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NUMBER TOR.TY-TWO
AGNES SCOTT WINS HER MILLION
Inspiring, Finish of a Whirllvind Campaign For Fndolvment —S. M. Inman Leads the Gibing With Fifty Thousand Dollars
J. K. Orr 9 s Masterful Management of Campaign.
LL Atlanta has been agog and lots of
the world outside breathlessly interested
in the spectacular and successful finish
of a campaign for making Agnes Scott
College for Women “a Million Dollai’
Institution.” Atlanta made the magnif
icent Decatur institution her protege
and the “Atlanta Spirit” won.
The General Education Board had
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offered one hundred thousand dollars if the friends
of the institution would raise two hundred and fifty
thousand b y November
30th, midnight. And now
since victory has come,
Dr. F. F. Gaines, who has
proven himself a master
ful giver and J. K. Orr,
who has been the master
ful leader of the whirl
wind campaign, make up
about the happiest trio
this side of the Happy
Land.
Birth of the Agnes Scott
Idea.
All great movements
were one time only “a
thought.”
This thought—a great
and consecrated thought
indeed, was born in the
head and heart of Pastor
Gaines, of the Presbyte
rian church, at Decatur, a
beautiful suburb of Atlan
ta. A heart-to-heart con
ference was held with
some of his prominent
members and other Atlan
ta Presbyterians and Col.
George W. Scott, who loved
God and humanity bet-
ter than he loved his money, invested even wiser than
he knew by giving five thousand dollars to start the
Institution. Dr. Gaines was instructed to go to
Virginia and select a faculty. Among them was
Miss Nannette Hopkins, who, as the gifted, popular
and beloved lady principal, has been the “right
bower” of President Gaines through all the victorious
career of the school since it was launched in 1889.
Colonel Scott took the institution more and more
to his heart as life’s evening came upon him and
gave first and last over one hundred thousand dollars
to this beautiful monument to his good old mother
and the cause of Christian education. The splendid
work of Agnes Scott has brought prosperity and
increasing prosperity has brought increasing finan
cial demands. And now because somebody first
thought and somebody first gave a great institu-
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tion with a million dollars of equipment and endow
ment stands to bless the womanhood of our land.
Sam Inman —Benefactor.
Since George W. Scott passed away Mr. S. M.
Inman (affectionately known as “Sam” Inman) has
been the leading benefactor of the college, having
time and again poured out his bountiful treasures
and always his great heart into the enlarged and
enlarging usefulness of the institution. Verily his
name spells “Santa Claus” at Agnes Scott. And
when this last and greatest of all her battles
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE
came he promptly and gladly headed the list with
the glorious sum of fifty thousand dollars. Captain
R. J. Lowry (“Uncle Bob” Lowry the boys call him —
with winter gathering on his head but spring time
lingering in his heart) followed with the princely
gift of twenty-five thousand dollars. Several gave
five thousand each, so when the whirlwind dash began
ovei' one hundred thousand had already been sub
scribed. But to raise nearly one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars in about ten days was enough
to make weak hearts stagger and inspire the strong
to do their best.
J. K. Orr —A Conquering Leader.
Then there came to lead the fight one of the
greatest private generals of this or any other decade.
When the effort was made for the big Presbyterian
University five years ago J. K. Orr, with his sleeves
rolled up, was leading the procession! When he con
sidered it necessary to elect a “reform Governor” this
plain, everyday sort of a merchant was fighting like
a Spartan for his man. When the eyes of the
world were on Atlanta last year and the “regular
nominee” must be overthrown and Robert F. Maddox
elected to redeem the city’s good name, all eyes
turned to J. K. Orr to organize the forces and lead
the fight which ended in glorious victory.
And now, when just such a campaign for the
Christian education of woman as Atlanta had never
order to win there must
be raised one thousand dollars an hour for fifty
hours. The public fairly “stood up in the grand
stand and hollered,” as the racing workers rush
ed by.
The crowning hour would be on Tuesday night at
the Armory-Auditorium, when the foaming horses
would dash under the string. Everybody knew
that victory was in sight.
The Atlanta Constitution had given one thousand
dollars the day before, The Georgian had rounded
the curve with fifteen hundred dollars on the home
stretch of the last day, and that night when the
speeches had been made other glad subscriptions had
crowded for a place in the deathless investment and
the indefatigable chairman had announced the
superb gift of five thousand dollars from the Georgia
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TWO DOLLARS 55 YEAR.
TIVE CENTS A COPY.
seen must be launched and
“led to coronation,” J. K.
Orr is called to plan and
fight and win!
All three of the big At
lanta dailies were enlisted
while editorials, appealing
cartoons and exciting news
columns worked the At
lanta district into a sane
and delectable frenzy.
Business men organized,
professional men fell into
line, society women held
meetings and determined
to lay aside the gewgaws
of fashion and forget the
baubles of the social whirl
and give themselves, their
time and their money
for a time to the things
worth while. The brave
working girl at her type
writer, the young clerk in
his teens, the artisan at
his bench and everybody
else in every walk of life
seemed to hear the call
of the hour. At last it
was announced that in
