The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-01

to inform our readers that the enter
prising friends and Officials Of the
Winchester Normal are making their
building and grounds all that labor can
accomplish and good taste can sus-
gest.
The chapel has been thoroughly
renovated, making this important
apartment all that could be desired for
a first. class Collegiate institution. 1t
has been relieved of all its former de-
fects by the most skillIul mechanics,
Being newly kalsomined in a modest,
light finish, and the entire wall to a
proper high. being prepared for chalk
exercises. gives to the chapel an ap-
pearance in which beauty and utility
are most happily combined. 10 this
Improvement there has been a new
fight of stairs run from n o. the
smaller rooms in the rear of the builds
ing, leading to an apartment which was
made by a partition through the chap
ell. While this new room delracls
nothing from the main chapel, it will
he OF great advantage to the building.
Two very large doors on rollers make
an entrance from this room to the
chapel, thus converting the room at
once into q beautiful and convenient
rostrum for the purpose of eXamina'
tons and public entertainments. The
new stair way which we have just men-
toned, as we learn from the Faculty,
will he used alone rs the entrance for
the young ladies, the young gentlemen
entering the chapel from the other cx
IRENE. The arrangement shows much
care, and will bc without a fault in its
adaptation to a school for boys and
girls.
The Department Of Music will be in
a room elegantly fitted up for the pur-
pose, and is located on the second
floor. and just to the left of the front
entrance to the chapel.
The two spacious apartments in
which the Languages and Mathematics
will be taught. are modcrnlzed until
we hardly recognize them as being the
same old rooms.
A large, well ventilated room has
been arranged for the Primary and
Preparatory schools, which will con
tribute to every physical convenience
Of the pupils of those departments.
To all the above improvements and
c%onvcnirnces, the building has beer
supplied with the latest improved
school-desks-a desk North about fu.
dollars for eaeA pupil. We'll did Prot
Caldwell, Superintendent of Nashville
City Schools, observe that Winch estel
raised one hundred per cent. higher in
his estimation. when he entered the
Winchester Normal a few week, since
The rooms are all beautifully kali
somined, no two rooms being shaded
alike, mud the chapel has a large anc
beautiful silver finished chandelier
which adds much to the appearance o
that elegant apartment, at the sam
time eminent. fulfilling Its mission al
an illumination.
The grounds Of the College are now
being graded and gra'eled. Pleasan
walks have been made, leading from
the most prominent streets Of TIT
town, and all terminating at the larg'
arched gate-ways. where they merg'
into broad, smooth gravel walks. lead
ing to the entrances Of the College
Tue cvcrgreens and shrubbery of va
rIous kinds which have recently beef
transplantcd within the large cnciosur'
of the College grounds add much t.
the beauty Of the place. In fact. ever.
convenience for a school Of the highes
order is to he seen in connection wit
the Winchester Normal. A cistern O
immense capacity will soon be com
ple,ed, and when all is done which !
upon the present programme, on
would naturally think, ii is enough
But, When we stood upon that beauti
fu! eminence and viewed the "landscap
o'er'-an eminence which was seem
ipgly designed Tor On Institution o
Learniug-we thought that there Wa
not another such grand scenery 10 tn
wide world, and that the citizens G
Winchester should add n other iteI
to the programme Of THE enterprise
viz: Tie opening Of the street IN fror
of the College. We understand tn.
the Faculty are willing to do all I'll
cocossarv GRADING fand Tho will he n