The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-28
SHREVEPORT SECURES CENTENARY
Famous Institution OF Learning will be
Removed from Jackson to the
Caddo Metropolis.

Removed from Jackson to the
Caddo Metropolis.
It has been definitely decided te
remove Centenary College from Jack
sou to Shreveport. This announce
ment was made Tuesday after con
ference between the Methodist confer.
auce commission and committee o
the Progressive League, together with
several prominent citizens Of Shreve
| port The work of erecting suitable
buildings and preparing a campus vii
probably be begun in the Caddo city
within the next twelve months.
The conference cnmmissis was
headed by Bishop E. g. Morrison, q
! New Orleans, and consisted of W. w.
Care, Briscoe Carter and w Winans
| Drake. FL. N. Pharr, of New Iberia,
| who is also member of the commits
sion. was not present at the Shreve-
port meeting. The Progressive League
| was represented by President John P.
Scott. Directors j. Homer Jordan and
e. G. McCloud, Secretary Manager
Arthur Holcombe, A. D. Land, Jr.,
}. B. Hutchinson and Robert r.
Emery. Mr.. Care, on behalf of the
| conference commission, formally ac-
eepted the proposition made by the
city of Shreveport, and stated that the
Methodist church would raise a sum
equal to the amount that will be given
by Shreveport as a bonus. 1t de-
veloped that the Methodist conference
had given the commission absolute
authority to accept the Shreveport
proposition and that the trustees of
Centenary College had promised to
turn over full title to the property,
thus setting at rest all question as to
the power and ability of the conference
to move the institution from Jackson
to Shreveport. The commission stated
that while it was believed that work
could be begun on the college in 1905
it preferred to have the limit fixed as
1906, although it is more than proba-
BILE that work will be begun this year.
The matter of appointing committee
to locate a site for the college was dis
eussed, and it as finally agreed to
leave this matter in the hands of
Bishop Morrison, who will probably
appoint a committee consisting of one
member of the conference commission
and two citizens of Shreveport.
Centenary is the Oldest men S college
in Louisiana. 1t was founded in 1925
and located at Jackson as a state
college. The dormitories on the
campus were built by the state as
barracks and are still standing. The
center building, which contains the
largest college auditorium in the
south, was built after the college
passed from the hands Of the state into
the control of the Methodist church.
This trans action took place in 1916, at
which time the name of the institution
was changed To Centenary College.
Its success was uninterrupted until the
breaking out of the civil war, when a
number Of the students and professors
left the college to take part il that
memorable conflict. The old buildings
still show the marks of the cannonad
ing which took place on the campus
between the southern and federal
forces, and in the rear of the college
grounds are buried several hundred
confederate soldiers. After the war
Centenary resumed its former prestige
and influence, and many of the alumni
of the famous old institution are
prominent 10 the affairs of Louisiana
and neighboring states. One Of the
traditions of the college is that JeAer-
son Davis was at one time student
within it's walls.