Wesleyan College - Veterropt Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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PREFACE. Although the Wesleyan and also the Societies are of so long standing, The Adelpheak is the first Annual ever gotten out in the College. Of course the usual apologies are necessary, and of course these apologies are useless ; for who reads a preface, and who, of those who read it, heed it. So let us not linger longer over the thoughts of what it might have been. The Adblphean is now presented to the public on its own merit by The Editors.

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5oniett)incj of Wesleyan. A N unsuccessful effort was made in the early twenties by Mr. Duncan Campbell, of Wilkes county, to secure a charter for a woman ' s college. This clear-headed man who introduced the bill to the legislature was in advance of his times; in advance, in some respects, of even this enlightened age; at least, in advance of certain portions of his native state, for this bill provided that the trustees of this institution should consist of fifteen males and fifteen females. We do not know how it is in all portions of the state, but we do know that in this particular section women have not risen to the dignity of membership on school boards. Although the law makers of that time gravely shook their heads and opposed Mr. Campbell ' s bill, for they knew that an educated womanhood could bring only disaster to the state, still the women found a strong champion in the person of Mr. Daniel Chandler, who in a remarkable address on female education, delivered at the State University in 1835, aroused interest in this subject throughout Georgia. This address had in it the ring of true persuasive eloquence, and carried conviction to the minds of his hearers and readers, for the address was published and broadly distributed. In refutation of the idea that woman cannot master the sciences or the higher branches of literature, he referred to the long bright throng of women that shine resplendent down the dim vista of the past, tlun added: “If you descend to modern times the light of truth will disclose empires won by female valor, scepters wielded bv her