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This year, Monticello is celebrating her centenary. All who know and love her arc focusing their attention on the activities of this, the most important year of her important history. Faculty, students, alumnae, and friends of the college have during the significant months of this academic year, participated in the celebration of her one hundredth birthday. In the pages of this book we wish to record for you the people and the events of both the past and the present, which have made Monticello what she is today. When in 1838 a seminary was opened by Captain Benjamin Godfrey for the purpose of educating young women in the Middle West, it was a new and pioneering project. To place a college out in this newly settled territory, a college for women, seemed a folly, but she has proved to be one of the strongest, most worthwhile, and most enduring institutions in this section of our country. For one hundred years Monticello has been a leader. As the Middle West has grown to its present importance, so has Monticello kept abreast of that growth. At no time has she lagged behind, from the foundation one hundred years ago until the present, but has always been a leading educational institution reflecting the higher material and moral effects of each period of American history. Although Monticello has been a part of a great national development in education, she has remained apart through her own singular charm and individuality. She never has been, and never will be duplicated in what she is and what she has to offer. Monticello gives to those who arc close to her something that can never be gained elsewhere. This individuality is difficult to define. Perhaps it lies in the fact that the college is self-contained. Perhaps in the closeness of contacts and friendships between students and faculty and among the students themselves. Perhaps in the scholastic worth of the school. The explanation may lie in a combination of those factors or quite apart from any one of them. Whatever this spirit that is Monticello, this spirit that sets her apart from all other colleges, we do know that it is embedded in the firm foundations and traditions established by able faculty members, enthusiastic students, who have become loyal alumnae, and friends of Monticello, who realizing her worth have given their valuable support. They have all, through contact with her, formed the same feelings about and ideals for the school. The individuals that have guided Monti-ccllo successfully through the years and led her students have played a part in her history that cannot be overestimated. We feel that Li lALt
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