1961 32 Y3 py l * Bulletin. * **' lykg i $ JULY, 1904. JKf J^T JBT Vol.1. PUBLISHED QUARTERLY. No. I. Application has been made for entry at the Post Office at Georgetown, Ky., as second class matter. ROCKWOOD GIDDINGS, PRESIDENT 1838-39. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF GEORGETOWN COLLEGE AN ADDRESS READ AT THE ANNUAL COMMENCE- MENT JUNE 7TH, 1904, BY ARTHUR YAGER PRESS OF TIMES JOB ROOMS, GEORGETOWN,- KY. HISTORY OF GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. A College may be defined as an organized society of teachers and students, meeting together for pur- poses of study, in buildings maintained and equipped for these uses, by a corporation chartered for the pur- pose. There is sometimes some confusion in the pop- ular mind as to which of these three things is the real College— the chartered corporation with its Board of Trustees, its legal powers, and property rights; or the buildings and apparatus with their romantic asso- ciations, redolent ever of the dreams and fancies of youth; or, finally the constantly assembling and dis- solving assembly of professors and pwpils — the College itself with its ever changing personel, but an un- changing spirit. Surely all these things, and more besides, are essen- tial to a College. The organized society which consti- tutes the vital principle of the College must be con- trolled and supported and guided, and the materia} equipments must be provided and maintained by a corporation of wide powers and large means, in order to make possible an educational institution of per- manence and power. *0 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE- «' THE CHARTERS AND CORPORATIONS. The history of Georgetown College has centered about three charters, each of them creating a distinct corporation, and yet all of them closely interwoven in their legal relations with each other, and the College. First— Charter of 1829. First, there's the charter of 1829 creating a corporation called the "Trustees of the Kentucky Bap- tist Educational Society," a corporation which is still the kernel and governing body of the whole institution. These Trustees were named in the charter, were given the power to perpetuate themselves by filling vacancies in their own body — and in general all the powers and privileges granted to any other academy of learning in this State. Their right to own property, however, for some reason was limited to an amount, the annual income from which would not exceed $50,000. Accord- ing to this charter, these Trustees were themselves the corporation, or rather they were made the agents of a fictitious educational society which had not yet come into existence. Second— Charter of 1851. In 1851 an amendment was secured to the charter of 1829, which was in effect a new charter, and created a new corporation, called the Kentucky Baptist Educa- GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. tion Society, composed of all who have paid, or shall hereafter pay, into the treasury of the College as much as $100.00, and gave to this new corporation the exclu- sive power, if they choose to exercise it, to elect the Trustees who constituted the earlier corporation. This amendment, therefore, sought to create a Kentucky Baptist Education Society which seemed to be only presupposed in the earlier charter, and yet it did not alter or abridge, in any way, any of the powers con- ferred on the Trustees by the original charter, save only the manner of their election. Third— The Students' Association. The third charter about which the life of the Col- lege has grown is the document which created the Students' Association of Georgetown College. This charter was secured in 1876, and formed a corporation of old students Who may hold and control property quite apart from the College corporation, but who may use their property for no other purpose than to endow professorships and otherwise assist education in Geargetown College. WESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE This is the proper place to mention that in 18f>3 Georgetown College became closely connected with an entirely separate corporation called the Western Bap- tist Theological Institute, of Covington, Ky. This in- stitution had been running for several years at Cov- GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. ington under a charter of its own, as a Theological Seminary, with some sorts of College work attached, for the purpose of preparing its students for their theological studies. It had good buildings and grounds at Covington, and other funds besides, but its Board and Faculty became hopelessly and bitterly divided on the slavery controversy, and in 1852, having split into two irreconcilable camps, the anti-slavery party moved over into Cincinnati, carrying with them all the mova'ble funds. The other party took possession of the grounds and buildings, which, under the provisions of their charter, could not be used for any institution outside of Kentucky, but they were compelled to sus- pend operations for several months. In 1853 they moved the institute to Georgetown, and for more than thirty years it was operated in connectioD with the College. Finally, in 1886, under the tactful leadership of Doctor Dudley, the Trustees decided to go into voluntary liquidation, and turn over to the College the remnant of their property, together with their rights and obligations. THE GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS. The buildings of the College, like its chartered co'panies, have gradually grown and