Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-09-09
OUR SCHOOLS.
Good OPENING LAST MOnday Morning.
THE soUrHwEsrERN UNIVERSITY

THE SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
opened this term about as we'll as
usual, about eighty matriculations.
There is some fall off in the prepare
tory department Only three days of
the term has expired up to present
writing, therefore the number of pu-
pills now enrolled is no just criterion as
te what it viii be when fairly under
way. Very many who are expected to
enter will be from a distance, and, as
is usually the case, the full quota does
not come in for the first week. The
prospect for full attendance is very
encouraging, and the Faculty are SAN
guine as to the future of this institu-
ton. Everything is perfected for
| thorough instruction, and no friend of
the University doubts its signal sue
cess for the collegiate term of '76 and
". We have travelled from point to
point in this and surrounding States
recently, and have been made to feel
proud to hear words of commentator
in behalf of our college and commune
ty. The President, Dr. Shearer, is
known far and wide as an indefatiga-
bic worker and gentleman of enlarged
culture, and the many graduates sent
out to various points of the sunny
South are walking advertisements of
the efficiency of the University, and
the moral worth of the faculty and the
community in which they live.
GAINESVILLE FEMALE ACADEMY.
This institution has undergone a
thorough change. The brush of the
painter and the furniture man and up
holsterer have been called into requi- |
sition, and everything, inside and out,
now presents most inviting and COM
Portable aspect. 1t has all the COM
forts and surroundings of home-life,
and inspires in the pupil love for the
place and love for study. Make a
school-room or a home attractive, and /
the inmates are sure to be happy and
contented. All this, and more, has
been accomplished by DR.. Plummer,
the President, and his excellent wife.
The faculty is the best-the rooms
tidy and newly furnished-the board /
ing department from cuisine to dining |
hall is perfect-and the smiling, cheer
full countenances of the eighty pupils
already enrolled there attest the truth |
of what we say. Many more pupils
are promised and expected soon. Those
there at present are chiefly in the col
lege classes. Out Of this number some /
Is or 20 are boarding pupils. Mrs.
Plummer will act in the capacity of |
matron, and will see to it that all are
made to feel perfectly at home. The
Dr. could not secure better matron
if ne were to offer a large salary, for
to be brief, Mrs p. combines all the
requisites to carry out this essential
part of frst-class school. The sue
cess of this school we condsider fixed
fact.
BRoADHURsT's SELECT SCHOOL.
This new school for public patronage,
is under the control of r. A. Broad
hurst and Lady, and is pleasantly To-
Gated at what is known as the Peart
place. Mr.. Broadhurst is eminently
competent, and brings forty years ex-
perience as teacher to recommend him
to the public. The arrangement of
the school-room is good, the discipline
firm but mild, and thorough work his
aim and motto. This school opened
Monday last with 80 pupils.
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Miss Sallie Howard, Mrs. Lizzie
Bib, Mrs. Rhodes, and others, COM
menced their private schools, and the
public schools are in full blast, but
our space forbids any detailed mention
of them. We will pay our best re-
spects to them soon, and endeavor to
do them that justice their merits de-
serve.
We cannot forbear one more thought
that GAINESVILLE offers as great edu-
cational advantages as any city in this
broad land of ours.