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William F. Quillian 
 President of Wesleyan College 
 
ORTH from these historic old halls, into the far corners of the 
 
 world, have gone our mothers, sisters and daughters, our friends 
 
 and classmates, carrying with them the enduring qualities of 
 refinement and culture—the heritage of every Wesleyan girl. 
 
 Doubtless each holds dear the cherished memories of her Alma 
 Mater. Doubtless, too, her ambitions and hopes are shared by all; 
 but time and distance, working side by side, have effaced the vivid 
 picture and dimmed for many the true significance of ““The Col- 
 lege on the Hill.” 
 
 That every friend and daughter of Wesleyan, however far 
 afield, may glimpse again in retrospect those days forever gone, 
 that they may share her problems and visualize her plans for the 
 future, this booklet has been prepared. Its pages are for those 
 who long to revive the friendships of their girlhood, for those who 
 have faith in the inherent ideals of Wesleyan—those who have 
 
 helped to make her permanent, abiding and successful. 
 
 11144 
 
Mrs. William S. Benson, 
 the first woman to receive 
 a college degree 
 
 The Mother of Woman's Colleges 
 
 ust eighty-eight years ago the first chartered 
 
 woman’s college in the world to exercise its pre- 
 
 rogative and confer a degree upon young women 
 became a reality. The founding of the College arose 
 from the plans and proposals of Elijah Sinclair. 
 
 In the General Assembly of Georgia in 1825, Dun- 
 can G. Campbell of Wilkes County introduced the first 
 bill ever offered in a legislative body for the establish- 
 ment of a college for women, but it failed of passage. 
 Ten years later his son-in-law, Colonel Daniel 
 Candler, the uncle of the chief founders and patrons 
 of Emory University, delivered a magnificent address 
 at the University of Georgia in which he championed 
 the higher education of women. Wesleyan College 
 was the answer to his stirring appeal. 
 
 At the instance of Georgia Methodists the General 
 Assembly granted the charters of Emory College at 
 Oxford and the Georgia Female College at Macon. 
 
 Many were the hours of financial doubt that 
 assailed the College in its infancy, and had it not 
 
 been for such generous philanthropists, such men of vision, as 
 Lovick Pierce, James A. Everett, Samuel Anthony, William H. 
 Ellison, and later, George I. Seney, Wesleyan College might 
 never have lived to undertake its conscious obligation to society. 
 In their princely service to humanity and education these men 
 literally knew “no North, no South, no East, no West.” 
 
 When the first Wesleyan bell sounded the open door of higher 
 education for women, there was no other bell carrying the same 
 message; now such bells ring out from sea to sea. 
 
 Original building, Wesleyan Female College 
 
A Bold Adventure in the Soul of Woman 
 
 N THE first day of January, 1839, two years after 
 its organization, the little College crowning 
 Encampment Hill, since known as College 
 
 Hill, threw open its doors for the reception of stu- 
 dents. Sixty-nine enrolled the first day. It was a bold 
 adventure in the soul of woman. Dr.GeorgeF. Pierce, 
 afterward the renowned Bishop Pierce, became the 
 first president of the Georgia Female College. He 
 later served Emory University in the same capacity. 
 
 In the spring of 1840, eleven young women re- 
 ceived the bachelor’s degree, having completed a 
 course of study equal in extent and thoroughness to 
 that of the leading institutions for men. The first of 
 
 the young ladies to receive her diploma was Miss IB SMA 
 : . ever granted to 
 Catherine E. Brewer, later the mother of Admiral pe 
 
 William S. Benson, who holds the distinction of being 
 the first woman in the world to receive from a 
 woman’s college the A. B. degree. 
 
 In 1843 the building was sold for a balance due the 
 
 contractor but was bought in by Dr. William H. 
 Ellison, then president, for the Methodist Church, whose prop- 
 erty it then became and to which it has ever since belonged. A 
 new charter was then granted, the name being changed to Wes- 
 leyan Female College. 
 
 Wesleyan as it serves today has retained all that is best in the 
 ideals of the old South with all that is glorious in the purposes 
 of the new. It is the charm of this grace and the equipment of 
 this power that places Wesleyan women in the very forefront of 
 those that serve. 
 
