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iiisxoincAi. pHE foundation of Anderson College was the result ot a sentiment that had been growing in Anderson County for many years. There had been for a long time a universal feeling that the social and educational interests of the County demanded the establishment of such an institution. It only needed that some organization should be effected to plan the work, and some committee charged with the execution of the plans, in order that the enthusiasm should assert itself. The present Chamber of Commerce was organized on the twenty-fourth day of March, 1903. A short while afterward a Committee on Education was ap- pointed, with Mr. W. R. Osborne, a progressive business man of the city, as chairman. Later on, the Committee on Education was made one of the standing committees of the Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. Osborne contin- ued as chairman thereof, until the college was finally organized. Under the leadership of this committee a college sentiment was fostered from year to year, until the meeting in March, 1910, when it was urged that the matter be taken up and pushed through. It was then decided that a subscription of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) be secured, and Mr. A. M. Carpenter, then Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, was put in charge to secure these subscriptions. After the subscriptions had been secured, a meeeting was held of all the subscribers, and it was unanimously decided to offer this subscription of one hundred thousand dollars, together with a site, to the Baptist State Con- vention, on condition that this body should establish and maintain the college. At its annual Convention, in December, 1910, the offer was accepted, the Board of Trustees was elected, and at the session of the Legislature beginning January, 1911, a charter was secured, and soon afterward the construction of the buildings began. The first session opened in September, 1912. Certain citizens of the city of Anderson had given thirty-two acres of land in the northern part of the city, and since then the contributions to the college have been very materially increased, and we now have one of the most perfectly equipped plants and one of the most beautiful campuses in the South.
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JOHN F. VINES, D. D. President C. M. FAITHFULL, A. B. Vice-President
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