Wesleyan College - Veterropt Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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young Tarquin’s cradle. The first to rise on woman’s destiny, shine on undimmed and bright, not set till earth is childless, and time’s no more !” In this mother of colleges for women, we have a possession which others covet — if it belonged to our friends of the North or of the West, it w’ould be a Mecca towards which their hearts would turn, a shrine on which they would heap their gold. And shall we be less loyal than they ? Some are striving to have the State University open its doors to women. Let us strive also to make Wesleyan the peer of any male university. Some are talking of a Washington Memorial University for the training of statesmen and diplomats. Our ambassadors to foreign countries with- out any special training in that line have coped with all nations, winning the plaudits of the world. Let us talk of a great Southern university for women where our girls will be fitted for the grave responsibilities that await the women of the twentieth century. Nearly fifty years ago a society, literary and social in its character, was started among the students of the college, then in its maidenhood. The next year a sister organization was established, and together these two societies, Adelphean and Philomathean, hand in hand, have come through the years, proving a blessing to the girls, binding them to each other and to the college. Is it not a significant fact that this society, the oldest woman’s club in the United States, has for its motto, “We live for each other,” a sentiment which forms the basic element of the true club work of today, a work calling for the best there is in a woman to be used for the benefit of others, and demanding the highest altruism of which she is capable?