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i John H. Goff Editor-in-Chief Morton T. Nicholes Associate Editor L. Newton Turk, Jr Associate Editor J. Render Terrell, Jr Historian William C. Johnson . Bus. Mgr. and Asst. Sporting Ed. Robert G. Nicholes . . Adv. Mgr. and Sporting Editor Chas. S. Tidwell Assistant Business Manager Warren C. Maddox Prophet Henry M. Bonny Poet Francis Y. Fife Cartoonist
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Oglethorpe — An Historical Sketch ON a long, low ridge, called Midway, near Milledgeville, Old Ogle- thorpe grew from a state normal training school into an historic university, whose renowned halls gave Georgia some of her greatest men, and gave the world our own Sidney Lanier. Oglethorpe College was formally opened in 1835 under the direction of the Synod of Georgia. Princeton College had been growing in New Jersey, and was largely patronized by the youth of the entire nation, and especially this section of the South. Owing to the long distances, which must be traveled on horseback, it was suggested that a college similar to Princeton be founded in the South. This suggestion materialized, and Oglethorpe College was the outcome. Old Oglethorpe was the first denominational insti- tution of learning to be founded below the Virginia line, between the Atlantic and Pacific, and we justly claim that she was the mother of all that brilliant group of colleges which were built in this area. The same idea, characteristic of the New Oglethorpe, of getting men of the highest educational attainments to hold professorships is revealed by such names ' as the following, who were members of the Oglethorpe College Faculty: Joseph Le Conte, the eminent geologist; James Woodrow, uncle of President Woodrow Wilson, Professor of Science; Samuel K. Talmadge, the brilliant administrator, and many others. The facilities of Oglethorpe College were as good as could be had at that time. The main building was considered to be the handsomest in the South- east, and contained the finest college chapel in the United States, not except- ing Yale, Harvard, oi Princeton. In the President ' s office today may be seen a crayon drawing of Sidney Lanier, an Oglethorpe alumnus of world-wide fame, showing him when he was fifteen years old, his age when he entered college. Hanging beside this picture is his diploma, bearing the name of the then president of Oglethorpe, Dr. Samuel K. Talmadge. We do not hesitate to say that any college would pay a fabulous sum for them, if the honor of having graduated so famous a poet could be included in the bargain. It is needless to say that we value the
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