Catalog of Abilene Christian College, 1920-1921 Page: 17
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SESSION OF i920-'21
college. In addition we are able to offer special courses for Christian
workers and preachers of the gospel. Thus we are able to serve in a
special way the cause of Christianity. Our purpose is to develop genuine
Christian men and women, well equipped for efficient service in
any honorable field of human activity.
A FIRST CLASS COLLEGE
There is no waiting for it; we have it in Abilene Christian College.
No better organization is to be found, no better faculty for such a
school is to be had, and no stronger courses or better courses are to be
offered. Equipment meeting fully all requirements for recognition is
being rapidly installed. We are asking you to join us in a great statewide
campaign for the funds for the new buildings and endowment
which will be necessary to take care of this increased and growing
work. Let us at the earliest day possible provide these things.
HOW IT CAME ABOUT
It was not our purpose to build a four-year college at Abilene.
We were satisfied to give the service of a really first-class Junior College.
But we were determined to build into this Junior College the
very best Christian service. Prompted by this desire we were not satisfid
merely because we had complied with the demands of the state for
an A plus Junior College. We continued to add equipment and to build'
into our organization men and women as we found them in harmony
with our ideals of Christian service. Our attendance continued to increase
and to represent a wider spread territory. The center of enrollment
changed from the eighth grade to the first year of college
and our graduating class grew larger each year.
Finally we found ourselves face to face with this situation: We
lacked only one man having a faculty meeting in every way the demands
for a standard college. We were short only about $12,500
worth of equipment. Our students and patrons were urging that the
two additional years' work of the standard college be added so these
students would not be forced to other institutions to finish their work.
We found the man, and the city of Abilene said they would put up
the money. So Abilene Christian College has grown into a four-year
college.
The work is on a sound basis financially and from the viewpoint
of organization. We invite and urge your co-operation in making out
of it a larger and better Christian service.
We ask your careful consideration of everything presented in this
bulletin. You will find what we have, what we are doing and what
we propose for the future.
Let us enthusiastically get together our great numbers, wealth,
ability, and influence and on this excellent foundation laid by comparatively
few, build a Christian service to our children that will be
so broad and deep and strong and genuine and permanent that it will
forever put to silence those within and without our ranks who are
constantly preaching that we are a non-progressive, do-nothing people
without vision and proper conception of service. Under God's providence
this service will go forward. We want you as a co-worker.
EQUIPMENT
There are three vital factors in every school. The standard and
efficiency of the school are measured in terms of each or of all of17
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Abilene Christian College. Catalog of Abilene Christian College, 1920-1921, book, June 1920; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth45935/m1/19/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.