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January 6, 1909. THE PRESBYTERIA has been about the same throughout the fifteen years, averaging together more than two hundred. At times the attendance has been more than three hundred. The school from the very beginning has been distinctively Christian?as many as sixty students have joined the church in a single year, many of.them be o f ' 3-'-?.'..,' s \ 1 ? *j coming Presbyterians. A movement is on foot now in the town and the Church at large to place the school upon a much surer foundation, and to make its standard higher and in keeping with the progress of the State. A beautiful site of thirty years, joining the town on the west, has been selected by Dr. Morris as the only place for the new school. The location will be given by the citizens of the town, together with seventyfive scholarships at fifty dollars per year for ten years, N OF THE SOUTH. 7 and free sewer and water. The town will also pay $20,000 for our present college building, and the block upon which it is located. This money, with that ordered by the Assembly to be raised in the Church, will give us a beginning in keeping with the best institutions of the South. "HbJ- r V""1. 3 Lr'" % ' ^ ^ ^4j7\ <r $% f* .: o 1 >-\ 5 J < -Mf I ItM 52 ? &S* .J- ? ..j - -Vj^I / *s*g ? ~ + it ? * i/, /O) / 5S 5 ? V 01 ?i ' O ?f X"{[J <* * ^ ^ /; i I f x * w V) o AC Inasmuch as Austin College, our Church school for boys in the Synod of Texas, is only thirty miles away, we have deemed it wisest to make the school a female . allege, and at some near future to establish a school tor boys in the western part of the State. There are no first class schools for girls in the State. This fact alone should insure us great success. There is no field in our Church today where greater returns may be expected. Thousand of people are pour