, 1844-08-24
The Masonic College of Missouri.
TO THE PUBLIC.

Thu General Assembly of the State OF
Missouri. in February, ls43, Incorporated
tho Grand Lodge Of the State, by law. with
power 70 purchase and hold for educational
purposes fftv thousand dollars worth of real
estate, and also to establish and control an
Asylum for destitute children. and a School
and College of Learnin. for the Education
of youth in Virtue and Science. This act
Of the Legislature vas, by the Grand Lodge
at the animal convention in October,
accepted and property has been purchased,
consisting Of a farm of over 200 acres, near
/ PALMYRA. the rouutv-seat Of Marion coun-
ty and 40 acres. situate in the same coun-
ty, twelve miles from PALMYRA, containing
the College Buildings, of ample dimensions
to afford accommodation for one hundred
students.
The Cclle.. is situate eighteen miles
from the Mississippi River, in one Of the
mast beautiful. fertile and healthy sections
of the State, and in the midst of n moral,
religious and Industrious population.
At the meeting of the Grand Lodge in
April Cinst,) the institution was organized
by the adoption Of a code of Bylaws for
its Government. (which will be published in
due time. AMI tho election of requisite titl'
Gers and Professors. J. Warrington smith,
A. NJ. and G. NJ. of the Grand Lodge OF
Virginia, was unanimously elected Presl
dent of the College, aud A. Patterson, Esq,
Of Fayette, No wal, unanimously elected
Principal Of the Asylum and Preparatory
School. To those gentlemen the duties OF
government and Instruction win be confded,
until tho number of students shall require
additional Professors.
Col. J J Montgomery of Pamyra, has
taken charge of the Refractory, and will
provide and furnish Boarding for the stu
dents.
To place within the reach of all the means
Of moral culture. and Instruction in science,
at the cheapest possible rate, has been the
most anxious desire of the Grand Lodge.
The price of board and tuition IS therefore
put down ~ low rs il can be afforded.
Tuition in the Preparatory Department
will be
Per session of five months, $40 0O
and in the College Department, 10 90
For boarding, washing, fuel aud
light, per week. w
Board and Tuition fees payable in ad-
vance for each session. No tuition fee will
be charged for students sent by the Lodges.
Each student will furnish his own bed.
bedding. stationary and books; also a pitch
or, wash-bowI and brushes, for his own use.
For the sake ofecononv. il is desirable that
the outer garments of the students should
be of blue or grey casinet or cloth.
=, Students Will he received on and after the
10Th day Of May 1871, and it is desirable
! that the several Lodges, parentsand snagdi-
ans. who desire to place students in this in
stitution. will do so as soon "a possible, that
the classes NAV be advantageously arrang
ed. and the necessary provisions made for
their Instruction and comfort
For the moral and religions Instruction Of
the youth. the Curatnrso OF the College will
provide public rreachirg at the Hall on eve.
" sabbath TIL" duties Of rach dav will
he begun and ended with wor.hip. consisting
Of reading a portion of Scripture, singing
and PRAYER. The sCrinfurcs nrr made the
third book to heused by :he students in class
No mer" s"ctarian doctrine Of religion i TO
be Taught or iucalculated, either directly
or Indirectly.
By the act Of Incorporation. this College
possesses the power 70 confer the usual lite
rarv degrees on such as NAV merit them,
and they will be conferred in pursuance Of
such rules as the Faculty may provide.
In the preparatory school such branches
of learning will be taught az are necessary
for a qualification TO enter college. And
in the Collegiate department, all such other
branches of learning and science az shah
...-t,t,t, ., tL,rnprb nj G,;zb,l r,1Iori,to
education.
The Masonic fraternity of Missouri, hav
ing engaged with ardor and zeal in the
great cause of Education of youth-having
at a period of great financial pressure ard
embarrassment, pnrchcsed this amount
of property, and thus provided for the ac-
communication of a Faculty and students,
and having organized the Institution and pro-
vidcd for its suDport-the public may rest
assured that the establishment is permanent
that both the desire and the ability to
perpetuate TIE institution are possessed bv
them, and that neither labor nor expense
will be wanting to make it a school of the
greatest usefulness, in the advancement Of
morals, learning and science, TO those by
whom it may he patronized.
The Grand Lodge, having obtained the
services of .Messrs. Smith and Patterson,
they are presented to the public as gentle
men of the first responsibility for virtue, a
bility and learning; TO whose care the in
struction of yeuth NAV he safely entrusted.
p. II. MCBRIDE. G. NJ.
T. l.. ANDERSON.
s. w. B. CARNEGGY, p. C. N.
April 25, 1914.