Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-08-04
LETTER FROM ATHENS.
East Tennessee Wesleyan University.

day, Aug. 31st. The year consists of two
terms of twenty weeks each. 1t has now
a full corps of experienced teachers, and
will open with brighter prospects and
mere favorable auspices than ever before.
Provision has been made to pay the tut
ton for the year of every student in the
University who is studying for the minis
try, and cannot command for himself the
necessary means. 1t is hoped that all
such needy students will avail themselves
at once OF this provision. Male and fe-
male students are admitted, and in this
sense it is "mixed school," but not in the
sense of admitting black and tUhite, as enc
mics of the University often report.
1t is remarkable that every year about
the time for students to begin to arrange
for coming, this report is industriously
circulated. GA mixed school, black and
white all together. Do you want to go to
school with a niger? Are you willing to
send your son or daughter to school with
niggers ?'' There is no Christian charity
broad enough to cover the multitude Of
sins committed every year by persons
who aid in circulating in some form this
false report, and know it to be false while
circulating it. 1t is done by many persons
with pure malice afOrethOught, for the
| distinct purpose of injuring the pat ronage
of the school. The lie, however, eventu-
ally is found out, the curse of which in due
| time returns "hOme to rOOst." 1t does not
generally improve ones Christian char
acter or moral influence to find q lie of
that kind nailed fast to its author. 1t is
essentially lie when one knowingly and
Intentionally makes a false impression on
another mind, though all the words he
uses for that purpose, in another sense, are
strictly true.
| 1t is true that provision has been made
| for opening, when required, Normal
| School, from which colored students are
not to be excluded, and in which, probably
! for the present, will be found only colored
students. That department has not been
opened yet. No colOred student has ever
knocked at the door for admission. The
trustees intend in good faith to provide
for all such students whenever enough APP
ply to warrant the opening of such de-
partment. But suppose that school should
be opened this very autumn, what effect
will it have upon the students, the gentle
men and ladies of the University? 1t
will be in seperate building, in differ
ent and distant portion of the town, with
a corps of teachers distinct from the facul-
| ty of the University, which will be eX-
clusively employed for the normal depart
ment. The only bond of connection be-
tween the two schools, for they are as dis
tinct as any other two schools, is the fact
that both will be under the direction of
the same board of trustees. But there
will be no more mingling together of
black and white in the University proper
than is done every day in the towns and
cities from which the students come.
We hope our friends will now fully un-
derstand this subject everywhere-that
black and white are to be as distinct here
as in the towns where they live; that they
are not to be mixed in the same school,
unless white students wish to enter the
normal department.; for from that the
trustees have no right to exclude any one
on account of colOr-white, black or cop
per colored. When that lying report
comes around again OH its annual visit,
just before the fall term opens. as it has
been for the last four years, and will prob
ably ride the circuit y for years to come,
the reader will know just what it means,
and just what it is for. 1t means % false
hood, and is for injurlng the University.
Let no friend of the University be disturb
ed either in thought or feeling by any
number of that or similar reports.
The bitterest enemies of the University
Just now are trying to stir up the colOred
people to enter the University, thinking to
give the trustees some extra trouble. God
sometimes Over-rules the evil designs of
men for the good of his cause. While
their efforts will not injure the University
III IIIC lcdSl mhCll tue SuUJSCU 10 1uIIJ uu-
derstOOd-and we mean it shall be under
stood-tbey may succeed in getting large
number of colOred students into the nor
NAL department, which has been spoken
of above. In this way they may benefit
the cause of education in general, and the
colored people in particular. To aid them,
and for the information of all concerned,
the following regulation for the Normal
School, made by the trustees, are pub
lished:
Before entering the Normal School,
each person must give satisfactory evil
dence of good moral character, and of hav-
ing made suitable proficiency III reading,
photography and penmanship; also in the
elementary principles of arithmetic, Eng
lish grammar and geography; and also of
possessing a fair capacity for teaching and
governing.
1.-THE year will be divided into two
terms of ten weeks each. The first term
will commencing on the second Thursday
in October, and the second term on the
first Thursday in January.
Full tuition, $40 90 per term; inciden-
tails. s. 90. There will be an abatement
in tuition Of S15 90 per term to any student
who will sign written pledge or guaran-
tee to take the full Normal Course of in
structiOn, and to teach for two consecutive |
years, after graduation from the Normal
School, in the free schools of the State OF
Tennessee; in which ease tuition will be
only S. co. incidentals So 90 per term"
Let the reader carefully observe that
while the University opens on the 3lst of
August the Normal School is not to open
until the second Thursday in October.
The term for the Normal School is only
ten weeks, while the term of the Univer-
sity is twenty weeks. Tuition and Incl
dentals are different, and the course of
study is different, and the two schools
throughout are different as we'll as entirely
separate and distinct.
n. E. COBLEIGH,
President E. T. w. University.