34 LIFE AND WORK OF DR. A. A. MURPHREE

 "The result was just as Dr. Murphree had anticipated. He
hoped to make the seminary a school for the entire state in-
stead of a local institution, and he was accomplishing just
that. Incidentally, that session of the legislature, at his in-
stance, changed the name of the institution to the Florida State
College. I recall that there were only 120 students enrolled
when I went there in 1901, and that all of these students came
from Leon county, with the exception of students from two
other counties. With the additional dormitories, one for girls
and one for boys, the enrollment quickly grew. And yet Dr.
Murphreewas not satisfied with the scanty registration we were
getting from the counties west of the Chattahoochee river
where the students seemed inclined to go to colleges in nearby
states. So in 1903 he asked me to travel over the western end
of the state in behalf of the college. I went out and did my
best at the job."
 Whether or not Dr. Murphree's lieutenant did the job
can be learned from students of the college in that day,
who recall that in the fall of 1904, over 400 students enrolled.
There were so many of them that they could not all get into
the chapel for the opening services, so Dr. Murphree con-
ducted two chapels, in order that all could be accommodated.
The records show that seventy-five students came from Hills-
boro county alone, due in a large measure, no doubt, to the in-
fluence of their old educational leader.
 Then occurred the reorganization of the entire educational
system of Florida, outlined in detail elsewhere in this bi-
ography. The reorganization literally abolished the Florida
State College and established in its stead the Florida State
College for Women. Naturally, the first effect of this step
was to bring a feeling of great disappointment to President
Murphree and his faculty at the college. It seemed that the
splendid work of building up a substantial school was to go
for nothing. In fact, Dr. Murphree and others of the faculty
fought the Buckman bill quite strenuously. However, Dr.
Murphree soon saw that it was for the best interests of educa-
tion in Florida that the reorganization was taking place and
fell right in line with the will of the people and the legislature.
The realization that the money spent for education under the