expanded, as lis meeds and its means increased. For the first ten years of its life there were na buildings save the old Ritten house Academy, which occupied the site of the present Academy building, and GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. which, with the western half of the campus, seems to have come into the possession of the College partly by a sort of consolidation with the old Rittenhouse Acad- emy, and partly by donation of a site by the citizens of the town to secure the location of the College. In 1840 the present Recitation Hall was commenced, the first building ever erected by the College. Paulding: "Hall, that is, the old part of it which constitutes the rear of the present edifice, was erected very early, but I have been unable to discover the date. It was ran- iioned in the first catalogue— 1845-46— and may pos- sibly have been built before the death of Issacliar Paulding, which occurred, according to Spencer's His- tory of Kentucky Baptists, in 1832. In 1839 the east- ern half of the campus, nearly ten acres, was sold to the College by Alexander Offutt for one hundred dol- lars per acre. In 1852 the College bought the building near the campus, now occupied and owned by Rev. T. J. Stev- enson, and turned it into a dormitory, called Judson Hall. This building, however, seemed to be ill adapted to the purpose, and in 1859 the property was sold to Professor Rucker, and was afterwards for a short time the seat of the Female Seminary, In 1854 the corporation bought for the President's residence the grounds and southeast part of the build- ing which is now known as the "Old Seminary," and in 1869, the larger and newer part of that building was eonstructed for the use of the Female Seminary of Professor Rucker. This building was not couverted GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. to its present use until 1895. In 1869 the grounds to- the south of the campus and the building now owned by Mrs. Dudley was purchased for a President's resi- dence, and the present residence of the President was erected on a part of these grounds in 1889. The present Academy building was built about 1861. In 1879 the new front was built to Paulding Hall with money secured by the ladies of the Baptist Church of Georgetown, under the leadership of Mrs.. Sarah Thomas and the late Mrs. Jas. F. Robinson. This large Chapel Building in which we now meet was "built in 1894, and the beautiful Rucker Hall, across^ the street, in 1805, transactions so recent that their history need not be recounted. THE COLLEGE. But charters and buildings, however essential and important, cannot, as has been said already, alone make a College. These are the shell — the vital part of the institution remains to be traced. The life that has- gone on, in and aronnfd these buildings, and under the over-arching sphere of the legal documents— the ever flowing and ebbing tide of young humanity — the more permanent and yet frequently vanishing figures of presidents and professors, of trustees and officers that have given form and shape and substance to the work, and play, carried on upon the campus — these constitute the flesh and blood of my subject, the history of the College. GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. The first ten years of this story are wrapped in mystery — a mystery which my researches have been tmable to dispel. It seems, however, that they were years of trouble and turmoil and confusion. There was a contest over the location of the Col- lege between Georgetown and Versailles, and the former had secured the prize by a. gift of $6,000. This together with a generous donation of $20,000 made by Issachar Paulding seems to have constituted the entire property of the institution during the first decade of its existence. The .young corporation was confronted by foes without and within. There was litigation hi the courts over its property, there were faction and strife in the Board itself. These were t>he years of the mighty conflict and upheaval among the Baptists of Kentucky, caused by the preaching of Alexander Campbell, and there was a contest between the two parties for the possession of the young institution of learning. During this contest there was founded here at Georgetown, in 1836, by the Disciples party, aia insti- tution called Bacon College, named in honor of Lord Bacon, the purpose, of which was to aid them in their struggle for this seat of learning. During these ten years there were secured by the College three distinguished Presidents — Doctor Wm. Staughton, who died on his way to Georgetown; Doctor Joel S. Bacon, who served for only two years, and Doctor B. F. Farnsworth, who served only a few HOWARD MALCOM, PRESIDENT L84C-49- GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. months. For a part of the time the College was run as a private enterprise, and part of the time was in a state of suspended animation. At last, by the guid- ing hand of Providence, there ca*ne to the College, in 1838, duly elected as its president, a master spirit— a born leader of men — a man who, if opportunity had offered, could have been famous as an empire builder, or founder of nations. This was Rockwood Giddings, a young pastor of Shelbyville, whose administration of the College lasted a little more than one year; and yet he, together with Issachar Paulding, were really the founders of Georgetown College as far as that honor ©r, for $100,000. Such was his enthusiasm, his almost hypnotic power over the hearts and pockets of his brethren that in eight months