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VOL U J*lE FIVE
NUJIRER IOUK
"COL UMBIA - THL SLA UTITUL ”
Bom "Full Grolvn” in a Day, Columbia College at Lake City, is Doing Wonderful Things For the Christian Education of
Florida Louth —Dr. Tribble the Magnetic Nelv President.
Sy PROF. ROY GFAGRR.
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E are glad to give to our readers this
week the following stirring story of the
birth and growth of the most remark
ably founded institution of learning
which the cause of Christian education
has ever known, perhaps, in the history
of any State.
The editor of The Golden Age recent
ly spent two or three days as the guest
of Columbia College, and was so charmed with the
magnificence and beauty of the surroundings, the
personality of the faculty, and the hope and purpose
written in the tfforts of the student body, that he
determined to give the story of the school the most
honored page in The Golden Age.
This story is written by Prof. Roy Geiger, the
gifted and scholarly son of Dr. L. D. Geiger, so long
the beloved Secretary of State Missions for the Bap
tist Convention in Florida. Professor Geiger is one
of the faculty and is wearing worthily the fallen
mantle of his honored father as a Christian leader.
Supported by such a stalwart faculty as Professor
Geiger describes his associates to be, with genial and
warm-hearted Professor and Mrs. Merchison living
“next to the throne” in the fatherly and motherly
care of the boys and girls, Dr. Henry Wise Tribble,
the vigorous and victorious new president from
Charlottesville, Va„ is simply sweeping the “Land
of Flowers” with his magnificent blending of proven
scholarship, magnetic eloquence, dynamic energy,
consecrated common-sense and a beautiful crowning
of the golden-hearted Christian gentleman.
Columbia College—Prof. Geiger’s Story.
In all the history of educational institutions, there
has probably been no case parallel to the founding
of Columbia College. The Baptists of Florida were
feeling the need of a school
with which they might have a
strong organic relation and the
influence of which would react
in the most vital way upon
their expanding life. About
the same time, the people of
Lake City w T ere looking to some
denomination to utilize the
magnificent plant left idle in
their midst by the removal of
the State University to Gaines
ville. The Baptists and the
people of Lake City met in a
great convention, came to
terms and Columbia College
(Bearing the name of the
county) was established in the
early fall of 1907. By the terms
of the compact, the entire
plant, including the buildings,
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equipment, campus, extensive farming lands, together
with sls, in cash, was deed to the Baptist State
Convent’ ,the one condition that the Baptists
of Florida , maintain a school of standard
college grade . and girls.
An accurate accu a plant which by a stroke
of the pen, passed into the hands of the Baptists
of Florida, would seem to be unwarranted extrava
gance to one ignorant of the facts. Those Baptists
in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, who
acquainted with the half-century’s struggle in bring
ing Wake Forest and Furman and Mercer to their
Present equipment, will find it difficult to realize
that the Baptists of Florida have so suddenly come
into possession of an educational plant such as the
Baptists of North Carolina or South Carolina or
Georgia have been more than a half-century in build
ing. The campus is without doubt the most attract
ive in the tSate. It is well sodded, has splendid
gravel drives and is covered by shrubbery and shade
trees. Os the eight buildings two or three are old;
the remainder are handsome modern structures.
The most valuable building on the campus is what
is known as Science Hall. This building is planned
after the architecture of the Spanish Renaissance,
and cost nearly SIOO,OOO. It is a surprise to every
one who visits the institution. A gentleman who
has visited the leading universities in ths country
and in Europe, recently said that this Science Hall
combined to a larger degree than any he had yet
seen, architectural attractiveness and practical use
fulness.
The support given the school from the first has
been remarkable. It has had an average attendance
for the nearly three years of its existence equal to
that of the old University in its best days. This
year an unusually fine student body is enrolled. The
very best homes in Florida are represented. This
means that the school’s standing is assured in all
those communities from which these students have
come.
Fortunately several of the faculty are knit to the
school by strong personal ties. They not only love
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FIVE CENTS A COPY.
their work as instructors, but
they love Columbia College. All
the instructors are earnest,
cappable, Christian men and
women. The most whole
some and helpful relations
maintain between them and the
individual student.
Dr. Tribble the New President.
Last June, Dr. Nunnally, who
did strong work as Columbia’s
first president, resigned as
president of the institution,
and the board of trustees
elected Dr. Henry Wise Trib
ble, at that time president of
Rawlings Institute, in Char
lottesville, Va., and pastor of
the leading Baptist church in
that place, as president of Co
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