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Number 3

BULLETIN OF

LAGRANGE COLLEGE

ICstabllshed 1833

Chartered 1840

La Grange, Georgia

CONTENTS

Report to the North Georgia Conforence

New Departments

List of Periodicals and Ncav Rooks

Musical Recitals

Published Four Times a Year, in May, July, November, and February.

Kiitered as Second-Class Matter June 2. 1910, at the Post-Office at l^Grangre,
Georgia, under Act of July 16, 1S84.

BillinKliurst-Raudall Ttg. Co., LaGrange, Ga.

REPORT OF LAGRANGE COLLEGE

TO

THE NORTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE
1913

III 1885, the presidency of the College was tendered to the
present incumbent, and accepted on condition that he keep a
competent faculty and pay a small amount for insurance and
incidental expenses. His predecessor. Dr. John W. Heidt, for
the sum of $3,000, gave up his rights and interest in the College
property, consisting of the entire outfit and equipment for teach-
ing purposes, dormitory furnishings, and domestic uses. In
1887, the Trustees deemed it necessary to enlarge the boarding
department and make other needed improvements. This work
could be done only by issuing bonds and securing a loan of
$10,000 for a period of twenty years. These bonds could be
floated only oil condition that the college would make a lease
and assume the responsibility of 5% semi-annual payments of
interest and the liquidation of the entire debt in twenty years.
,y The president, with his resident family, consisting of wife,
^ two daughters and five sons, as lessees, assumed the responsibil-
ity of fulfilling the conditions of the lease. This lease was
taken, not as a pleasing privilege and happy chance to make
money, but as a burdensome opportunity of the lessees to build
up the College and help the church and the cause of Christian
Education. With this controlling motive, for meager compensa-
tion less than was offered some of them elsewhere the entire
family gave their best efforts, for many years of their best time
and strength to the accomplishment of this worthy task. With-
out this cordial co-operation, this task would never have been
undertaken and could not have been accomplished. ^''
r\ In 1902, the success and increasing patronage of the College
made it necessary to make more improvements. The only plan
found practicable was to cancel the old bonds, issue new ones,
and renew and extend the lease for twenty years from that date.
This second lease was accepted on same conditions as the first,
and with the same purpose to build up the College and promote
the interests of Christian education. Besides meeting the re-
quirements of this lease, covering in all more than twenty-six

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years, the Collej^e, out of its own earnings, has given thousands
to the improvement of grounds and buildings and in better
equipment of College Home, Library, Laboratory, and Music
Department. The Christian College is the nursery from which the
the Church secures her best workers at home and abroad, and
the State gets her most helpful teachers for her public schools.

Educated Christian motherhood is the best asset and the most
helpful agency the church has for Christianizing the world.
LaGrange College, as a material asset of the Conference, is ea-
sily worth $200,000. Read the history of the College in the
lives of its graduates and estimate in dollars and cents, if you
can, w^hat has been its moral and religious worth to the world.
In proportion to its patronage, it has in late years led all schools
of Southern Methodism in its contribution of Christian workers
in its mission fields./^This same missionary spirit still pervades
its student body, the last session being no exception to this
healthful moral state.

The attendance the past session was a little off, and the bur-
den of financial stringency a little increased. The going away
of a son, long connected with the college, a year's leave of ab-
sence of one of our best teachers for study, and the report and
impression that the college would cease to do collegiate work,
and the use ot this report by others in seeking patronage are
the causes of this tempoary decrease. This present session has
opened with an encouraging increase in patronage and promise
of more in January.

The courage to go forward and the hopes of greater success
' are now stronger than they were in the recent past. Domestic
Science, Domestic Art, Bookkeeping, Stenography and Type-
writing have been added to the courses of instruction, and are
being taught with commendable success.

The causes that affected the attendance the past session only
emphasize the importance of bringing the college interests in
closer touch with the Conference. Bishop Pierce, speaking in
behalf of Christian education, said, "'To educate women is to
refine the world." The time has now come when the great
Xorth Georgia Conference needs a refining plant to be operated
under her own patent right and process for the benefit of her
own Methodist constituency. LaGrange College is logically

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that plant which is in sfood runnin<r order, and can be easily se-
cured and operated to the satisfaction and benefit of all parties
concerned.

j>. Twenty -nine years of service, including twenty-seven years
of burdensome lease obligations, seem sufiicient to justify the
hope of rendering an account of my stewardship acceptable to
the powers that be. Time, during these long years, has wrought
many changes in my College Home as well as in the conditions
of education in our own Church and State. The burden of in-
creasing years, the increasing requirements and expenses in
every line of operating a standard grade college, as well as in
every detail and need of domestic service, make it wise and de-
sirable by all parties concerned that the lease be annulled and
the College be committed to closer and more responsible relation
to the Conference.'/' In order that this may be done well and
wisely, and to the satisfaction of all parties, we suggest that
your body select and appoint a committee competent to act and
to co-operate with College officials in establishing financial, offi-
cial and legal conditions to the satisfaction and benefit of all
parties and interests involved. 7 . '

y^ Ninety-seven of our boarding pupils the present session are
members of the church, with four mission study classes and addi-
tional courses in Missions and Religious Education which are a
part of the College curriculum. We have daily religious exer-
cises, Y. W. C. A. meetings and Sunday School classes.

