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HRl TI people ever)'' here have recogni,red the necessit} for the
e:-.tabli hment ot in titution. of learning which '' ould be under full control
of the denomination; o it \\·as \\'ith thi purpose in mind, that the Florida
Bapti t 'om ention met in Lake 'it} on the 2- th da) of July, in the year
1907, and accepted as a trift from Lake 'it), the propert) now known
the campu. of 'olumbia 'ollege, together \\'ith a liberal . um of money to form a
nudeu of an endowment of the tl<.'\\'1} e-. tab! i hed school.
B) thi-., act, the Bapri-.,t-., of Florida rreated an in titution which ''a" to become
a great factor in Florida education. Although there \\'ere other :-. ·hooL of higher
learning in e istence at the time, 'olumbia College did not come into being to offer
an} opposition to similar institutions, but, in the word-., of one of its founder , "to
enter the friend!) circle of the colleges and to strive tor the betterment of our state,
along educational I ines."
olumbia 'ollege, as it stand toda}, is a plendid monument to the wi'idom and
generosit} of it founders. To rreate a great . chool, a ·clwol which has the . trength
to '' it!Ltand the mistortune'i of time of financial stre , it has been necessar} that
great acrifice of time and mone) ...,hould be made h) Hapti-;ts throughout the tat .
~·o, as ...,tudents ot Columbia ollege, if \\'e have accomplished an}thing of \\Orth
in the past eight ...,e . ions, '' e teel that it is only a . mall recompense to tho e who have
\\ rought . o nohl} and so disintere ted!} in our behalt.
nd about the college, it .... elf, it might be aid that while it is a place of tern
realities. \\'here our mind · and hodie are trained to go out and meet the issues of life,
still there i· something about our Alma :\later that make u..., think of it most often
a..., a home to whi ·h ever) return is a glad one.
H. P. H., '17.

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