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ing, modern equipments and up-to-date conservatory of the Arts -this college for the women, of the women, by the women, with nothing to fear, nothing to hinder her triumphant progress! To our Alma .Mater, launched as surely and as safely as Longfellow ' s Ship of State! we say, Sail on nor fear to breast the sea, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers are all with thee. President and Institution are one. while the student body and Alumnae complete this three-fold unity, for does not the President belong to them and the) to her. certainly the latter heart and soul ; but the former is true only a- they follow after their highest ideals which are realized more and more as they follow- in her footsteps, which lead as do the paths of the just which shineth more and more unto the perfect day. We hope for the sake of the institution and the women of the State that she max follow the advice of Oliver Wendell Holmes and at Ninety-five still wait on God, and work, and thrive. Mrs. Charles L. Van Xoppen. 17
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the Woman ' s Foreign Missionary Society of the North Carolina Conference, a position which she held till she was, upon the division of the Conference, made President of the Western Society. As a presiding officer she has no peer; her presence, her voice, her intellectual strength, together with her rare magnetism, give her this easy superiority. Two little boys came to hless her married life, assisting in unfolding the great mother-love that would he necessary to preside over and mother a great historic institution such as she now controls. When her great lite sorrow came and her husband was taken away, she was horn into the Educational world, for like all who have the root of true greatness within them she grew greater with each responsibility, and while keeping faith with one beneath the sod she no less lived up to the great responsibility of provider for the boys and the home. Finding teaching congenial, she entered Greensboro Female College in that capacity. Ye old Alumna-, hark back to the days id ' the eighties and unfold that first memory picture! Did any of you study Physics in those days and bud your rather too exuberant spirits curbed into silence as the wonders of nature anil the laws which govern the earth were so clearly presented? Could Sir Isaac Newton have charmed or held your interest more completely? Or was it your essays she revised, or did she open historic treasures to your enthralled mind? If you have followed her thus far do you now wonder how she stands on her present pedestal, the first woman college President in the South? Does one wonder that Joseph became Egypt ' s peerless prime minister after reading the natural events id ' his life ami his faithfulness to the truth within? hues one wonder that Sir Galahad, the youngest of all King Arthur ' s Knights, became the King ' s favorite and the greatest in achievement of all that great round table, when we read of his faithfulness to the vision within? Was it Jeanne d ' Arc ' s silver armor or her white charger that delivered France in her fierce battle, or was it because of faithfulness to the voices? So all Mrs. Robertson ' s pupils learn the lesson that faithfulness to the higher ideals lead surely and rapidly to greater usefulness to all the world. At (he close of fifteen years ' work in Gre ens- boro Female College. Mrs. Robertson accepted a position in the State Normal and Industrial College, filling the chair of History in that great institution for seven years. Seven years of usefulness accomplished, she was recalled to he Lady Principal of Greensboro Female College, then to the Presidency, and at a time when the dear old institution was quivering with terror in the grasp of commercialism; but as Daphne escaped Appollo ' s embrace, s, , Airs. Robertson ' s influence saved Greensboro Female College. A few months later, when the building was crumb- ling, and hut waves of flame were searing the pines of the campus, W as it tears of weakness our I ' resident shed No, rather Rachel weeping for the children of her dreams and refusing to he comforted; hut only fur a season, for her same personal magnetism and power drew about her a strength and sentiment and love that brooked no obstacles: and now see the work of her hands in this new build- 16
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