he had gathered together, in good notes, $80.000— a truly wonderful achievement •consid- ering the time at which it was accomplished. As far as I have been able to ascertain, it was to Doctor Giddings also that we are indepted for the general plan of the old College building now called Recitation Hall. Together with Doctor J. E. Farnam, his class- mate at Waterville, Maine, whom he had induced to come with him from Shelby ville to Georgetown in 1838, he drew the plans for this noble old edifice, so simple and sincere in its architecture — so pure and classical in its outline— that it stands now, and 1 hope will stand for another hundred years, a beautiful mon- ument to his memory. This is not the place for sugges- tions, but I will venture to remark that I hope some day to see built to the south end of Recitation Hall an Ionic portico like the one at the north end, and then the old building rededieated and renamed "Giddings Hall," in honor of the first really effective President of the College. But these consuming labors destroyed the frail feody of the eager young President. In October, 1839, he fell in the pulpit while preaching, and was carried i>ack to his old home in Shelby ville, only to die in a GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. II few days. The one year of Doctor Griddings* administration had transformed the College. When his successor came to Georgetown he found an institution with a harmonious Board, with no competition in the town, with a commodious build- ing under construction, and with a fairly ample en- dowment for those days, in the form of notes and sub- scriptions. This successor was Doctor Howard Mal- eom, one of the most distinguished and eloquent preachers who ever labored amongst the Baptists of Kentucky. A man of versatile mind, of splendid schol- arship, widely known as an author and a preacher, Dr. Malcolm was an ideal college president. But the panic of 1840 swept away a large part of the endow- ment, by destroying the solvency of those who had promised it, and Doctor Malcolm, in spite of his broad culture and brilliant intellect, was greatly hampered by lack of funds. Nevertheless, the College did steady and efficient work. The annual catalogues, which began to be pub- lished in 1846, show a small but efficient and capable Faculty, consisting mainly of Professor J. E. Farnam and Professor Danford Thomas and the President— a goodly number of students coming from various States, and a well organized course of instruction for that time. There is a general atmosphere of good, honest, wholesome work about the catalogue of this period that speaks well for the educational ability of the President and his Faculty. But the close of Doctor Malcolm's administration was marked, and his resigna- 12 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. tion caused by a recrudence of dissensions ia the Board, and among the students and the public. Thie time it was political instead of religious, caused by the intense excitement attending the slavery contro- versy in those years. Doctor Malcolm was an Eastern man, and though he was a scholar and a gentleman and a Christian, he shared to some extent the tin com- promising feelings of our Northern brethren on this great question. And so he resigned for the sake of peace. After a brief and uneventful interval under Doctor J. L. Reynolds, the College entered upon an epoch of great prosperity and expansion under the leadership of perhaps the greatest executive that ever presided over the fortunes of a Kentucky College. This President was Duncan R. Campbell, who came to Georgetown in June, 1852, from Covington, Ky., where he had been a professor in Western Baptist Theological Institute. He was a most potent personality, full of en- ergy, tact, and enthusiasm, and in a few years he had pushed the College into the front ranks of the insti- tutions of learning in the whole West and South. It* halls were filled with young men, the flower and cream of the educational material of a half dozen States. Under the aggressive and powerful influence of Doc- tor Campbell, there passed through Georgetown Col- lege scores of notable men who afterwards became leading preachers, lawyers, doctors, judges, states- men and soldiers of their respective States, and had much to do in shaping the destiny of Kentucky and the South. GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 1$ In 1855 the patronage of the College had far out- grown its facilities, and Doctor Campbell threw his mighty resources into an effort to increase the endow- ment. In about two years' time he had secured an addition to the endowment in good collectible notes of about $106,000. These notes however, were as usual payable in annual instalments of five or more years: and' before half of them had been collected, the great cat- astrophe of the Civil war had swept ever the land and wrecked the business, and the fortunes of those who had promised them. As the panic of twenty years be- fore, so the war of 1860 played havoc with a great work, almost achieved. Doctor Campbell lived only long enough to earrjr the College through the trying ordeal of the Civil war, dying suddenly in 1865. Following Doctor Campbell's death, and the war, the College entered upon a period of quiet and pain- ful readjustment to a changed environment. For fifteen years this process went on. The patronage fell off. the prestige of the school gradually declined. During this period two very distinguished and scholarly men serv- ed successively, as president of the