The current expenses and financial burdens have been unus-
ually heavy the present conference year. An itemized state-
ment would show that the burdens the President has had to bear
ALONE are equal to those that are given below for your consider-
ation. Those given below, and others we might justly give,
appeal to your sense of obligation and to your spirit of Christian
sympathy and co-operation, and are clearly in the province of
your power and privilege to consider favorably.

Boarding pupils 1912-13 120

Locals 35

155

Enroll present session to date, 150.

Not being able to get an itemized statement of the exact con-

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dition of Witliam Fuiid, we copy statement for 1912, which is

now in better financial condition:

The Witham Loan Fund for dependent girls, invested, $10,100.00

Amount of Fund in cash on deposit 2,118.69

Amount of Fund due from beneficiaries 12,383.77

$24,602.46

Income from endowment, none.

Income from State, none.

Income from tuition and other sources, about $32,000.

Number professors, 22.

Value of property, $200,000.

Rate of tuition, $56.

Beneficiaries on the College in whole and in part, 12.

Bendficiaries on Witham Fund, 5.

Amount of bonded debt, $15,000.

Sinking fund to meet bonded debt, about $7,000.

Provision for paying sinking fund and interest is an annual
payment of $750.00 by the President.

The past year the college has paid on this debt $750.00

Due January 1, 1914 375.09

Insurance 469.67

Balance on dormitory for recent improvements ( by note ) 487.00

lujuipment Domestic Science 100.00

China Kiln in Art Room 115.00

Improvement heating plant College Home 125.00

$2,421.67
The debt on the liawkes Building is about $30,000. To re-
lieve this indebtedness are notes amounting to $18,062.26; cash
on ha.nd $1,801.76.

Note that this amount about pays 6% interest on this debt to
date. We ask your body to devise large plans for financing the
college. Oive it right of way next Conference year with your
cordial, moral and financial support. You can thus easily sat-
isfy the ambition and fill with gratitude the heart of its pres-
ident and give to the North Georgia Conference one ofllie best
educational plants in Southern Methodism.

Respectfully submitted, -1^ ^^ J
RUFUS W. SMITH, President.

NEW DEPARTMENTS

A Department of Domestic Science and Domestic Art was
added to the college this year, and it nas already proven its
worth. The work is under the direction of Miss Eva McGee,
who is a Domestic Sciedce o:raduate of the State Normal School,
and who has taught these subjects successfully for several years.
The laboratory is well equipped. An exhibit of the Department
was made at the Troup County Fair held this month in La-
Grange, and it was awarded two first prizes and nine second
prizes.

A Business Department is another valuable addition to the
College. Miss Dana Tatum, who for the past two years had
filled a similar position in Centenary College, came to us in
September to become Secretary of the college and Instructor in
Stenography and Typewriting. Miss Tatum was educated at
Martha Washington College and Pratt Business Institute, New
York. Several students are specializing in this department;
and while pursuing commercial subjects, they have the benefit
of other college advantages.

The Bible Department has been enlarged to include courses in
Religious Education. It is proposed to make this department
a Training School for Christian Workers. Courses covering-
two years are offered in Religious Pedagog>% comprising the
various interests of the Sunday School, child ~ development,
church history, doctrine and polity, and the several activities of
the modern church. In addition there is a course in Missions,
embracing a comparative study of religions, and a study of the
m.ission fields. There is also a course in practical Sociology.

List of Periodicals Coming to the Library and New Books Purchased

Recently

Review of Reviews; Current Opinion: Literary Digest; Nash-
ville Christian Advocate; Wesley an Christian Advocate; Mis-
sionary Voice; Pathfinder; Woman's Plome Companion; Ladies'
Home Journal; Cosmopolitan; McClures'.

NEW BOOKS

Hastings' Bible Dictionary.

Axtell's The Organized Sunday School, two copies.

The Works of John Burroughs, fifteen volumes.

Mrs. Rorer's New Cook Book.

Knight's Food and Its Functions.

Sherman's Chen^istry of Food and Nutrition.

Snyder's Human Food.

Green's Food Products of the World.

PROGRAMS OF RECITALS

Given this Fall by the Schools of Music and Kxpressioii

TEACHERS' RECITAL

MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1913; 3 P. M.

