The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-28
Judson, Great Woman's
 College of AlabamA

,growth Is hardly short of marvellous, Those who have loved 1t, cherished 1t | and labored for it may well nurse a | feeling of pride for the success that has
 day one of the great schools for girls not only of the South. but of the whole country, It Is not only one of the
 colleges flor yogpns adss n | There are but few female colleges of
 the country which have so many stu
 dents of college age. and none in Ala,
 Girls Industrial School. has a large | general attendance. but many or the
 students of Monteayllo are in the pre- ! to the largest attendance of young Ia dies of college age is still undisputed. ! Denominational College.
 1 It is to be remembered that Judson is denominational college. It Is to | be remembered that Judson Is not | State college depending upon either has it any great endowment except the endowment of energy and of devotion that has been conferred upon It. Baptist Church Of Alabama. It is gov erned and supported by the Baptists of ! the State and right royalty do they isss. Baptist College and yet more than half the students who attended 1t last year were members of otHer telIs uih eioauentiy of the he pabiic's view of l the refinement, of the culture and of the religious atmosphere of Judson. :,
 The aim of Judson College is well expressed in that often quoted sentence applied to the higher education of women and applied to yudson educa- ton, implying "rhs deveioRme1n'. of ths | firm. womanly In every fibre and with | out that unfeminine element which has made some men and women fear that
 the higher education might end in un- ] sexinH them"
 In the culture, in the refinement. in the home life of the South, for more wielded no inoonsideraSle iafiuence. 1t has stood for the best of cultured wo- | manhood for three-quarters of a cen tury. Of Jrdson it has been said that there Is hardly a community between the Atlantic and the Pacific which has not felt its gentle ard refining infiu- ence.
 It was not the earliest. but 1t was among the earliest colleges established for the edi cation of women in the en-
 rf ss Tne .o%n of Maron wRere
 was located and where 1t ?as since been located was then, as it Is now. ! Southern town of culture; or natural then as now a healthful place. situ- ated on the lower ridges which form the termir ation of the, Appalachian a location it has an atmosphere free from all malarial influence. A recent pubiication in reference to Juoson saio The Fine Climate.
 Experience fully dem 1nstratss the fact that young ladies from the ma climate of Marion the invigorating in- fuence often sought toward the North and that those from the Northern and from aait the ag winter as asperieies of their na tive latitude. It is hard to understand the existing tendency to expose girls Sehoof ife ae to srsa ths rigoPs sraG of Northern winter and then in turn to the malaria of the Southern summer. If equal ad- spects. the wisdom of reversing this the South is obvious
 During the seventy-f1ve years exist ence of Judson at Marion the town has not only been known for its favorable health conditions, but for the purity and refinement of its society as well, 1t was extremely fortunate in the start t received. Its first President was tors that the Nineteenth Century pro- duced. It was he who laid the foun- dations for the future greatness of the college. In later years he became for women in the world, Vassar Col lege, but he always took a deep and active interest in the Alabama college.
 At the same time. at the time of It's foundation, a leading citizen of West Alabama, man of affairs. Gen. Edwin D. King, was President of its Board of Trustees.
 It is these men and their successors who made the college a great institu- tion of learning For the college had to experience the same difficulties. had to overcome the same difficulties that besst other institutions of learnings in the South. The Civil War was a great blow to every institution of learning that lifted it's head underneath south ern skies. There was not college that did not emerge from the war wounded and suffering. There was not stitution of higher education that did not take years to slowly recover from tho blow 1t received from the war.
 Not only were invested endowments swept away in the twinkling of an eye, but the Wealthier classes, those who were the patrons and tho supporters ot colleges, lost their private fortunes and some of them by no sort of sacrifices were able to give their sons and daugh- ters the education that had been planned for them.
 Through all these and other dificul ties Judson was kept steadfastly to her purpose. She lived out her life and did her appointed tasks until brighter skies were overhead.
 And in time another misfortune came. The college was totally destroyed by immediately greater and more beauti- full than ever before. The new struc- lures which have gone up since the fire are combinations of what is known as the Roman and the Renaissance. They have a front of 140 feet, depth of 121 feet and are three stories in height ex- cept in the central portion which If four stories in height, The top cornice of the dome Is 100 rect from the ground.
 The alumnae auditorium and music hall recently completed Is one of the handsomest structures of its kind in the South. The auditorium proper has in 1t 1900 opera chairs and one of the finest pipe organs ever shipped South. This organ was gift to Judson by George C. Kelly, of Birmingham. as a memorial to his wife, who was a Jud- ditorium. the building contains fifty two practice rooms for students who | ere taking music. for it should always pecial pride in it's musical department and its imPortance there is ever ac-