Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-27
THE CITY.
UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE.
improvements and Educational
Facilities.

improvements and EducaAiOhAA
Facilities.
Few, if any, institutions of learning Of
the South or Southwest has enjoyed in
times past higher or more deserved rep
utatiOn than this. Frustrated, as we're our
institutions generally during the war, the
University has not during the last four
years been in a condition to confer those
great and lasting benefits for which she
was designed 1t is most gratifying to our
citizens, as well as to the people of the
State generally, to see the indications that
she is again to open wide her doors of
learning, and that she bids fair to surpass
her ancient renown as ranking among the
first institutions of learning in the land.
We visited the buildings few days ago,
and looking over the vast stretch of coun-
try, and our great city with its teeming
population, of which they afford view at
once attractive and commanding, we could
but feel thrill of pride that our youth and
those of the generations to be, were to
have the full advantages OF the institution
in an educational sense. Improvements
are at once to be commenced on the
buildings and grounds of an extensive
character, which will put them in complete
order and condition for the opening fall
term. These improvements are to be in
augurated and pushed forward to compile
ton with view to the permanent useful
ness and success of the University. The
buildings are among the most Substantial
and eligibly located we have ever seen
anywhere, and are in arrangement most
admirably adapted to the purposes for
which they are designed. Situated as they
are, with our vast railroad connections,
they are cheaply and expeditiously accessible
to the youth from all parts ofthe country, and
we confidently look forward to the time when
the number enjoying her advantages will
be counted by the hundreds. Under the
recent arrangements, from which very
great advantages can but accrue to all con-
cerned, the College Department of the
University and the Montgomery Bell
Academy will be conducted by Gen. E.
Kirby Smith, as Chancellor, and Gen.
Bushrod Johnson, as Principal of the Col
legiate Department, with full and COM
petent class of instructors. The reputation
of these gentlemen is well known
| throughout the country. They combine
| with the finest administrative ability, ripe
scholarship, liberal views, enlarged expe-
| rience, and all the essential qualifications
necessary to the positions they occupy.
The first annual session, under the new
| administration, will commence on Monday,
| the 18th of September, and viii be divided
into two terms of twenty weeks each, the
second term of the session beginning on
the 3Oth of January, 1871. The Collegiate
Department embraces the regular course
of studies including all the usual classical
Il C. oh in ho
| colleges of the country, while q course oi
studies, purely scientific and literary, is
| also prescribed for students, the graduates
of which will receive the degree Of Bache-
lor of Science. The French, German and
Spanish languages, with Civil Engineering
Architecture and Bookkeeping, with the
usual course in Commercial Colleges, vii
be taught by qualified teachers. Th'
Montgomery Bell Academy is designed t.
prepare boys in the best possible manne
for admission into the college classes of tn
University, and for the duties Of the farm
the country house and other active pur
suits of life. Boys Of ten years of age an'
upwards are admitted to its classes, an,
twenty-five benefeiaries are instructe'
every year free of charge.
We repeat that it is a source Of prid'
and qualification to all that the Universit
is to be opened under circumstances an
under supervision so favorable to success
We predict that from the first opening c
the session the progress of the Universit
will be upward and onward, and that il
career, with no unforeseen drawbacks, wi
be one of uninterrupted success until SD
takes her position among the leading an
influential institutions of learning in th
| United States That it may be SO, "
know is the sincere desire of all of Ou