Oglethorpe University - Yamacraw Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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are determined to stop only when she shall have equaled in true greatness any college, anywhere. All of these names are to be compiled into one great book; the name of this book is to be the Founders ' Book. The contributions from founders residing outside Atlanta are being separately recorded, to be used in establishing memorial professorships or buildings representing each Southern State. In this short sketch of Oglethorpe, we must not omit that most potent force and staunch friend. The Oglethorpe Women ' s Board, the purpose of which is to aid the University in every wise and efficient way. They have done invaluable work for Oglethorpe, and we shall always have a deep feel- ing of appreciation for them. This historical sketch could be carried much further. Half the story has not been told. We sincerely hope that every reader of The Yamacraw, who has not heard the interesting and wonderful story of Oglethorpe University, will some day have that privilege. J. Render Terrell, Jr., Historian of the Senior Class.

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we rejoice with our Alma Mater, whose history breathes and burns in legend and in story. Under the leadership of Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, now president of Ogle- thorpe University, Old Oglethorpe was resurrected. Only eight years have elapsed since he, working with a band of indefatigable business men of Atlanta, began the monumental task of reviving an institution which had been forgotten, save to students of history. The resurrecting process was begun in the face of the greatest war in which man has ever been engaged. But in spite of financial disaster and utter turmoil, Oglethorpe has forged ahead, until today she is universally and favorably known. Her subscrip- tions have long since passed the million-dollar mark. The corner stone of Oglethorpe University was laid on January 21, 1916, with her truthful and triumphal motto engraven upon it: Manu Dei Resurrexit. ' ih h As good fortune would have it, her doors opened again, this the third time ( the third time is the charm ), in September, 1916, after fifty years of rest beneath the chairred ruins of fratricidal strife. Her first magnificent building, made of granite, trimmed in limestone, and as near fire proof as human skill of the Twentieth Century could make it, was ready to welcome the first class of Oglethorpians. A Faculty, every member of which held the highest degree the world can bestow in their departments, had been assembled. Following the first building, the Board of Directors have made plans for erecting fourteen more of the same type. As Dr. Jacobs has said, All of this has been done in the midst of financial distress that darkened the spirit of the whole nation, and against the evil influences of a colossal war, which caused the very joints of the world to gape. The resurrection of Oglethorpe reads like a romance. Beginning eight years ago with a subscription of $1,000, Oglethorpe soon enlisted the sympa- thy and friendship of a great number of liberal Southern patriots. In the President ' s office may be seen today several huge volumes of names, each pledging sums ranging from fifty cents to $50,000. They are members of the immortal Founders ' Club, who have brought Oglethorpe thus far, and who 1

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