

GEORGE L. PETRIE.

APPLICATION BLANK

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY

ATLANTA, GA.

Students applying for admission to the University should fill out
and mail to the President the following form:

I hereby apply for matriculation in Oglethorpe University.
I last attended

School (or College,) from which I received an honorable dismissal.

I am prepared to enter the Class in Oglethorpe

University. Please reserve room and boarding accommodations for

me. I shall reach Atlanta on the day of

Signed:

Address

Age.

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

VOL. II August, 1917 No. 10

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the rostoffice at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

INTERESTING NEWS FROM OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY.

The management and student body of Oglethorpe University are
much pleased with the many improvements made necessary along
Peach tree Road by the locating of rthe military cantonment of Camp
Gordon at Chamblee, Ga., something like two miles northeast of the
institution.

Workmen are busy laying a 16-inch water main on the east side of
Peachtree Roaid, and the Georgia Railway & Power Co. is preparing
to build their trolley line out Peachtree Road directly in front of
the University. The visitors and students of the University will
especially appreciate this improvement. It is understood, also, that
gas pipes will be laid out Peachtree Road to Camp Gordon connecting
the city gas supply with the cantonment.

Announcement has also been made that all parties concerned have
reached an agreement whereby Peachtree Road is to be paved all the
way from Chamblee to the present end of the car line, at which point
the eighty foot avenue, recently paved, begins.

The contract to build the beautiful new railway station of the Uni-
versity was let to Louis C. Kalb. The station will be built of granite
and covered with variegated slates and will be known as Oglethorpe
University, GJa. It will cost, including the approaches and sewerage
connections, in the neighborhood of $10,000.00'. It will contain, be-
sides the customary waiting rooms and ticket offices, the express
office and freight depot for the University. An umbrella shed ex-
tends to the northeast and the port cochere to the north. Work on
the station will begin immediately.

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Peachtree Road presents a busy sceaie, and will be even busier
within the next ten days when all of this work will be in full blast.
While Camp Gordon is a mile and one-half or two miles away, yet

its location in the neighborhood 'should make it possible to use the
cantonment in a sense as a great laboratory for the establishment of
a school of military science at Oglethorpe. Military training will be
given at the institution, should the government desire it, during tho
coming year.

The University is looking for ward to an excellent opening on Sep-
tember 19th next. The great mass of old students will return for the
coming year, and. many new ones are expected to enter the Fresh-
man class in September.

The locating of the cantonment for the National Army at Chamblee,
Ga., has created a great deal of interest on the part of our students
and friends. Buildings are now being erected with the greatest
speed, roads are being graded, railway spur tracks being built, and
all the conveniences of a modern city of fifty thousand people are
being provided for the camp, which is to be known as Camp Gordon,
in honor of General John B. Gordon. The government will spend be-
tween three and four million dollars in making it perfect and effi-
cient, and sanitary and attractive.

A 16-inch water main, a trolley line, and many beautiful roadways
will be constructed, connecting Atlanta with the camp. Camp Gor-
don is located at Chamblee, Ga., about one and one-half miles from
the University, and will prove an interesting and educational show
place to our students not only, but also to the whole city of Atlanta.
A military zone will be declared around the camp and the health
and morals of the soldiers will be protected as carefully as law and
religion and the United States Secret Service can do so.

Camp Gordon with the other fifteen cantonments will be a little
world within itself.

Esch camp will have a mammoth theater.

Caruso, Farrar, John McCormick, Fritz Kreisler, the violinist: Pad-
e.rewsiki and other world famous artists will appear.

Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks. Francis X.
Bushman and kindred movie stars will appear in person.

^Veil-known theatrical men will organize home talent shows, famous
playwrights framing the plots.

To teach wrestling and boxing will be Frank Gotch, Mike Gibbons,
Johnny Kilbane, Tom Gibbons, Johnny Dundee, Frank Moran. Fred

Fulton, Jack Dillon, Kid McCoy, Packy McFarland, Jess Willard, Sam

Langfor'd and others,. Boxing is fine bayonet training, the war de-
partment has learned.

A great Young Men's Christian association building and another
of equal size for the Knights of Columbus is being erected at each
camp.

Branch libraries will be established in all <by the American library
commission. The government will install college professors to teach
French, Italian and other languages.

THE BIG CHURCHES AND OGLETHORPE.

From the last minutes of the General Assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian Church, we discover the names and memberships of.
the fifteen largest churches in the Southern Assembly, comprising all
whose membership have reached one thousand or more.

It is both interesting and significant to note that nine of the fifteen
have heard the Oglethorpe Story and have made generous contribu-
tions to the building up of a great Southern Presbyterian University.
This is most encouraging to the management of the University, and
shows the deep interest taken in the movement by our largest as well
as our smaller churches.

The list follows: Membership.

Houston First, W. States Jacobs D. D 2,242

Nashville First, James I. Vance, D. D _ 1,625

Dallas First, Wm. M. Anderson, D. D 1,536

Atlanta Central, Dunbar H. Ogden, D. D _ 1,531

Houston Second, F. E. Fincher, 1,378

Charleston First, Ernest Thompson, D. D 1,250

Montgomery First, Robert H. MJciGaslin, D. D , 1,242

Charlotte Second, A. C. McGeaehy, D. D 1,221

Atlanta North Ave., R. 0. Flynn, D. D 1,110

San Antonio First, Arthur G. Jones, D. D 1,095

Knoxville First, W. T. Thompson, Jr 1,070

Charleston Bream, S. M. Glasgow, 1,050

Greensboro First, Chas. F. Myers, _ 1,034

Memphis Second, A. B. Curry, D. D 1,020

Jacksonville First, J. B. French, D. D * 1,007

Those printed in black type are the churches that have aided
Oglethorpe. We 'hope to add the others later.

THE LANIER PROFESSORSHIP.

A great deal of interest has been aroused by the announcement made
in our last Bulletin and in the daily papers of the plan to found a
Lanier Professorship of English at Oglethorope. We are in receipt
of a letter from & good friend in Georgia who sends us a cheek on his
subscription to the founding of the University, -and writes :

"Should the proposed memorial to Lanier be put into effect, it
will be my pleasure to contribute yearly to same.

"My mother, now dead, was a pupil of the one you propose to
honor and this together with my love for his verse, prompts the
above."

It has occurred to us that perhaps there are others who would
like to do the same thing. Lanier's diploma hangs over the desk
of the President of the University and is one of the treasures that the
institution has. Hie was a student at Oglethorpe not only, but one of
the teachers there. For decades his name has brought honor to the
whole nation, and now at length the nation is to found this perpetual
memorial to him.

The students of the University will be interested in the following,
which was found in the last issue of "Our Monthly." It tells a little
story of as fine a set of young men as ever constituted a baseball
nine, and it is gratifying to the authorities of the university to know
thus from eye witnesses the quality of behavior that our young men
are in the habit of exhibiting :

A lady in speaking to us recently of the visit of the Oglethorpe Base Ball
team to Clemson, expressed pleasure and gratification at the fine character
and appearance of the Oglethorpe boys. We knew that they had a fine
set of boys over there. The reopening of the college in September will add
a Sophomore class to the student body. A very large Freshman class is
expected.

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

VOL. II September, 1917 No 11

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postoflice at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

OGLETHORPE SONGS, VERSE AND YELLS.

Our Bulletin for this month consists largely of a little clus-
ter of verses often sung by our students, and already consti-
tuting a small collection of college songs, embodying the Ogle-
thorpe spirit.

The first of them is the Oglethorpe Hymn, written by the
President of the University, the hymn that was sung at the
laying of the corner stone at the opening of the Institution, and
at the great Oglethorpe Jubilee of last fall.

The second, from the same pen, is the college song, "Old
Oglethorpe Forever," sung to the tune of "Dixie," and no one
remains unthrilled when the Oglethorpe boys sing it.

Following this is a series of Freshmen yells, which enliv-
ened the college term last year.

The motto of the University, "Manu dei resurrexit" ("By
the hand of God she has risen from the dead") furnishes the
occasion for the last poem by the President.

It is hoped that these will prove interesting to the many
friends of the Universitv.

FAIR ALMA MATER, OGLETHORPE.

Tune : "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes."
Fair Alma Mater, Oglethorpe,

Thou didst for others die,
And now, above thy broken tomb,

Thy God doth lift thee, high!
For He doth live in every stone

We worthily have brought.
And He doth move in every deed

We r'ghteously have wrought.

We give to thee our lives to mold

And thou to us dost give
Thy life, whose pulse-beat is the truth,

Wherein we ever live.
And as the times pass o'er our heads.

In this we shall rejoice:
That we may never drift beyond

The memory of thy voice.

Fair Alma Mater, Oglethorpe,

Thou didst for others die.
So, now, above thy broken tomb,

Thy Lord uplifts thee, h'gh !
To all thy past of pain and toil,

Thy future's brilliant goal
We promise loyalty and love ;

We pledge thee heart and soul.

OLD OGLETHORPE FOREVER,

Tune: Dixie.
Oh, come along boys, let's give a cheer
From every man-together-hear !
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray, Oglethorpe.
While hoary Time shall sift his sands
She holds our hearts she holds our hands
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray, Oglethorpe!

Chorus
Old Oglethorpe forever !

Hooray, Hooray!
Our Oglethorpe shall never lack
Defenders of the Gold and Black,

Hooray, Hooray!
Old Oglethorpe forever !

On the football field, on the track, on the lake,
The Petrels ride the storm's wild wake.
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray, Oglethorpe.
We've got the will, we've got the verve.
We've got the men, we've got the nerve.
Hooray. Hooray, Hooray, Oglethorpe !

Chorus
And when our college days are done
And all our hard-fought battles won
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray, Oglethorpe!
, We'll treasure every happy hour
We spent beneath her kindly power.
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray, Oglethorpe!

SOME FRESHMAN (1916) YELLS.
Dazzle

Dazzle ! Dazzle ! Never Frazzle.

Not a thread, but wool.
Altogether! Altogether!

That's the way we pull.
OGLETHORPE.

RAILROAD
Rah!! Rah!! Rah! Rah! Rah!
Rah ! ! Rah ! ! Rah ! Rah ! Rah !
Rah!! Rah!! Rah! Rah! Rah!

O-G-L-E-T-H-O-R-P-E.

SHANTY
Rah Rah! Rah Rah!
Team Rah ! Team Rah !
Whole Team, Team Rah !
Rah Rah! Rah Rah!

OGLETHORPE.

TEAM
Gold and Black
Gold and Black.
Oglethorpe's a Cracker Jack
TEAM! TEAM! TEAM!

RAH! RAH!
Rah! Rah!
OGLETHORPE
Ray! Rah!
OGLETHORPE
Ray! Rah!
OGLETHORPE.

MANU DEI RESURREXIT.

(By the Hand of God she has risen from the dead.)

My quartz has met me from her age of fire.

My feldspar, blackened with the smoke of Hell,
My clear-eyed mica lucent with desire.
Engraven is the story they would tell

In clay and flame the'r very strength reflects it!
'Tis granite ! Maim Dei Resurrexit !

So dost Thou come from out thy molten tomb.
My Oglethorpe, as one whose heart is tr"ed
And fused and fixed for what thou wouldst assume!
My ashlar, born of that wherein she died!
Lost stone (a dying nation's life-blood flecks, it),
Rise Empire! Manu Dei Resurrexit!

There is a place for her who passed as thee.
There is a seat beneath the throne of God
For those whose robes have known such molten sea

As that through which thou, comradeless, hast trod.
Such death though every human eye neglects it
Must live for Manu De ; Resurrexit !

Take thou thy place beside thy friends who went
With thee unto the wars and thence returned
In safety home and left thee bleeding, spent,
Alone, where immortality is earned.

Maimed stone, each new-come builder sees, rejects it
Chief stone, lo, Manu Dei Resurrexit !

Was Princeton not thy mate when thou wast born

And Yale thy little teacher at the games
And Harvard. Georgia, Washington, wast torn

From these familiar childhood's comrade-names?
Possess thy heart, my stone, this shall not vex it.
They call thee I Manu Dei Resurrexit!

And Emory, who went with thee to war,

And Davidson, who played upon thy knee.
And little Mercer, Hark, their voices are
Commingled in amazement at the ease

With which such stone doth rise to Such, Who becks it.
Cry out, stone; Manu Dei Resurrexit I

From school of molten lava thou art come;

Now to the Time's strange winds dost bare thy breast.
The self-op'nioned rain, the frost's white tome

Will test thy temper toward that which is best.

But thou dost know earth's heart from all that decks it.
Remember: Manu Dei Resurrex : t!

As thou didst die at Gettysburg and neath

The ashen gray of fratricidal strife,
Sleep on, beyond the hour of heated breath :
Awake ! Thy nation calls thee back to life,
A sobered nat : on wise thy soul connects it
With days passed, Manu Dei Resurrexit!

I heard thy blood keep calling from the ground;

I did what thou commandedst me to do ;

I scattered century's sands that gathered round

Thy head, and lo, a Ion sprang to view!

Of royal breed thy very name reflects it,
Undazzled, Manu Dei Resurrexit !

And yet I know (and thou art witness, too).

There was an Eye that kept my vision clear;
There was a Step that kept my pathway true ;

There was a Pulse that kept my heart from fear;
A Faith, a Hand unswerving, that directs it.
Ah. doubly Manu Dei Resurrexit.

Let him who now would learn to live or die

For Home, for God for Country for Ideals.
To I've? Lairer. LeConte and Woodrow ;

D'e? The Oglethorpe Cadets! (The Nation Kneels!)
March neath thv pennant. Holy Heaven protects it
Forever Manu Dei Resurrexit !

J^/Cc C^Uy^^ &* sTc^y Sc&oc*-y\_

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

VOL. II

October, 1917 No 12

Published monthly

by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class

mail matter at the Postofflce at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

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Bird's-eye view of Oglethorpe University as it will appear when com-
pleted. The building on the right of the entrance is already finished
and now occupied by a splendid body of young men. The Railway
Station is to stand at the head of the entrance driveway, at the
extreme right of the picture, and is now under construction.

It is understood that the United States Government is about to
undertake the building of a beautiful boulevard, connecting Camp Gordon,
which is some two miles beyond the University, with the City of Atlanta.

A double track trolley line is also in process of construction and will
be in operation by October 15th, thus giving the University all the City
public utilities that are needed in her life.

In this way Oglethorpe will have all the advantages of country life
on the one hand and proximity of a great City and yet be free from the
disadvantages of either.

A FINE OPENING FOR OGLETHORPE.

Friends of Oglethorpe University all over the country
will be pleased to hear of the unusually successful opening

of her second year, which took place on September 19th last.

While dispatches from all over the country told of a
serious falling off in attendance at all male classical colleges,
Oglethorpe is happy to report a good increase in the number
of students attending the institution, and is particularly
pleased with the high class of boys and the fine quality of
work which they give evidence of their ability to do.

m

All of the faculty has returned and are now going busily
about their duties.

Oglethorpe is confronted with the same problem that
meets all growing institutions the dormitories are full and
there is immediate need for increase in facilities.

Work on the beautiful new railway station is being
pushed rapidly to completion. The contractors promise to
deliver it finished on January 1, 1918. It is being built by
the co-operation of the Southern Railway, the University
and interested neighbors and property owners. It will cost,
with approaches and sewerage connections, approximately
$10,000.00 and will be a fitting gateway for the entrance to
the institution.

