Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-05

lot i ilOurishing school of mor
tnan 800 pupils 10 enter up6l
his arduOus labOTs, severe as unexpected
supplied the necessary Deficiencies; scboo
commenced as advertised, amid jeers an,
opposition, and for more lhau ten years
was, by many, sneered at as "The Desti
tute." However, merit, fitness, zeal anC
! labor triumphed. In three years lie maii
College building was built; two cr ihre,
years after wings were added, and the
building for teaching purposes alone now
presents front of 40 feet by so feet
depth of main edifice, three stories high,
wings two. At the fall of Fort DOnel-
son, the number of pupils in actual at
tendance from eleven different States was
81. After that was an interregnum of
one year, necessary consequence of
college existence, the pupils being from
so many States
! sWhen the Mary Sharp was founded. no
school for girls anywhere, offered then so
extensive and thorough q course of in
structloni none offer one more so now.
Uuder the almost unrivalled Professor
OF Mathematics, Prof. Spencer, deceased
during the war, pupils were mistresses of
the calculus, comic sections, mathematical
philosophy and astronomy, and calcula-
ted eclipses with ease and readiness.
Prof. w. a G. Brown, of Rlceville.
Tenn, who has long stood prominent as a
successful teacher in this important de-
partment, has lately been called to the
Chair of Mathematics, and will, no doubt,
be able to sustain the high reputation
which the mathematical department of
Nary Sharp College has always enjoyed.
In ancient languages the Mary Sharp
has an enviable notoriety, and at the last
examination, in June, the classes in that
branch of education, under Prof. Nash,
won golden opinions.
In the critical knowledge of the analy-
sis of the English language, natural sci
ence, logic and metaphysics, pupils are
drilled by the President himself, and
manifest, when examined upon these
branches, a sOundness of judgment,
clearness of thought, and range of in
vestigation rarely to be met with in any
school for girls or boys either.
President Graves is an example of a
born teacher, and few living possess his
rare faculty of comparison and illustra-
ton.
The Musical Department of this school
is under the sole direction of
Prof. r. T. Steinhagen, whose
gentlemanly manner, thorough teach
ing, and devotion to his duty, as
sisted, as he will be, by none but teachers
of acknowledged competency, are fast
comforting an enviable distinction on that
department. Eight new Bradbury Pianos" "
of the very best make and finish, each u |
ectayes, lately purchased from the well
and favorably known music emporium of |
X. DOrman, at Nashville, Tenn, have |
just been added to the others in use, and |
none will be furnished but the best instru-
ments. The most desirable facilities for |
making thoroughly-trained musicians, vo-
cal and instrumental, are to be found in |
the Mary Sharp. Glasses are thoroughly |
instructed in thorough bass or the science |
of music. In this class a superior "Tay-
lOr & Farley" organ is used.
Drawing and painting are taught by
Prof. Charles Gueita, an accomplished
Italian artist, connected with the college
for eleven years, a gentleman skilled in
his profession, and whose instructions
have more than given satisfaction to pu-
pills and patrons.
Of the ladies connected with the insti-
tuition, Miss Maggie March, a graduate of |
Mary Sharp, principal of the academic
department, has an enviable reputation |
for amiability and excellence as an in |
structress.
Mrs. Graves, former Professor of Latin
and Bellies Lettres, has always been the
college matron; and Is at present, and has
been since the war, Professor of Rhetoric. /
A great share of the fame of this time
honored institution is attributable to her
1ntiring zeal and devotion, which neither
severe affections nor bodily sufferings
could ever shake or diminish. AS faith
full co-laborer IN the noble work of educa-
ton, mental and above all moral, has she
ever stood faithfully by the side of her
As writer, she is favOrably |
known; before the war she had written |
quite number of Sabbath-schoOl books, !
both in prose and verse, under the sigma
ture of "Aunt Alice" her nom de plume |
as editress of the Child's Book, published
at Nashville, Tenn. Her late works,
"Jephthah's Daughter" and ''SecIusayal''
have been published under her own sigma
ture.
The class in English Composition, in
charge of Mrs. Graves, deserves, in
especial mention. The
whole collegiate department is divided
ntO two divisions, who have to
cad their compositions every Friday
.fternoon alternately. Four of the young
adies are appointed critics by the teach
r, for each reading, who are required to
tote every faulty expression, as well as
ny deficiency in reading. After the
eading of the compositions is finished,
he whole class is criticised by their
eacher and those appointed by her, and
he beauty and elegance of dictiOn and
he depth of thought, as displayed in the
Essays of the graduating class in June
asst, are sufficient proof of the thorough
raining they had received in this very
important branch of education.
The French and German languages
ire taught by a European teach
,r of great experience, and one
who speaks both languages fluently.
ORGANIZATION.
In nyrr nOluY1,po fo Iovy will I,o /