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HhlX.ii BffettXit. wj h X 'W^h^^^^ Vol. VIII—No. 42 OGLETHORPE WILL BE REBUILT IN ATLANTA That is at once a prophecy and a statement of fact, for no living man can look on the fire and zeal burning in the men backing this won derful movement and believe otherwise. To date practically $150,000 of Atlanta’s bonus of $250,000 has been subscribed, and the campaign just a little more than a week old' “Can Atlanta do it?” was the question the entire country was asking. The rest of the world had seen this wonderful city do many wonderful things. But here was something just a little bigger than anything else it had undertaken. But Atlanta is not only going to do it, but the compact is going to be drawn, signed and scaled in an incredibly short time. Just think of $150,000 raised in ten days for financing an educational institution! It is comparatively easy to raise money for, building manufacturing plants, hotels or sim ilar enterprises where the subscriber is getting' the direct benefit of dividends in dollars. At lanta is giving the world an example of that splendid spirit which has made it the wonder of a continent by opening its pursestrings to • I C.- -~ . \\ rjUpv-s* j •s’-j. /• ' A Jwk ** 1p - n 3 » ~a=2t=tzgr~zrrp_X-iu-a gs. C <„i„ vl. • *.- » .£**’••■ 7» 1 9 ■U t» i> ».-n uoJI. -n ■ —t-~A YI3U T 7 r &BiwU »i u * , dt~- ,&.w*X.U J N ,« A t J | ‘ • " i*r *~ •■ ■; M AZJL.X~T~P.X-TL * ~ " fl — ■ ■ ■ ■ * PLAN FOR NEW OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY. ATLANTA, GA., DECEMBER 11, 1913 GREAT WHIRLWIND CAMPAIGN LED BY DR. THORNWELL JACOBS. a great educational institution. This city recognizes the tremendous value of a great million-dollar educational plant, with its fine moral influences ami that fact that it will bring here hundreds of the best young men of tlm south to fit themselves for the ministry Ami this is the spirit actuating all in the gen erous response to the appeal. No campaign was ever better organized than the one here for Oglethorpe University. Dr Thoinwell Jacobs, the young zealot who has a .d is doing so much to make this dream of a grea t university a reality, came forward with the proposition : “The rest of the South will do its full share if Atlanta will guarantee the bonus of $250,- 000, together with the site for the university. There is no doubt of that and it is up to At lanta to show others just why this is a city of great things.” So the battle line of the campaign was thrown out. Fifteen campaign committees were organized. Each committee, composed of five to seven prominent citizens, was headed by a chairman who directed the work oi his own committee. It is an evidence oi the Atlanta spirit that men of big affairs, busy men, men whose time is very valuable, practically laid aside their own important business concerns in the busiest season of the year, and plunged into this work with an enthusiasm that is sweeping everything along like a mighty current. JEverv dav in the Piedmont Hotel these chair men meet at luncheon to go over the situation, to report the subscriptions to date, to infuse new life into the situation and set steady faces toward the goal, which comes nearer and near er at each meeting. If you could sit at one of these meetings you would never entertain a single doubt of success. Xot a man there has any shadow of doubt of winning. Captain James W. English, president of the Fourth National Bank, was made chairman of the general executive committee, and Ivan E Allen, chairman of the general campaign com mittee. These two sit with the fifteen each day, and th ’ir wise counsel and guidance help wonderfully in the work. (Continued on page 4.) ; ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS A YEAR :: FIVE CENTS A COPY