Shorter College - Argo Yearbook (Rome, GA)

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she be well, comfortable and happy; that the factors which tend to the development or suppression of the intellectual, aesthetic and spiritual nature are forces for good or evil through all her after-life. In addi- tion to the ideal arrangement of the sleeping apartments each floor of every hall is provided with its sitting-room and miniature kitchen. There the students may enjoy those social pleasures without which college days would be gray and colorless, and later life devoid of many pleasant memories and delightful friendships: there student receptions may be held, five o ' clock teas be served, chafing-dish dainties be concocted, and for a brief space the weighty cares of the work-a- day world be buried in oblivion. Nor will these constitute the only forms of social intercourse enjoyed by the student body. The Young Women ' s Christian organization, the two literary societies — the Eunomian and Polymnian — the St. Cecilia Club of the music classes, and the Art Lovers ' Club, all of which are doing so much for their respective members, together with other forms of club activity, will not be forgotten in the new buildings, but will be given commodious halls for their homes. The college curriculum, so Shorter assumes, is of prime impor- tance, and its serious consideration will demand the greater part of the students ' time and effort. The college buildings, therefore, are to be constructed with all modern conveniences and equipped with apparatus necessary in all its lines of work — a most efficient aid to the professors in making bright the Shorter girls ' road to learning. In short, when we leave behind us the old life and enter upon the new life of the greater school, we expect to carry with us the same loyalty, the same enthusiasm, the same spirit and the same system of government that has characterized our life under the new adminis- tration of the closing year. The democratic spirit so in keeping with this form of govern- ment, the large share which students take in the government of the school through the Student Association and the Executive Committee ; their increasing importance in college affairs as they advance from class to class, arouse self-respect, develop strength of character, places each student upon her own merit, and brings forward all forms of personal excellence. 19

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classical Greek or beautiful colonial style of architecture. In the midst of the group will rise the rounded dome of the large central building, in which are to be the auditorium, the library and the admin- istration offices. Grouped about this in symmetrical arrangement are residence halls, all connected plots, to be the various college buildings am by colonnades, the intervening spaces beautified with grass l formal flower beds and sparkling fountains. The entire pile with its classic buildings, its rows of graceful columns and its balustrade. 1 terraces, will crown the hill with majesty, and were the adjacent town an Athens instead of a Rome, the spot might well be called The Acropolis. In the construction of the buildings careful and practical heed has been given to all matters affecting the health, comfort and wholesome pleasure of students as well as to the promotion of growth and development — intellectual, aesthetic and moral; for the college holds that no girl can do the best work of which she is capable, unless 18

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The students realize this fact, and will gladly lend their aid to the presidential faculty in carrying these ideas into the broader life of the greater school, toj rOw and expand always with the growth and expansion of the college. There will go also, into the new Shorter, as the very mainspring of its life, the one aim and idea which is paramount in the heart of the president — the building of character through the combined influences of genuine scholarship, broad culture, and true religion — the development of the girl into the highest type of the woman. Thus is coming to its full fruition the desire that filled the heart of Alfred Shorter when in 1877 he answered the need of his South- land with so noble a gift to our daughters. l. v...