Agnes Scott College - Silhouette Yearbook (Decatur, GA)

Page 18 text:

I i ' iShe Circling years By Polly Stone Hoopskirts and bustles! Pompadours and merry widows! Hairnets and middy- blouses! Bobs and berets! The world does move. And through the circling years, the little Decatur Female Seminary of 1899, housed in one-half the present White House, has become our Agnes Scott of today, in academic standards the equal of any woman ' s college in the world, its future a thing to look forward to with confidence and pride. We who are students here today feel that we have chosen the dearest of all the years for our stay on the campus. For, like old Janus, (whose acquaintance we made in Miss Smith ' s little class-room in Main) we look two ways. We know some of the professors and officers who were here at the college ' s foundation, and whose lives have gone into its development; we know this later group of professors, comparative newcomers to the college, like ourselves, but who are to be the builders of the future Agnes Scott. The pitiful years of struggle ith meager equipment were over before we came here; the ears when every department shall work smoothly with perfect equipment are certamh not in our day either, are the ? The live in the future, but because of our love for this place, its traditions and memories, our love for those students who come after vs, they live in the immediate f I I t