The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-06-02
MILAN COLLEGE.
Editor EXCHANGE:

Editor Exchange:
would like to say few words to
the people through the medium of
your journal, in regard to the College.
For ten years, the schools here
have been struggling to keep in ex-
istence. Subscription schools at the
College, outside private schools, and
three months free schools have all
proved failures. The reasons are OBJ.
vious. In little private schools at
the homes of citizens, there is moth
ing to awaken an interest in the pu-
pills; the subscription schools at the
College have been broken down by
alterations with free school, for as
soon as a successful school of fifty or
sixty pupils would get under good
headway, the free school would pour
in two hundred children, and throw
everything into confusion. Under
stand that | am not opposed to pub
lie schools, but am opposed to the
present system. There is not money
enough, and until the legislators of
Tennessee take the matter into their
own hands, and pass law, over the
heads of their constituents, to raise
sufficient tax to support nine
months school every year, the free
schools of our land will forever be
miserable burlesques. Our town has
nearly four hundred children and the
public fund this year was 500, or
not quite two dollars head. You
can't educate four hundred children
on 500. The present money is not
sufficient to employ walters for third
class restaurant, much less accom-
plished and polished teachers for a
large high school. l say you can't
employ teachers for seven hundred
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dollars, and when l say teachers, /
mean educators. and not some fellow
! who has failed at everything else and
concludes he can teach school.
Now, l have leased the college
building from the trustees for the
ensuing ten months, and 1 call upon
the good citizens for support in laud
, able enterprise. 1 intend to furnish
r your children with instruction which
is worth every dollar you pay for it
: Teachers will be employed, regardless
: of expense. An accomplished mu'
t sician will occupy room at the Col
lege. Everything will be taught tina
: can be taught in any college in Yves
e Tennessee. We can't offer the sam,
d advantages that Harvard, Yale, o
y Vassar, may afford, but do say tha
l. if my students don't learn as fast a
Il any who 60 off to other schools ii
Tennessee, III giue them tuition free
The school will open Septembe
1st, and continue thirty six weeks
u Tuition per term in primary depart
II ment, $500; in preparatory, S27.00
: in collegiate, $4,000; or at the rate
70 of two, three and four dollars pc
month. In return for what we offer. W
e want payment quarterly in advance
D. or for two and one quarter month:
IS We don't propose to furnish an aims
,r house or a hospital, but a thorough
'. first class college, which will be pre-
= pared to confer degrees upon gradu
,e ates, and offer all ordinary collegiat
d advantages. In aduance, is not mere
e. ly put down for forms sake, but eac
" patron must pay for one quarter {
e. two and quarter months, before Ell
tering his children, and he shall hay
$, value received. l will oe absent o
'' a visit to Georgia in a few days, br
will soon return and put my cata
logues before the people.
" Respectfully,
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