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2 Perry-‘Hainey—A Splendid Co-Educational College One of the fitting schools in Georgia that is doing a splendid and inspiring work for boys and girls of a large rural section is Perry-Rainey College at Auburn, Ga. —beautifully situated on the Seaboard Air Line between Classic Athens and busy Atlanta. This institution perpetuates the names of two of the generous and enterprising men oi that section who loved boys and girls and the advancement of Christian education better than thev loved their money. While Mr. W. T. Perry, one of the found ers of the school, has been called to his reward, he has left a legacy to his family and his section worth more to them than brick blocks or broad .. MX , jfcgwjKlk '■ J| ' •• W Miir 1 ZJSI Hi < ♦ll ‘■ ‘ */ llf -W*** ••• - ~ ague ~ . ISB i: - - • ■’■ FF i ; Z -. '•" " "'v • MAIN BUILDING AND AUDITOR IUM—PERRY-RAINEY COLLEGE. acres, and his practical investment only furnishes another beautiful illustration of the plain, true saying: “We are only remembered by what we have done.” Rev. H. N. Rainey, the other founder and present benefactor of the institution, is fairly lengthening his days by the love, the means and the hard work he is pouring into Perry-Rainey College, and he is so proud of the school and the boys and girls are being blessed upon its classic, rolling campus, that whenever he visits Perry-Rainey, he looks like he wants to take the whole institution in his lap like a father holds his babe, and “trot it on his knees.” Mr. Rainey is a big-hearted, big-bodied, wise-headed preacher-farmer, who makes money to do good with during the week, and travels far and near, preaching cm Sundays for the spiritual uplift of the people. He is studying the situation in the school of his love, weighing the best possible manner in which to do the largest possible good, and it is believed that he will soon make a large investment in the institution, both for equipment and for endow ment. The twin towns of Auburn and Carl, and the surrounding country for several miles, furnish the local patronage for the primary and academic classes, while the college department is drawing boarding pupils from all over that semi-mountain section. There are good Methodist and Baptist churches to bless the village life, and ether churches in the rural communities near by. The people are enthusiastic over the prospects for the future, and are moving especially to open the way for struggling boys and girls. Mr. R. F. Sloan, a plain, earnest, loyal friend of Perry-Rainey College from its infancy, sends The Golden Age the following sketch in which we are glad to have him tell the straightforward story of its early days: A Sketch of the Beginning, by R. F. Sloan. Tn 1890, the Mulberry Baptist Association met with the Apalachee church, and a committee on The Golden Age for May 9, 1907. education, instead of making the usual report, recommended that a committee be appointed to take into consideration the advisability of build ing a high school within the bounds of the Asso ciation. This committee consisted of R. F. Sloan and others. The next year the Association met with Bethel church, and the committee made the following re port: “We have investigated the ihatter of build ing a high school within the bounds of the Asso ciation, and find that the enterprise is a feasible one, and recommend that a committee be appointed to carry this into effect.” The following commit- tee was appointed: G. L. Bagwell, J. M. Pool J. W. Davis, AV. T. Perry, R. F. Sloan. In a few weeks after this committee was ap pointed, it met at Auburn. The first thing was to ask for divine blessings upon this enterprise. The committee then decided that Auburn was the place for the location of the school. Plans were made for the building, and in a short while it was in operation. Prof. Bagwell was the first princi pal. ♦'' ' * -r ' vW REE H. N. RAINEY, “Benefactor Perry-Rainey College. This school continued for three years, and some of the pupils had gone as far as they could in their studies in a school of this grade. These boys were ambitious and wanted to continue their course and were not able to go off to college. The patrons and citizens held a mass meeting. At this meeting a young man from South Georgia * ! < F ;'wS / > ■ ■■ i • •■■ 1 ' ' " '■' ■■ ' made a speech that moved to action every one present. At the close of the speech, Rev. H. N. Rainey and Mr. W. T. Perry arose and said: “Boys, you shall have the college.” These men had the money and they put it into the enterprise. They both lived to see much golden fruit as a result of their labor. Although God, in His all-wise providence, has seen fit to call Mr. Perry home to his reward; his works live on, and generations yet to come shall call him blessed. Rev. H. M. Rainey yet lives, an active minister of the Gospel, and a zealous worker for the college. THE BOARDING HOME—PERRY-RAINEY COLLEGE. Present Condition of the College. The college has never had a brighter outlook than at present. Rev. J. B. Brookshire, a graduate of Mercer University, is the much-loved president. He is a wise and cautious leader of untiring en ergy. He is a strong preacher of the Gospel, and as H. N. Rainey has said of him, “He’s a natural born teacher.” Auburn Public School. The public school is superintended by Prof. Brookshire. He has the strongest and best quali fied teachers for the public grades that are to be found. The children are started right, and well grounded in the fundamental principles of an edu cation. The college has an academic department, which is the link between the public school and the col lege. After finishing the academic course, pupils are required, for graduation, to do three years’ collegiate work. Boarding Facilities. The college owns one large eighteen-room d >r mitory, suitable lor four pupils lo a room. Board in the dormitory is about $7.50 per month. There is a pressing need for another dormitory for which the trustees are planning in the near future. Board is now secured in private homes at about the same price as dormitory board. Stress is laid on plain living and high thinking. We are praying that God will open the hearts of men with means, as He did rhe founders of the institution, that they may put their money in the building of another dormitory. Literary Societies and Lecture Course The college has made a great step forward in establishing a regular lecture course. This enter prise had its beginning at the opening of the i res ent fall term, by a visit and lecture from Mr. Will D. Upshaw, who inspires everywhere he touches lhe pupils have two active literacy societies which meet every Friday afternoon, these socie ties are strong and helpful competitors of each other. (Concluded on Page 13.)