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February 17, 1982 / The Maroon Tiger / Page 2
HISTORY
President’s Residence
March 21, 1912
December 9. 1912
Id Baptist
Augusta, Get
April, 1881
March 5, 1884
October, 1885 The Reverend Mr. Samuel Graves is selected the second
president of Atlanta Baptist Seminary.
? 1880’s Seminary develops a liberal education curriculum out of the
milieu of the New England education tradition.
November 1, 1889
? 1890
1895
March 30, 1897
October 21,1898
Graves Hall completed at a cost of $27,000. Graves was intended
to be a multi-purpose building (with space for administrative,
teaching, and living quarters for all personnel).
Dr. Graves relinquishes the presidency and Reverend Mr.
George Sale is selected as third president of the college.
President Sale is noted for his statement on the institutional
mission of the college: "We aim not only at intellectual and
spiritual culture, but also at social culture and the formation of
right domestic habits in our students.”
College motto appears for the first time: “ET FACTO EST LUX”
(And there was light).
The name of the Atlanta Baptist Seminary is modified to reflect
a broader educational base than the professional theological,
Atlanta Baptist College. f
Second building of the college is dedicated in memory of
"Father” Frank Quarles. Quarles Hall was the first full-time
academic building of the college (now housing the Atlanta
School of Social Work).
College is officially incorporated as Morehouse College,
named in honor of Henry Lyman Morehouse, secretary to the
Board of the American Home Mission Society.
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The Morehouse Faculty in 1916-17
Dean B.G. Brawley is shown at left in front row, and President John Hope is third from
left in same row. S.H. Archer is third from right in second row.
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Dedication
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cont. irom pg.
At the age of 10, he was taken by his
white father and turned over to a man by
the nameof Dennis. A clerk in the Dennis'
store then took Him to live with his
relatives outside of Augusta. This was to
be home for White during the next nine
years. At nineteen, White returned on his
own to Augusta where he found a job as a
cabinetmaker.
In Augusta he met a beautiful black
woman, whom he was to later marry and
who would bear eleven of his children.
They soon saved enough money and
moved their family into a new two - store
house..
In his teens, White was ordained as a
minister. Later on, he was to be called
upon by his community to serve as the
first pastor of Harmony Baptist Church.
White then established a weekly publica
tion called The Georgia Baptist. He did
not stop there, for he was to later help
establish the institution of Morehouse in
the basement of Springfield Baptist
Church. We can stop here, for now we
know the rest of the story.
Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary (later Spelman Seminary,
presently Spelman College) joins Atlanta Baptist Seminary in
the basement of Friendship Church.
President Robert passes, and Professor David Foster Estes is
named acting President.
February, 1867
August 1, 1871
April 24, 1879
A resolution was unanimously adopted by the Board of
Trustees to amend the name of the college, from Atlanta Baptist
College to Morehouse College.
The Board of Managers of the American Baptist Home Mission
Society approved the March 21st resolution.
William Jefferson White organizes the Augusta Institute with
the assistance of Richard Coulter and Reverend Edmund
Turney.
Reverend'Dr. Joseph T. Robert is selected first president of the
Augusta Institute.
The Institute is relocated to the city of Atlanta, incorporated as
the Atlanta Baptist Seminary, and given temporary housing in
the basement of Friendship Baptist Church. Reverend “Father”
Frank Quarks, the founding pastor of Friendship Church,
presided over this historic event.
1902
An attractive two-story brick house is erected for the president
on the campus.
President George Sale resigns and John Hope, a faculty
member, was selected as the first black president of the
institution.
Benjamin G. Brawley becomes first Academic Dean of Atlanta
Baptist College. Dean Brawley would write at least two
important works- History of Morehouse College and A Social
History of the American Negro, both completed in the 1920’s.
^ Happy
In 1867, the Augusta Institute com
menced operation in Springfield Baptist
Church of Augusta, Georgia with ap
proximately forty students. Now, 115
years and three name changes later,
Morehouse College can look back with
satisfaction and pride at the decades of
growth and maturation. To com
memorate this anniversary, THE
MAROON TIGER presents a special
reflection on the formative years of the
Augusta Institute the Atlanta Baptist
Seminary and Atlanta Baptist College.
We have done extensive research on
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the subject, combined it and prepared it
for presentation. We feel that you will find
the information interesting and
enlightening.
THE MAROON TIGER (originally THE
ATHENAEUM) was established by John
Pittman in 1925. It has kept the student
body and faculty on top of the news for
the past 57 years and hopefully will
continue to do so for the next 57.
As we celebrate our 57th anniversary,
we also wish Morehouse College a happy
115th anniversary.