The esteemed Dr. Bass, a graduate of Oxford College of Emory University, was an early principal of Macon’s Wesleyan Female College, the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women. When all southern institutions were struggling after the Civil War, Dr. Bass worked diligently to raise the average student enrollment to 250, possibly saving the school from a post-war closure. To do this he solicited private donations and used his own funds to promote the school. Dr. Bass often said he had no use for money other than to build up Wesleyan and to help others.
(1831-1894) (Olive, lot 2, row A24)
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