Chopin, Nocturne, Op. 15, No. 2 Mrs. E. D. Hale

E. Silas, March in B-flat (Organ) Mrs. Princess M. Nelson

Weber, Rondo in E-flat Miss Maidee Smith

Ludwig Kindscher, Eliland the Monk's Songs; a Cycle of Ten Songs:

I Silent Pain; II Frauenvvoerth Island (A Nunnery); HI Rose
Sprays; IV Secret Greetings; V On the Strand; VI Children's
Voices; VII When Moon Should Shine; VIII Dreams of Wan-
dering; IX The Curse; X Resignation Mr. Alwyn M. Smith

Liszt, Liebestraeume, No. 3 Miss Ada Mildred Gane

Verdi, Aria, Ah. fors' e lui (a Traviata) Mrs. Ahvyn M. Smith

Kd. ^MacDowell, Polonaise, Op. 46 Miss Rosa Mueller

Marie Lovell, The Awakening of Ingomar (Reading) (An arrangement
from the play Ingomar) INIiss Eula Bradford

RECITAL NUMBER TWO

MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1913; 3 P. M.

Piano Certificate, Miss Ruth Richards, Thomson, Georgia
Piano Diploma, ^^liss C.Pauline Becton, Svvainesboro, Ga.; Miss Eddie ]Mae
Chastain, Atlanta, Ga.

Grieg, The Watchman's Song Miss Emily I. Park

Wagner, Pilgrims' Chorus (Organ) Miss Nina E. Maxwell

Stephen Adams, Mona Miss Kittie Farmer Pilcher

Bach, Prelude, Mozart, Sonota in C, Andante Miss Richards

Cary, Pictures of Memory (Reading) Miss Bessie Crabb

Bach, Gavotte in B Minor; Jaell, Waltz from Faust Miss Chastain

Luigui Denza, If Thou Didst Love Me ^ Miss Dollie Palmer Jones

Emery, Fingertwist; Rubinstein, Kamenoi Ostrow Miss Becton

Cooke, Who's Afraid (Reading) Miss Annie C. Hines

Heller, Cradle Song; Heins, On the Mystic Lake Miss Richards

Beethoven, Concerto in C. Minor, First Movement Miss Chastain

W. L. Bluraenschein, All for You; C. Francis Lloyd, The Welcome Home

Miss Sarah Crawford Tatum

Mozart, Concerto in D, Last Movement Miss Becton

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RECITAL NUMBER THREE

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1913; 3 P. M.

Piano Certificate, Miss Nina E. Maxwell, Augusta, Georgia

Piano Diploma, Miss Gladys Cantrell, Tallapoosa, Georgia; Miss Sallie

Florence Few, Watkinsville, Georgia

Merkel, Marche (Organ) Miss LK)is Loraine Schaub

H. Somerset, Dawn Miss Claire Elizabeth Greene

Bach, Prelude; Kuhlau, Sonatina, Op. 55, Allegro Miss Maxwell

Weeden, The Devil's Garden, Watermilion Time (Readings) MissMcNabb

Demuth, Landler (Violin; Miss Louise Slack

Czerny, Etude, Bendel-Liszt, Rhapsodic Hongroise, No. 2 Miss Cantrell

Riley, Ain't Goin' to Cry No More (Reading) Miss Ruth E. Pike

Scharwenka, Barcarolle, Op. 62, No. 4; Mozart, Sonata, No. 2, ....Miss Few

Renard, Berceuse in G (Violin) Miss Pauline Pierce

Espen, FroherSinn, Op. 19; Wollenhaupt, Etude, Op. 22, No.l, Miss Maxwell
Frank Lynes, O Come to Me, Mavourneen, Op. No. 3, Miss Frances Waddell
Weber, Concerto in F Minor; Larghetto, Tempi di Marcia, Allegro Vivace ...

: Miss Cantrell

Uncle Dant's Apparition, Anonymous, (Reading;.... Miss Sarah Satterwhite
Mozart, Konzert Es dur, First Movement Miss Few

RECITAL NUMBER FOUR

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1913; 3. P. M.
Piano Diploma, Miss L/ois Loraine Schaub, LaGrange, Georgia

Harold Lowden, Andantino (Organ) Miss Frances Marion Waddell

Scott, Young Lochinvar Miss Daisy Boney

Chaminade, Les Sylvains, Op. 60; Beethoven, Sonata, Op. 10, No. 1, First

movement Miss Schaub

Oscar Schmidt, Cavatine (Violin) Mrs. Leone Floyd Leith

Wilson G. Smith. The Radiant Morn Hath Passed Away; Harry Rowe

Shelley, Christmas Miss Sara Crawford Tatum

Mendelssohn, Konzert, Op. 22, Last Movement Miss Schaub

Cooke, A Real Lady Miss Anna Belle Hutchinson

vSchumann, Aufschwung Miss Nelle Hammond

Gabriel-Marie, Serenade Badine; Leopold Dancla, L'Elegance

^ ~ Miss Claude P. Dunson

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