We have every reason to be grateful to our many friends
for their promptness and generosity in sending their gifts
to Oglethorpe. We believe that the proportionate collections
on our subscription list is far above what we had any right
to expect under the circumstances. For this we are thankful,
and to you, gentle reader, we do return our thanks now.

But to carry on our work in this war period we need
the help of all our friends. We do not wish even to stand
still but are determined to go forward in spite of the world
calamities and we feel certain that we may rely upon our
patrons to see that the way is open for us to do this.

The faculty is particularly pleased with the many evi-
dences of earnest desires and high scholastic ability of the
new men who have matriculated during the last few weeks
and we are looking forward to a happy and successful season
for 1917-18.

NOTES FROM OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY.

By WILLIAM R. CARLISLE.

Oglethorpe University, the future Oxford of the South, opened
its doors Wednesday, September 19th, for its second year of work
with an enrollment that exceeded that of last year by 50 per cent.
A great many of the old boys are back and a splendid freshman class
drawn from all over the South has been added, thus making two full
classes. One of the things of which Oglethorpe is especially proud
is her class of students. After the thorough winnowing process of
the freshman year we feel that the wheat has been completely sepa-
rated from the tares so far as the sophomore class is concerned.
The freshman class, coming from the best homes in the Sovith. is
almost a paragon of excellence.

Our present enrollment is about sixty-five and boys are still
continuing to matriculate*. To some this enrollment may seem
very small, but there has been a development which to us seems
almost ideal. We realize that whenever and wherever rapid devel-
opment takes place there is ample opportunity for morbid alterations.
Where there is rapid growth there is a tendency to overgrowth and
overdevelopment just as overexercise destroys a function by injur-
ing its structure. Hence we feel that while our growth has been
slow, it is permanent.

Students are noting with pride the new railway station which
is rapidly rising in front of the university site. This handsome stone
structure, which is of the same architecture as that of our building,
is being erected by the Southern Railway at a csot of $10,000. This
station will be completed by the first of the year and then no college
or university in the South will have a more beautiful railway station.

Despite the fact that many old and established universities have
seen fit to repress the athletic side of their college life, Oglethorpe,
complying with the wishes of Secretary Baker. General Wood, Presi-
dent Wilson and others, will especially encourage athletics. The uni-
versity has been extremely fortunate in securing the services of Mr.
Frank Anderson, one of the finest all-around coaches of the state.
Air. Anderson's experience has been wide and many are the teams
that have attested his ability. He has been Athletic Director, Uni-
versity School for Boys ; Athletic Director, R. E. Lee Institute ; Ath-
letic Director, Gordon Institute ; Coach, University of Georgia, and
Athletic Director, Riverside Militarv Academv. The first football

practice was held Tuesday, September 25th, and Coach Anderson is
planning to develop a team that will long resound to the credit of
"Old Oglethorpe."

Because of the inability of most of the day students to reach
the university for chapel before classes, it was demed wise by the
faculty to make a change in order that all students might be present
at this time. As this is the only time when announcements affecting
the whole student body can be made, it is therefore very necessary
to have a time when all can be present, hence the chapel hour has
been changed from 8:30 a. m. to 12:45 p. m.

Everyone is noting with special delight the new Camp Gordon
trolley line, which now extends far beyond the university site and
over which we are already enjoying trolley service to Atlanta. We
are deriving more good from this improvement than any other made
in or around the university this year. We are now enabled to re-
main in town during the evening and return to the school without
experiencing the discomfort of a long, hard walk in the dark. The
day students are also materially helped in that they are able to come
and go with greater facility.

(Dglrtljnrpe ItttwrHtiy llulbttn

Vol. Ill

NOVEMBER, 1917

No. 1

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postoffice at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

Beautifying the Oglethorpe Campus

THE Annual Business Meeting of the Woman's Board of Ogle-
thorpe University was held in the First Presbyterian Church,
corner of Sixteenth and Peachtree, Friday afternoon at three
o'clock, and resulted in a splendid forward step being taken by the
ladies in connection with their work for the University. Between
one hundred and fifty and two hundred ladies were present, good
workers, prominent in the social and philanthropic life of the city,
including many of the mothers and friends of students at the
Institution.

It was announced that two of the objects to which the Board
had considered devoting their energies, namely, the creation of

a Students' Loan Fund and the erection of a Hospital were
both in process of accomplishment by other means and it
was unanimously resolved that the immediate work of the
Woman's Board for the coming year should be the beau-
tification of the Campus of the Institution, under the advice
and plans of the architects, Messrs. Morgan & Dillon and
W. T. Downing of Atlanta, and Mr. Chas. W. Leavitt of Xew
York.

It was then proposed that a beginning should be made at
once on this task. The Executive Council had considered the
possibility of giving a public entertainment of some sort un-
favorably, owing to present conditions, and it was then sug-
gested that voluntary offering should be made for the work.

The generosity of the ladies was both spontaneous and
remarkable. Between four and five hundred dollars was im-
mediately pledged in sums varying from one to fifty dollars.
It was believed also that many members of the Board not
present would be glad to aid in the enterprise.

The Board gladly welcomed two new Chairmen of import-
ant committees, Mrs. H. P. Hermance, who has accepted the
Chairmanship of the Grounds Committee and Mrs. Laura
Weddell, who becomes Chairman of the Art Committee. Mrs.
Buelow Campbell and Mrs. Lee Ashcraft were added to the
Advisory Board.

One of the most remarkable features of the meeting was
the reading of nearly five hundred names of ladies who had
joined the Board and pledged their loyalty to the Institution.

The full list of subscribers made will be published when
completed.

We are drawing near the close of another year, a year
fraught with many problems, especially for educational insti-
tutions. We are happy to report a splendid opening in spite
of all the upsetting conditions consequent upon the world war.
We have more students than we had last year, which the
great Father of us all has made it possible for very few uni
versities to sav this vear.

And our friends, the men and women and boys and girl>
who have founded Oglethorpe by their gifts and prayers, have
been good to us also. Thev have paid their subscriptions well,
when all things are considered, and while we have a right to
expect a tremendous slump in receipts the falling off is not so
great but that we may yet, during the months of November
and December, catch up with last year.

This we are hoping to do, praying that all of our friends
who are behind in their pledges may see that Oglethorpe does
not suffer.

Here is a letter that we have recently received from one of
the finest fellows in the world. It is self-explanatory and
breeds the constructive spirit of those whose lives really help
the world.

"Dear Dr. Jacobs: I have just read the October Bulletin
and am rejoicing with you that the Street Railway has built
an extension beyond the University, and that you are pleased
with the second opening of Oglethorpe. I rejoice with you
in all the good things that have happened to Oglethorpe. In
spite of the greatest war in history, and the peculiar burdens
placed upon the South in the past three years, we have gone
forward, and, with God's help, we have established an institu-
tion that will reflect the highest Christian manhood. T am
saving four hundred dollars for a gift in the spring of 1918.
and hope to be able to send it promptly when you most
need it.

Remember me to your wife and to the members of the
Faculty.

Trusting that I may have the pleasure of visiting the Uni-
versity this winter and with best wishes, I am,

Verv sincerely vours,"

The President of the University paid a most delightful
visit to the Synod of Tennessee in session at Murfreesboro in
the week of October 16th. By their generous courtesy he was

permitted to speak to them of Oglethorpe, of her past, her
present and her future; of her, ideals and hopes and of such
help as they might be able to give her when their duties to
their local institutions should have first been fulfilled.

The Synod of Tennessee remains, after the loss of the
eastern section of the State, a strong and noble body of men.
Their hearts are true and loyal to all that is best and open to
every good plan that promises aid in the work of the Church.

One of the most beautiful services rendered the Institution
was effected at the home of Mrs. Thos. Brumby, in Marietta,
Ga., a week ago. At the instance of this devoted friend of
Oglethorpe, some twenty-five ladies met to organize the Ma-
rietta Chapter of the Oglethorpe Woman's Board, pledging
their loyalty to the Institution and preparing to lay plans to
aid therein in all phases of its work.

Mrs. Brumby is a daughter of Mr. J. R. Gray, the great
and good man who was Chairman of our Executive Commit-
tee. The Board of Directors of the University welcomed the
organization of this new force and hope that it will be of
much service to our Institution.

Here Is Another Lovely Letter

"Dear Dr. Jacobs: My pledge of one hundred dollars to
Oglethorpe University lacks thirty dollars of being paid in
full, and I am enclosing you my check for that amount.

My pledge was to run through ten years, but I have found
I could shorten the time, and not knowing what might occur
before that time is up I preferred making my payments more
promptly.

In closing let me wish the University a long and increas-
ingly successful existence, and may you be its honored Presi-
dent for many years to come."

(igletljnrp? limuerattg lulUtin

VOL. Ill

December, 1917

No 2

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postoffice at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

LAURINBURG A PRAYER AND GOD.
By Thornwell Jacobs.

May T tell to you a story that to me is very -marvelous ?
In the State of Noth Carolina is a little city called Laurinburg,
wherein is a Presbvterian Church of some three hundred and hftv

Bird's-eye view of Oglethorpe University as it will appear when com-
pleted. The building on the right of the entrance is already finished
and now occupied by a splendid body of young men. The Railway
Station is to stand at the head of the entrance driveway, at the
extreme right of the picture, and is now under construction.

memhers, and by the gracious courtesy of their Session 1 was re-
cently permitted to tell the Oglethorpe Story to their people. No
canvas was to be made nor any personal appeal to individuals for
subscriptions ; ju^t the story of our hope and praver and plan to
build a Southern Presbyterian University. It was the one hundred
and first time that I have had such a privilege and each church had

given one thousand dollars o_r more to ; the enterprise when asked.
Amid the utter turmoil of a gigantic world-stiruggle, with all the
usual and many unusual difficulties surrounding the presentation:
with all the usual means of success barred; with only the Father
to depend on I faced the congregation.

One prayer had been in my heart, that God would start the
second hundred presentations wiith the same lovely benediction with
which he began the fiirst, giving us two thousand dollars for what
we believe to be His University. No means was available but prayer.
No Pastor was there to help, no canvas with its powerful personal
appeal was to be made. If the Father would not answer the record
would be broken and the first failure recorded. If the people did
not voluntarily come forward by His urging all human means was
estopped from persuading them.

Now, see how good He was to us and how very swift in coming
to our help.

Scarcely was the presentation over before a generous-hearted
woman came forward offering fifty dollars as her gift. Another
followed and anotheir, and then a man gave two hundred and fifty.
A generous lady pledged a hundred dollars for her society which
was later raised by them to two hundred and fifty dollars.
After the night service a woman added twenty-five and a man one
hundred dollars. And there it stopped until Monday. Then one by
one they came to mie, those generous, great-hearted people first.
a gentleman who wanted to give us a hundred dollars. Then I was
invited to the other Church Society and they added two hundred and
fifty dollars. A fine-spirited man hunted me up at the hotel to hand
me a check for one hundred dollars, and one man and woman with a
marvelous liberality added a whole thousand to the list. Then, to
make it a good measure, pressed down and running over, another
woman, having heard that the gifts had reached two thousand, two
hundred and twenty-five dollars telephoned twenty-five more to
make it two thousand two hundred and fifty even.

All this God did for us because we needed Him so. and another
piraver was answered.

To me it is all very wonderful, for 1 am not thinking of the
marvelous generosity only, so spontaneous and voluntary, nor of the
amount, so large and liberal, nor of how this big-hearred church
in North Carolina has again demonstrated that the Southern Presbv-
terian people want a truly great University and are willing to pav
for it ; but I am thinking most of Unurinhnrg A Prayer and God.

VOL. Ill January, 1918 No. 3

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter nt 'the Postof'fice at Oglethorpe University, 6a.

THE GOODNESS OF GOD IN 1917.

It is well, as the old year gives place to the new, to make men-
tion of the mercies of God.

In the midst of the vast tumult of war so great as to cause the
joints of the earth to gape, he has been with us in everything :

Our old friends have been liberal and loyal and He has added
many new ones to their number.

The receipts of the University have been larger than last year

in spite of the world-wide cataclysm.

A beautiful new stone Railway Station has been given us cost-
ing nearly Ten Thousand Dollars, and is to bear our name Ogle-
thorpe University.

The Georgia Railway & Power Company has built a trolley line
past our doors and established a satisfactory schedule to and from
Atlanta.

The United States Government has appropriated $100,000.00 to
build a splendid boulevard past the doors of the University, connect-
ing, by way of Peachtree Road, the City of Atlanta with Camp Gor-
don, two miles east of the institution.

The ladies of Atlanta (and Marietta) have organized the "Wom-
an's Board of Oglethorpe University" with some five hundred mem-
bers and have raised over eight hundred dollars to be used in beauti-
fying the Oglethorpe Campus. No sooner had they pledged their
loyalty than they showed their power. There is no way to measure
the value of this fine addition to the resources of our School.

In spite of the unusual shortage in attendance at Male Colleges
and Universities we have more students this year than last and the
quality of both conduct and class-room work is superior to last year.

And many other such-like blessings we gratefully record, not

the least of which is loyal, devoted aid and endorsement of the
Synod of Georgia, the kind words of the Southern General Assembly,
the generosity of Presbyterians all over the nation and of liberal
Atlantans of all faiths.

And now, facing the possibilities of the New Year, we ask for
only two things: the love of God and the continued loyalty of our
founders. Do not forget your University. Do not forsake it. Re-
member during these days of stress to aid in taking care of your
institution which will remain to bless you and yours after the great
conflict is over.

A prayer will help.

But add a check to it if you possibly can just to make sure of
its being answered.

HELP FROM THE FRONT.

Here is an interesting letter from one of our soldier boys who
has not forgotten Oglethorpe :

Section 526, U. S. A. A. C,

Allentown, Pa., December 12, 1917.
Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, Prest.,
Oglethorpe University,
Atlanta, Ga.

My dear Dr. :

Guess I had better send you my "tenth" right away and before Christmas
begins to perplex me, or I am afraid you will not get it.

All the boys in our section (from South Carolina) are thinking, talking,
singing, dreaming nothing but their contemplated ten-day furlough "home
for Christmas." As I can not go back to Georgia I'm going to remain in
camp.

Snowing here today all is covered with snow and ice, making it look
very Christmas-like.

This is to wish you a very Merry Christmas and to ask you to put to
my credit on my donation to Oglethorpe the enclosed $3.30, receipt and
oblige. Yours truly,

(Signed) RODERICK D. McALPINE.

This monument to Sidney Lanier, Oglethorpe's former Poet-graduate,
stands in Piedmont Park, Atlanta. The bust was recently stolen
but was found and replaced. Lanier's Oglethorpe diploma and a
crayon picture of him at the age of fifteen hangs just above our
President's desk.

OGLETHORPE AT SYNOD.

Here is a kindly resolution about Oglethorpe adopted at the
last meeting of the Synod of Georgia at Savannah :

The Synod of Georgia has heard, with pleasure, the addresses
of Drs. I. S. McElroy, D. H. Ogden, A. A. Little and Thornwell
Jacobs in the interest of Oglethorpe University, and notes with satis-
faction the stead}' progress made by that institution.

We re-affirm our action taken at the last meeting of the Synod
in Dalton, and especially that section thereof that commends the
institution most cordially to the liberality of our people and express
the hope that the endowment fund of the Georgia Professorship of
the Bible, may soon be completed and that other Synods may follow
the example of this Synod in the endowment of Sy nodical Profes-
sorships in this great Presbyterian University.