 A graduating class of the early eighties 
 
 1114A 
 
A Rich 
 and 
 Ennobling 
 
 Influence 
 
 Like a beacon, 
 overlooking 
 the entire 
 
 city 
 
 HE home of old Wesleyan in 1836 was a small frontier 
 
 town, only thirteen years old at the time the College was 
 
 chartered. Then there were no railroad connections and 
 the population did not exceed 4,000, though the surrounding 
 country abounded in large plantations. It was, however, a rather 
 wealthy district and the quiet life of the leading people of that 
 time fostered a taste for reading, literature and thought. 
 
 Macon proved to be an ideal location for the College. In natural 
 beauty, in its salubrious climate and in the general culture of its 
 leading people the little city offered to this notable enterprise a 
 most congenial atmosphere. 
 
 Standing as it does solidly and beautifully on an eminence 
 overlooking the entire city, the College is like a beacon, ever 
 pointing the way to the higher things. Every influence is exerted 
 to retain all the gentleness and modesty of the Old South and at 
 the same time offer to the young women of today the best of 
 modern educational opportunities. 
 
Sitting Room One, 
 a social rendezvous 
 
 HROUGHOUT its entire history Wesleyan has been known 
 as a center of culture. 
 
 A brilliant preacher, after spending several days at 
 Wesleyan, said: “It is the most delightful and sacred environment 
 in which I have ever been privileged to visit.” And one of the Col- 
 lege’s most generous benefactors once, when asked if he had any 
 suggestions to make in regard to the building, replied: “No, I 
 only want you to construct a building which will make a pleasant 
 and delightful home for the daughters of the South.” These 
 Christian men laid great emphasis upon the value of the soul. 
 
 In Wesleyan’s eighty-eight years, more than 3,000 graduates 
 and hundreds of other matriculates have received the blessing of 
 years of culture in this time-honored institution. 
 
 Wesleyan girls have ever been the highest exponents of that 
 intellectual strength, broad scholarship and noble Christian char- 
 acter which permeates the College and which is destined to exert 
 even a greater influence in the future. 
 
 Delightful 
 
 Home 
 
Front entrance of the Chapel 
 
ESLEYAN students, though surrounded by a religious at- 
 mosphere, are not in any sense subject to any denomi- 
 national influence. Students of all beliefs are in attend- 
 ance and enjoy the largest liberty in their faith and practice. 
 Wesleyan belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 
 The members of its Board of Trustees are subject to confirmation 
 by the North and South Georgia and the Florida Conferences. 
 The charter has been so amended that three graduates of the 
 College will be elected by the Alumnae Association to member- 
 ship on the Board of Trustees at the approaching commencement. 
 In every other respect Wesleyan is undenominational. Students 
 attend church of their own choice on Sunday and daughters of 
 preachers of any denomination are given full tuition. At Wesleyan 
 the Christian religion is commended by precept and example. It is 
 an influence, appealing, restful and strong, without the conscious- 
 ness of obligation. 
 
 An Education 
 Naturally 
 and Normally 
 Religious 
 
The 
 - Department 
 of Music 
 
 HE Wesleyan Conservatory of Music, under the present 
 
 system, functions as a department of the College proper, 
 
 which prescribes its entrance requirements and supervises 
 the non-musical part of the curriculum of the Conservatory 
 students. 
 
 The curriculum of the Conservatory, even under the present 
 handicap, has been said by a noted critic to be the best of any 
 conservatory of music in the South. 
 
 Two hundred and seventy-five students are enrolled in the 
 department this year, and every one of them has the opportunity 
 of studying with a specialist, for there are no assistant teachers. 
 There are fifty-two pianos available to the students for practice, 
 besides the second largest pipe organ in the South; all of which are 
 kept in excellent repair. 
 
 The major divisions of the Conservatory curriculum include 
 piano, violin, organ and voice, and in each of these great interest 
 is shown by the student body, who have organized a well-trained 
 chorus, a student orchestra and a splendid glee club. 
 
 The second 
 largest pipe organ 
 in the South 
 
T 1s the hope of the College administration to develop at Wes- 
 leyan the greatest school of music in the South and there 
 is ample reason to believe that it can be done. 
 
 At present, hundreds of students who wish to attend the Con- 
 servatory are turned away; due largely to lack of room and to the 
 academic requirements of the entrance board of the College 
 proper, which supervises the non-musical part of the curriculum 
 of the Conservatory students. When the Conservatory and College 
 of Liberal Arts are placed in separate buildings, as is now planned, 
 the serious handicap to both will have been removed. 
 
 Drawing on the territory of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, 
 Louisiana, Tennessee and Alabama, Professor Maerz, Director of 
 the Conservatory of Music, is convinced that there will be 500 
 applicants as soon as they can be accommodated, and that in five 
 years there will be an enrollment of 500 in the Conservatory. 
 
