Excerpt from Dedicatory Exercises of the Agnes Scott Institute, Decatur, Georgia, November 12, 1891 In 1844 and 1845 movements were made in the Synod of Georgia to establish a school of high grade for females, in the bounds of the Synod. Rev. Dr. Wilson, then the honored pastor of the Decatur Presbyterian Church, earnestly advocated the measure, and proposed that it should be located in the cultivated and thriving town of De catur. He even went so far as to choose the lot on which the build ing should stand, and, strange to say, he selected the lot on which this beautiful building stands. After much discussion two points were finally selected, Greensboro and Griffin, and Decatur's location was abandoned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.