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Liberty: Compositions by Wesleyan's First Alumnae : From box 1, 1845 - 1880
- Documents
- COMP1
- Begins, "What is Happiness..."
- Graduation Essay of Arabella O. Dean of Houston Country, Georgia.
Presented by her grand-daughter, Mrs. Lillian Estes David, of Macon, Georgia.
The Graduation Essay of Arabella O. Dean of Houston County, Georgia was read at her graduation fro... View Full Record
- Documents
- COMP2
- Comparison of the Wisdom & Words of God & Man
- Comparison of the Wisdom and Works of God and Man
By Anna Reynolds-College-July 11, 1846
(Copied by Josephine Yancey)
(Given by John Ardis Manry. Aug. 6, 1930)
How narrow to its utmost extent is human science, how circumscribed is the... View Full Record
- Documents
- COMP3
- Who Reads an American Book?
- "Who Reads an American Book?"
Graduation Composition by Mary Jane Broom
1848
(Given by Mrs. R.M. Young, LaGrange, Ga. Her daughter)
That England has ever entertained a feeling of hostility towards the United States none but the most bias... View Full Record
- Documents
- COMP4
- Liberty
- "Liberty"
Joanna Shropshire
1849
Presented by her daughter, Sallie (Barron) Ellis, 1888.
Amid the various objects which engage the attention of our human family, there is now sought after with such zeal and energy, and now upon which t... View Full Record
- Speech
- COMP5
- No Title - Valedictory Speech
- Sarah E. Hines
1851
(Valedictory Speech)
(Presented by her son, Lott Warren)
1st
Respected Audience
When the polished multitudes of Greece gathered to behold the Olympic Games, no female form appeared among the competi... View Full Record
- Documents
- COMP6
- "There is a Voice that makes the soul..."
- "There is a voice that makes the soul, 'tis the voice of by-gone days"
Georgia A. Pope
Presented by her daughter, Mary Will (Jones) Franklin.
1853
Oft we are borne up the streams of time, wafted by the gentle gale of memory to fairy ha... View Full Record
- Documents
- COMP7
- "And Tarah died in Haran"
- "And Terah died in Haran"
Davia Hardeman
1858
Graduation Composition
Given by her daughter, Pauline (Spain) Thompson
And Terah died in Haran. Gen. 11:32. How brief, yet how instructive is the history of Terah, the descendent of Sh... View Full Record
- Poem
- COMP8
- "The Beautiful of Earth"
- "The Beautiful of Earth"
Loula (Louis) W. Kendall (Rogers)
Graduation Composition (Poem)
1857
To my dear Mrs. Smith from Lou:
Oh! beauteous Vale ! whose Rose and Lily are,
With Myrtle shade, and Bay and Laurel high
Whose cluster... View Full Record
- Documents
- COMP9
- "The Spinning Wheel"
- "The Spinning Wheel"
Miss Amanda J. Barnett
Wesleyan Female College
Macon, Ga.
July 9th 1860
The three great questions of life are, "what shall we eat? What shall we drink? And where withal shall we be clothed?" "After all these thing... View Full Record
- Documents
- COMP10
- "Adversity, the Friend of Man"
- "Adversity, the Friend of Man"
Julia J. Turnbull
July 8th, 1862
Graduation Composition
Man created pure and holy unto? (damage) the likeness of his Maker, hath sinned, and, falling from his original exalted position, "is born to troubl... View Full Record
- Documents
- COMP11
- "A Good Cause makes a stout heart"
- This composition is currently being transcribed by Annabel Fowler.... View Full Record
- Documents
- COMP12
- "John C. Calhoun"
- This composition is currently being transcribed by Rebecca Smith>... View Full Record
- Documents
- COMP13
- "The Creative Faculty"
- This composition is currently being transcribed by Annabel Fowler.... View Full Record
- Documents
- COMP14
- "Passing Away"
- This composition is currently being transcribed by Madeline Lezart.... View Full Record
- Documents
- COMP15
- "Music, Poetry, and Religion"
- This composition is currently being transcribed by Annabel Fowler.... View Full Record