The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-29
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE
WANTS HALF MILLION
The General Education Board Offers
$175,O 10000 Provided College
Raises $325, 100000

Agnes Scott is preparing to launch
tremendous faIl>campaign through
out the South to raise a $500, 900. 90
endowment fund. The General Ed
ucation Board of New York has offer
ed to aid the college with gift of
Sl75,0OO.00, provided it will raise
$325, 100000. The offer was formally
accepted by the Board of Trustees on
August /, 1919, and plans are being
completed for the drive.
Although the enrolment of the col
lege last year represented twenty-one
states, as the majority of its students
and alumnae are from the South, the
campaign will be actively carried on
in the eight southern states of Geor-
gia, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississip-
pi and Virginia. Each state is divided
into districts, each of which will be
under the supervision of an able chair
man.
Field workers are being sent out to
aid these committees. Alumnae and
the Board of Trustees will play i'm
portant roles in this drive. Each has
volunteered to raise $100,O00.00. The
Association has its ow ncorps of work
ers already engaged in organizing it's
members. It is expected that there
will be a generous response in this
present campaign, as it is the first
time in 10 years that Agnes Scott has
come before the public in an appeal
for money. In 1909 the General Ed
ucation Board gave $10O,OOO.0O on
the strength of the college having
raised $250,0O0.
Now the need is even more press
ing than it was then. Already over
200 applicants have been turned away
for the coming session, while 388 stu
dents last year taxed the college to
the utmost. 1t is planned to use $780,
10000 of the proposed fund for new
equipment and $400,000.00 as a per-
manent endowment.
That Agnes SCOTS present endow~
ment is far below that of any of the
five other standard southern colleges,
as classified by the Southern Associa-
ton of Colleges for Women, is shown
by the latest report: Agnes Scott,
$186, 100000; Goucher, Baltimore,
$846, 100000; Sophie Newcomb, New
Orleans, $2,25O, 100000; Randolph Ma
con, Lynchburg, $328,730.O0; West
hampton, Richmond, $250,OO0.00.
So far as is known, Agnes Scott is
the first college in Georgia to be aid
ed by the General Education Board
of New York. This board is branch
of the Rockefeller foundation 1t aids
worthy schools and colleges through
out the United States, but it gives on
ly to institutions which through thor
ough investigation it has found to be
doing the very best work. DR.. Wal
lace Buttrick, president of the board,
and DIR. E. C. Sage, the secretary,
each made a personal investigation of
Agnes Scott in March. Later F. H..
Gaines, president of the college, and
DR.. j. H. Mccain, vice-president and
registrar, were invited to meet the
board in New York in order to give a
detailed account of the college and
it's present conditions. At the COM
pletion of these investigations, the
board made it's conditional offer of
$175,OOO.OO.
Another tribute to the esteem in
which Agnes Scott is held is the fact
that it was chosen by the Maplewood
Institute, of Pittsfield, Mass, as the
best college in the south. DR.. Gaines
recently received a check for $4,000
to found at Agnes Scott memorial
scholarship from this institute. 1t
was accompanied by the following let
ter from Mrs. Elizabeth E. Davis, re-
cordng secretary of the Maplewood
Institute fund:
"At a meeting of the Maplewood
Institute Association, June 9Th, it
was voted to give Agnes Scott Col
lege a fund of $4,000 to found the
Maplewood Institute Memorial fund
to be used each year to help some
worthy girl in her education. We
chose Agnes Scott College as the best
college in the south and we hope you
will approve our plan"