The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-08
WORK BEGINS IN SEPTEMBER New Woman's College
 to Be Rushed. SCHOOL TO OPEN YEAR HENCE Movement for Consolidation of Institutions Progressing. Conference Held By Representative. of Two Methodist Conferences--Nor,h AIabnmians Pledge e2S,ooo To
 Montgomery Female
 College.
SCHOOL TO OPEN YEAR HENCE

The work on the new wo.aans Col lege will begin in September The Col iese will be open for the reception of studeats a year from September, if the plans of the leading Methodists of Ala bama do not fail.
 Inis statement is not made directly rom the College Commission of the two Alabama Conferences, but if ia known that 1t Is the purpose of the commission to begin the building of the college in the fall Nor will 1t be snrce years before the college Is ready TOT the students. Men who are inter- ested in the movement believe that the nrst building can be prepared within the hrst year. Such Is the plan that is being followed
 one of the greatest announcements that has come to the Commission and .hose who are working for the col- ,ege was the pledge of s25.0O0 for the mphtgomery College for Women made by the Birmingham College for Men. Al recent meeting of the Board of Trustees of that college, 1t was de- cided to raise in the North Alabama conference tho sum of $25,000. Before they rose from their seats the Trustees or the college personally subscribed S4.- 100. The sum would have been larger IT all the members of the Board had been present.
 Rev. F. P. Culver, of Birmingham. member of the Board of Trustees of the Birmingham College and agent for the North Alabama Conference for the combined Methodist Female College. and Rev. J. M. Dannely. the agent of the Alabama Conference, were in Mont gomery yesterday, where they mot to confer over the raising of funds for the two colleges Both were very much i'm pressed by the interest and enthusiasm with which the new educational move ment has been reveived.
 The meeting of the Board of Trus- tees of the Birmingham College was especially enthusiastic for the new col Ieges. said MT. Culver, yesterday. The Board unanimously passed a resolu- ton agreeing to raise the sum of S25,- 000 The members of the Board them selves pledged $4.10O of that amount before they left the room. This in- dicates the enthusiasm and co-opera- ton which the North Alabama Con- terence feels, not only for the BirminR- ham College. but for the Montgomery College as well. The Board at the same meeting pledged the Birmingham College the sum of $100.000."
 MT. Dannelly. agent for the Alabama Conference, Is devoting his time prin- cipally to the work for the college, and is much encouraged over the pro- sress of the movement.
 The movement. as Is well known. contemplates the consolidation of the two girls colleges and the two boys colleges of the Alabama Conference. into two great colleges. one for boys at Birmingham. and the other for girls at Montgomery. On these two educa- tional centers. the Methodists of Ala bama will concentrate their strength. There will be no other colleges re- ceiving the support of the denomina tion in Alabama. The Tuskegee Col lege will be consolidated with the Athens College for the Montgomery institution and the Southern Univer- sity at Greensboro will be consolidat- ed with the Birmingham College at Birmingham.