Florida Southern College - Interlachen Yearbook (Lakeland, FL)

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despite FLOOD . . . surviving a hurricane force, raising flood waters at Clear- water beach, where the college had been invited to stay by Mr. E. T. Roux, who has shown again his interest in our college by donating our new library. . . . evacuating the whole beach when some of our present faculty remember the mad rush to get onto the mainland with narrow escapes for many. . . . convincing college officials and friends that a new site for the institution must be found.

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tr t. V- y u • v i 7s r Vv ■- « [W. ' ■ » : T - • - ite FIRE . . surviving, still, after the college had been invited to settle at Palm Harbor, formerly Southerland, on the gulf, near Clearwater. . . . closing only for two weeks, after the administration building and women ' s dormitory had been destroyed, 1 921 . . . . continuing to exist on a firm spiritual foundation under the presidency of S. W. Walker, who is now a trustee of our college.

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despite FURY . . . surviving through more than one furious wind, but especially this year, when our campus was hit by a gale sweeping most of Florida. . . . continuing as if nothing had happened, although we lost many trees, one which was our traditional meeting spot between Allen Spivey and Edge, although our chapel was damaged, and our orange crop wasted. . . . facing each, FAMINE, FREEZE , FIRE, FLOOD, and FURY, and even one other, Finance, but looking always into the Future, with hope. si fa 4 i £ ■ f .- J £m9 ■ L 1 5 2£»TK5 3? 1 if A f » ■Cal s : ;-i)Sf:. ?3f5r . ; .. ? - - L i H89 •