# College Temple > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/College_Temple > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/College_Temple.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Temple > Source revision: 1270789110 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{distinguish|Temple College}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox school | name = College Temple | native_name = | image = College Temple, Newnan, Georgia (Godey's Lady's Book, 1856, p. 154).png | alt = | caption = | motto = ''Femina, Divinum Donum'' | motto_translation = | location = [Newnan, Georgia](/source/Newnan%2C_Georgia) | country = United States | type = non-sectarian | established = 1854 | founder = M. P. Kellogg | closed = 1888 | gender = women-only | publication = | newspaper = ''The Fly-Leaf'' }} '''College Temple''' was a 19th-century non-sectarian American female college located at [Newnan, Georgia](/source/Newnan%2C_Georgia),{{cite book |author1=United States Dept of the Interior |title=Annual Report |date=1873 |publisher=The Department |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7z0wAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA651 |access-date=9 January 2022 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}} {{convert|40|miles}} from [Atlanta](/source/Atlanta).{{cite news |title=REAL ESTATE SALES. NO. 65 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/26669181/?terms=%22College%20Temple%22&match=1 |access-date=9 January 2022 |work=The Atlanta Constitution |via=[Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com) |date=11 June 1891 |page=10 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}} Founded in 1854, it closed in 1888, and its founder, Professor M. P. Kellogg, died the following year. ==History== Chartered in 1854,{{cite book |author1=Workers of the Writers' Program of the Works Progress Administration in the State of Georgia |title=Georgia, a Guide to Its Towns and Countryside |date=1940 |publisher=Best Books on |isbn=978-1-62376-010-6 |page=343 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YV-vkZeXA4YC&pg=PA343 |access-date=9 January 2022 |language=en}} its goals were to educate young women to prepare them for the able discharge of their numerous and arduous duties in the domestic circle and society, and to qualify them for writing in defence of right, morals, and the Christian religion. The school was founded, constructed, and supported by M. P. Kellogg, M. A., President and sole proprietor, who built and furnished it at his own expense. His career as an educator lasted 44 years before his death Kellogg on November 1, 1889, age 66 years.{{cite news |title=DEATH OF PROFESSOR KELLOGG. THE PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE TEMPLE BREATHES HIS LAST. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/26977933/?terms=%22College%20Temple%22&match=1 |access-date=9 January 2022 |work=The Atlanta Constitution |via=[Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com) |date=2 November 1889 |page=4 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}} Kellogg never denied admission to an orphan or impecunious pupil. After three years of operation, there were one hundred pupils in attendance, and six graduates. The founder was determined to make this a model school for educating young women. The motto of her seal was ''Femina, Divinum Donum'', and as such, young women were trained in physical, mental, and spiritual harmony.{{cite journal |last1=Godey |first1=Louis Antoine |last2=Hale |first2=Sarah Josepha Buell |title=COLLEGE TEMPLE, NEWNAN, GEORGIA |journal=Godey's Magazine |date=1856 |volume=52-53 |pages=154–55 |url=https://archive.org/details/godey1856/page/154 |access-date=9 January 2022 |publisher=Godey Company |language=en}} {{PD-notice}} During the [civil war](/source/American_Civil_War), the institution was repurposed as a hospital. In 1888, Kellogg discontinued the school. In May 1890, a movement was started by the citizens of Newnan to purchase the College Temple property and establish a first-class female college. Six thousand dollars were subscribed in a few hours time.{{cite news |title=SIX THOUSAND RAISED. THE ENTERPRISE OF THE PEOPLE OF NEWNAN. THEY PROPOSE TO PURCHASE COLLEGE TEMPLE AND ORGANIZE IT AS A FEMALE SCHOOL OF HIGH GRADE. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/26810920/?terms=%22College%20Temple%22&match=1 |access-date=9 January 2022 |work=The Atlanta Constitution |via=[Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com) |date=8 May 1890 |page=3 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}} In the following month, an offer was considered, made by the Board of Trade, of Newnan, to give to the diocese the school buildings and grounds on condition that the diocese would establish and maintain there a female college. After some discussion, this was refused because, in the opinion of the committee, a denominational school of this character could not be successfully maintained under existing state school laws, and because the diocese at the time was unable to endow such an institution.{{cite news |title=CONSIDERED BY THE COMMITTEE OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THIS DIOCESE YESTERDAY. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/26812296/?terms=%22College%20Temple%22&match=1 |access-date=9 January 2022 |work=The Atlanta Constitution |via=[Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com) |date=18 June 1890 |page=3 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}} ==Buildings and grounds== Erected in 1852 were three large buildings. The improvements cost originally about {{USD|20000}}. The boarding house was three stories high, {{convert|100|feet}} long. The laboratory building was two stories high, {{convert|40|x|40|feet}}, and contained rooms for Music, a Preparatory Department, and Philosophical and Chemical Laboratory, well supplied with the best of instruments. There were numerous annexes to the main buildings. The college building proper was one of the most commodious and imposing of its kind in the state. The chapel seated 600-700 persons. A large audience hall was situated in a grove of {{convert|3|acres}}, surrounded by four streets. The grounds totalled {{convert|8|acres}}. ==Student life== To secure the most rigid mental discipline in each pupil, no specified time was assigned for a young woman to complete her education at College Temple, but she was allowed to advance as rapidly as her mental and physical abilities would permit. Graduates were conferred an M.A. degree, ''Magistra in Artibus'', accompanied with a diploma in Latin, when she thoroughly mastered the extensive course of study adopted by the institution. To aid the Senior Class in forming a correct style in composition, they published semi-annually ''The Fly-Leaf'', composed by themselves and previous graduates of College Temple. This quarto at sixteen pages received praise from its friends, and the press in many places. Its alumnae were scattered from [Maine](/source/Maine) to [Texas](/source/Texas). No less than 300 alumni from the [state of Georgia](/source/Georgia_(U.S._state)) alone were students at one time.{{cite news |title=PROSPEROUS NEWNAN. ONE OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE CITIES IN GEORGIA. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/591395639/?terms=%22College%20Temple%22&match=1 |access-date=9 January 2022 |work=The Macon Telegraph |via=[Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com) |date=7 May 1889 |page=3 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}} ==Notable alumni== * [Marie Robinson Wright](/source/Marie_Robinson_Wright) (1853-1914), writer ==References== {{reflist|30em}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:College Temple}} Category:1854 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:1888 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Defunct schools in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Girls' schools in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Education in Coweta County, Georgia Category:Newnan, Georgia --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [College Temple](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Temple) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Temple?action=history)). 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