The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-03-14
For the Citizen.l
EDUCATION.
At Bohemian and Slate Springs.
For the Citisen.l

| AT Bo0en1am anu SIaLe springs.
1t is now our happy privilege to
sit beneath the refreshing shadows
of two fourishing academies, each
gathering in its neat, spacious reel
tation hall about forty pupils.
These institutions OF learning have
both already been fayorably men
toned by Cupid and Henri. The
principals, Profs. VIM. Anderson
and John Campbell, are young men
of energy and culture-the one ed
ucated at Giles College, Pulaski,
Tenn, the other at Mars Hill Col
lege, near Florence, Ala. As far as
we have been informed they are
both giving full and general salts
faction, and we have no doubt that
their efforts will be attended with
the brightest ultimate success. 1t
is the ardent wish of the friends of
education that the good work, so
happily and successfully begun,
may go on with continually increas
ing interest until these two acade-
mics shall become celebrated as
founts Of learning where the youths
of our country may come and
drink OF perennial waters, refresh,
brighten, develop, and strengthen
their intellect for noble battle upon
the grand arena of life.
Bohemian is in its incipiency. 1t
will doubtless have its hard strug-
giles. 1t may have bitter oppos!-
ton, but God grant that it may be
able to withstand whatever storms
may sweep upon it, ever bearing
aloft to the breezes of heaven its
unfurled banner, a sure token Of
hope and victory TO all who may
gather beneath its waving folds.
Slate Springs has the prestige If
age, and already enjoys an envIable
reputation. In the years that have
gone to mingle with the great roll
ing ages OF eternity, many noble
young men and fair young girls as
sembled here and took long and
deep draughts from the limpid
stream of knowledge, as they sat
under the mastery instruction of
our honored Prof. Yancey and 9TH
ers who were faithful to the high
trust committed to them. On memo
RVS golden pinions we fly and there
flash up before US names of those
who sat, stood, walked, talked, re-
cited and played with US there
names forever embalmed in our bo-
soms-sweetly treasured deep down
in the sacred recesses of our hearts.
Like the joyous meeting of ships
upon>~the great ocean we met, we
saluted, we parted-some of us to
meet no more until we pass the
bright gates beyond the clouds.
Some have chosen the high calling
of administering to the sick, and we
hear of them rising toward eminent
usefulness in the medical profess
sion: Others have taken upon them
selves the grave responsibilities of
the attorney at law, and as they
stand before the tribunals of our
country pleading the cause of the
wronged and oppressed, are win
ming laurels-may they be fadeless
laurels-yea, as fadeless as the
evergreens that adorn the hills of
eternity: others, clothed as ambas-
sailors of heaven, are standing as
sentinels on lions walls calling
upon sinners exposed to eternal
dangers to seek eternal shelter be-
meath the rifted side of the crucified
Redeemer; and others still-sad to
say tin the stormy years of the
past found nameless graves on dis
tant fields of bivuac and battle,
"With no columns highly wrought affec-
tons tale to tell,
Nor marble slab, nor granite shaft, to tell US
how they fell"
In conclusion, we would express
the wish that Slate Springs Acade
my under the efficient leadership of
Prof. Campbell may rush forward
and upward to that emirence upon
which it stood in its earlier and
PALMER days, and in its future years
may bright halo of literary glory
gather about 1t, pouring a flood OF
light upon its time worn desks that
shall allure the student of science,
history and literature. up toward
the dizzy heights pressed by the
triumphant footsteps of Bacon, Keep
Ter, Newton, Herschel, Dana and
Agassiz. And may the light that
fills the halls of Bohemian be not
less brilliant. T. S.
Bohemian, March I'd.