College;— Doctor N. M. Crawford, 1865-1871, and Doctor Basil Manly, 1871-79. Eloquent preachers both of them, scholarly and vigorous teachers, widely known and honored men of God, it was in no way due to them that the College was not progressing and expanding,— the conditions upon which its former prosperity was founded had been completely altered. The whole organized social 14 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. fabric from which it had drawn its Students had been ihaken to its foundations, by the great civil war, and when the new society was built up, it knew not George- town. They foundede their own schools all through the South and Southwest,— and Georgetown had to depend upon Kentucky almost entirely both for stu- dents and endowment.. And Kentucky had meanwhile built up another College at Russell ville. So things had to settle down and the College make a new place for itself, and bide its time. The time was the longer, coming because of another circumstance. About 1870 the movement to bring the Southern Bap- tist Theological Seminary to Kentucky from South Carolina, was inaugurated. This involved the raising of $300,000 by Kentucky Baptists. This was a gigantic task and together with the additional calls upon them, made necessary by the presence and needs of this great and noble institution, completely absorbed their benevo- lence and attention for twenty years; — and in fact con- tinues largely to occupy them to this day. The College began to emerge from thi* period of comparative quiet and depression in 1879, when Doctor Richard M. Dudley was placed in charge of the institution. Doc- tor Dudley's administration covered a period of thir- teen years, — from 1879 to his untimely and lamented death in January, 1893, a most notable and eventful period in the history of Georgetown College,— and one whoi?e great importance is just now beginning to be clearly realized. Doctor Dudley's vigorous adminig- GEORGETOWN COUvEGE. 15 trative ability, his clear, cool, sound judgement, his sincere straightforward Christian character, hi* admirable knowledge of human nature which made him so successful as a disciplinarian and manager of young men, — his self-sacrificing devotion to the insti- tution, — his power as a preacher, and his constantly growing influence with the denomination, — all these and other qualities told powerfully for the good of the College in all directions, and the momentum gathered and headway gained, continued to carry the College forward for several years, after his death. His great work for the College may be briefly summed up under three- heads: (1) His academic work, such as strength- ening of the Faculty, improving the curriculum, ele- vating the standard of work, increasing the attend- ance, adding new departments and facilities — in short, the general improvement of the rank of the institution, as an educational force in our State. This was tke work of the earlier years of his administration. One of the most important and far-reaching changes made under this head was the introduction of the co-educa- tional system, adopted and entered upon experiment- ally the very year of his death — a step which will have a powerful effect upon the destinies of the College for all time to come. (2) Additional buildings and equip- ments. The new President's house, the new chapel and gymnasium building, and Rucker Hall were the direct fruits of his labors; for while they were not ail of them built during his life, the funds that made th^m possible were provided, and the conditions of patron- 16 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. age and prospects that made them necessary, wers created by him. Thus about $90,000 worth of build- ings were added to the plant of the institution. (3) The growth of the endowment. Dnrrnsr Doctor Dudley's term of office, or as a direct result of his work, more than $150,000 was added to the property of the Col- lege. This of course includes the buildings above men- tioned. The Students' Association fund was completed and made productive in 1884. The Bostwiek fund was secured in 1889. The Georgetown and Scott county fund in 1888. The Maria Atnerton-Farnam Professorship in 1893. The McCalla-Galloway Professorship in 1893. The Dudley Memorial in 1895. There were besides numerous smaller gifts during the years. In all this work Doctor Dudley was ably and grandly assisted by many others — notable Doctor W. M. Pratt, President of Board of Trustees, in securing Boswick fund, and the lately lost and much mourned son of the College. Doctor J. S. Felix, in connection with the Newton and Dudley memorials, and Professor J. J. Rucker, in connection with the Students' Asso- ciation fund and the Georgetown 'and Scott county fund, and many others who are now in this audience — but all joyfully and loyally acknowledge Doctor R. M. Dudley as their leader, and they looked to him for in- spiration through it all. With Doctor Dudley's administration it is proper that this hasty sketch should close. The more recent history of the College is too near to us to be under- DUNCAN R. CAMPBELL, PRESIDENT 1853-65. GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 17 stood in its perspective and broader relations. But before closing, I want to seize this opportunity to em- phasize some points of surpassing interest in thia Tecord. (1) Educational institutions, like political insti- tutions, are not made out of hand— they grow! It is a process of steady, gradual evolution. The charters are shaped by gradual amendments, the buildings are enlarged and added to, the departments of instruction are put in, one after another, the endowment is slowly increased — in fact, everything about a college must be slowly evolved and built up. (2) The splendid list of names found in the rec- ords, through all the years. We belong to no mean College! Our educational sires were men of mark. 