The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-11-17

AoeI peFlOQlcal OF the presbyterian
church in the South was edited with dis
tinguished ability and sent out through
the land to fix in the minds of the peo-
pie those stern principles of virtue and
morality which has marked the denomi-
nation in the South for generations.
No better locality could be selected
for female college. The village is a
quiet place, back from the great routes
of travel and commerce The inhabit-
ants are sober, moral, industrious and
frugal But few of the ladies Of the viii
1age are the silly daughters of folly and
fashion of other and larger towns
There is not much drunkenness or gam
bling among the men. Nearly every
man, woman and child attends church
Living here is as cheap as it is anywhere
in the United States.
THE FACULTY
Rev. A. W. Wilson, native of Greene
county Tennessee, is the President, and
has the exclusive, untrammeled control
of the college. Prof w is a man sin
gularly well qualified for the place He
has been teaching all his life, and has
wide reputation as a teacher His dis
cipline, while firm, is mild, gentle and
parent-like. The girls all respect, love
and obey him. As the teacher and man
ager of large female school the Profess
sor is a splendid success, and the institu-
ton under his charge is obliged to flour
ish. He is ably and well assisted by
Mrs. Mag. K. Walker Miss NJ Estelle
Rankin and Miss Belle Moore in the lit
erary department Miss Sue r. Crouch
is the music teacher. All these ladies
are thoroughly qualified for the places
they fill. They are conscientious, in
dustriOus, piOus ladies, and will look
well to the improvement Of the minds
and the full development of the moral
and social and domestic virtues of the
young girls placed in their charge.
THE COLLEGE BUILDINGS.
The main or centre building is ninety
feet long, fifty feet wide, and three sto-
ries high. Each story is twelve feet high
The first floor is divided by ten foot
hall, extending the entire length, and d
hall from the front door to this centre
hall in four equal parts Two of these
subdivisions are not divided The one
on the northeast is used for parlOr, and
the one on the southwest for a dining
room. The other two-fourths are divid- |
ed into two rooms each.
The halls on the second floor are SINH |
lar to to those on the fourth. One-fourth |
of the floor is used as library; the 9th
er tFTree-fourths are sub-divided into six |
rooms. Half of the third story is divid- |
ed into four rooms; in the othe' half |
there is no hall, and the space is divided |
into two large dOrmitOries. All these |
rooms are now in most excellent c0ndi-
tion. The light, ventilation and means /
of warming cannot be surpassed.
The east wing is fifty feet long, thirty
feet wide, and three stories high. The
first story is the only one completed in
this wing. The two upper stories are
not pIastered. The windows and floors
are completed.
The west wing is the same in dimen-
sions, but four stories high, there being
a basement, formerly used for a dining
room. The second and third stories are
divided into two rooms, 25x36 feet, for
school rooms. The fourth story is all
one room, and the large dormitory, or
sleeping hail. The plan of the present
control Is to divide this into rooms of
size. Attached to the west
wing is an ell 2Ox32 feet, three stories
high. The first floor was formerly used
for kitchen, now for a laundry. The
second and third stories each contain
two rooms.
Twenty feet from the main buildings
a two-story building, with a cellar This
is now used as a kitchen. In rear of the
building, extending the length and half
way across the end of the main building, |
the west wing and ell is a porch twelve
feet wide, three stories high, and one
hundred and ninety feet long
The walls are all in good condition.
All the windows have been refilled with
glass, and the window blinds repaired or
Temade and newly painted
THE BOARDING HOUSE
This important department has fallen
into excellent hands. Mr.. r. J. KidwelI
and his lady are the managers. Mr.
Kidwell's family at present is a large
ono, numbering, all told, something over
fifty members; and yet everything moves
on with the regularity and order Of
weIl-regulated private family. The ia
bles are plentifully supplied with nutri-
cious, healthful food, the private rooms
of the boarders are kept in neat and ex-
cellent order, while all the wants and
comforts of the girls are looked after
with the same vigilance and christian
kindness which could possibly be exer-
cised by sensible, good parents at their
private homes. No fears need be enter
tanned by those who contemplate send
ing their daughters here but what they
will be cared for with al the affection
and kindness that can be bestowed by
honorable man and good
Christian woman. Mr.. K and his wife,
as well as the President, seem TO sylnpa-
Eliize with the girls in their little, sad
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