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[Letter from President James E. Dickey to Thomas Ellis Reeve, August 29, 1908]

Aug. 29, 1908.
Mr. Ellis Reeve,
Calhoun, Ga.
Dear Ellis:

Enclosed find certificate for admission as requested. We shall be pleased to have your brother with us. The outlook for the opening is unusually good.

Hoping to see you on the 15th of September, I am with kind regards,

Very truly yours,
James E. Dickey
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Emory College Certificate of Admission

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Mr. ______________ _______________

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Principal of ____________________ School.

*State the total number of hours given to the subject in the class room.

SUBJECT TEXT-BOOK NO. OF PAGES NO. OF HOURS*
    --Grammar.
  • Composition.
  • Rhetoric.
  • Required Reading.
    --Beginner's Book.
  • Grammar.
  • Caesar.
  • Cicero.
  • Virgil.
  • Prose Composition.
    --Beginner's Book.
  • Xenophon's Anabasis
  • Herodotus.
  • Homer.
  • Prose Composition.
  • Mythology and History.
    --Arithmetic.
  • Algebra.
  • Geometry.
  • Trigonometry.
  • Analytic Geom.
    --U.S. History.
  • History of Greece.
  • History of Rome.
  • Other Studies (Modern Lan., Science, etc.)

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This is the back of the certificate, meant to be folded up and mailed back to the College by the principal of the applicant's school.

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