 Under such conditions the Conservatory may offer opportunt- 
 ties equal to those of the New England Conservatory of Music, 
 the Cincinnati and Chicago Conservatories of Music and the best 
 New York conservatories. 
 
 Musical instruments 
 form an important part 
 of the girl’s luggage 
 
 The 
 
 Promise of a 
 Great 
 Conservatory 
 
On the 
 Campus 
 
 HE daily life of the student body is indicative of the type 
 of girl the College is training. One has but to walk through 
 the historic old buildings or stroll about the small but 
 
 picturesque campus, to realize that here, engaged in their various 
 activities, are girls that come from the best homes in the country. 
 
 With a campus laid off in lawns, tennis courts, basket ball 
 grounds and a hockey field there is some provision for every girl 
 to be engaged in sports the year round. The present campus, 
 however, is inadequate for the students now enrolled at Wesleyan 
 and could in no possible way be made to accommodate the great 
 increase in students that Wesleyan must prepare to meet. 
 
 The greatest interest and enthusiasm is evinced by the whole 
 student body in all inter-class meets and championship competi- 
 tions,which have brought into their daily life a fine spirit of sports- 
 
 manship and camaraderie that permeates the whole College. 
 
TUDENT life on the campus, however, is not alone devoted to 
 sports and kindred interests, for one very definite aim of all 
 education is to develop personality and individuality among 
 
 the students. 
 
 These qualities are created quite as much by means of social 
 organizations and literary enterprises as by the more strenuous 
 participation in games. 
 
 The Golden Heart, Round Table, Dramatic Club and Gator 
 Club are but a few that create fellowship. The Y.W.C.A., the 
 Student Government Association and Athletic Association offer a 
 wider scope for service and executive ability; particularly is this 
 true of the Y.W.C.A., which embraces practically the entire stu- 
 dent body. 
 
 The Wesleyan, the weekly Watch Tower, The fester and the 
 Veterropt, which is the “Annual,” afford unique and valuable 
 opportunities for the exercise of talents. 
 
 Thus the students build life-long friendships and a gentler cul- 
 ture than 1s gained by the purely intellectual pursuits. 
 
The Crow’s Nest 
 
NE of the most noteworthy ideals in Wesleyan’s education 
 is the spirit of service. As the emblem of her love for hu- 
 
 manity in all lands, there are embroidered on her service 
 
 flag 36 stars, representing Wesleyan daughters who are organiz- 
 ing education, instilling courage and spreading hope in China, 
 Japan, Korea, Mexico, Cuba, India and Brazil. 
 
 Not only have representatives of Wesleyan gone into the East 
 and into Latin America, but representatives of these countries 
 have come to her and carried away with them a portion of her 
 great Christian faith. 
 
 Out of the halls of Wesleyan have gone more than three thou- 
 sand graduates, of whom there are two physicians, two lawyers, 
 ten librarians, ten journalists, forty missionaries, three hundred 
 and twenty-nine teachers and two thousand two hundred and 
 fifty home builders. Seventy per cent. of the present student body 
 have already chosen vocations. Practically half of the senior class 
 and 46 per cent. of the entire student body intend to teach. 
 
 Wesleyan’s 
 Service is 
 Universal 
 
For the 
 Development of 
 Individuality 
 
 A test in the biology laboratory 
 
 TARTING as an experiment in education, Wesleyan today offers 
 standard courses leading to the A. B. degree. 
 
 For several years Wesleyan has been a member of The 
 Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in the Southern 
 States and of the American Association of University Women. 
 Graduates of the College are admitted to the best universities 
 for graduate work without examination. 
 
 A library of more than 10,000 well selected volumes is one of 
 the great assets of the College. 
 
 But in addition to the literary and scientific advantages, there 
 has been built up at Wesleyan a School of Fine Arts and a Depart- 
 ment of Expression. Splendid courses are offered in drawing, 
 painting and in ceramic art. The “Spoken Word” is given an 
 important place in the curriculum. 
 
 The master artists of the world regularly visit the College and 
 thus afford students of artistic talent and ambition the benefit of 
 hearing them in concerts, lectures and entertainments. 
 
 But due to lack of sufficient space and accommodations, over 
 300 applicants yearly are denied this splendid educational service. 
 
