HaOSraiigr. (Srnrgia Nnupmbpr SuUpttn 1913 V'ohiine (iS NOVEMBER liU3 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 2 y K /v 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 3 i^' that plant which is in sfood runnin. 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- 4 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 7 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 8