In all that has been done for Oglethorpe we acknowledge the
good hand of our God and upon all that will be done we pray His
blessing-.

Kind words will help. They also are prayers. But remember
"Words are the daughters of men but deeds are the sons of God!"

A student will help. Put us in touch with him.

Anything that you can think or feel or do for us out of your
good and gracious heart will by just that much set us forward toward
our goal, a great Christian University under the auspices of the
Presbyterian Church, loyal to Jesus Christ and devoted to Almighty
God.

(ivlctltarpe Hmtrcrstty bulletin

VOL. Ill FEBRUARY, 1918 No. 4

Published Monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postomce at Oglethorpe University, Georgia

Does The Southern Presbyterian Church
Need A University?

By A. A. Little, D. D., in the Presbyterian of the South

Amid the maelstrom of discussion in educational matters we sur-
mise this is the real question to ask and answer. It is not, whether
our present colleges and high schools are numerous enough and en-
dowed sufficiently. Nor is it the question of educational units. These
are very minor questions and only trifling with the matter. The one
thing to decide is, does the cause of God and of truth demand that
we have a university under the direct or indirect control of our
Church, of whose orthodox Presbyterianism there can never be any
doubt, world without end?

When we have decided this there is but one thing to do, to arise
and in the fear of God, build.

We rise to remark that the fathers of our Church saw that the
time would come when we would need imperatively, a university.
In the stressful years of the generation after the Civil War it was as
much as a man could do to get a sort of college education. Money
was scarce. The institutions were poorly equipped and hard to reach.
But such men as Dr. Palmer, of New Orleans; Dr. Thornwell, of
South Carolina; Dr. Dabney, of Virginia, and Dr. Shearer, of David-
son, felt the coming need of our Church.

With this end in view, Dr. Palmer put his splendid energies into
th*-Southwestern Presbyterian University, hoping it would become
the apex of our educational system. We remember the risibles that
were excited by the prospectus of the South Atlantic University, At-
lanta, which only show our ignorance and the far-seeing vision of the
prophet of things educational Dr. Shearer. Dr. Dabney, despairing
of such a university, turned his powers of teaching philosophy to the
secular institution of Texas.

These men saw far and knew much. Smaller men had to get
nearer to our times to see what they saw. Some even now, purblind
by looking at little things, can see no need for the university. These
leaders of thought realized that colleges were not enough. These
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the special teachings necessary to the full development of the mind
of man.

These men were not antagonistic to colleges; they knew their
value, but they also knew their limitations.

Then the question of the hour is, has the time come for the in-
stitution that Drs. Palmer, Shearer, Dabney and Thornwell and
other leaders of the past saw to be necessary?

We submit that the hour has struck.

One of the patent objections in days gone by was the poverty of
the Southern people. It takes an immense amount of money to found
a university. Where was it to come from? Not from a section ex-
hausted by war and dislocated in all its economic life by the results
of war.

What is the condition of the South now? It is rolling in wealth.
It has so much money that it is dazed. The men have not learned to
let it go as yet, but we are learning rapidly. It is no more trouble to
raise millions for a university now than it was to establish a high
school a generation ago.

Another reason for the failure of these men to materialize their
vision was the fact that very few men from the South wanted or
could afford a university course.

Only here and there did a man go off to the Northern univer-
sities or to Germany.

How is it now? Thousands of our men and hundreds of our wo-
men are going away to the North for their special training. There
is a large and growing clientage in the South. Our colleges have
awakened a desire for more and higher learning. Brilliant young
men and women are answering the call and receiving splendid intel-
lectual training in other universities.

The larger reason for a university, anchored to our type of relig-
ious thought, lies in the fact that nearly if not quite all the Northern
universities have swung away from what we hold most dear.

In the year 1909 there appeared an article by Harold Bolce, which
asserted that there was a radical conflict between college teaching
and orthodox authority. He mentioned these universities where the
truths of historic Christianity were boldly flung overboard. He was
never answered. He could not be, because he was giving the facts.

In a recent article he has boldly challenged the teaching of the
higher colleges for women, and asserts that they are teaching the
seventy thousand women in them to discard the teachings of the
word of God and of His Church. In other words the college class
room is engaged in open conflict with the teachings of the Church of
God.

In a striking article in the Biblical Review for October quotation
after quotation from approved professors, at whose feet our men and
women are sitting, is given, showing that they are denying the very
fundamentals of religion. The existence of a personal God, the im-

mortality of the soul, the binding forca of mortality and the necessary
union of religion with it.

We know that the horrid philosophy of Nietsche is taught in
many of these schools. This is the infidel philosophy that has pro-
duced the horrors of the war; has made Germany a scourge to hu-
manity; has produced more barbarians under Christian guises and
is threatening the world with another Dark Age.

If these things are so, then it is time we were setting up a uni-
versity that will reverently teah the truth, that will give our men
and women the best without undermining their faith in God, which
will be a munition plant in which to forge weapons against this hid-
eous power of darkness that is threatening the world with destruc-
tion.

God grant us the vision to see our need, and the courage and
perseverance to carry it to a triumphant conclusion.

Beautification of Oglethorpe Campus Begins.

At a meeting of the Campus Committee of the Woman's Board of Ogle-
thorpe University, of which Mrs. H. P. Hermance is Chairman, held Tuesday
morning, Mr. Reuben Harman was authorized to proceed at once with the land-
scape work and planting which the ladies are having done on the University cam-
pus. Mr. Harman, whose work in Atlanta and on some of the greatest estates in
the whole country has eminently qualified him for this task, will begin work on
February 5th next.

An interesting feature of the work is the request made by the Committee
that all the friends of the institution who can spare any shrubs and flowering
trees would notify either Mrs. H. P. Hermance, Chairman, Telephone Hemlock
1495, or Mrs. Thornwell Jacobs, Telephone Hemlock 788-L, or the University,
Telephone Hemlock 168. If the donor cannot have the shrubs lifted and delivered
at the University, Mr. Harman will have it done where the gift is of sufficient
quantity to warrant the expense of time and labor. It is the wish of the Commit-
tee that each member of the Woman's Board should have some shrubbery on the
Oglethorpe Campus from her own yard and gifts from any friends of Oglethorpe
not members will be appreciated. Shrubbery of every kind is desired as there is
a great deal of planting to be done, among other things an old-fashioned hedge-
row of flowering shrubs and trees a thousand feet long. Gifts from all over the
South are hoped for. They should be expressed to Oglethorpe University, at
Oglethorpe University, Ga. , and sent so as to arrive between Feb. 4th and 20th.

The Georgia Professorship o Bible.

Dr. B. M. Shive, who has recently returned from a most successful trip to
Florida made in the interest of the University, will shortly begin work on the
completion of the Georgia Professorship of the English Bible which will be raised
in the State of Georgia under the authorization of a special resolution passed by
the Synod of Georgia at both its last and preceding meetings.

Something like $4,000 has already been contributed out of the $50,000 that is
needed.

Dr. Shive is well known as both an able and enthusiastic speaker and preach-
er and his work among the churches of Georgia will have the double advantage of
being helpful to the University and to the churches themselves.

Meeting, The Fuel Famine.

Oglethorpe University has been most fortunate during the desperately ser-
ious days of fuel famine through which our country has been passing. The Uni-
versity is located in the suburbs of Atlanta but of her large campus of fifty acres
between thirty and forty are heavily wooded. In these woods are many old, de-
formed trees the removal of which, by proper methods of forestry, not only fur-
nishes fuel for the steam plant of the University but incidentally adds beauty to
the forest. As a consequence, all during the snowy and sleety weather wood-
choppers have been busy cutting and cording, and our big steam plant which
has to heat approximately 40,000 square feet of floor space has been burning wood
almost entirely. In this way the amount of coal used by the institution has been
very greatly reduced and the University has done her bit to aid in relieving the
coal famine.

(igletljnrjip Inturratty HitUrtitt

vol. in

March, 1918

No 5

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postot'fiee at Oglethorpe University, <;.

Thomas Harvey Hubbard, one of the
younger founders of Oglethorpe University,
lives in Ft. Worth, Texas, where one Sabbath
morning be heard of bow the Southern Pres-
byterians were refounding their ante-bellum
I niversity old Oglethorpe. After the service
be subscribed $100.00, every payment of which
be has met regularly. God bless the lad

FINANCIAL STATEMENT TO OUR FOUNDERS.

Thinking that all the men and women, boys and girls, who have founded
Oglethorpe University will be interested in an exact statement of the amounts
subscribed to Oglethorpe University by states, show ng also amounts paid
up to date and balances due. we are printing such report in this bulletin
and sending a copy of it to our founders.

These figures tell a wonderful story of generosity, faith, and devotion
on the part of nearly five thousand people scattered throughout the whole
United States, but principally in the South.

Some interesting facts appear from a study of the subscriptions. It
will be noted that every Southern State from Virginia to Texas, from Mis-
souri to Florida is represented. The proportions pad by the various states
show Tennessee leading all others, one-half of the amount subscribed hav-
ing already been paid. This is a very wonderful record and one of wlr'ch
any state should be proud.

It will be noted also that the State of Georgia, including Atlanta, has
subscribed somewhat over half of the total amount pledged; that Tennessee
is next to Georgia; that Florida follows Tennessee and that the two Caro-
iinas and Louisiana are almost evenly matched for the fourth, fifth and
.sixth places. Then come Arkansas, Texas and Alabama in the order named,
with Kentucky, Mississippi, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Missouri and Connecticut,
and scattering gifts from New York, Massachusetts and Washington.

The totals are splendid. $735,000.00 subscribed and $328,000.00 collected,
with over $400,000.00 still in process of collection.

We are trying our best to reach the million mark by January, 1921. If
v/e do this there is a cash gift of $25,000.00 coming to us. Iff we fa<il. we
lose it. That means that the founders of Oglethorpe will see to it that
this fine sum which will do so much good for Christian education shall not
be los't.

Statement of Subscriptions to January 31, 1918.

State Subscribed

Alabama $13,259.12

Arkansas 17,689.00

Florida 36.916.49

Georgia (except Atlanta) 93.95800

Kentucky 10,615.50

Louisiana 22.996.00

Mississippi 9,145.00

Missouri 1.04500

North Carolina 23.109.00

South Carolina 23.850.00

Tennessee 42,553.50

Texas 14,685.25

Virgin ; a 4.110.00

Connecticut 1.000.00

New York 210.00

Washington 100.00

District of Columbia 50.00

Massachusetts 100.00

Atlanta Directors 115 250.00

Atlanta Popular Cash 127.316.31

Pennsylvania 1505 00

Real Estate 122.500.00

Material 28.052.32

Library 5.000.00

Scholarship Fund 5.000.00

Georgia Professorship 3 600.00

Equipment 2 00000

Railway Station Subs 7.500.00

Special- Oper. Subs 1.10000

Scholarship Loan Fund 350.00

Woman's Board for Campus 533 00

Athletic Subs. 19200

Total $731 200.40

Paid

Balance

$ 4.017.97

$ 9.241. 1 . 5

3.070.60

14.618 40

5.027.99

31,888.50

23.549.13

70.40887

2 755.20

7.860.30

5.733.15

17.262 85

2.837.60

6.257.40

434.00

611.00

6 297.00

16.812.0l!

6.249.00

17.601.00

21,157.40

21.396.10

3.798.35

10.886 90

1,363.00

2.747.00

1.000.00

210.00

100.00

30.00

20 00

100.00

39.51085

75,739 15

79.777.86

47.538.45

545 00

960.00

107.000 00

15.500.00

2.100 65

25.951.67

5.000.00

5.000 00

25.00

3.575.00

2 000.00

3.316.62

4.183 38

200.00

900.00

350.00

553.00

57.00

155.00

$527,006 37

$407294 12

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GDgbtijarpf HmurrHttg HulUttn

vol. m

May, 1918

No. 6

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thorn well Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the I'ostotfice at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

A large amount of construction work has for some time been going on
just in front of Oglethorpe University. The story of it is told in this Bulletin.
The Government and City of Atlanta are spending hundreds of thousands
of dollars on Peachtree Road. The Woman's Board of the University has
done a very much needed and very much appreciated work in beautifying
the front campus of their institution.

SOME LATE HAPPENINGS AT OGLETHORPE.

We present in this bulletin a couple of views of Peachtree Road
just in front of Oglethorpe University that will give our friends an
idea of some of the work that has been going steadily forward at
their school.

The street car in the upper picture tells the story of an expendi-
ture of some $125,000.00 to connect up Oglethorpe with the City of
Atlanta by trolley.

The railway station in the lower picture is a $10,000.00 structure,
built of granite, covered with variegated slates, and is probably the
most beautiful little station on the line of the Southern Railway,
when the volume of traffic is considered.

The steam roller and laborers in both pictures tell of the con-
struction of a beautiful boulevard connecting the University with
Atlanta. This work is still in process and will doubtless be com-
pleted this summer.

The workmen on the left in the lower picture are the laborers of
Mr. Reuben Harman, expert landscapist, who by the generosity of
our Woman's Board was engaged to beautify the campus of the Uni-
versity. This has just been completed and when the gifts of shrub-
bery, plants, fertilizer, and other materials are added to the actual
cash outlay it represents an expenditure and value of over $1,500.00
or $2,000.00.

All these are absolutely essential tasks and combined they have
been of large importance in setting forward the progress of your
school.

SOME BEAUTIFUL LETTERS.

We have received recently one or two letters of unusual interest
in connection with our Oglethorpe work. These letters speak for
themselves better than any description of them could possibly do.

"I am enclosing, herewith, New York draft payable to your or-
der to cover balance due on my subscription to the University fund.

"I reo-ret that it has been impossible for me to meet this indebt-
edness sooner but it is unnecessary to waste words to explain why
it has been so, and even now I could not do it except by the assist-
ance of my good wife, who feels the same interest in the success of
the University that I do. It is really through her self denial and
determination that I am able to send you this draft.

"I want to say also that we may have to be as long making the
next payment as we have been making this, but you can rest assured
that if life lasts long enough I will make it sometime."

The above letter comes from the South, and here is one of equal
spirit from the East.

"I have read with interest the March bulletin that you enclosed.
I feel that I would like to do something for Oglethorpe; and, as I
can give but little money, it occurred to me that I might be of some
service in soliciting subscriptions from others in our church. I have,
therefore, drafted a letter which I enclose. What do you think about
me sending this letter to people in our church, together with a copy
of your bulletin and a subscription blank? If you feel that this
would be worth while, and you will have the letters written or printed,
1 will be glad to mail them out to our people. You, of course, would
also furnish your regular subscription blanks. I would suggest about
a hundred, as we have that many members who could make a con-
tribution if so inclined.

"I shall be glad to know what you think of this proposition.

"With best wishes for yourself and the continued progress and
success of Oglethorpe University, I am "

The letter which our friend proposed to send to the members of
his Church is as follows:

"I enclose a copy of Oglethorpe University Bulletin which will
doubtless interest you. I should like very much to see South Caro-
lina, and especially the First Presbyterian Church of Greenville, do
more for Oglethorpe.

"You will note from this bulletin that a cash gift of $25,000.00
is offered, provided they reach the million dollar mark by January
1921. Let's do our bit toward raising this million dollars.

"Enclosed you will find a subscription blank, which please fill
out and return to me, enclosing your check for your initial or cash
payment. Please make check payable to Oglethorpe University.

