La Géorgie, historique et industriel . La chapelle, quatre aussi storieshigh, a six grandes conférences-chambres, aussi le musée biologique et labora-toire. Dans l'arrière de ce bâtiment et formant une partie de c'est la chapelle,capable d'accueillir huit cents personnes. Dans l'arrière de la chapelle andconnected avec c'est la bibliothèque universitaire d'une capacité de 20 000-vol umes. Il y a aussi le gymnase, un nouveau grand bâtiment en brique. Thereare deux salles d'embarquement et six dortoirs pour les étudiants. du châssis Il y a un fonds pour l'éducation des jeunes ministres de moyens limités.Il y a aussi un fonds d'emprunt secure

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Georgia, historical and industrial . The chapel building, also four storieshigh, has six large lecture-rooms, also the biological museum and labora-tory. In the rear of this building and forming a part of it is the chapel, capable of seating eight hundred people. In the rear of the chapel andconnected with it is the university library with a capacity of 20, 000 vol-umes. There is also the gymnasium, a large, new brick building. Thereare two boarding halls and six frame dormitories for students. There is a fund for the education of young ministers of limited means.There is also a loan fund secured through a bequest of the late M.Aquilla Cheney, supplemented by gifts of other friends of the college. TJie Wesleyan Female College at Macon enjoys the high honor ofbeing the first college in the world chartered for the express purpose ofbestowing diplomas upon ladies. It is the property of the North andSouth Georgia and Florida Conferences of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch, South. It was chartered December 10, 1836, as the Georgia. SKNKY HALL, lOMORY COLLKCH-:, OXFORD, GA. GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL. 331 Female College, and was built bj general subscription, Methodist minis-ters acting as agents for the collection of the necessary funds. Its firstpresident was Dr. George F. Pierce, af ter^vards a bishop of the MethodistEpiscopal Church, South. The first class was graduated in 1840. Amortgage of ten thousand dollars against the college was paid off in 1845by James A. Everett of Houston county, who then presented the prop-erty to the Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, by whom its present name was conferred upon it. In 1881 Mr. GeorgeI. Seney, of New York, donated to it $50, 000 which he afterwards in-creased to $125, 000. Most of this donation was expended on the enlarge-ment of the college building. About $35, 000 of it forms a permanentendowment of the college. This enlargement of the college occurredduring the presidency of Dr. W. C. Bass, who w

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