Florida Southern College - Interlachen Yearbook (Lakeland, FL)

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♦ % • t • 4 4 By 1900, ii was believed that greater expansion of the Coast. The name was changed to the Florida Seminary. Florida Conference College could be achieved in another And the Methodist institution overlooking the waters ol location. In the following year, the decision was made to the Cull of Mexico moved rapidly ahead, move to Sutherland (now Palm Harbor) on the West

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In 1879, Methodist young men and women went to opened at Orlando. The site was soon changed to Lees- Emory and Wesleyan in Georgia for higher education. burg, and in 1885, with an official charter from the state The flame, however, had been lighted at Micanopy and it of Florida, the classroom doors opened there with four never died. So in 1883, the South Florida Institute was teachers and 58 students.

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Disaster struck from mn ol the Gull on September 27, 1918, in the form ol a roaring tropical storm. When the hurricane had passed the administration building, the dormitory for women, and the laundry were damaged considerably. As though war and storm were not enough, there followed swiftly the great influenza epidemic. Soon 160 students wire ill. Dr. Rhenus H. Alderman, president ol the college, was also sliiiken. f3|, r mm