"Perhaps you have already made a subscription. If so, would
you not like to increase it?

"Thanking you for your prompt and careful consideration,
I am"

It is just such fine and generous aid as this that has made the
work of Oglethorpe University possible. It is a great thing to know
that there are such people in the world, men and women loyal to the
highest ideals, ready to sacrifice their own interests for those ideals
standing loyal and true to the school that they are founding and thus
setting forward the progress of a great intellectual and spiritual en-
terprise.

Such letters as these brighten a hard day's work and furnish
inspiration for many more to come.

Probably nothing makes one feel so deeply a keen sense of re-
sponsibility for the use of money as the receipt of a letter like the
following from a young girl, as her letter shows, who has been bend-
ing every effort and making every sacrifice in order to help us build
a really great institution.

Oglethorpe is in the truest sense her University and with such a
spirit woven into it must, of necessity, be truly great.

"I am sorry the enclosed check is not $5.00, the amount I have
heretofore been able to send. I have no excuse to offer except prov-
idential reasons. The only way I have of making money is by form
modeling and dress making. The war has long ago knocked the
bottom out of the form business and I am not able, on account of my
health, to sew any. Have made 80 cents in five months. Have been
under Doctor's care since December.

I sold old clothing enough and made $3.00. Two of this I am
sending to Oglethorpe and One to the Assembly's Home Missions.

Pardon all this explanation, etc. I only wish you to know that
though the spirit is willing the pocket book is extremely weak just
now.

If I am ever able to resume my sewing, will send the remaining
$3.00 before this year is out."

(igleiljflrjre ltuti?ratt HitlUtttt

VOL. Ill June, 1918 No. 6

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postoffice at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

Oglethorpe University has just closed the second year of its academic life
with Commencement exercises of the week beginnig May 26th.

The Commencement sermon was preached by Dr. Samuel Charles Black,

Chaplain at Camp Gordon, in the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta.

Dr. Black is Pastor of the Collingwood Avenue Presbyterian Church, Toledo,
Ohio. The Collingwood Avenue Church has a membership of fourteen hundred,
and is the largest but one of the Presbyterian Churches in the Synod of Ohio.
Dr. Black has been Pastor there eight years.

He is the author of numerous books, among them "Building a Working
Church"; "Plain Answers to Religious Questions Modern Men Are Asking";
"Progress in Christian Culture," and others.

Dr. Black is also a contributor on religious subjects to numerous periodicals.

Pie has been released for six months by his congregation for military serv-
ice in the training camps, and has been assigned by the Presbyterian National
Service Commission to Camp Gordon. By the military authorities at Camp
Gordon he has been made Chaplain-at-Large of the Camp, and has entered ac-
tively upon his duties.

On Monday afternoon the Board of Directors met in the office of Mr. Wil-
mer L. Moore, Vice Chairman, harmoniously handling many important matters
associated with the further progress of the University, details of which will be
announced later.

On Tuesday night the President's reception to the faculty and students took
place and Wednesday afternoon and evening were devoted largely to athletic
contests and the athletic banquet.

The morale of the school is most excellent. The attendance of the past year
has been better than the preceding year in spite of the turmoil of war and the
heavy drain on the student body made on account of enlistment and draft.

There will be a number of improvements and additions to the work next
year, among others the adding of three new instructors with additional equip-
ment.

Plans are being laid to get that $25,009 offered by Mr. Inman in cash when
the University shall have received a total of $1,000,000 in solvent subscriptions,
provided that this is done before midnight of December 31, 1920.

The University is now the happy possessor of a dairy of four cows, giving
something like nine gallons of milk which at Atlanta prices sell at between 80c
to $1.00 per gallon. Food for the cattle comes largely from the campus and
farm.

By the generosity of certain friends the University has been made the recip-
ient of approximately 1,000 loads of fertilizer, which applied to the farm will turn
an old worn-out acreage into a garden spot.

Following the conservation policy of our country, Oglethorpe is endeavoring
to raise as far as possible its own food supplies and to save as far as possible
all waste. With the garbage from the kitchen we are feeding something like
18 to 20 pigs, enough to largely keep the family in pork products. A hundred
cords of wood cut from our forest will supplement the coal supply during the
coming winter. Instead of sheep on the White House lawn, we will have cows
on our campus.

4tt

Dear Friend:

You must have thought often of us
during the past months and wondered how your
University was coming along with the whole
world in turmoil and the great war enterprises
calling upon every energy of every person in
America, affecting particularly Universities
for Men.

Thanks to the generosity of our
friends and the goodness of God, the year 1918
has not been a calamitous one. We have pro-
ceeded steadily on our way with a larger attend-
ance than last year and even better quality of
work being done.

The beautiful $10,000.00 Railway Sta-
tion, called Oglethorpe University, and archi-
tecturally a part of our campus, is now being
completed, and by the generosity of our Woman's
Board our campus has been beautified to a
gratifying extent.

But for our support and development
we need every cent possible and our Executive
Committee has asked me to write all of our
friends who have not paid in advance and ask
them to make every effort to send us a good
liberal check on their subscription this month.

Can you not do this for us?

Heartily yours,

President.

(B^btltcrpe Huitrersitir JluUettn

VOL. Ill JULY, 1918 No

7

Published Monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post-Office at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

Bird's eye view of Oglethorpe University as it will appear when, by the loyalty
and love of thousands of her friends, she shall stand complete on her beautiful
campus out Peachtree Road in the suburbs of Atlanta, Ga.

The first building on the right, as you enter has already been completed and
occupied and is valued, equipped, at over $200,000.00.

A beautiful little stone Railway station, named Oglethorpe University, valued at
approximately $10,000.00, stands at the head of the entrance driveway in the fore-
ground.

The building with the tower on the left as you enter, which is really a group
of three structures, will be the next to be erected and will contain a Library with
space for 50,000 volumes, the founders' memorial room, museum, lecture rooms,
beautiful gothic chapel seating 400 with stage arranged for college plays and stere-
opticon lectures, a section equipped for chemical laboratory, twenty dormitory rooms
for students, a great clock with electric bell system, an open air observatory and a
lecture roof garden. It will also contain a complete gymnasium with about 250
lockers, swimming pool, indoor basketball court, etc., and a small college printing
plant.

When it is finished Oglethorpe University will be one of the best equipped in-
stitutions for academic work in this country and will be a school on which every one
of its founders may look with satisfaction and gratitude to God.

A Critical Hour for Oglethorpe

Oglethorpe University faces today her most critical hour.

By the generosity of Mr. Samuel M. Inman the sum of $25,-
000.00 cash will be paid to the University provided the institution
shall have secured total assets and solvent subscriptions amounting
to $1,000,000.00 by midnight of December 31, 1920.

Approximately $750,000.00 of such assets and subscriptions
have already been secured, leaving $250,000.00 more to be raised
to which should be added approximately 10% for providential
loss, making a total of some $350,000.00 needed to secure this
gift and to complete the $1,000,000.00.

While the tumult of the times and the necessity of bending
every effort to win the war operate against a successful prosecution
of a campaign to secure this fund, there are nevertheless some
compensating encouragements, the most important of which is the
statement by the Administration through Mr. P. P. Claxton, Com-
missioner of Education, that "this is an opportune time for those
who are willing and able to do so to endow institutions of learning
ivith the safest and most reliable of all securities, United States
Bonds."

The Government also most considerately allows 15% of the
super-tax on all incomes and excess profits to be deducted there-
from if given to such institutions.

The necessity of obtaining this $350,000.00 by the hour speci-
fied is absolute. With it the University is founded and without it
she is sadly handicapped. No one would be willing for her to
suffer the loss of Mr. Inman's cash offer. The three-quarters of a
million dollars in assets which the University now has, has come
to her in comparatively small gifts, the largest gift that has ever
been received up to this time being $10,000.00.

In the extremity of our great need, which is also our great
opportunity, we appeal to all readers of these lines to help us in
every way possible to secure this sum. An ideal way to have your
help count heavily is to make a monthly subscription for the period
of ten years, and this may be paid in War Saving Stamps, Thrift
Stamps, Liberty Bonds or cash, as may be most convenient to you.

Our first great building is already too small and we need others
and with them will come the need for more equipment. We need
endowment also and this completion of our first million dollars
will give you an assured foundation for your University that will
guarantee its future success and progress and enable it to do the
great work that it so earnestly desires to do for the youth of our
country, for the people who have built it and for the God who has
blessed it.

Please help us. Fill out the subscription blank below and
forward at once.

Oglethorpe University,

Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Dear Sirs:

As a friend and founder of Oglethorpe University, I hereby

promise to send you the sum of $ monthly for ten

years as part of the fund necessary to complete the first million
dollars of assets of the University and thus secure the $25,000.00
cash offered by Mr. S. M. Inman.

Name

Address

The Great Task to Date

All of our friends will be interested in the following statement
of subscriptions made to the University with amounts paid and
balances due up to June 30, 1918. Five or Six Thousand Dollars
have since been added as a start toward the completion of the new
fund of $350,000.00.

Note what your State has done and add your subscription to
set forward its part in this great enterprise.

STATEMENT OF SUBSCRIPTIONS TO JUNE 30th, 1918.

State Subscribed Paid Balance

Atlanta Directors 115,250.00

Atlanta Popular Cash 127,316.31

&UAu**A&**<g* ". $13,259.12

Arkansas 17,689.00

Florida 36,916.49

Georgia 94,158.00

Kentucky 10,615.50

Louisiana 22,996.00

Mississippi 9,145.00

Missouri 1,045.00

North Carolina 23,109.00

South Carolina 23,850.00

Tennessee 42,553.50

Texas 14,685.25

Virginia 4,110.00

Connecticut 1,000.00

New York 210.00

Washington 100.00

District of Columbia 50.00

Massachusetts 100.00

Pennsylvania 1,505.00

Real Estate 123,500.00

Material 28,052.32

Library 5,000.00

Scholarship Fund 5,000.00

Georgia Professorship 9,325.05

Equipment 2,000.00

Railway Sta. Subs 7,500.00

Special Oper. Acct 1,100.00

Scholarship Loan Fund 350.00

Athletic Subs 192.00

Totals $741,682.54

40,860.85

74.389.15

83,579.24

43.737.07

$4,666.22

$8,592.90

3,336.10

14.352.90

6,691.47

30,225.02

25,363.93

68,794.07

3,060.90

7,554.60

6,411.65

16,584.35

3,257.60

5,887.40

864.00

181.00

6,607.00

16.502.00

6,945.88

16.903.12

21,978.40

20.575.10

4,105.35

10.579.90

1,428.00

2.682.00

1,000.00

210.00

100.00

30.00

20.00

100.00

655.00

850.00

108,000.00

15,500.00

2,100.65

25,951.67

5,000.00

100.00

4,900.00

765.80

8,559.25

2,000.00

4,482.78

3.017.22

200.00

900.00

350.00

192.00

$344,213.82

$397,468.72

glctlforne Hnitrersit^ bulletin

VOL. Ill AUGUST, 1918 No. 8

Published Monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.

Edited by Thornwell Jacobs ^^^^^^

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post-Office at Ofel ethorpe University, Ga.

Beautiful Memorials
at Oglethorpe University

How early even a young institution of learning begins to weave
about itself a mantle of beautiful memories! Oglethorpe is just
ready to open her third academic session yet see how many lives
are already memorialized in her life and with how many tender
hands she is being founded :

William Bensel, first Chairman of the Building Committee, left
$5,000.00 in his will to Oglethorpe which, according to the Consti-
tution of the Board will be used as an endowment memorial to him.
This was Oglethorpe's first legacy.

Relatives of James R. Gray, First Chairman of our Executive
Committee, Editor of the Atlanta Journal, one of the founders of
Atlanta, are creating a Student's Loan Fund to aid needy students
in prosecuting their studies.

A Professorship, bearing the name of James Woodrow, is being
founded, about half of the necessary amount having been already
subscribed to keep the memory of this learned and faithful former
professor of the Old Oglethorpe ever green on the new Campus.

A Professorship in memory of Sidney Lanier, student and
teacher of the Old Oglethorpe, is also being founded and as soon as
the war is over will be pushed to completion under the Secretarial
leadership of Dr. James H. Dillard.

Funds for A Memorial of a fitting type to Dr. William Plumer
Jacobs, son of a former professor at Old Oglethorpe, father of the
present president and himself a member of her Board of Directors,
are being collected as also to his father, Dr. Ferdinand Jacobs, who
taught in the old school at Milledgeville.

A Beautiful Little Hospital, given largely by one of the men
who have made Oglethorpe possible, serving as a memorial to names
not yet announced, is one of the next buildings to be erected on our
Campus.

A Loan Fund, bearing the name of Dr. and Mrs. W. S. Ken-
drick, is provided for in the will of this good friend and founder of
Oglethorpe.

A Thirty-five Thousand Dollar Memorial to Mr. S. M. Inman
will be the result of the successful termination of the million dollar
campaign now under way.

A Young Attorney of Atlanta is giving the institution $300.00
per year, which may later be increased as God prospers him, in

order to found a loan fund to aid young men who want to pay their
own way through college and yet have not the money to do so.
These loan funds are a particularly happy form of gift. Any live
and growing institution can use thousands upon thousands of dol-
lars annually in that way and every dollar will do good. There is
no chance of any institution having too many or too large loan
funds.

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Forbis, of Smithville, Ga., whose son, De-
Witt Forbis, was one of our best loved boys in the first year of life
of the institution, are planning a gift in memory of their boy, who
is ours also.

Mrs. Sidney Lanier has given us the original diploma of Sidney
Lanier, which now hangs over the office desk of the President.
Lanier received this diploma in the first year of the war between
the states from the old Oglethorpe at Milledgeville.

Mrs. Clifford Anderson, of Macon, has also presented the Uni-
versity with a crayon portrait of Lanier which hangs side by side
with his diploma.

Mrs. J. M. High, of Atlanta, has presented the University with
a handsome portrait of General Oglethorpe, which, beautifully
framed, hangs in the Secretary's office.

And only this morning Miss Olive E. Faw sent us a number
of interesting additions to our Museum, among others an old Con-
federate pistol with holster still loaded with the cartridges used
in the old days.

And we must not forget the beautiful gift of the little child of
Grenada, Miss., a one hundred dollar memorial which constituted
all of his savings before he went into the "Great Beyond" and pre-
sented to the University by his father and mother, who wanted to
put his whole little life into Oglethorpe.

In addition to these there are numerous small gifts associating
individual lives with the life of the University, our Library alone
numbering scores of them.

Since writing the above Miss Louise Lathrop has presented the
University with a valuable collection of Indian relics and bird eggs
gathered by her brother Dwight Lathrop during his brief life of
twenty-three years.

These much appreciated gifts will form a memorial to him
in the museum of the University.

We know also of a man who has written a ten-thousand-dollar
legacy into his will in order to build a memorial to his mother at
Oglethorpe.

These are beautiful gifts. Will you not let us add your name
or that of your loved one?

So when one is at all discouraged and wonders when that mil-
lion dollar fund is going to be complete, because it comes so slowly
and after such hard work, it is well to recount these mercies which
show how generously God has dealt with Oglethorpe. Surely he
has not yet finished his work for the institution that has engraven
on its cornerstone for its motto. "Manu Dei Resurrexit" (By the
Hand of God She Has Risen from the Dead) .

