The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-10-14
MARIErFA rEmALE COLLEGE.

Mr.. EDITOR What do the Trustees
Of the Marietta Female College propose
to do in regard to the erection of suita-
bic buildings for the Collcgef 1t seems
that no further efforts have been made
since taxation was defeated to secure
the pcrmanency of this institution
While our citizens are all alive 10 the
Railroad enterprises, which arc destined
(when built, and be built they will 20
infuse new life, energy and prosperity,
into our town, we should not neglect our
institutions of learning. We would ask
in all candor and honesty, if it is sciSc to
do so Z We should not be "lookers on
in Venice" and allow the Marietta Fc-
male College to silently pass away and
be numbered with things that we're
Let us try what efficacy there is in ''if
at first you don't succeed try, try again"
President Rogers has not met with
that encouragement he should have had.
At the solicitation of Marietta citizens,
he resigned a lucrative position Of Pres
idency in the Griffin Female College to
come in our midst and establish an in
stitution of learning for the education of
the daughters of Marietta and Cherokee
Georgia. Well failure on the part of
the citizens of Marietta in performing
what they promised, will not only re-
feet unfayorably upon Marietta, but will
be doing great injustice to President
Rogers, in that it will embarass him fl
nancially and cause him to seek elscwerc
for the successful employment of his tai
ents.
In our opinion Female College is in
dispensable TO the true refinement and
greatness of our city. And greatness
is never attained by no city without If
fort, earnest, interchangeable effort. Look
at Atlanta's growth and prosperity; it
has all been accomplished by undi-
yidcd action and energetic effort. We
believe the College would prosper if per-
manently established. 1t would stand
better prospect for such results now than
ever, in that we will soon have ttCo rail
roads to bring young ladies, from two
| wealthy sections of country, who have
been debarred the privilege of a ColIcg-
late education for the want OF quick,
cheap and convenient transportation
The North G corgia Road will give easy
accessibility, to the people in that rich
section of country, to our own fair and
lovely city, for the education Of their
daughters as, also, will the Marietta &
Western Road, penetrating into Ala
bama, likewise give tho necessary con-
venience of transportation to all the
counties on tho line of,railway, and oven
in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee,
an opportunity that will induce them to
send their daughters and wards to Mari
eta to be educated, for Marietta has a
wide reputation for its unsurpassed nat
ural advantages, in point of salubrity of
climate, pure water. and beauty of seen
cry, while her people are moral, religious
and intelligent.
So let us try once more Cor College.
Sell the Hotel property, take the $4,000
subscribed, and buy tho present occu-
pied building, and erect two story
building to it, at cost not to exceed the
amount of money raised. This will be
beginning, and as the College prospers,
so can the buildings, from time to time,
be improved and beautihed. These re-
marks arc suggested because we are
A LOVER OF MARIETTA.