'Whether we look at the Boards of Trustees and offic- ers, or the presidents and members of the Faculty, or glance through the long lists of students, we constantly come upon names that count for much in the develop- ment of our State, especially of our Baptist denoimna- tion. Our first President of the Board was Silas M. Noel— one of the most eloquent, pious, energetic and forceful Baptist preachers in Kentucky during the ear- ly part of the last century. The second President of the Board was Rev. Thomas P. Dudley, who afterwards became the great exponent of our brethren of the Hardshell branch of our denomination. Then came Roger Quarles, and Gov. J. F. Robinson, David Chc- nault. W. Mv Pratt, and lastly, the present incumbent, our own much beloved Doctor Jno. A. Lewis, spWdid 18 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. and princely men all of them. The list of members of the Board is equally illumined by many names of men notable in Kentucky Baptist history. Turning' to the Faculty, we are gratiiied by what we find there. The Presidents have all been able and distinguished men. The Faculty has been filled with men whose names are widely known and honored. It is interesting to observe, how through the earlier catalogues the names of Professors Farnam, Thomas, and Rucker continu- ally recur together like a human clover leaf, on the page of the Faculty. Each of them served the College for almost or quite half a century; and now only one of them is left ! Along with these, in the earlier years, comes the name of Pro- fessor Wm. Garth, who was the same man who estab- lished the truly noble charity called the ''Garth Fund" for educating poor boys in Bourbon county. And there were Cadwallader Lewis and Henry Mc- Donald, and scores of other names that shed luster on the annals of our State and church. And if we look over the records of the 600 graduates, and 5,000 stm- dents, the impression grows that if we were to take out of the history of the Baptists in Kentucky the deeds and achievements, the names and the work of all the Trustees, the Presidents, Professors and Students of Georgetown College — what a mutilated record would be left ! In this connection it may not be amiss to re- mark that we have ample room for memorials here at Georgetown. We have our Paulding Hall, our Stu- dent's Chair, our MeCalla-Galloway Chair, our Maria GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 19 Atherton-Farnam Professorship, our Rueker Hall, our Dudley memorial, etc., etc. All these are well— very well! But there are other names that richly deserve to be thus immortalized here upon this campus. There are Giddings, and Campbell, and Thomas, and Mc- Donald, and J. S. Felix, and others who have lived and labored, and given of their money, and in other waya built their names into the fabric of this institution, in order that it might be the better for us, their chil- dren and successors. Some time we shall see, standing about upon these grounds, in some form, worthy mon- uments to their blessed memory. (3) A word about the endowment! Georgetown College has lost more money that it never received— and less that it did receive — that any other institution, I venture to say, in the whole South. It has already been explained how half of the Campbell endowment, and perhaps more than half of the Giddings endow- ment, were never paid into the College treasury at all, but was swept away in the calamities of panic and war, while it was still under the control of those who had promised it. And yet all that which was actu- ally paid into the treasury of the College is there yet, in spite of panics, and the Civil War, and floods, and disasters. None of it has been lost. It would seem that the safest place on earth for money is the treasury of the College— much safer than the pockets of the owners! For this remarkable financial record the College is indebted chiefly to two men, each of whom held the office of Treasurer for about thirty years. The 2C GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. first of these was Major M. C. McCalla, who wai* Treasurer from about 1840 to 1866. With singular skill and devotion he served the institution without salary through all the early years of its poverty, and in addition made generous bequests in its favor in his will. The other great Treasurer is the present holder of the office, Judge George V. Payne, whose term of service began in 1873. It would be difficult to find in the annals of educational institutions more striking illustrations of faithful, long-continued and success- fn] financial service than is shown in the records of these two Treasurers. Lastly, let us note how the life of the College, like the life of an individual, ebbs and flows. There have been periods of great prosperity, of progress and ex- pansion, and then there have been seasons of quiet re- adjustment, of settling down and pulling together. The three great tides of advancement have come Tinder Giddings, Campbell and Dudley; partly perhaps- because of the conditions of the time, and partly be- cause of the great qualities of these able men. Between these epochs have come breathing spells and periods of waiting. It seems to