The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-12-22

oAJ IL Suu6 lhhL ~ Will Db re-
menbered that these proceedings oc.
CURED In honor Of Mrs. SARAH Il. HANNA
who at that time severed her connection
with the institution as its PrinCipal-S
connection OF some thirty-four years
duration-Or more than generation
The pamphlet contains fifty.six pages
and 10 occupied with the addresses, poems
letters, &C, incident 10 the occasion, all
ol which have Of course very decided In.
terest for the numerous friends and
patrons Of Mrs. HANNA and the institu-
ton over which she SO long and effect
ually presided. Among the papers con-
tanned in the pamphlet Is an editorial
from the New York Tribune, written by
Mrs. RRBEccA HAHDMa DAVIS, formerly
oil this city graduate Of the class Of
1s4S; an address from Mrs. JULIA A,
PrERPoNT, graduate Of the class Of 1s47
and also an address by Mrs. HANNAH
LIST HOPKINS, formerly Of this city, q
graduate Of the class Of 1945.
Washington Seminary was founded in
1885, and was frat under the charge oil
Mrs. FRANCIS BIDDLE, of Philadelphia,
who with one assistant lat a joint salary
Of 5000 opened it with 40 pupils. The
institution was formally incorporated in
1888 and among the Trustees was DR..
LRMoYNE, who alone survlves'ol the orig.
inal Trustees. In 1887 the price of board
at the Seminary was $1.75 per week; tut.
ton in the primary class $40; junior class
$l5, and in the senior, $21 per annum.
The building was burned down in 1s49,
but Immediately rebuilt In 1850 the
school was closed for time in conse-
quence Of fever that broke out.
In the course OF her address to her old
friends and pupils, Mrs. HANNA alluded
to her experience at Wheeling and Zenia,
at the time she was nominally in charge
Of the Seminary here and st that place.
She says that experience taught her that
zone school Is as much as any one person
can manage to advantage" She explains
the way she came to be connected with
these schools as follows:
II wish to explain a little how 1t was
that l came 10 take charge oil these
schools. Twas ANXIOUS 10 do many things
for this school which were not In my
power, as l did not own 1t, and desired
to buy 1t from the trustees. But the
Board did not feel that they had the
power to sell, and probably did not think
1t best 10 do so. Having few thousand
dollars which wished TO use to advance
the cause Of female education, invested
It elsewhere. l was solicited by some Of
the leading citizens oil Xenia to assist
them in erecting building and establish.
Ing a seminary In their town. paid
half the money required for the building
and was nominally the head Of the school
for several years. visited It frequently,
and 1t prospered for time; but was
unable TO give 1t that constant personal
supervision which was necessary; and
this fact, together with bad business man.
sgement on the part OF others, prevented
the success we had hoped. The building
was subsequently, sold, and has for some
years been used as music school.
u was also urged by some gentlemen
In Wheeling 10 assist them in reopeniug
their Seminary, which had been closed
for some time, by allowing my name to be
used, and giving my influence. At their
desire l recommended my friend here,
Mrs. Carrier (then Miss Bandelle), to take
charge. She was highly competent and
Satisfactory, but at the end Of year she
was married, and left. That Seminary
went under my name for nine years, being
in the care Of severAl different Vice Prin-
cipals, Miss Brittan and others. Having
allowed my name to be used, l felt il
necessary to sustain the character my
name gave, and to exert my influence IN
its behalf. At the end Of nine years
gave up all care Of 1t, when 1t was sold
and Is now under tho influence of the
Methodist denomination.
"In both Xenia and Wheeling I re.
ceived much kindness from the citizens,
and had many warm friends. l have
very pleasant recollections Of both places
and Of the teachers and pupils in both
institutions. The only drawback upon
the pleasure l experienced at the Re-
union, Is, that cannot see here with US
the teachers and graduates OF those
schools. I feel that good work was
done there for the cause Of education; but
in pecuniary point Of view they were
not successful, and lost something in
each OF them"
Concerning Mrs. HANNA and her emf
nent fitness for the lie work which she
performed at Washington Seminary, Mrs,
GAMBLE, the historian Of the Seminary,
on the occasion referred to, thus spoke
"she took charge, and new energy and
"vigor were at once Infused into the In
"stitution: order and neatness prevailed,
land the impulse Of great executive sbil'
"lty was at once felt in the growth and
"prosperitY Of the school and Its influence
sin the community"
According to Mrs. REBECcA HARDING
DAVIS article In the Tribune, MARGARET
FULLER many years ago called attention
lin her book entitled "Woman in the
Nineteenth Century" to the work and
position OF Mrs. HANNA. And Mrs.
DAVIS herself tAus speaks o. Mrs. HANNA
and her qualifications:
"she knew, when choosing her work,
apparently what few women care TO
know, precisely what she could and
could not do. She was not meant to be
an artist or author, or even teacher par
excellence: but she had an exceptional
executive ability, and peculiar fitness
for managing and controlling the young.
She made her work therefore the found
| ing and oversight Of schools, having un-
der her,charge at one time three large and