The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-11-10


ROgersyflle Female College.
II is generally known throughout all
this region of country that this institu-
ticn has been purchased BY the Presby-
terrain church, and that a first-cIass
school was opened there last August.
The college is la successful operation.
THE LOCATION.
Rogersville, is one Of the oldest towns
in East Tennessee, has always been no
ted for the quiet sobriety and conservat-
ism Of its people. They have also al
ways taken AN active interest in every
enterprise looking to the improvement
Of any portion of East Tennessee, and
have from the earliest days been the ad-
vocates Of liberal education. It was In
this village that the first newspaper
West of the Allegheny mountains was
printed-it was here that the first paper
devoted exclusively to railroads in the
world was published, and here the pio-
neer periodical 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 a female college. The village is a
quiet place, hack from the great routes
of travel and commerce The inhabit-
ants are sober, moral, industrious and
frugal. But few of the ladies of the vii
lage 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 q
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 splendid success, and the institu-
tion under his charge is obliged to -four
ish. He is ably aud well assisted by
Mrs. Mag. *. Walker, Miss NJ EsteIle
Rankin aud 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 III. They are conscientious, in-
dustFious, pious ladies, and viii look
well 70 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 q ten foot
hall, extending the entire length, and
hall from the front door to this centre
hall in four equal parts. Two of these
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 arc divid-
ID into two rooms each.
The balls ON the second floor are SINH
lar 70 to those on the fourth. One-f0urth
Of the door h used as q library; the 9TH