Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1874-11-19
A Male School.

coin county, and all who may fellirtcrested: /
Prof. Z. NJ. Fisher, formerly
of Marshall county, and an cx-
pcricnccd teacher, has brought
his family and household goods
to Fayetteville and is now acit-
zen of this place, identified with
its interests. Teaching is his
business; he has come to engage
in that business. He will open
Il school on the fourth day of
January, 1875, to be known as
"FayetteviIle High, School for
boys" Unless some better ar
engagement can be made before
that time, The building former
ly owned by the colored NJ. f.
Church, after being thoroughly
renovated and painted, will be
used to begin with. Just here
is the place to say that i, the
writer of this article, am al
ready identified with this enter
prise in feeling, and will be in
fact, if it should become neces-
sary, even before the next ses-
sion of our Annual Conference,
at which time, should it be tho
pleasure of the Conference aud
of the Bishop who may preside,
] expect to be appointed to that
particular work. -e
Having said this much it is
scarcely necessary to add, that
the school will be placed, as We
term it, under the patronage, of
the Tennessee Conference. Ey-
cry body knows, however, that
so far as the internal workings
of, a school are concerned, this
being under the patronage Oh
control of any particular church
means nothing sectarian. / was
educated at a Baptist school,
and in that schoolthe Scriptures
were read and prayer offered
every morning; so it will
be in this. We think the his
tory of schools has demonstrated
that, aside from endowed insti-
tutions, individual enterprises
under the patronage of particu.
lar churches, have generally
been the most vigorous and sue.
cessful. We believe it would
be best for all concerned, if VIZ
could both own the property
and be responsible for the sue.
cessful conduct Of the school
But We have hot sufficientmean:
at orr disposal to purchase
school property and pay for il
promptly, and it occurs to IL:
that the best way to obtain
means at such a time as this i,
to offer stocks of one hundred
! dollars each. With the money
paid forithese stocks, ground
could be purchased and build
ings erected, The purchase
of these stocks, if a patron Of
Of the school, could send hi
children without the paymcn
of any tuition, until at the com
mon rates of tuition, he Shout,
cover the amount of his stock
: which would then GO back int,
the hands of the proprietors o.
. the school. If the purchase
were not a patron he could hol,
:. his stock until the proprietor
could buy it in-the time bcin,
3 specified.
I Such a plan amounts to this
: you advance the money to ere
ate school property, and within
a given time receive it all back
tand if the school should not b
successful enough to enable til
/. proprietors to pay, then yO,
: have the property and suffer IL
L loss. We are casting about 70
u location, and for the erection
: of suitable buildings as the
. may be needed. This is not a
: experiment to be abandoned j
: not Immediately successful
We have already crossed owe
and burned the bridge, and i
, the adventure fail, We will SUI
J fer loss. If this enterprise con
fiicts with the plans or interest
of any other man, or class O.
. men, We are ignorant of tn
= fact. We do not intend an
such thing. The gate stood o
/. pen and We thought we Nigh
enter. We ask the co-opera
: ton of all who desire to bull
up the educational interests O
this community. We propos
t to adopt such a course of text
= books as will be preparatory
e entering the Vanderbilt Univel
/. sity, when we learn what text
: books will be embraced in thei
curriculum. Until then we wi
l use as far as possible such book