Agnes Scott College - Silhouette Yearbook (Decatur, GA)

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' orty years of ' T rogress ' ever heard Miss Hopkins tell of students being called home by their parents just before exams because thej were thought to be too difficult for the young ladies, or of alumnje who came for years to the Institute but could never graduate because each year a higher class was added ? It is gratifying to us of today to note that in refusing to lower her standards Agnes Scott has been instrumental in raising the standards of the high schools to conform to her own. Agnes Scott was the first Georgia college to be admitted to the Southern Association of Colleges. The college had no endowment until after the campaign of 1909. The second campaign was held in 1919, and Mr. Orr and Dr. McCain were chiefly responsible for its success. What progress when we note that from the first campaign to the present one we started with no endowment and now seek a million and a half dollars endow- ment! Mr. Orr and Dr. McCain by their whole-hearted interest in the development of Agnes Scott are ably carrying on the trust left them by their predecessors. And in the most ambitious program yet attempted — the third campaign — they are proving their faith in the future of Agnes Scott. No histor ' of the college would be complete without mention of Miss Hopkins, who has served as principal and dean since the Seminary days, and who, remembering the struggles of the typhoid epidemic, or how many times the street-car line has been moved, yet looks forward to the Greater Agnes Scott. The Magna Charta of Agnes Scott has been and still is the Ideal formulated by Dr. Gaines in 1893 as the principle on which the institution was to be founded. Forty years ago this Ideal was conceived as the foundation stone of a great work. Today it is the dominating force under which Agnes Scott moves and has its being. fr '

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