Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-04
A Generous Notice of Miss Taylor and
Her school at Wheeling.

Her School at Wheeling.
The following, which We clip from tie
Grafton Sentinel, shows that Miss Taylor,
President OF the W. +. College, is gain
my many friends for the Institution
thr ,ughout our State:
Perhaps there is not a town in the
State with population OF 1000 that re-
ceives more visits from prominent min
listers, popular lecturers, eloquent plat
form speakers, efficient temperance
workers, and advanced educators, than
does the town of Grafton. The last WIS.,
itor OF prominence was OF the class last
named, in the person OF Miss A. Taylor,
NJ. A., President of Wheeling Female
College. Having visited the West Nlr-
ginia Educational Association held al
Murgantown, last week, and having de
liveTed the browning address OF the oc-
casion on the subject "Higher Educd-
tion," she made her appearance in Graf.
ton, where she was greeted byher many
friends and former pupils. among the
number being Misses }. Birdie Wilson
and Grace Allen, both of whom gradual
ted from Miss Taylor's college last Juae
She also visited numbered the young
ladies of Grafton who contemplate start
ing to college next fall, and we believe
they are thoroughly convinced that it
will be to their interest to attend the
Wheeling Female College.
Miss Tay lor is graduate OF Oakland
College, near Philadelphia, Pa. She
was one OF the women for whom the
world had a place, and was waiting,
having stepped of the graduating plat
form into the Presidency OF a Seminary
at Lewishurg, Pa, where she remained
ten years, and built up a most flourish
ing institution. Her health having fail
ed, she travelled year in the West In
dies, spending the winter in Cuba.
Thence she returned to the United States
and accept ID the Presidency OF a school
at Glenn's Falls y. y where she re.
manned, doing effectual work, until six
years ago, when she accepted the Presi-
dency OF Wheeling Female College, over
which she has presided ever since with
unparalleled success.
Miss Taylor is lady OF refined man.
ners, broad culture, wide erudictioR and
thorough scholarship. She IS we'll
versed in Literature, familiar with the
sciences, and has thorough knowledge
of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and the mod.
ern languages, besides having completed
course in medicine. Her travels also,
which have extended all over the Uni.
ted States, besides the West Indies,
contribute not a little in making her
the rounded, cultured lady that she is.
She possesses fine social qualities, being
an eloquent listener as we'll as a brilliant
conversationuIiSt. Having in an emf.
nent degree the gift OF adoption, she
enters the cottages vi the poor with the
same easy manner as she does the
palaces OF the rich, making all feel that
ease and composure which is so often
absent in the humber homes when q
stranger crosses their thresholds.
Miss Taylor has achieved no mean
reputation as public speaker and teT-
perance worker, but We think she exec 8
chiefly as an educator. Having been
President OF a College for more than a
quarter of century, and having edu.
Gated more than 5000 young ladies, sic
has acquired that experience so indis-
pensble to her profession. She stands
abreast OF the times and alongside the
best educators OF the country, believing
no education worthy the name that has
not for its foundation the Christian reli-
gion. by giving prominence to the
Bible as Gods revealed word, and by
manifesting religious spirit in all exer.
cises and pursuits, she aims to inCulcate
into the minds of her pupils the pract-
cal lessons OF seeking first the kingdom
OF God as the best and only true method
of entering the kingdom of knowledge,
or the kingdom OF true success and real
greatness" In fine she aims TO make of
her pupils young ladies OF true culture,
genuine refinement, scholarly attain
ments, christian character, az we'll as
Queens OF their household" And in
this noble work she is seconded by the
most influential, cultured, and wealthy
citizens OF the city OF Wheeling. We
most cheeriully and heartily recommend
the Wheeling Female College to the
favorable consideration OF any persons
who may have daughters 10 educate, as
a college that furnishes thorough in.
struction, healthy discipline, pure NOR
atty, broad culture, and genuine chris
tian character. OBSERVER.