(i%lctlinrpe Itmfrerstig bulletin

VOL. Ill SEPTEMBER, 1918 No. 9

Published Monthly by Ofelethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-jlass mail matter at th? Post-Office at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

Military Training at Oglethorpe
Under Government Supervision

We have just received the following TELEGRAM:

"To the President, Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Your institution having satisfied conditions prescribed in circular
letter of June 29th, upon basis of your figures steps will be taken at
once to establish unit of S. A. T. C. Only students Collegiate Depart-
ment eligible. If enrollment falls short of expectation it may be nec-
essary to combine with neighboring institutions. An officer United
States Army will be detailed and upon arrival proceed with organiza-
tion of unit. Rifles, uniforms, overcoats and other equipment will be
shipped at early elate. Advise by wire date of opening. (Signed)
Harris, Acting Adjutant General."

The above news will be of great interest to all students and friends
of Oglethorpe Univers'ty. Notice particularly that there is no need
of providing outside winter clothing as all this will be furnished by
the Government.

For your further information in this connection, read carefully tht
following paragraphs from official Government announcements:

THE PLAN OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

The War Department authorizes the following announcement:

The details of the plan prepared by the War Department to offer
to able-bodied college students over the age of 18 the opportunity to
enlist in the military forces of the United States and to obtain train-
ing in the colleges which will prepare them for the more exacting
forms of military service have now been completed. * * *

The purpose of the plan is to provide for the very important needs
of the army for highly trained men as officers, engineers, doctors,
chemists and administrators of every kind. The importance of this

need cannot be too strongly emphasized. The plan is an attempt to
mobilize and develop the brain power of the young men of the coun-
try for these services which demand special training. Its object is to
prevent the premature enlistment for active service of these men
who could, by extending the period of their college training, multiply
manifold their value to the country. * * *

This is a war in which soldiers are not only marksmen, but also
engineers, chemists, physicists, geologists, doctors, and specialists in
many other lines. Scientific training is indispensable. Engineering
skill is needed by the officers who direct every important military
operation and who control our lines of transport and communica-
tion. In the same way chemical and physical knowledge are in
constant demand at the front as well as behind the lines, while the
task of saving the lives and restoring the health of hundreds of
thousands of wounded calls for the services of regiments of military
physicians. The scientific training which prepares a man to fulfill
one of these highly specialized duties and the more liberal training
which helps to develop the qualities of leadership needed by the offi-
cer or administrator are essential elements of military efficiency.

For the purpose of developing men who shall have this combination
of military and intellectual training a new corps has been created in
the army, to k be called the Students' Army Training Corps. Voluntary
enlistment in this Corps is open to all able-bodied students in the
institutions of collegiate grade who are not under 18 years of age.
Students under 18 can not be legally enlisted, but they may enroll and
thus receive military training until they reach the age when they can
legally enlist.

The boy who enlists in the Students' Army Training Corps will be
a member of the army of the United States. He will be provided by
the War Department with uniform and equpment, but will be on
furlough status and will not receive pay. He will undergo regular
military training as a part of his course during the college year, will
attend a six weeks' camp for rigid and intensive military instructions
with private's pay, and will be subject to the call of the President for
active service at any time, should the exigencies of the military sit-
uation demand it. The policy of the Government, however, will be to
keep members of this Corps in college until their draft age is reached,
and the War Department will have the power to order such men to
continue in college even after their draft age is reached whenever
their work is such that the needs of the service, e. g., for doctors,
engineers, chemists and the like, are such as to make that course

advisable.

*****

The importance of this plan for combined military and collegiate
training, if we are to meet in the future the urgent needs of the army
for highly trained men, is so great that the War Department earnestly
requests the colleges, Councils of Defense, and other patriotic socie-
ties to co-operate in bringing it to the attention of the young men of
the country and in urging them to do their part to make it a success.

STATUS OF A STUDENT ENLISTED IN THE STUDENTS'
ARMY TRAINING CORPS.

(A Statement from the War Department, Washington, D. C.)

A student enlisted in the Students' Army Training Corps is in mili-
tary service of the United States. Because he does not receive pay,
he is classed on inactive service but in a national emergency the
President may call him at any time to active service. He is called
to active service each summer when he attends camp for six weeks
and receives the pay of a private.

His relation to the draft is as follows :

Any student so enlisted, though in the military service of the
United States, is technically on inactive duty, and therefore must
register after he has reached draft age and upon notice by the Presi-
dent. Upon stating on his questionnaire that he is already in the
military service of the United States, he will be placed automatically
by his local Draft Board in Class Y-D, as provided by the Selective
Service regulations. The Draft Board will not call him for induction
as long as he remains a member of the Students' Army Training
Corps.

In order that the college student may not even appear to enjoy
special privileges, it is agreed, however, that when the day arrives on
which according to his order number he would have been drafted, had
he not already volunteered, the fact is reported to the President of
the college, and to the Commanding officer at the college, who in turn
reports it to the Adjutant General. This is the day of reckoning for
the college man. The President of the college and the Commanding
Officer will then report to the Chairman of the Committee on Educa-
tion and Special Training: of the War Department, for what form of
military service the individual is in their judgment best qualified.
They will recommend either that the student should continue his
studies to prepare for work in medicine, engineering, chemistry, psy-
chology, economics, etc., or that he should go at once to an Officers'
Training Camp to prepare for an officers' commission in the infantry,
artillery, etc., or that he should be assigned to work in the ordnance,
quartermaster or other Staff Corps, or sent unmediately to a division
at one of the camps. Lieut. Col. Rees, commander of the entire Stu-
dents' Corps, has authority f o dispose his men in the way best suited
to meet the emergencies of the military and national situation at the
time. The presumption is that, for the next year, the largest propor-
tion of the student body reaching twentv-one vears will be required
to supply a large part of the officers needed for the national army.
It is understood that at least four or five times as many officers will
be required as the total number of students who will graduate from
all American colleges and universities. Enlistment in the Students'
Army Training Corps, therefore, while it does not hold out any prom-

ise of an officer's commission, is at the present t.me the plainest road
leading in that direction.

The student who shows no ability for special service in his college
and military work, will be ordered into active service as a private
when his day of reckoning comes. Enlistment is for the duration of
the Avar. If, however, the student fails to improve his college oppor-
tunities, he may be dismissed from college by action of the college
authorities and discharged from the military service by the military
authorities. He would then be subject to the operation of the draft.
His enlistment may be cancelled for other sufficient causes such as
sickness, lack of funds, etc., upon recommendation of the President of
the college and the military officer in command at the college.

Opportunity will be given for the enlisted student, who so elects, to
transfer from army to navy, and vice versa, and to be assigned to
active service in one of the various corps of the army upon recom-
mendation of the college president and the proper military authority.

Regular uniforms, including hats, shoes and overcoats, will be fur-
nished all members of the Students' Army Training Corps by the
Government.

Should the date on which all American citizens between eighteen
and forty-five must register be set before the opening of school on
September 18th, be sure to write on your questionnaire "Enlisted in
the Students' Army Training Corps of Oglethorpe Univers'ty, Ga."

If you wish any further information in this connection write us
at once.

We have just received a telegram from Washington advising us
that Major E. T. Winston has been detailed to Oglethorpe Univer-
sity as commanding officer of the Oglethorpe unit of the Students'
Army Training Corps. The University is particularly gratified over
this selection. Major Winston is a West Pointer ('89) and comes
to us from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn, Alabama.
He is well and favorably known in Atlanta, as indeed throughout the
South, having had charge of much important Government work, not-
ably, the recent construction work at Fort McPherson. He will be
an ideal commanding officer and Professor of Military Science and
Tactics. The University is to be congratulated upon his appoint-
ment.

(Drjlpttjnrpe limuprHttg HitUrtm

VOL. Ill

October, 1918

No. 8

Published monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at tlie Postoffice at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

Oglethorpe University is rejoicing in what is perhaps the most
astonishing proportionate increase in student body enjoyed by any
institution in America. Its dining hall, with a capacity of three
hundred men, is full, and work on barracks housing something like
two hundred men. will begin.

Ogletborpe opened her doors two years ago with sixty-seven
students. Today she has over two hundred and sixty seven. Military
drill, football practice and academic exercises are under full headway
and the institution is happy knowing that she is to play a genuinely
important part in the war work of her country.

Dr. T. S. Ussery, of Decatur. Ga., is assisting Maj. E. T. Winston,
Commanding Officer, in the work preliminary to inducting student*
into the Students' Army Training Corps.

Lieutenants Goldsby and Potter have reported for personnel and
drill work.

Mr. Frsnk Anderson, the well known coach, is whipping his

football eleven into shape and promises that they will give a good
account of themselves on the gridiron this year. Games are being
arranged in accordance with requirements of the War Department.

A great deal of work is being done on the athletic field, enlarging
it and preparing it for military drill and for athletics, and by the
time this paragraph has been printed, the barracks necessary for the
accommodation of some two hundred students will be practically
completed.

Another development of interest is the tremendous amount of
work that is being done on the building of high class roadways in
and around the University. Since the building of Camp Gordon,
which is located about one and a half mile beyond Oglethorpe, fully
a million dollars has been spent on road work connecting the camp
with the city of Atlanta, most of this being applied to Peachtree
Road, which has been widened and paved and at places regraded and
made into a beautiful boulevard passing directly in front of Ogle-
thorpe University.

An idea of the enormous amount of work done at Camp Gordon
itself in road building may be gained by the fact ihat an equal
amount of one million dollars has been spent in the budding of road-
ways in and around the camp.

All of this will be of permanent benefit to Oglethorpe University

ind to them is added the value of the trolley line and the beautiful
new Southern Railway Station known as Oglethorpe University and
built in accordance with the plans and specifications of our architect.

The friends of this institution may well be grateful for the cir-
cumstances which have added so much for the possibilities of use-
fulness to their school.

Presbyterians, particularly all over the South will be delighted
co learn of the magnificent opening of Oglethorpe University on
September 18th last. This young institution, which has rapidly
won its way into the hearts of so many thousands in our church,
began its academic work two years ago with 67 men m attendance.
' )n last Wednesday it began its third year of work and the indications
are that the institution will be tilled to its present capacity, which is
300. In is interesting- to note in this connection, that several years
ago when the Building Committee were planning the beautiful Dining
Mall of the University some of the men objected to giving it a seating
capacity of 300, saying that it would be so many years before it
could ever possibly be tilled, that it would be a needless expense to
onstruct it now. Faith ruled the day, however, and a modern kitchen
with refrigerating service to match and this handsome dining hall,
-eating 300 students and capable of expansion, by the use of adjoining
rooms, to 400 students. It is a remarkable sight to see the dining
hall now lull of young men, largely members of the S. A. T. C, win.
have come to Oglethorpe all the way from Cape Cod to southern
Texas.

VOL. Ill NOVEMBER, 1918 No. 10

Published Monthly by Ofelethorpe University, Ofelethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post-Office at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

TEAM SONG

Tune Triumphal March in Aida.

O-G-L-E-T-H-O-R-P-E,

Spells Oglethorpe,

Old Oglethorpe,

Spells dear old Oglethorpe.

We'll win today, We'll win today

For Oglethorpe,

Old Oglethorpe,

For dear old Oglethorpe.

A touchdown now, a touchdown now

For Oglethorpe,

Old Oglethorpe,

For dear old Oglethorpe.

All together boys, all together boys:

Yell Oglethorpe,

Yell Oglethorpe,

Yell, Yell, Yell Oglethorpe.

For Baseball.

A single now, a single now

For Oglethorpe,

Old Oglethorpe,

For dear old Oglethorpe.

A home run now, a home run now

For Oglethorpe,

Old Oglethorpe,

For dear old Oglethorpe.

OGLETHORPE

Tune "Over There."

Oglethorpe, Oglethorpe, O-G-L-E-T-H-O-R-P-E,
That's the way we spell it,

The way we yell it.
We're out to win today you see

So look out, when we shout

Strike 'em out, Strike 'em out,

Strike 'em out.
We're going to beat you,
But we won't cheat you,
And we'll stand behind
Our boys until the end.

GOOD OLD TEAM

Tune "Long, Long Trail."

It's a good old team and trusty

That wears the Old Gold and Black.

They're clean and fair, that's why they bear

The laurels back;

And so whether victory's easy,

Or sad defeat mars the score,

They'll play the game and win the same.

Pep-rep for the Petrels once more.

OLD OGLETHORPE

Tune "My Little Girl."

Old Oglethorpe we're all behind you,

And we're going to win today;

Old Oglethorpe we're pulling for you

As you go into the fray;

Now get right in and fight, you Petrels,

Fight with all your might and main;

And when we lick them we'll go triumphant,

Back to Oglethorpe again.

GOD BLESS OUR ALMA MATER

Tune Adeste Fideles.

Jehovah of Students, Source of all our searching,

O Door to all wisdom and Guide of the way,

We would draw from Thee a spirit pure and masterful

To bless our Alma Mater, to bless our Alma Mater,

To bless our Alma Mater, Oglethorpe.

Wherever we worship, now or long hereafter,
In temple, on campus, at desk or afield,
We would commune with Thy spirit vast and glorious,
Thus bless our Alma Mater, thus bless our Alma Mater.
Thus bless our Alma Mater, Oglethorpe.

O Lord of all learning, Master of all knowledge,
O Love of the lovely and Strength of the strong,
Comrades, we hail thee, Goal of high achievement.

God bless our Alma Mater, God bless our Alma Mater,

God bless our Alma Mater, Oglethorpe.

OLD GOLD AND BLACK
Tune Aloha Oe.

O come every voice, Let all hearts come
From village, city and from dorp;

Let us join to praise our College home
Once again, Hip, Hooray for Oglethorpe.

Chorus.

For Oglethorpe, For Oglethorpe,
Her sons lift their voices in praise;

For Oglethorpe, For Oglethorpe,
And good old happy college days.

O the days were good, the days were fair
Which we spent beneath the gold and black.

There we banished every pain and care.
Once again, Hip, Hooray for Oglethorpe.

FAIR ALMA MATER, OGLETHORPE
Tune: "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes.

Fair Alma Mater, Oglethorpe,

Thou didn't for others die,
And now, above thy broken tomb,

Thy God doth lift thee high!
For He doth live in every stone

We worthily have brought,
And He doth move in every deed

We righteously have wrought.

We give to thee our lives to mold

And thou to us dost give
Thy life, whose pulse-beat is the truth,

Wherein we ever live.
And as the times pass o'er our heads

In this we shall rejoice:
That we may never drift beyond

The memory of thy voice.

Fair Alma Mater, Qglethorpe,

Thou didst for others die,
So now above thy broken tomb

Thy Lord uplifts thee high!
To all thy past of pain and toil,

Thy future's brilliant goal
We promise loyalty and love;

We pledge thee heart and soul.

OLD OGLETHORPE FOREVER

Tune Dixie.

Oh, come along boys, let's give a cheer
From every man-together-hear !
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray, Oglethorpe!
While hoary Time shall sift his sands
She holds our hearts, she holds our hands,
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray, Oglethorpe !

Chorus.

Old Oglethorpe forever!

Hooray, Hooray !
Our Oglethorpe shall never lack
Defenders of the Gold and Black,

Hooray, Hooray!
Old Oglethorpe forever!

On the football field, on the track, on the lake,
The Petrels ride the storm's wild wake,
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray, Oglethorpe!
We've got the will, we've got the verve,
We've got the men, we've got the nerve,
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray, Oglethorpe !

Chorus.

