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VOLUME I, NO. 1 A FICTITIOUS ACCOUNT BASED ON HISTORICAL FACTS JANUARY 22, 1887
First Chapel-
Program: Gives
College Rules :
And Regulations
By Michael Sanders
On the front page, we present a wood
cut of our building.
It is octagonal in the center and has
a wing on Four sides. It is built of brick
and cost twenty-five thousand dollars.
The audience room is sixty feet square,
while the wings are thirty by sixty feet,
and two stories high.
The grounds embrace thirteen acres,
and were a present from two of our most
enterprising citizens, Messrs. Peacock
and O’Berry. It is intended at an early
date to enclose the entire premises, and
begin the construction of suitable
dormitories.
With ample railroad facilities, and
easy access, with a community fully alive
to the importance of the school, and
determined to meet its every demand, it
would seem that Cochran is a very
suitable place for the location of such an
institution.
The entire course of study is arranged
into four departments: 1st, the
prepatory; 2nd, the collegiate; 3rd, the
school of music; 4th the school of design.
The textbooks used are precisely those
used in our best male colleges.
We regard composition as the most
profitable exercise in connection with
any school, and hence, we have given it
a prominent place among our daily ex
ercises. Instead of the usual method of
requiring a composition once in two
weeks, the students are required at a
certain hour each day to write a com
position. The advantages of this system
are fourfold: 1st, it is good mental ex
ercise; 2nd, every pupil is obliged to
write his or her own piece; 3rd, it is good
writing exercise; 4th, it is the best spell
ing exercise.
Such pupils that excell in certain par
ticulars will receive medals and their
names will be published in the catalogue.
The number 1000 will be taken as a stan
dard measure for the judging.
The scholastic year will be divided in
to two terms.
The fall term will begin the first Mon
day in September and continue sixteen
weeks.
The Spring term will begin the first
Monday of January and continue
twenty-four weeks.
The exercises will be suspended for
three days at Christmas.
A day or two for rest and recreation
will be given at intervals during the
session.
Parents are earnestly requested to
have their children present at the open
ing of the session and not allow them to
extend the Christmas vacation beyond
the prescribed limit.
Military training has been incor
porated as a regular feature of the
school. The parade ground, embracing
four acres, is the property of the college,
and is near the main building. Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays are drill days,
when each member of the company is
expected to be present.
Every male member of this school,
from twelve years up, is required to join
this department.
Our rules are not harsh, but firm. It
is our aim to so train the youth commit
ted to our care that they may become
true, strong men and women — moral
ly, intellectually and physically.
We beg that you will duly heed the
following suggestions:
1st. Whatever unfavorable criticism
you may make of a teacher, avoid mak
ing it in the presence of your children,
because if you destroy the child’s con
fidence in his teacher, a positive injury
is done the child.
2nd. Should parents or guardians ob
ject to the infliction of corporal punish
ment upon their children or wards, such
objection must be made to the Principal
in writing, and upon the infraction of
any rule by such pupil, he or she will be
suspended or expelled according to the
gravity of the offense.
3rd. Parents or pupils having cause
for complaint should seek redress by
first reporting the same to Principal,
and if dissatisfied with his action, the
matter will then be referred to the Board
of Trustees.
4th. If, as it sometimes happens,
“Willie” comes home and reports that
he got a switching at school, remember
that the best and surest way to prevent
a repetition of the indignity is to switch
him yourself. —
President King
By Michael Sanders
Palemon J. King has been selected as
the first president of New' Ebenezer
College.
President King is a native of Telfair
County. He is a graduate of Mercer
University in Penfield. He received his
A.B. degree from there. In 1860, he was
also conferred an M. A. degree from that
institution.
President King served the entire
i period of the W ar Betw een the States on
\ the side of the Confederacy. He tooY.
I part in ten major engagements while a
soldier in the Army of Northern
Virginia. He served under General
Robert E. Lee and was present at the
surrender at Appomatox.
Upon returning from the wars, Presi
dent King taught at a number of schools
in the Middle Georgia area. He served
as principal of Hearn Academy in Cane
Springs before he and Mrs. King came
to Cochran last year.
Historic Day
By Phillip Wilder
January 10 will be remembered as a
historic day in Middle Georgia. The first
classes at New Ebenezer College were
conducted on that date. Approximately
one-hundred students attended the first
day of class held last week on the hill on
the Southern edge of Cochran.
Our new school was the result of long
planning and hard work. Three years
President’s Home
ago, Baptist churches from Pulaski,
Dodge, Laurens and Telfair counties, all
members of the New Ebenezer Baptist
Association, got together to discuss plans
for an educational institution here in
Middle Georgia. These churches met at
Parkerson Church in Dodge County on
October 18, 1885. Dr. P. A. Jessup,
pastor of the First Baptist Church in
Eastman, presented a resolution that a
committee be appointed “ to look into
the possibility of establishing a college
by the New Ebenezer Association.” On
Monday, October 20, this resolution was
passed and roots of our new school had
its beginnings.
Construction on New Ebenezer Hall
began in 1885, with the land being
donated by P. O. Peacock and J. E.
Oberry. The contract to construct New
Ebenezer Hall was awarded to Michael
O’Brien of Hawkinsville. His plans for
the building were taken from a college
building in Ireland, where he was born
and raised. The committee responsible
for the building of New Ebenezer Hall
was composed of P. L. Peacock, Dr. T.
D. Walker, Sam Mayer, W. j. MuVVis,
and the Reverend J. G. Wright.
\ Trustees of out new scYiwA are V. R.
\ Parker, J. G. Wright, JoYmT. Rogers,
j M. L. Burch. Dr. T. D. Walker, and
Johnathan Notes.
Our faculty consists of three people -
our college president, Palemon J. King,
Reverend R. C. Sanders and Miss Laura
L. Bunn.
Classes taught here at New Ebenezer
College range from music to military
training.
President King is allowing students
who do not live in Cochran or the sur
rounding areas to board at his house.
Room and board are $12.00 per month.
This new institution we have here in
Cochran is a fine example of concerned
people gathering together to educate the
future leaders of our nation. Barely 100
years old, our nation needs strong men
to lead the fight for democracy. Par
ticularly, the South deserves influential
men who can revive the spirit and pride
of our section of the country lost twenty-
five years ago in the war. New Ebenezer
College will be the present link to a terri
ble past and a prosperous future.