Getting out an edition of the Macon Telegraph 
 
 HE students who are interested in journalism are offered 
 
 unique opportunities for practical experience. They 
 
 benefit not only by the regular course lectures but are 
 privileged to hear addresses by some of the most successful 
 journalists in the country. From the very beginning they are 
 trained in painstaking habits of revision, in constructive criticism 
 and in gathering and preparing news stories. 
 
 The beginners in the course are required to edit and publish a 
 make-believe newspaper, while the advanced class turns out one 
 entire issue of the Macon Telegraph. 
 
 To encourage and develop the vital quality of home-maker, the 
 College instituted a course in home economics. 
 
 During the year the girls are required to give a sufficient num- 
 ber of luncheons, dinners, teas and receptions to enable every 
 member of the last year class to officiate at some one event. 
 
 The semi-annual exhibitions of the work of the sewing 
 classes, which are a division of the Domestic Art Department, 
 display excellent workmanship, selection and construction of 
 clothing. 
 
 Departments of 
 Journalism and 
 Home Economics 
 
The 
 Faculty 
 
 The Palette and Brush Club—Showing special younger students in attendance 
 
 ROM its very beginning the authorities of Wesleyan College 
 
 have sought to bring together the most efficient teachers and 
 
 have been remarkably successful in securing those who com- 
 bine high scholarship with nobility of character. 
 
 The first president, George F. Pierce, was a man of rare gifts 
 and gave to the College a tone and an atmosphere which has 
 characterized it through all succeeding years. Great teachers and 
 leaders like William H. Ellison, E. H. Myers, William C. Bass and 
 others are found among those who gave their lives to the College 
 in the years of the past. Mrs. John B. Cobb and Mrs. M. M. Burks 
 were for many years teachers of English and gave to thousands of 
 young women the impress of their strong, cultured womanhood. 
 
 Today the College has 50 teachers and officials and the faculty 
 is one of the strongest in the South. Within the past three years 
 the number of teachers has been doubled, several professors hold- 
 ing the Ph.D. degree having been added. Wesleyan is a member 
 of The Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in the 
 Southern States and of the American Association of University 
 Women. 
 
 With the adoption of quality credits, automatic exclusion and 
 the introduction of the honor grades and honor society, the work 
 being done compares most favorably with that of the strongest 
 colleges in the South. 
 
ESLEYAN aims through her Department of Physical Edu- 
 
 cation to give to the students training that will enable 
 
 them to become strong and healthy and to acquire greater 
 activity and grace of motion. Open to every student at Wesleyan 
 are the usual forms of athletics, such as basket ball, tennis, base- 
 ball, hockey, volley ball, track and field sports. 
 
 The appearance of the Wesleyan student body in the parade at 
 the Macon Centennial was perhaps the most gratifying testimony 
 of the active interest taken in athletics by the student body, 
 whose carriage, grace and rhythm in marching excelled all other 
 groups and won for Wesleyan “The Grand Prize.” 
 
 It is significant of the care taken of the students, that in 
 nineteen years, with a boarding student body averaging over four 
 hundred, there has never been a broken bone, nora sprain of any 
 kind requiring a plaster cast or splints; yet the most active and 
 competitive games are held the year round. 
 
 A well equipped infirmary and a thoroughly competent matron 
 are at all times prepared to care for any accidents which may 
 occur as well as for any case of illness. 
 
 The 
 Acquirement 
 of Health, 
 Posture and 
 Carriage 
 
 Wesleyan girls proclaiming the queen at the Centennial 
 
Rivoli’s woodland campus at dusk , 
 
ucH has been Wesleyan’s contribution to the progress of civili- 
 
 zation; but all that has been done and all that Wesleyan is 
 
 doing today, is in no way proportionate to the greater oppor- 
 tunity for service which is rightly her heritage. 
 
 Wesleyan has no indebtedness and could carry on as she is now 
 doing for some years to come; but that means turning away more 
 than 300 students a year; it means limiting the advantages Wes- 
 leyan should offer to the daughters of the South and of the country 
 at large; it means stifling its service to the Church, the State and 
 the Nation. 
 
 The buildings where the College is now housed are wholly in- 
 adequate for a growing institution. The laboratories, library, 
 dining room and gymnasium are all overcrowded. The present 
 Conservatory of Music is placed at a great disadvantage by the 
 academic schedule of the College, and its scope 1s limited. This 1s 
 also true of the School of Fine Arts, while the College of Liberal 
 Arts is likewise handicapped. . 
 
