The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

Der of the College Commission. says: "As to the great advantages tha must accrue to this city from the loca tion of the college here: Tn the firs place. viewing the matter from thu lowest standpoint, it would do more for the business interests of the city l than the location of any single man ufacturing establishment could possi. bly, do. The whole business life ol | several college towns, in this and oth' CT States. is wholly dependent upon l the colleges located there. Tn the second place, such an insti- tuition would point to and teach things higher and better in life than the ma. terial- The very piles-brick and mor- tar-would constantly inspire the be- | holding maiden and youth to hoblei efforts
 "As a member of the commission am pleased with the progress being made, and have no doubt that within to locate the college here will be sub scribed by far-seeing citizenship. who will regard 1t as both a privilege and a duty to embrace this opportunity of doing So much good"
 "JeweI in Montgomery's Crown.e A prominent educator familiar with the Tuskeges college writes that if Montgomery secures the college. 'It would keep on paying for itself over and over every few years. This would. however. be the least valua- ble benefit to Montgomery. It would have an educating and refining fnfiu- ence on the community for all time; through the decades and the centu- ries to come. It would have something of the eievating and refining infiu- ence on Montgomery that Harvard has had on Boston. Vanderbilt on Nash vile, and that Randolph Macon Wo- mans College Is beginning to have on Lynchburg.
 saThe influence of the first class col 1ege on any community is silent. but very powerful. It would tend to elevate the intellectual and moral tone of the whole community. It would make Montgomery more desirable place of residence for the kind of peo- pie who would do the most for the welfare of the city.
 gomery something in the beginning. but Montgomery will. in the end. be the gainer from every standpoint of valuable consideration.
 "The most imperishable thing on the earth is a well located institution of learning. Oxford and Cambridge have stood as the two eyes of Eng land for nearly a thousand years. The University of Paris, one of the oldest in Europe, has survived through the dynasties of kings, the fires of the French Revolution. all the changes of the French nation, and stands as the jewel of France today.
 If the college now contemplated for Montgomery Is founded on a ba- sis to command the respect of people and to do the needed work for hu- manity, it will stand there as the per manent jewel in Montgomery's crown"
 Planting . Great College.
 pr. o. c. McGehee, who Is entitled to the largest measure of credit for raising $3O,000 from Montgomery Methodists for the college, Iays:
 Tt is proper to say that just at the present time there Is but one pur- pose In the hearts of the large majori- ty of Alabama Methodists, and that is the planting of a great college for women at some place within the State.
 That place, h the minds of every one, is Montgomery. This has been shown by the Commission. represent ing the two Methodist bodies, making an offer directly to Montgomery, and refusing to allow any other place in the State to bid for the College, and the Methodists of this city have shown their great desire for this institution by promptly subscribing the $30,o00 asked of them by the commercial Club.
 We wish to call the attention of the public to the powerful and convincing argument set forth in the giving of this money by tho Methodists. Does this not speak louder than words pos sibly could, and in doing this have they not done exactly what the men repre- senting the business interests of the city said they ought to do in order to inspire confidence and bring the bal ance of the 0,000 required to put the college here?
 "Again, has not the soliciting of this subscription daily all over this city for a month, and the publishing of the names of the subscribers and amounts subscribed in leading paper day after day, been thorough ad- vertising of the work? In word. can anything more be said or done by those who have this great enterprise at heart to rally this community to it's support?
 'The Methodists have, at the pres ent time, two good female colleges in the State, one at Tuskegee and one at Athens. These are not satisfying the demands of this church for the higher education of her young women and Sn6 IS now lO meet IueSc demands. A site of fifty acres of land and $50.00O Is but the foundation. We expect at once to erect a central build ing costing S10O.000. and as rapidly as possible around it other buildings.
 "An institution that Is to be the product of the best minds and pur- est hearts of the country is what we are striving to establish in the Capital of Alabama. In what could we put our money that would yield larger returns? He who invests in this is surely sowing good seed in good ground that will produce a hun dred fold"
 Inspiration to Other Schools.
 F. R. Barnes. whose heart is in edu- cational matters, says:
 Montgomery cannot let slip the present prospect of securing the Meth odist Female College without display ing e woeful indifference to her edu-