And when our college days are done
And all our hard-fought battles won,
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray, Oglethorpe !
We'll treasure every happy hour
We spent beneath her kindly power,
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray, Oglethorpe !

YELLS

Dazzle

Dazzle ! Dazzle ! Never Frazzle 1
Not a thread but wool.

Altogether! Altogether!
That's the way we pull.
OGLETHORPE.

Railroad

Rahl! Rah!! Rahl Rah! Rah!
Rah!! Rah!! Rah! Rah! Rah!
Rah!! Rah!! Rah! Rah! Rah!
O-G-L-E-T-H-O-R-P-E.

Shanty

Rah Rah! Rah Rah!
Team Rah! Team Rah !
Whole Team, Team Rah!
Rah Rah! Rah Rah!
OGLETHORPE.

Team

Gold and Black,
Gold and Black,
Oglethorpe's a Cracker Jack
TEAM! TEAM! TEAM!
OGLETHORPE.

RAH! RAH!
Rah! Rah!
OGLETHORPE.
Ray! Rah!
OGLETHORPE.
Ray! Rah!
OGLETHORPE.

VOL. Ill DECEMBER, 1918 No. 11

Published Monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post-Office at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

Academic Courses, Terms, and
Expense for 1919

On account of the demobilization of the Students' Army Training Corps
the regular academic exercises and standard academic courses of the Univer-
sity ivill be immediately instituted.

Beginning at once the university year ivill be divided into four terms of
approximately twelve weeks each. The Fall, Winter and Spring terms will
continue in operation as heretofore. The Summer term will offer intensive
courses in standard college subjects and is designed:

1. To enable students to shorten their college course from four to three
years ;

2. To enable any deficient students to make up their deficiencies ;

3. To furnish teachers with a means of utilizing their summers in intensive
study of selected subjects, thus obtaining college credits leading to aca-
demic degrees.

The Winter and Spring terms 1918-19 will be conducted as advertised
in catalog. The Summer term will begin July 8th, 1919, and close the fol-
lowing September 19th. The Fall term will cover September 24th to December
20th. The Winter term from January 2, 1920, to March 27th, and the Spring
term from April 1st to June 11th.

For purposes of convenience in reference, the following outlines are
issued showing departments and courses offered for the succeeding terms.

SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS
Leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts (B. A.)

The figures in parentheses designate courses. Those under "hours" desig-
nate number of recitations per week.

FRESHMAN

Hrs.

Bible (1) 2

English (1) 3

Mathematics (1) 3

Latin (1) or (2) 3

Physics (1) 3

Laboratory, 4 hours, credit 2

Any one of the following:

Greek (1) 3 \ _

German (1) 3 (

French (1) 3 r

Spanish (1) 2 , ) 3

18 or 19

SOPHOMORE

Hrs.

Bible (2) 2

English (2) 3

Mathematics (2) 3

Chemistry (1) 3

Laboratory, 4 hours, credit 2

Latin (3) or

History (1) or (2) or 3

Biology (1)

Laboratory, 4 hours, credit 2

Any one of the following:

Greek (2) 3 -v

German (2) 3

French (2) 3 f *

Spanish (2) 2 J 3

20 or 21

JUNIOR

Hrs.
Psychology and Moral Philosophy.. 3
Four Electives 12

SENIOR

Hrs.
Theism, Ethics, Evidences of Chris-
tianity 3

Four Electives 12

15

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE

Leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Science (B. S.)

FRESHMAN

Hrs.

Bible (1) 2

English (1) 3

Mathematics (1) 3

Physics (1) 3

Laboratory, 4 hours, credit 2

Any two of following:

Spanish (1) 2 \

French (1) 3 ( 5

German (1) 3 *

Latin (2) 3 / 6

18 or 19

SOPHOMORE

Hrs.

Bible (2) 2

English (2) 3

Mathematics (2) 3

Chemistry (1) 3

Laboratory, 4 hours, credit 2

Biology (1) 3

Laboratory, 4 hours, credit 2

German (2) 3 or )

French (2) 3 or 1 ... 3

Spanish (2) 3 I

21

JUNIOR

Hrs.
Psychology and Moral Philosophy.. 3
Four Electives 12

SENIOR

Hrs.
Theism, Ethics, Evidences of Chris-
tianity 3

Four Electives 12

IS

IS

SCHOOL OF LITERATURE AND JOURNALISM
Leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Literature (B. Litt.)

FRESHMAN

Hrs.

Bible (1) 2

English (1) 3

Mathematics (1) 3

Physics (1) 3

Laboratory, 4 hours, credit 2

Any two of following:

Greek (1) 3 \

German (1) 3 I 5

French (1) 3 / or

Spanish (1) 2 6

Latin (2) 3 I

18 or 19

SOPHOMORE

Hrs.

Bible (2) 2

English (2) 3

Chemistry (1) 3

Laboratory, 4 hours, credit 2

Historv (1) or (2) or 3

Biology (1) 3

Laboratory, 4 hours, credit 2

Any two of following:

Greek (2) \

German (2) 3 I 5

French (2) 3 ) or

Spanish (2) 2 | 6

Latin (3) 3 '

20 oi l\

JUNIOR

Hrs.
Psychology and Moral Philosophy.. 3
Four Electives 12

SENIOR

Hrs.
Theism, Ethics, Evidences of Chris-
tianity 3

Four Electives 12

15

THE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE
Leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Commerce (B. Com.)

FRESHMAN

Elementary Accounting

English, Rhetoric and Themes

Principles of Economics

U. S. Resources and Industries

Mathematics

Spanish, French or German

Bible (1)

JUNIOR

Cost Accounting

Psychology

Corporation Finance

Commercial Law

Advertising

Statistics

Labor Problems

SOPHOMORE

Economic History
Money and Banking
Practical Accounting
Commercial English
Bible (2)

Spanish, French or German
Science (either Chemistry or Physics
or Biology)

SENIOR

American Government

Auditing

Insurance

Office Administration

Business Organization

U. S. Transportation

Foreign Trade

ENGLISH

The work in English is designed to give students a mastery of their own
tongue for speaking and writing, and to familiarize them with the best English
literature. Required courses in composition and in literature are given for
Fre?hman and Sophomores respectively, electives in both branches of work
for Juniors and Seniors. For graduate students special work is arranged to
meet the needs of the class.

English 1. Composition. Practice in speaking and writing, with collat-
eral study of masterpieces of modern prose. The chief object of the course
is to teach the student to arrange his thoughts clearly and present them with
force. He is also encouraged to enlarge his vocabulary and his stock of ideas
by the reading of good essays. All Freshmen. 3 hours.

Text -books: Lomer and Ashmun, The Writing of English; Bryan and

Crane, The Familiar English Essay; Macaula/s Essays, Everyman Ed., Vol.
II ; Johnson, English Words.

English 2. General English Literature. A study of the best English
poetry and prose, with special attention to style and philosophic content and
to the historical development of literature. The course is designed to com-
plete the student's general study of literature and at the same time to intro-
duce him to the specialized Junior and Senior courses. All Sophomores.
3 hours.

Text-books: Snyder and Martin, A Book of English Literature; any
good edition of Shakespeare.

English 3. Shakespeare. A study of the life of Shakespeare, with in-
tensive study of selected plays, which will be chosen after the class meets.
Attention will also be given to the technique of the drama. Juniors and
Seniors. 2 hours. Omitted in 1918-19.

Text-books : Sir Sidney Lee's Life of Shakespeare, New Ed. ; any good
text of Shakespeare; collateral reading on the technique of the drama.

English 4. Nineteenth Century Poetry, including the poetry of America.
The new romanticism of Coleridge and Wordsworth, with its later develop-
ments in English and American poetry. Juniors and Seniors. 2 hours.

Text-book: Page, English Poetry of the Nineteenth Century.

English 5. Argumentation and Logic, together with their practical ap-
plication in debate. This course is designed for general training in reason-
ing and in the style of presenting argumentative matter. It is especially
recommended to students who expect to become ministers of the Gospel or
lawyers. Practice in collegiate and intercollegiate debating will be had in
connection with the course. Juniors and Seniors. 2 hours.

English 6. Journalism. The course covers the collecting and writing of
news. It teaches the student what is news, how it is collected, and how
presented. It also provides special training in the rapid writing of forcible
English that does not need revision. Juniors and Seniors, and such Sopho-
mores as have shown special ability in writing. 3 hours.

Text-books: Ross, The Writing of News; Cunliffe and Lomer, Writing
of To-Day.

Graduate English. The basis of graduate work is Anglo-Saxon, but other
special courses in Chaucer, in the theory of literary criticism, or in other subjects,
will be arranged according to the needs of the classes. 2 hours.

PSYCHOLOGY

Psychology and Moral Philosophy. An elementary course in theoretical
psychology, followed by a study of the systems of ethics treated historically,
with special emphasis upon Christian ethics.

Text-books: Pillsbury, Essentials of Psychology; special reading in ethics.

PRESIDENT'S COURSE

A course of lectures by the President on scientific, historical and literary
subjects designed to orientate the student ethically and philosophically, aiding
him in the coordination of the knowledge matter obtained in other courses.
Required of all students 1918-19.

FRENCH

1. French Grammar and Conversation. 4 hours.

2. Selected Readings and Oral Composition. 3 hours.

3. Selections from the Dramatists. 3 hours.

4. An Outlined Study of French Literature. 3 hours.

SPANISH

1. Spanish Grammar and Conversation.

2. Selected readings in Spanish Literature.

GERMAN

1. Conversational work and Elementary German, including reading of
3 or 4 easy novelettes.

2. Thorough study of a standard Grammar and the reading of 10 to IS
short books, comprising drama and short stories.

3. Three to five standard dramas from Schiller, Lessing, Goethe, etc.

4. Some history of German Literature, such as Priest's, etc.

5. Graduate courses to be arranged.

LATIN

Latin 3 Plautus.

Latin 1 Livy (4 units of High School Latin required).

GREEK

Greek 1 Xenophon's Hellenica.
Elementary Greek Beginners' Class.

Students who lack one or two units of Latin may substitute the same
number of units of Greek, beginning with the Elementary Class.

BIBLE

Bible I Old Testament.
Bible II New Testament.

MATHEMATICS

1. (a) Plane Trigonometry,
(b) Higher Algebra.

2. (a) Analytical Geometry,
(b) Differential Calculus.

3. Differential and Integral Calculus.

4. Higher courses in any of the previous subjects.

5. Surveying as an elective.

CHEMISTRY

Chemistry 1. General Chemistry.

General Chemical Laboratory.
Qualitative Analysis.

(This course, having been given intensively during the
first term, will not be continued during the remainder of
this session).
Chemistry 2. Organic Chemistry.

Quantitative Analysis.

(This course will be begun Jan. 2nd).
Chemistry 3. Physical Chemistry.

Advance Quantitative Analysis.

(This course, having been given intensively during the
first term, will not be continued during the remainder of

this session).

PHYSICS

Physics 1. General Physics.

Physics Laboratory.

(This course will begin Jan. 2nd.)
Physics 2. Mathematical Physics.

(This course will not be given this session).

BIOLOGY

Biology 1. General Biology.

(This course will begin Jan. 2nd.)

Biology 2. A course in advanced Biology may possibly be offered if a suf-
ficient number apply.

HISTORY

Studies in the forms of modern government, with special reference to
the conditions growing out of the great war.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Bookkeeping Freshmen 6 hours

(2 hours lecture and 4 hours laboratory)

For those students who have not had bookkeeping in high school.

Elementary Accounting Freshmen 6 hours

(2 hours lecture and 4 hours laboratory)

A study of the principles of accounting, and practice in various sys-
tems for several representative industries.

Advanced Accounting Sophomore 6 hours

(2 hours lecture and 4 hours laboratory)

A continuation of elementary accounting with emphasis on the adap-
tation of standard systems to meet the needs of particular concerns on
the basis of accounting principles.

Cost Accounting Junior 4 hours

(2 hours lecture and 2 hours laboratory)

For those students who have completed advanced accounting.
Cost systems and underlying principles.

U. S. Resources and Industries Freshmen 4 hours

(2 hours lecture and 2 hours laboratory)

A study of local and national resources and industries including
library reference, and problems of local manufacturing plants and mer-
cantile houses.

Principles of Economics Freshmen (1st Term) 3 hours

A course involving the laws and principles of economics, emphasis
being placed on the commercial rather than the social phase.

Principles of Economics Freshmen (2nd Term) 3 hours

Continuation of first term involving numerous commercial, industrial
and social problems.

Economic History Sophomore 3 hours

Modern European and United States History. The fundamental eco-
nomic movements closely related to our present day commercial and in-
dustrial life.

Prerequisite Principles of Economics.

Labor Problems Junior or Senior 4 hours

A study of actual problems in national and local industries with
some time given to the history of labor since, and just preceding, the
Industrial Revolution.

Money and Banking Freshmen and Sophomore 3 hours

A study of the theory of money and credit, and of the principles and
practice of banking. Banking is studied as a present day institution with
some time given to the more important events in the history of banking.
Prerequisite Principles of Economics.

Statistics Juniors or Seniors 4 hours

(2 hours lecture and 2 hours laboratory)

A study of the methods of collecting, analyzing, and comparing data.
Both social and industrial problems are used in practice work and in
illustration of the laws of statistics. The students are taught actual
constructive statistical work with proper emphasis on the common errors.

American Government Junior or Senior 2 hours

A course designed to give the student a better general knowledge of
the national and state governments, and especially to give some impor-
tant technical knowledge as to the relation of the government to com-
merce and industry.

Business Management Elective 2 hours

Types of management, modern office and factory organization (includ-
ing various systems and devices) are studied intensively.

EXPENSES

Tuition, including matriculation, library, medical, hospital contingent and all

other College fees except laboratory charges $ 45.00 per term

Board and Room Rent x/ o^^*^^r-^-t ' ',

New Building $108.00 per term

Administration Building, 3rd floor (two to room) . . $126.00 per term

Administration Building, 2nd floor (two to room) . . $148.00 per term

Physics Fee $2.00 per term

Biology Fee $3.00 per term

Chemistry Fee $4.00 per term

Arrangements will be made to provide examinations after Christmas for
those who wish credit for the work of the Fall term.

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VOL. IV JANUARY, 1919 No. 1

Published Monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post-Office at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

It is with a happy and grateful heart that your University
send* you this New Year greeting. Last year was a wonder
ful year for us in spite of all the difficulties that surrounded
educational work.

As we have already reported, your institution was full to
overflowing with students, there being at one time as many
as 312 men on the Campus. To teach these men properly,
it was necessary to enlarge the faculty, to add to the Library,
to increase the laboratory equipment and, for their health, to
institute a modern little hospital service. It was also neces-
sary to put up another building, which has been done largely
at Government expense, consisting of a modern barracks and
latrine, well appointed, prettily painted and steam heated.

Now that the exciting days of the S. A. T. C. are over,
these barracks will be used for various college purposes. The
lower floor will contain our Library, athletic room, and va-
rious work rooms and class rooms. The upper floor will be
used for dormitory purposes.

During the year we were compelled to erect a well ap-
pointed servants' building which will prove of inestimable
value in solving the labor problem at the college.

We face the New Year with hope in our hearts that it will
be the best year we have ever had. This will be partly ac-
complished if those of our friends whose pledges are now
due would do all that they can for us immediately, for many
of these expenditures are waiting payment from moneys that
we hope to come in response to this bulletin.