 At Rivoli, five miles from Macon, on the Dixie Highway of 
 Georgia and the Central Railway leading to Atlanta, Wesleyan 
 owns 132 acres of beautiful land, an ideal campus, formerly the 
 property of Mr. J. A. Flournoy. Here, among soft shrubbery, 
 smooth green lawns and woodland, interwoven with miniature 
 lakes and flowers—is planned ““The Greater Wesleyan.” 
 
 Here are unexcelled advantages for the highest culture and the 
 best physical development. Here the voice of God speaking 
 through nature will call the splendid daughters of Wesleyan to the 
 loftiest thinking, the noblest aspirations and the most unselfish 
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Proposed Layout of Grounds and Buildings 
 
 1. Administration Building 2. Academy Class Room Building 3.Science Building 4-5-6-7. Dormitories 
 8. DiningHall 9.Gymnasium 10. Power Houseand Laundry 11.Athletic Fields 12. Shakespearean Gardens 
 
 PON the beautiful and spacious campus recently purchased 
 the Greater Wesleyan will be erected. The plan of the 
 architect provides for the early construction of four 
 
 dormitories, to be grouped around the beautiful lawns, the center 
 of which is the Japanese Lake. The Library building will be within 
 the great semi-circle of buildings and will be near the dormitories 
 so that it will be easy of access at all hours. The dining hall will be 
 so located as to overlook the lawns in the front and the spacious 
 woods in the rear. 
 
 The Administration building, located on the crest of a beauti- 
 ful hill about 600 feet from the entrance, will be the central build- 
 ing of the semi-circle and the center of the entire group. A lan- 
 guage building and a science hall will be erected in the semi-circle. 
 The gymnasium and swimming pool building will be near the dor- 
 mitories in the rear of the buildings. The plant will be erected for 
 the accommodation of five hundred students, and other buildings 
 will be added as the program of the College is developed. 
 
 The athletic field, the golf course, the Shakespearean Garden 
 and the beautiful lake will make a large contribution to the health 
 and happiness of the students. 
 
Rolling lawns, pine trees and shrubs—Rivoli 
 
Bishop Ainsworth, 
 President, 
 Board of Trustees 
 
 HE plan of the Greater Wesleyan is to move the College of 
 
 Liberal Arts to the new site and to leave the present build- 
 
 ings and grounds to the Conservatory of Music and the 
 School of Fine Arts; for it is more desirable that these departments 
 remain within the city limits. 
 
 The Greater Wesleyan will train a constantly increasing num- 
 ber of efficient workers for home and mission fields. It will enable 
 young women to receive the highest education in liberal arts and 
 fine arts at a minimum cost. It will attract students from all sec- 
 tions of the nation and from foreign countries. 
 
 It is estimated that within five years after the College of Liberal 
 “Arts has been moved to Rivoli, there will be enrolled some 1,000 
 students and s00 in the Conservatory in the city. 
 
 The plan when carried out will cause Wesleyan to be recognized 
 not only as the oldest college for women, but as one of the leading 
 colleges in the entire South. 
 
 The Greater Wesleyan contemplates two magnificent institu- 
 tions working together for a greater Georgia and a far greater 
 educational program. 
 
 A Far 
 Greater 
 Educational 
 Program 
 
ESLEYAN today is facing her greatest opportunity. If 
 properly supported she will meet the demands which 
 modern civilization makes upon its colleges. 
 
 The urgent need is for funds with which to build an adequate 
 plant to house this splendid educational program. 
 
 To construct and equip the necessary buildings will require 
 $1,050,000 as a minimum, and it is to her daughters and friends 
 that the College must look for assistance in this great undertaking. 
 
 The buildings most urgently needed are: 
 
 An Administration Building to cost. . . . . $150,000 
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 It is expected that those who love Wesleyan and are interested 
 in her destiny will contribute generously of their time and means 
 to build this great cultural center. 
 
 Any sum of money given to this great Christian undertaking 
 will be an investment in life, worthy of the high ideals and broad 
 vision which were responsible for the Wesleyan of today. A gift to 
 Wesleyan is a gift to humanity. 
 
HE brave old College has blazed the way for other institu- 
 
 tions and is today the proud mother of them all. Let us see 
 
 toit that the Old Mother does not suffer in her hour of need. 
 
 Let us quickly provide these buildings, equip them for the most 
 
 modern educational work and give to our beloved Wesleyan the 
 
 glorious privilege of an ever-enlarging service to the coming 
 generations. 
 
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