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HEAR^T-S SUNDAY AMERICAN,
In this entire community of enthusiastic and loyal Souther;
will not agree that Atlanta’s future is to be brilliant—that the futl Sf in
YOUR
much for its residents, for its business men and for the concerns of
What makes futures brilliant? The answer is simple—it is
has been shown during this campaign to secure the famous Qgletl je t
The Press, the Officials of thi
importance of having Oglethorpi
has been inspiring. It has been
University is assured
ment
Atlanta, Empha
Oglethorpe University
Will Do More to Make
Atlanta's Future Bril
liant Than Any Other
One Conceivable Thing
of Oglethorpe in
Atlanta
The Atlanta Georgian—
“Atlanta needs Oglethorpe Univer
sity. The city now has a golden op
portunity to display that famous
‘spirit’ which has never yet had to
acknowledge defeat. It is only a
question of every Atlantan putting
his or her shoulder to the wheel and
Oglethorpe University is a reality.’’
The Atlanta Constitution—
“The refoundlng of Oglethorpe in
Atlanta will make this city the cen
ter for higher education in the
Southern States."
Atlanta has been the toast and the miracle of this material
Rising like a Phoenix out of the ashes of 1865, it is to-day a
city of 200,000 people—the richest, the boldest, the most enterpris
ing and the most beautiful city of the South. It has never known a
panic and never called a halt in its prosperity and growth. Its real
estate history reads like a fairy tale, in which Aladdin’s lamp is dis
counted in the wonderful things that have been realized from faith
and good wishes expressed in Atlanta dirt. Half or two-thirds of
the rich men of Atlanta have grown rich out of their faith in its
real estate.
The Atlanta Journal
“Tears from now when all of us
have turned to dust Oglethorpe Uni
versity still will be growing, still will
be training the youth of the land.
* * * Oglethorpe University will re
main—a monument of our part of it
"It will perpetuate us.’’
The Atlanta Journal—
“Never before has Atlanta pos
sessed so golden a chance to serve its
own interests and those of the South.
If she raises the quarter of a mil
lion dollars expected of her, she will
establish a mllllon-dollar university
that will grow rapidly in strength
and prestige, and come to rank
among the greatest institutions."
This famous university is!
Atlanta’s unfailing spirit I
Atlanta said, “It shall be d
actly what is making the great
build Oglethorpe University. J
Atlantans need only to ui
what Yale is to Cambridge, PriJ
the list.
Here comes Oglethorpe University as the crown and capstone
of all Atlanta’s attractions. A great university, center of education
and culture, the moral, spiritual, intellectual climax to the zenith
city of Southern progress and enterprise.
The Atlanta Journal—
Oglethorpe University to Mean
$500,000 a Year for Atlanta’s
Marts of Trade.
“ATLANTA HAS BEEN NEG
LECTING GREAT OPPORTUNI
TIES.
“There are high purposes to be
served by Oglethorpe University
which Atlanta has declared must be
refounded here.
“But there is another view of the
matter—the view of the material
side.
“Harvard University is located in
Boston. The average enrollment of
Harvard is 4,500 students. Accept
ing tlie estimate as that, $1,000 a
year is spent for or by every student
in an institution of that kind. THAT
MEANS THAT THIS COUNTRY
BUYS FROM BOSTON EVERY
YEAR $4,500,000 WORTH OF EDU
CATION. That is the equivalent of
Georgia's annual peach crop."
Standing like fair Harvard to Boston, like Columbia to New
York, like Chicago to Chicago, like Berkeley to San Francisco and
like Princeton to the Central East, our Oglethorpe, now certain
and assured, will be the shrine at * kh material and intellectual At
lanta will mingle the ; v devotioi... receive their inspiration, renew
their faith and quicken thei” young manhood to more splendid
service.
The soil about Oglethorpe will be almost sacred soil. A home
s . at Oglethorpe will be beyond all value. Silver Lake Estates will
be girt by streets of golden association and opportunity. Happy
the man whose home is planted there.
JOHN TEMRll GRAVES
The Atlanta Georgian—
“The present call can not he Ig
nored. It means much to Atlanta,
not only In the matter of pride, but
also In dollars and cents. The pro
posed university would have an at
tendance of from 800 to 1,000 stu
dents. Every one of them would
bring money Into Atlanta and put it
in circulation. There would be a
large faculty, the members of which
would also mean much to the mate
rial welfare of the city.
“From a purely business stand
point Atlanta should not neglect this
flattering chance to add to its rev
enue.”
Silver Lake Estates is to bl
nity about Oglethorpe Unived
cials and those attending Ogled
The campus of Oglethorpi
It will be a beautiful and j
gem.
Here will be built a home d
all great Universities and Edud
ATLANTA'S
BRILLIANT
FUTURE
The Atlanta Georgian—
“The advantages of having the
university in Atlanta are obvious.
Oglethorpe University would be to
Atlanta what Princeton Is to the city
of that name. Harvard to Boston and
Yale to New Haven.”
The Atlanta Constitution—
"ATLANTA MUST HAVE THE
UNIVERSITY 1
“It WILL have It If every Atlantan
will do his duty and do It right
NOW.
“Don’t wait for somebody else to
do the work. Shoulder your end of It
and PUT IT THROUGH. The city
will benefit largely, and so will every
one of its citizens.”