VOL. IV FEBRUARY, 1919 No. 2

Published Monthly by Ofelethorpe University, Ofelethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post-Office at Ogle thorpe University, Ga,

OGLETHORPE NEWS

Oglethorpe University opened on January 2nd with the largest enroll-
ment in its history, excepting only that of S. A. T. C. days. In spite of the
fact that this is only the third year of the academic life of your institution
and that, therefore, there is not yet a Senior Class, and in spite of all the
losses incident to war times, the enrollment at Oglethorpe will easily go
over a hundred for the Spring term.

The student body is devoting some of its spare time to the organization
of the different student activities. Through the efforts of Secretary Hean,
the Y. M. C. A. has been organized and officers elected for the coming year.
One of the predominating features of this organization and one which de-
serves special mention is the formation of a number of circles among the
students for the purpose of studying together the every day problems of
character building.

A long felt want of the student body has been a well trained Orchestra.
The indications are that within a very short time, under the leadership of
Mr. T. Morrison, Oglethorpe University is to have an orchestra of which any
institution should be proud. New instruments have been ordered and are
expected for use on the evening of the 31st instant, at which time the boys
will hold their first official rehearsal. Weekly rehearsals will be held there-
after.

Coach Anderson's baseball schedule for this season is being rapidly per-
fected. Already a number of games has been scheduled with various col-
leges in the Carolinas and plans are now being made for the team to take
a trip through Alabama and Mississippi. There is a strong likelihood of
Oglethorpe joining the S I. A. A. The candidates for the 1919 baseball team
are going at their practice in real earnest and judging from the material in
hand Oglethorpe should have a winning team.

The dramatic club of the University, the Oglethorpe Players, is also mak-
ing its plans for the coming year. The members of this club, under the able
direction of Miss Carolyn Cobb, who has a wonderful reputation as a dra-
matic director, will in aU probability stage a p^ay in Atlanta in the early
Spring. 'The success of the Oglethorpe Players in their last play, "The Melt-
ing Pot," and previous successes, was marked, and the friends of the Uni-
versity have a real treat in store for them in the coming production.

A BEAUTIFUL REMEMBRANCE

There came to us through the mails the other day a gift so generous
and made in a spirit so beautiful that we must share it with our readers.
It was a check from a gentleman in North Carolina in amount of over $200.00,
enclosed in a letter that read as follows:

"Enclosed find my check for $228.00 to pay the balance of a subscription
due you by my wife, who departed this life on the 4th day of October, 1918.
She called me to her bedside a few days before her death and during a sweet
conservation she remembered that this gift to you had not been paid and re-
quested that I should pay it. and I now fulfill her request. With grateful
heart I thank God that I am able to meet her promised donation to Ogle-
thorpe University."

It is in this spirit that Oglethorpe University is being founded, and by
such generosity and affection that she is being blessed.

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VOL. IV

march, 1919

No. 3

Published Monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post-Office at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

The Story of a Beautiful Gift

By THORNWELL JACOBS

The building which Mr. Lupton has given to Oglethorpe is the one with the
tower on the left as you enter the quadrangle nearest to Peachtree Road. It
will contain a beautiful Library, about which the literary life of the college will
center, with the balance of the building devoted to other aeademic purposes

The announcement of the gift was received with most grateful enthusiasm
on the part of the faculty and students not only, but of all of Oglethorpe's
friends everywhere

It came at a most needed and opportune time when the University needs
space and added facilities for instruction.

Part of the work on the building will be done by our own students, thus
increasing the value of the gift.

It will be built of granite, fire proof construction, and work will be started
at once

THE STORY OF A WONDERFUL GIFT

For several years Oglethorpe University has been making a
brave fight for her beautiful ideal of life. She has appealed to those
who love the good, the true, the excellent. She has insisted that her
buildings, her halls, her rooms and equipment should outline in them-
selves all that her teachers put into their lectures. So the one lone
building has stood superb and majestic on Peachtree Road since nine-
teen-fifteen, the most beautiful, the most efficient, and the most ex-
pressive academic structure in the South ; the massiveness of her
walls, the elegance of her adornment and the honesty of her con-
struction bearing witness to the quality of soul that is within her.

And in her dignified silence there was hope ; hope that she would
draw likeminded spirits to herself ; that some day a man or woman
would come and seeing how she had breathed her soul into her chil-
dren would say, "I also want to take part in this great spiritual adven-
ture. I will build a mate for yon."

Five years had passed since a memorable morning in Chattanooga
when the now President of the institution was telling the Oglethorpe
Story to the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church of that
city. It was the sixty-sixth pulpit in which this had been done and he
was praying that, like all the others, they would give not less than
one thousand dollars to the enterprise. But the Great War was on,
the times were perilous, many new needs and calls were insistent in
their cries. Then after the service a man with iron gray hair and
kindly eyes came forward :

"How much do you want me to give?" he asked.

"From a penny up," was the answer.

"Well, I think I will give you about ten thousand," he said.

Now for years the Oglethorpe representative had been raising
and receiving gifts, but always in small sums ; a few dollars, a few
cents, never more than two hundred dollars in cash at one time, and
so the joke of the remark was all he saw.

"Put it there," he said, laughing.

"How shall I pay it?" the man asked.

"Cash on demand," laughed the 0,'!ethorpe man, carry'ug on the
joke.

The man wrote it down and handed back the paper.
"It is some kindly weak-minded fellow," thought the Oglethorpe
Pleader as he showed it to Dr. Bachman, the Pastor.

But the Doctor's face was lighting up and he had taken the man
with the iron gray hair and the kindly eyes by the hand and was say-
ing:

"Splendid, Lupton, splendid !"

That was the first large gift Oglethorpe University ever received
and the spirit of its giving was greater even than the amount. It was
the spontaneous generosity of a fine soul that saw an ideal and put
his power back of it. It was as if God said : "I will let this dream live
in stone and steel. See, I have touched a heart for you, one that can
help, now go and set your torch aglow."

When the news of it reached Atlanta it gave new power and faith
to all the backers of Oglethorpe. It put a new joy in their hearts and
a new will into their efforts. They added their checks to it, larger
checks, and by the hand of God the great building rose to her tasks.

And at those tasks she has labored for nearly three years. She
has breathed into the souls of her boys the breath of the one beautiful
ideal that the world holds. As she was unsurpassed in elegance so
she would have her sons unsurpassed in character. Her honesty of
construction, her beauty of design, her dignity of posture, her refine-
ment of sentiment, her openness of welcome, her loyalty to the truth,
her reverence of her Maker, all these, as a mother, she kept giving
to her boys, and the man in Chattanooga kept watching her.

And one day February 6th was the happy date he saw the Ogle-
thorpe Pleader again. The thing that Faith knew would some day
happen was come. The Beautiful Answer to the Prayer that would
not end was ready. The Founder of all that is Good and True and
Beautiful was about to speak a word to all those who see Him and
trudge unceasingly onward in search for His glory.

For it was on that day that Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Lupton gave to
Oglethorpe University, in memory of Mr. Lupton's mother, a mate
for the beautiful structure that had so long waited its coming.

And the news of this generous gift to set forward the ideal that is
building Oglethorpe will, as before, put a new zest and a deepened
faith into the hearts of her thousands of friends in Atlanta, not only,
but throughout the whole nation as well. Others will follow their
leadership in the future as in the past. Out of the shadows of that
future (which belong to God) other hands will be stretched forward
to help ; but of the big-hearted man in Chattanooga and of his lovely,
generous wife it will ever be said: "Their faith did not follow others
and therefore our love shall forever follow them."

JOHN THOMAS LUPTON
CHATTANOOGA.TENNESSEE

February 6, 1919,

Dr.. Thornwell Jacobs,
President Oglethorpe University
Atlanta, Ga.

Dear Dr. Jacobs:

I have watched the progress of
Oglethorpe University with the greatest
interest and note the present need for
increased dormitory and academic facilities
I also want to take part in the campaign
that is now on for increasing the
subscriptions to the University to the
sum of One Million Dollars.

I believe that now is an
especially opportune time in which to
undertake forward movements of this kind,
and our duty to our returning soldiers,
not only, but to our country as well,
calls upon us to keep the constructive
forces of the nation busily at work, fur-
nishing employment and opportunity and
thus discouraging unrest and economic
dangers.

I take pleasure, therefore, in
giving to Oglethorpe University the sum
of Fifty Thousand Dollars to construct a
memorial building, which I understand I
shall have the privilege later of naming,
and you are authorized to proceed with
the construction of this building at once.

Very truly your friend,
L FK "^

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VOL. IV APRIL, 1919 No. 4

Published Monthly by Oglethorpe University, O&lethorp; University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered a; second- :lass mail matter at the Post-Office at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

Another Beautiful Gift To Oglethorpe

University

When the new building given by Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Lupton to
Oglethorpe University is erected there will be in the great tower,
that will dominate the Oglethorpe campus, a handsome clock and
chimes.

This has been made possible by the gracious generosity of Mrs.
H. Frederick Lesh of Newton Center, Mass. It was the happy
thought of Mrs. Lesh that both the architectural and aesthetic ideals
of Oglethorpe called for such an equipment, and to that was added
the practical use of the tower clock in governing the schedules of
daily recitations and hourly life, thus justifying the thousands of
dollars which will be spent in their installation.

The uniqueness of this gift adds to its interest. These are the
only college chimes in the South and among the few in America.
Atlanta will welcome the gift as adding a pleasant feature to her
life as this will be the only tower clock in the city.

Mrs. Lesh is a sister of Mrs. Thornwell Jacobs, who was Miss
Maude Lesh of Newton Center, Mass. She has many friends in
Atlanta where she has on more than one occasion visited Mrs.
Jacobs.

There is, therefore, a delicacy of sentiment about this gift
which adds a special beauty to it, for to these features of the gift is
added the thought that it is an intimate indorsement from one of
the families associated with others in the accomplishment of this
great task of all that has been done and the plans that are to be
fulfilled. The many hours of the long hereafter will be, in the truest
sense, filled with the music of this gracious contribution to the hap-
piness and order of our University life.

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VOL. IV MAY, 1919 No. 5

Published Monthly by Ofelethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post-Office at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY OPEN ALL
THE YEAR.

Beginning- July 8th next, Oglethorpe University will become an
all the year round school. Its academic year will be divided into four
terms of approximately twelve weeks each. The summer term will
be devoted to intensive university work. Standard college courses will
be offered leading to degrees and affording full college credit. These
courses will be taught by the regular faculty of the university in all
departments.

By intensification it will then be possible for students to do as
much work during the summer term in any one course as they would
be able to do during the ordinary college year of nine months, and it
would also be possible for them to take as many as two studies in
that way, and, in some exceptional cases, three.

All of these courses will be open to women and proper dormitory
facilities will be afforded them at the university. The regular tuition
and boarding charges will be in effect during the summer term
as during the other terms.

This change in the policy of the university has been brought
about by the demand on the part of many students that they should
have facilities for the shortening of the period of their education from
four years to three, which will thus be made, possible. Others will
be enabled to make up deficiencies during the summer term. It will
also enable many teachers of graded schools and smaller colleges to
take advantage of the summer months by pursuing standard college
courses taught by the regular faculty of the university along the lines
of their particular interests, these studies to afford them full college
credit leading toward college degrees.

Oglethorpe University thus becomes the first institution in the
Southern States to hold its doors open all the year round for regular
university work, the courses offered during the summer term consist-
ing of standard university subjects.

Another Handsome Gift.

Oglethorpe University is again made the recipient of a handsome
donation which will set forward tremendously the great campaign
our institution is now quietly waging to win the $35,000.00 offered
by Mr. S. M. Inman provided that a total of $1,000,000.00 is raised by
the institution on or before December 31st, 1920.

The gift is made by Mr. John K. Ottley, one of the men whose
name is most closely associated with the founding of the University
and whose work and counsel have been of greatest use in the fine
progress which the institution has made. Mr. Ottley is the first and
only Treasurer of the University. He is also a member of the Execu-
tive Committee, of the Finance Committee and of the Board of
Directors. He was one of the first dozen men to make the original
founders' subscription launching the campaign for Oglethorpe, and
he is one of the best loved of all its many benefactors.

The letter from Mr. Ottley announcing his intention of making
this gift follows :

"April 2, 1919.

"Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, President,

"Oglethorpe University, Ga.

"Dear Dr. Jacobs :

"For several years now I have been watching your work in the organi-
zation and financing of Oglethorpe University. In my relation to the work
as Treasurer and Trustee I have had ample opportunity to know the diffi-
culties under which you have labored and your quality of persistent, pains-
taking faith has impressed me very deeply. You have given brain and
heart and strength to the work in unstinted measure and your efforts have
been crowned with a two-fold success. That is to say, your work has, in
addition to securing funds and subscriptions made a lasting impression upon
the hearts of the people not Presbyterians alone, but the entire community.

"It has been in my thought for some time to make a subscription to
Oglethorpe and I hereby promise to give Five Thousand Dollars, which I
will pay in installments covering a period of five years.

"You have my sincere wishes for the continued success of your work.
I hope that you yourself may long be spared to carry on your efforts to
provide a great school whose object is the development of our boys and
young men into staunch and cultured Christian citizens.

"With very cordial interest, I am

"Yours sincerely,

John K. Ottley.

VOL. IV JUNE, 1919 No. 6

Published Monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post-Office at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

MY IMPRESSIONS OF OGLETHORPE
UNIVERSITY

BY JAMES ROUTH, Ph.D.
Professor of Englsh in Oglethorpe University.

The newcomer generally has more accurate impressions of an
institution or of a city than an old-timer. With real information
it may be the other way around. But- with impressions the old-
timer is at a disadvantage. He takes everything for granted.

At the same time the mere newness of an impression is not a
guarantee of its correctness. It may be colored by contrasts, like
the impression of an American returning from abroad to whom
everything is good simply and entirely because it is home. Im-
pressions may also be colored by purely accidental and transient
circumstances.

When I arrived at Oglethorpe from New Orleans, I came as an
American from a city half European, and I found myself plunged
at once into the strict discipline of one of the strictest and most
efficient units of the Students' Army Training Corps, an organiza-
tion with which I had barely made acquaintance before, due to the
suspension of work in New Orleans during the worst of the in-
fluenza epidemic.

My first impressions of Oglethrpe were clear and sharp. One
was a distinct sense of the compelling, almost uncanny beauty of
the first of its buildings, so far superior to any other Southern
piece of architecture I know, unless one of the Spanish missions
near San Antonio in Texas might be compared with it in absolute
quality of charm and strength.

Buildings, however, do not make a college. And impressions of
a more lively sort began to press forward, impressions of the stu-
dent body. And let me say at the outset that a huskier, more prom-
ising set I have never seen in North or South. Some may be rough.
Nineteen is not a gentle age. But their seriousness of purpose,
their frank expression of their religious sentiments, and their sense
of corps spirit, or to put it in better English their clan loyalty, were
at once inspiring and refreshing. This, I believe, was the strongest
of my early impressions of Oglethorpe, and the disbandment of the
Army Training Corps has by no means diminished it. The straight
soldier, with his crisp military manner has relapsed into the easy-
going civilian with a more languid manner, but under it all the
spirit is the same. Though the Major and the lieutenants are gone,
the shades they invoked are still with us, showing that they were
at home, and on congenial ground.

