The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-13
NoMENCLAruRE OF OUR SCHOOL

NOMENCLATURE OF OUR SCHOOL,
If a stranger should happen to drop in here
| at our roll call any morning, which IS
very common occurrence, with what aston
| iShment would he listen to our daily Dill O
| fare! He would doubtless hear many name
| use of in a Female College. For instance
| he could not see the use of such medley o.
| names as an Allen, an Arg0, a Britt0H, BtGch
and White a Christian, a Coffee, Holder
a Pickett, a Price, u Smith, and a S1odftH. Anu
/ surely he would think, there is no need OF
| many Smart girls in it, But for his gratlh'
cation, will now proceed to explain tnt
propriety of all these things, 9y a ParIla!
| review of our roll call. In the nfSt place, II
| is necessary in all well regulated lnsttu-
lions, and more particularly in TINS OF ours,
to have Record to keep every thing IN o I
and an account of all our Spelling, Reading
and Writing. In fact, we do not see now
we could get along without our Record-to-
wit: Miss Dora Record.
in every great enterprise to have stroA9
arm as well as stout heart-So we nave our
two Armstrong;, Misses BetaUia ana Maggie.
And as the Greeks, in ancient tunes, When
about to embark upon a most wonderful
voyage, found it necessary to have the snip,
Argo, so we two, have Miss Laura Argo TO
accompany us on our Collegiate voyage.
And as the ancient Billions did much IN
England's History, to elevate and improve
her people, so the daily visits OF our FRIENDS,
Mary and Mamie Britton, as well as the
semi-OccasiOnal visits of Miss Cdddte, being
angelic in more ways than STEW and far be-
tween, nave UenueC greatly W 6ltN dtC anu
improve our society by their upright walk
and pleasant conversation. And as IL seem
ed good to our Creator to tinges his handl-
work with various hues and CotorS, so we
have Misses Lizzie and Fannie Hughes as well
as Misses Flora and Pdttie White ana ANN"
Hannah Black.
College is Cdnp-and that too an Indian
Camp: but who of us would think OF giving
up our dear, little India Camp. We nave
even more here than Noah had IN ms Ark
For although that venerable Patriarch was
himself preacher of righteousness, stu ne
had not single Christian in his crew. Wnlle
And 1 imagine that father Noah never
dreamed in his epicurean Philosophy OF
such a luxury cup of Coffee, while we
have Miss Leila Coffee with us as regularly
as the sun rises And although father \ oah
is accredited with having had great many
things is his cargo, still doubt seriously,
whether he had as many as we have, tor we
have one small Gross and two great Crosses:
which would amount mount to $500 in ali As to
whether there was such thing in the Ark
as a Holder to handle the vessels OF the
cooking stove, or hot irons in the culinary
department, the scripture account IS silent,
But we all know that we have Miss Ldd
Holder in the Preparatory department. Al
though we are vain enough to Halter our
selves that we live in a city, still like our
rustic farmers, we have our Lanes, P1cketts
and Meadows as though we resided in the
rdh and Margaret Ldn3, SdHIe Pickett, Elretho
and Mary Meddo,cs. The Bible informs us
IfIdt luDdI Oal1 was al III CNSAy
kind of N etal; hence there must have been
at an early dag. very many silver smiths,
gun smiths black smiths, etc., and this
accounts for the fact that We have 50
many Smiths in our day, and especially in
our schooI-viz: Florence, Alice, LYDIA, ReGeccd
and Minnie Smith. While we are compelled
to confess our great scarcity of birds and
fowls still we have the Scam in abundance,
as Misses ParaLee, TeRnie and Ale Scqnn
will personally testify. In the midst OF TINS
great medley, it would be exceedingly
Strange if we had no SMART girls but it hap
pens to be our peculiar lot to have more OF
these than any school in the State, and to
have more SMART girls than any other sort
viz: Misses Nay, Fannie, Lou, Ella, Jennie,
AHiRe and Annie Smart.
Withal, zee think our school very pleas
ant place; but then we must remember, II Is
not all pleasure
For without labor there is no gain,
So our music teacher is Miss PANE.
But
Our trials are settled without an attorney,
For our Judge and Law-giYer is PRESIDENT
BURNEY.
In conclusion, it would afford me great
pleasure to offer you these things without
money and without price," but this is I'M
possible to do, since Miss ARRu Price puts IN I
her personal appearance here every morn |
ing, to prevent this, our Scrfptural charity.
Ii would be utterly impossible for an archl-
tect to erect such a structure as this without |
a Mason, and you will therefore allow me 10 |
supply this great desideratum, by Subscrlo- |
Ing myself, Susie MASoN'