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...Valdosta...
...have read your article in the Feb. f issue concerning the Memorial College in the prosperous town of Valdosta and find it interesting...
...where is Valdosta...
...Valdosta is a genial town. Its citizens are trig of garb, slow of speech; they have prosperity; more, they have a hero, Woodrow Wilson, late President of the U.S. They remember him in Valdosta. On a spring day, the triggest, the most prosperous of the citizens of Valdosta, those gentlemen who compose the Chamber of Commerce, met totgether, issued, presently a manifesto. They called upon their fellow citizens for funds to establish an institution of higher learning for man?a college which should be a memorial to President Wilson. "That would be a worthy thing for us to do," said...
Meanwhile, a committee of educational experts met, headed by Sideney E. Mezes, President of the College of the City of New York; David F. Houston, onetime member of the Wilson Cabinet, defined the sort of college? that would rise in Valdosta when the total fund ($5,000,000) has been obtained. They suggested...