me that we have just passed through to the end of a pe- riod of waiting— and that the clarion call of oppor- tunity is now heard summoning us to another epoek* of enlargement and unusual prosperity. The College has survived the frightful dissensions: which resulted from the work of Alexander Campbell, it has survived the super-heated political controversies: GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. which preceded and caused the great Civil War, it has survived the war itself, and the wreck and ruin of our state and section which it produced, it has survived the panics, the dissensions and controversies of recent years, and it is today the strongest institution of learn- ing of the Baptist people west of the Alleghaney Moun- tains and south of the Ohio River. Let us all thank God for the noble past, and rise and go forward. ADDRESS TO THE BAPTISTS OF KENTUCKY EROli THE BOARD Of TRUSTEES. At the June meeting, 1904, of the Trustees of Georgetown College, the undersigned were appointed a committee to prepare a short address to Kentucky Baptists. The purpose as then expressed was to pro- cure a more active and earnest interest in the College throughout the State. The trustees were impressed with the belief that there may be a want of information on the part of the great body of Kentucky Baptists as to the needs of the College. This great body, it was thought, was- too apt to judge the present and the future by the past and to conclude that because Georgetown College could once hold a prominent place among the literary institutions of the State with a small corps of teachers, and because those teachers gave their lives to the col- lege for salaries not equaling now the pay of many of the superintendents of the graded schools, that, there- fore, the College can now and in the future maintain* L. Ul vi>. ■ GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 23 its- position along-side of, if not in advance of, all the other colleges in the State. It was suggested, too, that many failed to appre- ciate the difference between colleges. That is, that they think, or seem to think, it does not matter where boys or girls graduate, just so they graduate ; that as a diploma from one college looks as nice and reads as well as from another, that it will serve as well as a recommendation where scholarship is called for as any other, and that, too, though it may be from a College scarcely known outside of the county where it is lo- cated, certainly not outside of a very limited number of the counties of the State. It is true that in the past Georgetown College has had a most honorable and useful career with what would be now a comparatively small corps of instruc- tors and a comparatively small endowment, and has sent out hundreds of young men with hearts and minds well equipped for life. But it should be remembered that the horizon has broadened since those old days, and that there is now a demand for wider scholarship and also for facilities for preparation in special call- ings, and that it devolves upon the Baptists of Ken- tucky to meet this demand, or else the College will take a secondary place among the colleges of the State. The course of study in Georgetown College is n>w •much broader than in the past. To meet this the Fac- ulty has been necessarily enlarged, but the fart re- mains that there is still need of its further enlarge- ment. 24 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. It should not be necessary to make an argument to impress the Baptists brotherhood with the importance of maintaining an institution of learning under their own control where Christian influences will be brought to bear forcibly upon the minds and hearts of those seeking instruction within its walls. As Baptists we should not surrender our interests in this connection to other institutions. Georgetown College, in view of its history, in view of its hold upon the hearts of the thousands who have been impressed by its influences and prepared by it for life's duties, in view of the necessity for maintain- ing a Baptist College— the peer of any in the land — for the education of boys and girls of Baptist homes, should have the earnest sympathy of the Baptist heart of Kentucky in its appeal for an immediate, liberal and increased endowment. The Baptist ministry of the State should especial- ly feel the importance of this work. It strikes home at the heart of that which they represent. The neces- sity for a Baptist College affording facilities for the broadest culture is absolutely essential to the progress and influence of the denomination in the State. They of all others should understand that the boys of Bap- tist homes of ambition and manly purpose will go where they can be best prepared for the contest they intend to make in life and that if there is not a Bap- tist College with facilities of the highest order for this preparation that they will go elsewhere to secure it. The glorious history of the College, as prepared J. J. TAYLOR, D.D., PRESIDENT 1904. GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 25 by Dr. Arthur Yager, and which is hereto annexed, and which so aptly and forcibly reviews its past, should, of itself, sei*ve as an inspiration to every Baptist heart ir renewed allegiance to this time-honored institution. Through struggles, tears, prayers and sacrifices it was founded by the fathers. Shall its future be clouded arid its usefulness impaired because the Baptists of this day fail to see, or if they see fail to meet, the demands of the situation. As