The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-14
GREAT COLLEGE
ISP[ANNEDFO
WEST FLORIDA
PALMER COLLEGE AT DEFUNIAK
SPRINGS TO BE ENLARGED
PRESIDENT LYNN r. WALKER
TALKS ABOUT THE GREATER
PALMER COLLEGE MOVEMENT.

| Rev. Lynn r. Walker, president of
Palmer College at DeFuniall Springs,
! has been in Pensacola several days
mingling with his friends. He came
| over from DeFuniak to perform the
| ceremony at the Marzoni- Barnett we'd
| ding.
Speaking about the greater Palmer
College movement, of which some men
ton has been made in this paper, Mr..
| Walker said:
Yes, we have determined to give to
West Florida a great institution OF
learning. OF course we know that it
will take time to realize our ideal, but
the movement is well under way and
| the suggestion is meeting with hearty
approval. West Florida needs a first
class institution. There are hundred
and eighty thousand people west OF
Tallahassee. If you include the State
College at that place every college in
| the state except ours is east of ITALIA
hassee.
East Tennessee, the section of the
Old Volunteer State where / grew up,
territory not much larger than West
Florida, has sixteen colleges and semi
naries and a hundred times more
money invested in them than we have
in Palmer. If we desire West Flor
ida's greatest prosperity and happiness
she must have her own college, and
ment will be conducive to scholarship
and the formation of character.
When / accepted the presidency Of
this young institution / did so realizing
that this section of the state needed a
college and that DeF'uniak Springs was
the ideal location. Palmer College is
to answer the demand of large terri
tory and a rapidly increasing popula-
ton for a school of this character.
Florida in the past ten years has
grown more rapidly than any other
southern state, showing an increase of
forty-two per cent by the last govern
ment census.
1.-THE whole territory from which we
will necessarily draw the largest part
of our patronage-West Florida and
South Alabama-is rapidly develop
| ing country in population and wealth.
| The institution is needed now, giving
to boys and girls an opportunity to
gain an education, many of whom
would have no other chance. The in
stitution will be needed still more in
the years to come. We are seeking to
| build we'll for the future by doing our
present work well, and so to be always
ready for the coming population which
will surely continue to flow into this
| favored section, and SO our work will
go on in the cause of Christian educa-
| ton from generation to generation"
Mr.. Walker said further that Palmer
| College is growing rapidly. Last year
| showed an increased enrolment and
| the enrolment this year is fifty per
/ cent greater than last year. I'VE
have a faculty of twelve teachers rep
resenting leading colleges and univer-
Stiles" he said. Our success has
made us realize that to meet the de-
mand of this large territory we must
| have larger plant.
The improvements contemplate an
i "a mi N q u
halls, Y. NJ. G. A. hall, a reading
room, and every modern equipment
needed for the care of boys; the build
| ing Of an auditorium and conservatory
i of music, improvements on the girls
dormitory. and the installation of a
heating plant.
'The campaign for $4,000 has been
well started and will be rapidly
pushed. We believe, in order to secure
the money, the people Of West Florida
need to be only shown the necessity
| for such an institution for their highest
bountiful DeFuniak Springs. with it's
| splendid people and healthful sur
| roundings, is the ideal location.
| Education of the right kind means
| the welfare of all the people. 1t is
| something in the benefits of which all
share, whether they are patrons of the
school or not, by helping to solve the
problem of competent and reliable en-
ployes and in furnishing leaders in
business, church and state.
| I want to call your attention to
striking illustration of this fact to the
| history of Hampden-S Sydney, one of
| the small colleges of Virginia. The tos
tai number of students in it's long his
| tory is only 1886. but their record is
as follows: 440 lawyers, 361 physi-
clans, 470 ministers, 400 teachers, "A
principals of high schools and acade
mics 20 presidents of colleges and uni
versities, one founder of college and
one founder Of a university, two state
superintendent of instruction, 20 mem
bers of the state legislature, "a mem
| bers of the state senate, SO county
and circuit judges, judges of state
supreme courts, % members of the