The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-14
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
rhe .oldest Female CoIIege nfatter

!, Editor The Advertiser:
 In.your issue of September II, ther,
 Elliott. in which he says the presen
 Iwriter 'labored" to show that tn,
 Wesleyan Female College at Macon
 ls oider aad Which d9es nst as Ma l any labor" at all to provel and usel tA Is language: If MT. Glenn haS
 req the report spoken of the second
 woSA'd have discovered that we were
 talkh1g about Baptist education and I Bapttyt institutions, and then quotes from his written report (not given
 Gle in The Advertiser) asNhough I had Iintentio ually or carelessly passed over
 several statements. though he cannot
 report referred to in the columns of Tho Advertiser were very different from what ne now gives, and as any,
 one can see soy comparison.
 that Advertiser article first men, tioned, and to p hich specific reference was made by mo in former commu-
 ntcation2 Let us see the exact words | and which if is exc eedingly strange if
 Brother Elliott en tirely overi 7oked.
 and which contained the very state ienged and which san challenge It wilT be found in the Aecond sentence.
 Here 1t is. The report of Mir. Elliott
 was one of the most irAeresting made
 worthy things brought ,out by him,
 was the fact, shown by figures, that
 Baptist denominationaI lsehools were
 the first established in tne south. lege, was established in 1&29; Rich
 mond College was founded in 1S32;
 Wake Forest in 1884; Mercer in 1S37; in 1889; the Howard at East Lake in I841; Baylor in 1S45; SouthwNsstern Baptist University in 1S49. and Will liam Jewell College in 1s4s." Then neer" follows the sentence, For Ihe education of girls. the Judson Led Aie way in 1S39g and thea followed other
 Brother R Eltt in ,nssuena his communioa
 ton referrin~ to my statements, not only gives. his report" differently in several respects from the published re- port. to which and to which alone, I made specific and unmistakable refer snces. but he passes over in utter si- lence the very statement in that pub- question. He Sc 5es not even hint at the existence of that sentence, in LAS last communication. concerning mlr remarks. What is that statement. above but in The Advertiser of Sep tember s? Among other very worthy things brought out by him. was the fact. shown by figures. that Baptist denominatfonal, schools. were the first established in the South That is the statement to which I made aI1usion and showed by Augusta College i'm Kentucky and Wesleyan Female Col lege, both Methodist institutions (not to mention again LaGrange College in Alabama ands Randolph Macon in Vir- ginlal so much earlier than some he racy. In the interest of historical ac-i curacy, I wrote the first communica- uons and as the statement just quoted f.- s.T. II made direct reference. Brother Elliott had the opportunity, by referring to the paper, to see that it was there, even even taough in his sommunication he hfstorical statement d1d appear exact ly where | had said, and where any one can find 1t If he wishes can but say in all fraternal good feeling that 1t would have been better if Brother Elliott had read twice, or even once carefully the published re- port to which have alluded, and had acknowledged and corrected in his communication exactly what was first published, instead of. Ignoring the very inaccurate published statement about quoting from his own private (convention) report, instead of the publisbed one. emitting to quote the very statement which | challenged and gave names and dates of other de- nominational schools which were ear Her than those he mentioned.
 pr. Patrick, the President of the Judson, certainly did not overlook the historically inaccurate statement first published in the paper to which I re- ferred, for he wrote me O. very kind and fraterna1 letter, explaining the matter fully, and which was appreci- nted very much by the recipient 1 have no desire whatever to enter into q controversy about the matter. to make unkind remarks, nor to argue about what Baptist institution was earlier or earliest but said before, l and say 1t still Cand am borne out by ! the factsl that the published statement l that Baptist 0epominationai schools l were the first established in the | South" is incorrect That statement | did appear. in the very paper, the very | article and upon the very day I said it | If Brother Elliott, for whom | I have the very kindest personal feel | ings, failed to see itNand has not seen | it since, in the paper published in his | own city, concerning his own report | am not to blame for that. I was not | after" Brother Elliott at all (stating r explicitly in my first communication | that the published report "quqoted'' | him as saving, etc) but was correct | ing that published statement, for it | was very inaccurate. Historical er- | TOTS sometimes creep into print. He | for historical accuracy.
 As for che Judson and her older sis ter, the Wesleyan, may they both live long and prosper.
 Al