Agnes Scott College - Silhouette Yearbook (Decatur, GA)

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s5:S!:s!« le Qircling years ' dents. And while we are about it, we might quote the old Latin sentence which so aptly expresses the college student ' s position : ... qui me non accipere mode haec a maioribus voluerunt, sed etiam posteris prodere. ( . . . who wish me not only to accept these things from those who have preceded me, but also to accomplish something to pass on to those who will follow me.) Still looking back to the old : quite capable of seeing clearly the new, those of us who are here now feel that past and future generations of students will say to us envi- ously, Ah, but you were at Agnes Scott at a wonderful time! We are indeed, and we realize it fully. And so because we believe in the future of Agnes Scott and the girls who through the coming years will make up her student body, because we are grateful to those past classes of students who before our day came to Agnes Scott and loved it and worked for it and gave it to us, and because we love it too, and our years here have been happy ones, we ha -e pledged ourselves to the success of this great development campaign. fi m i

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© le Qircling years future. We are here in that blessed in-between time when we have not reached per- fection, but are striving intelligently towards it, and by our striving we know that those who follow us will find a better and more perfect college. To them, perfection; but to us, that better thing by far, the bringing about of perfection. The world does move! And Agnes Scott ' s million and a half dollar development campaign, growing steadily now to a successful end, is an earnest wish that Agnes Scott ' s place as a leader among women ' s colleges shall not pass away. The circling years. On a college campus, as nowhere else in the world we realize how allied they are. For as timid freshmen we accept with both greedy little hands all that we find waiting for us at college. We lean on the upper classmen for leadership and advice ; and we look to the alumns for substantial financial support of campus enterprises. And then with the ever circling years, we find that soon we are upper classmen ourselves, — called upon to lead and advise the new sisters. Those who were upper classmen before us have joined the ranks of Alumnse, scattered geographi- cally, but in close touch still and giving us their devoted aid. Just a year or two more and we move up a step in the college family to alumns. To leave college forever? To immerse ourselves in new interests and friends and leave the new college generation at Agnes Scott to struggle alcng as best it can? Never! For in a college family, the older sisters always lend a hand to the new little sisters. Wliilc c an- -.tiuh-rUs, we live in a college built by the love and labor of former students, and we must hand on our Alma Mater to succeeding classes a little bet- ter and more perfect than we found it It is the only way we can pay this debt to past stu- M

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Ji ll ! m m I i I f orty years of T rogress Forty years ago an Ideal was conceived. Forty years ago Agnes Scott was only a dream in the mind of a man who recognized the need of higher standards of education for women in the South. Forty years ago a practically unknown Seminary housed its four teachers and little group of students in a part of the present White House which they rented for that purpose. Forty years ago the foundations of truth, scholarship, and character that permeate the institution were laid by a group of men who kept faith in all things. Toda) ' , a standard college recognized throughout the countr ' , we respect the sacrifices and struggles of our founders to give to Agnes Scott the tradition and char- acter that distinguish it. Today, noted for our high standards of scholarship, we honor the men who worked that this realization might be ours. The four men with whose names the growth of the college is inseparably linked are the four chairmen of the Board of Trustees: Dr. F. H. Gaines, Col. G. W. Scott, ] Ir. S. M. Inman, and Mr. J. K. Orr. In July, 1899, Dr. Gaines, pastor of the Decatur Presb terian Church, was so impressed with the need of a school of high char- acter for girls that he suggested the establishment of such a one in Decatur, and then and theie Agnes Scott came into being. In September of the same year, with a faculty composed of Miss i