St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1883-04-14
COVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL.

EDITOR ST.. TAMMANY FARMER:
What speaks more commercially
for q town, or what fills the minds
of its people with o keener sense OF
appreciation for the grand and
beautiful, or even excites and
arouses a deeper love for one
another and for Natures God, than
the fact Of knowing that within its
boundaries there is a school which
bids fair to prove blessing to the
rising generation, since, upon the
holding and shaping of their in
tellects depends the future pros
perity or adversely of the town.
Covingtou can we'll boast that
she has an institution to-day, of
which any of her sister towns would
be proud. a progressive, non-sec-
tartan, self-supporting institution,
managed and ruled by thorough
and competent teachers, who, by
their unceasing efforts and indie
fatigable attention, have, in the
space of its brief existence, elevated
it to such point that now it stands
pre-eminent, and is recognized as
the first school in the parish. Such
is the Covingtoa High School.
This school, though it has q
glorious past. and anticipates G
bright, unclouded future, is in need
Of o new building-an urgent need
AS the present one is old, dilapi-
dated. incommodious and unfit for
anything, save what it appears to
have been intended for, q private
dwelling, and very poor one at
that. This need is urgent-abso-
lutely SO! What eye, after gazing
upon the external appearance of
that edifice, would transmit it to
the brain as q school-house? Who
would think that the present struc-
ture could accommodate the num-
Der OF pupils that it does, as we'll as
it does, and could claim thu we'll
known name and reputation that it
bears?
The FARMER seid, some weeks
ago, (and by no means too soon,
that Covington needed public
hall. How true! How right it
it was! Not only a public hall,
but q good school-house. Would
there we're more activity in our
good little town! Would that our
fe!low-townsmen would stir from
their seemingly lethargic state, and,
DOMINIC the cloak of generosity and
ambition, say. "let us supply this
great need; build a two-story struc-
ture. the upper floor of which may
serve IS public hall, and the lower
one accommodate our model High
School" Already q great deal of
interest is shown in the matter; q
prominent citizen, good patron and
friend Of the school has offered O
nice tract Of land, admirably stu
ated high and dry; and if the hon.
orable gentlemen who incorporated
and founded this school can but
meet with some outside assistance
and support, we will have, in the
course of o few months. a hand
some structure, an ornament to the
town, and pride to its contribu-
tors. There is no time more peril
nent and feasible for agitating and
discussing this question than the
present, since the scholastic term
OF 1928 is nearing its close, and
ere the sun of the next session rises
this ship for educating the young
can be launched upon the great
deep, ready to receive and be pro-
PEELED by the gentle zephyrs Of en-
couragement and support, which
only are wanting in assisting to
shape and form the youthful minds
entrusted to it's care.
We occasionally hear the remark
that Covippton has long since pass