Of the faculty I might write at length, if I were not now one
of them. One admires and cherishes friends of his own age, but can
not quite regard them as "impressions." One thing though I may
say without flattering a body of which I am a member. The amount
of work they contrive to do is a standing tribute to their pluck and
their stamina, and the amount is only equalled by the enthusiasm
with which it is undertaken.

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VOL. IV

JULY, 1919

No. 7

Published Monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post-Office at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

Dr. J. F. SELLERS

Recent Additions to the Faculty
of Oglethorpe University

We take pleasure in announcing the acceptance by Dr. J. F. Sellers of
the headship of the Department of Science at the University. Dr. Sellers is
one of the best known scientists in the Southeast, having been for a number
of years head of the same department at Mercer University, where also he
was the Dean of the University and at times acting President. His academic
record is of the highest, his degrees of A.B. and A. M. coming from the Uni-
versity of Mississippi with special courses in science at the University of
Virginia and the University of Chicago where he was Teaching Fellow in
analytical chemistry from 1896-1898. The degree of LL.D. was conferred
upon him by Mississippi College in 1916 for distinguished attainment in
scientific work. He has been Professor of Chemistry in Mississippi College
and Mercer University. Dr. Sellers was elected President of the Georgia
Chemical Socity in 1908 and Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in 1907. Since 1918 he has been Educational Sec-
retary, A. E. F., stationed in England, and Professor of Chemistry in the
University of Beaune, in France. He will arrive in this country in time to
take up his work for the summer term, which opens on July 8th next.

The University is receiving many congratulations upon the acceptance
of this position by Dr. Sellers, many other institutions having endeavored
to secure his services upon his return to America. His many friends
throughout Georgia also rejoice in knowing that he is to remain in this
state where his splendid labors have won him such distinction and success.

Announcement is also made of the acceptance of Dr. Arthur Stephen
Libby of the headship of the School of Commerce at the University. No
position in the University has demanded greater care in the selection of its
incumbent than that which Prof. Libby will occupy.

The School of Commerce at Oglethorpe is the full equal in curriculum
and faculty of the other great divisions of the academic work and in the
selection of a head of this department the greatest care has been exercised.

Dr. Libby comes to Atlanta with a remarkable record of attainments
and ability. His degrees come to him from Bowdoin College Ph.B., from the
University of Maine A.B. and A.M., from the Sorbonne, Paris, A.M., from
Brown University A.M., from the University of Paris Ph.D.

Dr. Libby has also pursued special studies in Law at the University of
Maine and Columbia and his academic experience runs from the beginning
of his career as High School principal in Maine to Professorial work in Con-
verse College, Wofford College and Brown University.

Dr. Libby has distinguished himself as a lecturer for the Department of
Education at the San Francisco Exposition, as Lyceum lecturer on travel
and history and as special lecturer for the Government during the recent
war. His record shows him particularly capable in the departments of
Political Science, International Law and International Commerce and
History.

Dr. Libby speaks five languages fluently and comes to Oglethorpe with
the highest of recommendations as a great teacher not only but as a cultured
gentleman and civic leader.

Dr. ARTHUR STEPHEN LIBBY

At Ogjethorpe Next Year

We will have a splendid new huilding given by Mr. and Mrs..
Lupton in process of erection where many of our boys will be earn-
ing part of their way through college by aiding in its construction..

We will have our dairy enlarged and better equipped, furnish-
ing the same quality of good milk and butter that the boys enjoyed
during 1918-19.

We will have our campus rendered even more attractive by

work now being done on it under the direction of Mr. Jos. R.
Murphy,

We will have our Railway Station, Oglethorpe University, in
operation, this station costing over $10,000.00 and constituting to
all intents and purposes a University building, constructed of
granite and harmonious in architectural design with the other
buildings of the campus.

We will have the same commodious and comfortable rooms un-
equalled anywhere in the South and unsurpassed in the nation, occu-
pied by boys who appreciate a beautiful building, with added em-
phasis upon the care of the rooms.

The University store, with increased capital, furnishing a larger
assortment of college goods at reasonable prices.

We will have the largest student body in our history, consti-
tuting four full college classes, and the year will close with the first
Commencement season with many interesting features to make it
a most memorable occasion.

We will have an enlarged faculty of experts coming in personal
contact with the students, including the Freshmen as well as the
Seniors, and thus offering the most unusual opportunity for those
students who go to college for study and improvement as well as
for enjoyment.

And most important of all, we will have a loyal and enthusiastic
student body whose successes in academic matters as well as ath-
letics have already made Oglethorpe a synonym of high standards
and unusual attainments.

#0letljaqje fctu^rsttjr BitUetin

VOL. IV AUGUST, 1919 No. 8

Published Monthly by Ofelethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post-Office at O&lethorpe University, Ga.

Working, Ones Way Through.
Oglethorpe University

Among the many attractive features of life at Oglethorpe Univer-
sity is the way in which a great many of the students work their
way through college. Approximately twenty-live per cent of the
men in attendance are engaged in some task whereby they earn a
greater or less amount of their expenses. There are jobs indoors,
such as the Post Office, the Co operative store, the Express and
Freight offices, the Bookkeeping department, etc. Waiting on the
tables is also a way in which some of the boys may earn something
more than their pin money and firing the furnace and janitor's work
will be added this year to the list of self-help jobs.

Then there are the campus and farm, on both of which a number
of boys are employed. Our own students keep the shrubbery clean
of grass, mow the lawn, look after the hedge, attend to the hauling,
and on the farm and dairy they milk the cows, feed the stock, plow
the fields, raise the crops, attend to the ditches, and, in general,
do practically all that is to be done.

We find the labor of these boys for the most part efficient and
satisfactory. Taken all in all they are honest, industrious workers
and they are paid well for their labors, the standard of pay being 30
cents per hour.

And in addition to all the above jobs, during the coming year there
will be constructed on the campus of the University a beautiful new

building and it is planned to employ students whenever possible in
this work. This is a splendid new building given by Mr. and Mrs.
J. T. Lupton and it is believed by builders that a big proportion of
the common labor needed for it can be furnished by the students.

Oglethorpe University has found that there is another great ad-
vantage in this self-help work. It eliminates all traces of mendi-
cancy. Nothing tends to destroy character in a young man more
quickly than for him to be given free tuition and other bonuses that
set him apart as an object of charity. We believe at Oglethorpe
that the very first thing a university should teach is self reliance
and individual initiative. We, therefore, arranged the administra-
tion of the University in such a way that any student that is intell-
igent and industrious can supplement his funds, no matter how
limited they may be, by his own labors.

We find that the boys who work their way through Oglethorpe are
among the best students at the institution and their records compare
favorably with the very best of those young men who, having suffi-
cient funds, do not find it necessary to devote any of their time to
self support.

Parents of students interested in this subject can obtain further
information by writing directly to the President.

(i%letlim*pc litnhicrsity Bulletin

VOL. IV SEPTEMBER, 1919 No. 9

Published Monthly by Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post-Office at Oglethorpe University, Ga.

PROF E. S. HEATH

Oglethorpe University takes pleasure in announcing that Mr.
Eugene Scofield Heath has been added to the scientific faculty in the
department of Biology and will undertake his work on September
24th, 1919.

Mr. Heath has had broad training and experience. He is ac-
quainted with educational conditions both as a student and as a
teacher in the south, the middle west, and the far west.

Though born in Ohio, he received most of his elementary school-
ing in the state of Nebraska, returning to Ohio for the completion
of his high school course. Between this schooling and the time he
entered Ohio Wesleyan University in 1901, he studied for a time in
the Ohio Northern University. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan
in 1906, with the A. B. degree, with biology as one of his major
subjects. Here he had work under L. G. Westgate and Edward L.
Rice. Mr. Heath's next studying was done at the University of
Nebraska, under the direction of the eminent botanist, Charles E.
Bessey. At the conclusion of this course of study, he received the
master's degree in June, 1912, his master's thesis being the result
of original investigation of The Effect of Wind Upon the Develop-
ment of Mechanical Elements in Plant Stems. Since this time spent
at the University of Nebraska, Mr. Heath has had several semester's
work in the University of California, where he has completed resi-
dence requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy. In Cali-
fornia, in addition to coming under the direction of the regular
staff of the botany department, Mr. Heath had work under John

Campbell Merriam, the v/idely known palaeontologist of the Uni-
versity of California, besides courses under John Merle Coulter of
the University of Chicago, and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, professor
of bionomics in Leland Stanford, Junior, University, both visiting
professors in special sessions.

Along with these varied opportunities for advanced study, Mr.
Heath's practical experience in teaching has kept apace. He began
his career in the rural school system of Ohio, following his gradua-
tion from high school. While at Ohio Wesleyan, he was an assistant
in the registrar's office in the earlier part of his college course, and
during the latter half, he was an assistant in the biological labora-
tory. After receiving the bachelor's degree, he held a position of
teacher of sciences in the Bowling Green, Ohio, High School. From
here, he returned for another year's teaching at Ohio Wesleyan.
From this position he went directly for advanced study to the Uni-
versity of Nebraska, where he held a teaching fellowship during
three of the four semesters he spent in this institution. Interrupt-
ing his master's course, during the year 1910-1911, he took charge
of the work in botany at the Peru State Normal, Peru, Nebraska,
during the regular session, and conducted the general zoology, also,
during the summer session. As a result of the superior quality of
his work as a student, as a laboratory instructor at the University
of Nebraska, and as head of the botany at the State Normal, Mr.
Heath won the lasting friendship and esteem of the late Dr. Bessey
under whom he had taken his master's degree. From the University
of Nebraska, Mr. Heath went to Pomona College, California, as
head of the department of botany. He completed two years of suc-
cessful teaching in this institution, conducting in addition, the sum-
mer session work in marine botany at the Laguna Beach Marine
Biological Laboratory. In connection with his department work,
Mr. Heath edited The Pomona College Journal of Economic Botany,
a publication at that time, of no little significance. From Pomona,
he went to the Fresno, California Junior College, as head of the
department of biology, a department which he had the good fortune
to initiate and to equip. A number of his students from Fresno
went up to the state university at Berkeley, for advanced study in
biological subjects, as did several from Pomona, in addition to a
few who have made enviable records in Harvard and Cornell, on
the basis of the under-graduate study under Mr. Heath's direction.
Leaving Fresno in 1916, Mr. Heath went to the University of Cali-
fornia as a member of the teaching force of the botany department.
While here he did graduate study in botany and paleobotany. The
fall of 1917, he filled the post of assistant-professor during the ab-
sence of Professor Gardner on leave. During this time, he delivered
the lectures and managed the laboratory sections for a class in
general botany numbering nearly three hundred. In 1918, Mr.
Heath came to Georgia where he conducted the department of
biology in the summer session of the University of Georgia.

With the record which Mr. Heath has back of him, both as a re-
search student and as a teacher, Georgia is fortunate to acquire him
as one of her university professors. He comes with the training and
capacity to do important work in a field until recent years practic-
ally negelcted in this state.

illctliorpc Mmticrstty Bulletin

VOL. IV

OCTOBER, 1919

No. 10

Published Monthly by O&lethorp:? University, Ofelethorpe University, Ga
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs

Entered as seeond-2lass mail mattsr at th? Post-Offiee at O&lethorp? University, Ga

Birdseye view of Oglethorpe University as il will appear when, by the loyalty and
love of thousands of her friends, she shall stand complete on her beautiful campus out
Peachtree Road in the suburbs of Atlanta, Ga.

The first building on the right as you enter has already been completed and occu-
pied, and is valued, equipped, at over $200,000.00.

A beautiful little stone railway station, named Oglethorpe University, valued at ap-
proximately $12,500.00, stands at the head of the entrance driveway in the foreground.

The structure with the tower on the left as you enter is reallv a group of three
buildings, which will contain a Library, with space for 50,000 volumes, the Founders'
memorial room, museum, lecture rooms, beautiful Gothic chapel seating 4O0, with stage
arranged for college plays, moving pictures and stereopticon lectures, a section equipped
for chemical laboratory, twenty dormitory rooms for students, a great clock and chimes,
with electric bell system, an open-air observatory and a lecture roof garden. They will
also contain a complete gymnasium with about 250 lockers, swimming pool. etc.. and a
small college printing plant.

The first of these three buildings, the one containing the tower in the foreground
is under construction, by the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Lupton When it is
finished Oglethorpe University will be one of the best equipped institutions for academic
work in this country, and will be a school on which every one of its founders may look
with satisfaction and gratitude to God.

A Critical Hour for Oglethorpe

Oglethorpe University faces today her most critical hour.

By the generosity of Mr. Samuel M. Inman the sum of $25,000
cash will be paid to the University, provided the institution shall have
secured total assets and solvent subscriptions amounting to $1,000,-
000 by midnight of December 31, 1920.

Of this sum the Committee appointed by Mr. Inman has already
approved $500,000 of subscriptions and has before it for further ap-
proval $280,787.94. This leaves a balance of $219,212.06 to be
raised.

Included in the above figures are some recent figures not yet
made public, as follows:

Anderson, Jas. T $1,200.00

Armstrong, Dr. M. N 1,200.00

Cohen, John S 1,200.00

Hinman, Dr. Thos. P 1,200.00

Jacobs, Dr. Dillard 1,200.00

Jacobs, Dr. Thornwell 1,200.00

King, Dr. J. Cheston 1,200.00

Moore, Wilmer L 1,200.00

Ottley, JohnK 5,000.00

Porter, J. Russell 1,000.00

Steele, W. 1,000.00

Winship, C. R 1,200.00

Watkins, Edgar 1,200.00

$19,000.00

The above subscriptions included all subscriptions made to the
University up to and including June 30, 1919, since which date
the, following subscriptions have been added:

McFadden, Havnes $1,000.00

La Fayette, Ga." 203.50

Cedartown, Ga 101.60

Atlanta, Ga. (Georgia Avenue Church) 170.00

Atlanta, Ga. (Pryor Street Church) 417.00

Lyerly, Ga. (Walnut Grove Church) 173.00

Lyerlv, Ga. (Rome Church) 100.00

Holland, Ga. (Alpine Church) 1.00

Holland, Ga. (Summerville Church) 25.00

Holland, Ga. (Sardis Chruch) 5.00

Marietta, Ga. (Marietta Church) 70.00

Summerville, Ga. (Bethel Church) 252.50

$2,518.60

The necessity of obtaining this $219,212.06 by the hour speci-
fied is absolute. With it the University is founded and without it
she is sadly handicapped. No one would be willing for her to suffer
the loss of Mr. Inman's cash offer.

In the extremity of our great need, which is also our great
opportunity, we appeal to all readers of these lines to help us in every-
way possible to secure this sum. An ideal way to have your help
count heavily is to make a monthly subscription for the period of ten
years, and this may be paid in War Savings Stamps, Thrift Stamps,
Liberty Bonds or cash, as may be most convenient to you.

Our first buildings are already too small and we need others and
with them will come the need for more equipment. We need endow-
ment also, and this completion of our first million dollars will give
you an assured foundation for your University that will guarantee its
future success and progress and enable it to do the great work that
it so earnestly desires to do for the youth of our country, for the
people who have built it, and for the God who has blessed it.

Please help us. Fill out the subscription blank below and for-
ward at once.

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY,

Oglethorpe University, Ga.
Dear Sirs:

As a friend and founder of Oglethorpe University. I hereby

promise to send you the sum of $ monthly

for ten years as part of the fund necessary to complete the first million
dollars of asssets of the University, and thus secure the $25,000.00
cash offered by Mr. S. M. Inman.

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