William Carey College - Crusader / Pine Burr Yearbook (Hattiesburg, MS)

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®@©E TW©-W©1 And no one shall work for money, And no one shall ivork for fame, But each for the joy of working.

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.HMMB-»eM»- By 1914 the enrollment had doubled and the call for an Administration Building was imperative. Air. J. E. Byrd and Rev. W. E. Farr went over the State and raised fifty thousand dollars for the college. Mr. Tatum, the donor of the original property, made another liberal donation in land, and the new building which contained, chapel, administration offices, class rooms, laboratories, special departments, gymnasium, library, and other rooms was named Tatum Court. It is a magnificent building which would cost easily now one hundred thousand dollars. On March 2, 1919, O ' Briant Hall, one of the dormitories, was burned. The citi- zens of Hattiesburg raised fifty thousand dollars and the Baptist Education Commis- sion arranged for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars which was used in erecting two modern brick fireproof dormitories and a dining hall. These dormitories were named Ross Hall and Johnson Hall. The name of Dockery Hall was given to the frame dormitory originally known as Ross Hall. A two-story building outside the campus was purchased and called Love Cottage. In this campaign Mr. Tatum again responded liberally. When the new dormitories were completed, it was seen that the campus was in great need of landscape work. Much grading and filling would have to be done to make the campus correspond in beauty and symmetry to the new buildings. At this time, Mr. W. A. Dockery of Memphis contributed five thousand dollars, which was used in doing this work. By this time the enrollment had reached four hundred and the faculty numbered forty. The college was maintaining every grade from the kindergarten through the high school work. In the high school and lower grades there were at least one hundred and twenty-five students. It was thought time to begin the work of standardizing the college and so all work below the Freshman year was dropped. The Convention con- tributed an annual support fund of ten thousand dollars to make up for the tuition which had been received from the lower classes. The salaries of teachers were raised thus enabling them to get more preparation. Up to this time the collge had no endow- ment whatever. The Education Commission offered to give one hundred thousand dollars for endowment if the college itself would raise two hundred thousand dollars. With the liberal aid from all denominations and organizations in Hattiesburg, and hearty co-operation from friends all over South Mississippi the amount was raised. Several large gifts were made, among them one of forty thousand dollars from a phil- anthropist, who has aided many young women to procure an education. This gives the college now an endowment of three hundred thousand dollars. In 1922, Mrs. Herrin of Laurel left by will some thousands of dollars to be used in memorial of her mother, Mary Ross. With this as a nucleus a beautiful building called the Mary Ross Hospital has been erected. Those are the high points in the thirteen years of the history of the Mississippi Woman ' s College. In such a small space no real account can be given of the labors of the heroic men and women who have given the best years of their lives to her suc- cess. Not even can be mentioned the names of hundreds of friends who have stood by in time of need. But all over the South can be found hundreds of her daughters who are using their Christian training to make the world better and brighter. 26 T I Y

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Work Present good, future good, no good — these pos- sibilities are mingled in the crude ore Tvhich tve ordinarily call work. Out of that we must smelt, if Tee can, the pure metal of a vocation fit for the spirit of man. The crude mass of ' jvorJ , ' as it ex- ists today in mines, shops, stores, railroads, school- rooms, and in kitchens, contains elements that should be abolished, elements that are hard, but no harder than Tve need to call out the best of us, and here and there is a nugget of pure delight. ' ' RICHARD CLARKE CABOT.