The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-07-04
WESLEYAN APPEALS FOR AID
MONEY WANTED TO BUILD
NEW DOMITORY.
Institution Needs More Facilities
for Caring for Young Ladies
ExpeCted Next Term.

The following circular leOuSr H"'
been sent out by the trustees OF Yves
lavan Female College to the people OF
GEORGIA and neighboring states asking
for +nnds to build and equip a new
dormitory
To the People of Georgia and Florl-
da. and Other States For number
Of wears because of hard times, the
noverty of the people, an apparent IN
disposition among them to aid in high
ar female education, and owing also to
comnetition from free schools, Wesley
an Female College has had season OF
sore trial and great adversely
The present year, under the most
able. laborious and faithful admins
tration of President j. w. Roberts, Is
one of GREAT success and promise, and
we now have every reason to hope that
this condition will not only continue
but improve beyond all previous rec
ord and beyond the presentcapaclty OF
our buildings and equipments
Our dormitory has been crowded dur
inc the year and the probability now
is that a large number of those desir-
inc tuition and board at the next term
will be lost to the college unless addi-
tional accommodation are at once as
sured and promptly secured.
The elevation of our curriculum
above the courses of study in the com
netting free schools, the partial return
of prosperity among our people, the
great ability and indomitable will OF
the president. seconded by amost com
petent and faithful faculty, have, under
the providence of God, brought US face
to face with great and immediate per-
manent success or most Illuminating
failure. from the effects OF which we
could scarcely hope to recover during
the present generation.
The tide is with US and at the flood,
and all we need is to take It,
To enable us 10 do this we must have
twenty thousand dollar annex at
once.
We have no funds with which to
build and equip it. We have a very
small endowment, but the small income
from that is not available to any extent
for such a purpose.
The local assistance here will be
necessarily inconsiderable, not because
our Macon friends are unwilling TO
give, but because they are unable to
do much more than they have done;
and what they have done is much
greater than is generally known or I'M
derstOod.
We must look to you and appeal to
YOU for the funds with which to do this
much needed work, and we feel we
have the right to do so, as the great
historic institution is no more local, or
state, or sectarian institution.
1t is the pioneer female college OF
the world, and even in its weakness
and poverty is still among the 'eadlng
female colleges in the south, having in
attendance students from other states
and some foreign countries.
1t is true that it is Methodist instl-
tuition, but it is in no narrow sense sec
tartan. We always have literally rep
resented in our faculties other chris
tian denominations, and we always
have in our student body represents
tives of other denominations.
The daughters of all other christian
ministers as we'll as those Of Methodist
ministers are given free tuition in our
regular course. We teach christianity
of course, but there is never any effort
or desire to proselyte to Methodism'
While in character, Intelligence and
patriotism We of the south have much
TO be proud of, IN what is ordinarily
called or deemed enterprise or prog
ress we have but little.
Yet here in Macon, Ga, we have
Wesleyan Female College, the Oldest
female college in the word, brought
forth sixty.four years ago by our young
and struggling Georgia Methodism,
enabling US to be known and distin-
guished throughout the civilized world
as the leaders of the world in the cause
of female education, a cause second to
none save that of christianity itself.
Fellow citizens, let us make the
cause of Wesleyan Female College the
cause of female education generally,
and especially the cause of female edu-
cation in the south, and let US in ID
spirit of true and enlightened man
hood and manly devotion to the high
est type of womanhood in the world
do what we can aud at once to place
Wesleyan Female College on this want
age ground and make it what proyi-
dence designed it should be price