already stated, the ministry of ajl others should see that educational power committed to a leading Baptist College in Kentucky is now and will more and more become the foundation upon which must b« planted the influence of the Baptist denomination in this State., We must now prove to the world that as Baptists we are in fact more forcibly than in theory the friends of an educated and enlightened ministry. And where is this ministry to come from? Will it come from an institution the care of which is not given especially to the creation and upbuilding of Christian character and the moulding of Christian thought? Will it come to Baptists from the ranks of those educated in other denominational institutions? Certainly not from any of these sources. To the former students o*f the College we also ap- peal. An appeal to them should thrill them as would a bugle call to arms the heart of a patriot citizen were a hostile army upon our shores. These old student* may be feund in homes oh 26 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. naountain and plain from the Bine Ridge to the Pa- cific. We feel snre of their affection for Georgetown College. Will not these veterans in life's battles now give of their time, and of their means, too, as God kas prospered them, in this decisive struggle for ar& institution as dear to their hearts as the homes of their childhood? To every Baptist in Kentucky we also appeal. Let these Baptists remember that education from some obscure, so-called college— however important it may- be to its own locality— will not meet the demands of the future that will become more and more exacting- as the population of the country increases and the struggle for existence and advancement more and more intense. Those not well equipped for this strug- gle will be relegated to the rear ranks of life. JAMES B. FINNELL, T. T. EATON, B. A. DAWES, ROMULUS PAYNE, ? J. K. NUNNELLEY. GEORGETOWN GOLUEG&. FACULTY. J. J. Taylor, M. A., D. D., LL. D., President. James Jefferson Rucker, Master of Arts from George- town College, Doctor of Laws from Richmond Col- lege, Professor of Mathematics. Arthur Yager, Master of Arts from Georgetown Col- lege, Doctor of Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University, Students' Association Professor of History, Economics aad Political Science. David Edgar Fogle, Master of Arts from Georgetown College, Post-Graduate Student in University of Chicago, Student in Germany and France, Pro- fessor of Modern Languages. Glanville Terrell, Master of Arts from Leland Stanford University, Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University, Teaeher in Harvard Simmer School, Professor of Ancient Languages. ■Oarnett Ryland, Master of Arts from Richmond Col- lege, Doctor of Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University, Maria Atherton-Farnam Professor of Chemistry and Physics. 28 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. Edward Bagby Pollard, Master of Arts from Richmond College, Doctor of Philosophy from Yale Univer- sity, Professor of Biblical Literature. Joseph Judson Taylor, Master of Arts from Richmond College, Doctor of Divinity from Howard College, Doctor of Laws from South Western Baptist Uni- versity, R. M. Dudley Professor of Philosophy. Stonewall Jackson Pulliam, Master of Arts from Cen- tral University, Assistant Professor of Ancient Languages and Principal of the Academy. Henry A. Vanlandingham, Bachelor of Arts from Mis- sissippi College, Master of Arts from Harvard University, Professor of English Language and Literature. Wilson Lewis Kline, Bachelor of Science, Post-Gradu- ate Student in University of Chicago, Instructor in Biology and Director of Athletics. Edith Anita Roper, Bachelor of Arts, Assistant in Mathematics and English and Associate Principal - of the Academy. Maude Fowler Haman, Master of Arts from Peabody Normal College, Assistant in the Academy. Eugenia Pulliam, Graduate of Caldwell College, Dan- ville, Ky., Assistant in the Academy. Elizabeth Broderio Armstrong, Instructor in Elocution and Physical Culture. GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 29 Bobert Coulter Young, Graduate of the Famous New York Virgil Piano School, formerly teacher in Stephens College, Instructor in Piano Forte, teacher of Harmony and the History of Music. ■■Gertrude Westlake, Bachelor of Music, Student from the Musical Conservatories of Dresden and Berlin, Instructor in Piano Forte. Xillian Stetson, Graduate in Music and Student under the famous Godosky of Berlin, Instructor in Piano Forte. Julia A. Winchell, Graduate in Music, and student un- der the best masters at Evanstons and Chicago, 111., Instructor in Voice. Sidney Scott Lewis, Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown College, Student for four years at Cincinnati Academy of Art, Instructor in Art. Alice Rucker Bristow, Graduate of Georgetown Fe- male Seminary, in charge of Rucker Hall. , — ._ MeFerran, A. B., Assistant at Rucker Hall. Mary Moberley Dudley, Bachelor of Arts from George- town College, Librarian. GEORGETOWN >w >w/ I— L. lZ_ >J^ L_ OLDEST BAPTIST COL- LEGE WEST OF THE AL- LEGHENY MOUNTAINS NEXT SESSION OPENS SEPT. 13, 1 904. i GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 31 Location— In the heart of the famous Blue Grass region of Kentucky— one of the most beautiful and healthful regions on the face of the earth. Accessibility— Georgetown is situated at the junc- tion of three railroads— Q. Art 30 00 For catalogues and further information write to* DR. J. J. TAYLOR, President.