Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-10
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Closing Exercises Of PinSOn High school.
Crops, General Items, &c

P.NsON, MADISON COUNTY, TENx.,
Saturday, June 3, 1876.
Mcssrs Editors:
Yesterday and day before were occu-
pied with the examinations and closing
exercises of the Higk School here, fo~ the
first session OF this year. A large num-
Der of people attended, and manifested
mRch interest and satisfaction. At the
closing concert and exhibition last night,
about one thousand persons were present.
Pinson High School opened under the
present management in Nov, 1878, has a
board of Trustees, five in number, with
\. ;. Rogers, an influential and energet-
ic citizen as President. There are four
teachers, Prof. J. c. Wright, President
or Principal Miss Christina Richardson,
Teacher in instrumental and vocal mu-
sic; Mrs. E. c. Wright, Teacher in draw
ing, painting, ornamental work, &c, and
Mr.. B. I. Richardson, Assistant in Liter
AIRY department.
Prof. Wright is yet young man, tho
he has many years experience in success
ful teaching. He received thorough
education, closing his course at Lexing-
ton University, ny, and is native of
Gibson county, Tenn. Walnut Grove
Seminary in that county was conducted
by him for seven years since the war,
and in 1S72-73 he had charge of Milan
College one year. He is a progressive,
energetic teacher, and his schools are
popular. The school at Pinson has had
over one hundred scholars the past ses-
sion, about sixty girls and forty boys.
Each scholastic year since it opened, Nov.
1S73-over one hundred scholars have
been recorded, and these are from the i'm
mediate community
The school building is one story, capa-
cious, and would admit $50 or more pu-
pills, is in shape of an L, has four large
rooms or halls, and one or two small
rooms, piazzas, &e. 1t is well supplied
with desks of the best model, and other
conveniences. Before the next session
closes it is intended to furnish the Insti
tute with apparatus for illustration in
Astronomy, and also Chemistry, and 9TH
er valuable improvements will be added.
OF the boys six or seven were In the
higher languages and branches of learn
ing, and they are reported as proficient
in their studies. They are young men
nearly grown, and their speeches Friday
night were remarkable fer good delivery,
ease and grace in eHunciation, and for
good sense and elOqusnee n-tls -sssbject-
matter. Some of these speeches were
original, and showed profound thought
hardly to be expected from pers0ns so
young. But we see plainly that grown
boys now feel the need of education, and
go to school for the good of it. They
learn more, and learn faster, than boys
in the Olden time, their young minds
have caught the impulse of the age, and
thew are trained TO the necessities of the
times sooner. And the method of teach
ing is so much more advanced now, in
struetion impaired in greater variety,
and knowledge presented in a hundred
new ways. Since facilities are so much
greater we need not feel surprised at
greater results.
Among the original efforts, special no.
tice may be made of schools, Gin their
national or general character and effeet)
by A. J. Groom, rich i'm ideas; Effects of
Time, by B. 4. Richardson, able and
ehaste in thought and expression; De-
fects Of the South, by w. r. Ripley; and
also Vanity of Human Pride, by c. h.
Rainey, the easiest, best and most dis
tinct declaimer of the occasion. OF the
girls fifteen or twenty are nearly grown,
and several of these read original compo-
sftions, and others detained, recited or
read selections Miss Anna Mays and
Miss Lucy Cherry read original compost
lions, that would do credit, both in the
reading and discussion of the subject, to
older heads. Miss Sallie Rainey, and
several others whose names we did not
get, performed their reading and other
exercises very well.
Friday nights entertainment lasted
from n. P. NJ. to u, and was a pleasing
and constant variation of speech, dia-