Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-09-01
Emory and Henry College ana Rev. A.

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Goodloe.
| To the Chronicle.
"Better late than never" is a time
honored adage. Your Paper of
June 30th very recently came into
my hands and even then by special
request, L quote at length from
your correspondent, Rev. A. T.
GoodIoe, as follows;
DEAR CHRONICLE Il see in a
recent number of the Nashville Ban
ner an account of the closing eXer-
cises of the McTyeire Institute, To-
Gated at Mckenzie, Tenn, which is
very gratifying to this correspon-
dent ia AS much as the Senior Prfn-
ciple is "fiesh of his flesh and bone
OF his bone" Among other things
it is said: There is no sham work
done at McTyeire Institute. Messrs.
| GOodlOe and Williams probe to the
bottom and lay the best foundation
for thorough education. This in
stitution is decidedly the best youths
training school in West Tennessee.
1t is growing in popular favor
! abroad. There were enrolled this
session upwards Of 140 pupils, and
| the prospects for the future are
bright"
This school, unlike Emory and
Henry ColIe9e, so called, with its
12S pupils, bestoWes no compliment
tary degrees upon any one. So with
Webb's School at Culleoka with its
| 1863 pupils it beStOWS honorS only
| fhn.,n madam
their training. So, it seems to me.
it ought to be in every institution
of learning 4 member of the
Memphis Conference has recently
received the degree of DOctO2' Of Di-
entity from little college" at
TuIlahOma, which has about 100
pupils-mostly local patronage. 1t
+ has come TO be saying among
| school-men that when ID. Ds, l..
DIS, l.. l.. DIS, &c. begin 10 flow
out from the sO-called college, that
they are in dying condiditiOn, and
so in need of quick help and much
of it. Let them all do honest work
and they will live. otherwise they
ought to die.
All honor to. Messrs. Webb and
their excellent School at CulleOka;
and peace and prosperity TO
McTyeire Institute at Mckenzie,
under Messrs. G6odloe and Will
Iiams Not one tile would l take
from their house-tops-no one stone
from. their foundations, not one tim
Der, board nor nail from their SUI
perstructure nor would pluck
one feather, or dim an honor worn
or won by these noble training
schools; but would ever rejoice in
their success and gladly see them
and more like them honOred at
home and grow ''in popular favor
abroad" log .....-
/ confess that am and have been
at loss to, know the intention,
spirit and true d1linluS of DR.. Good
Ioe in his unfortunate, unwise and
unwarranted attack on Emory and
Henry College. Surely, DIR. Good
lOe knows that the number of pu-
pills is no true index of the charac
ter of a school or college: why then
his invidiOus comparison founded
alone on numbers as test? Sure
Iy DIR. GoodIoe knows the difference
between a "traiuing SCHOOL, and II
college why then does he institute
the comparison and why indulge
the intteadOS, Emory and Henry COL
Lege $50 called" Prof. GOodlOe of
McTyeire Institute, "fesh of his
flesh and bone of his bone", was ed
ucated at Emery and Henry Col
lege, if mistake not, and DIR Good
loe is no ignOya1nos or | could over
look his $50 called"
DIR. GoOdloe knows as well as | |
do that Emory and Henry College |
has eXerted and made noble rec
ord under the patronage of the HOl-
stonI Conf. NJ. E. Church South for
more than forty years has done
more good at less cost to the church
than any college in the South and
is esteemed the best college IN Va.
and grades second only to the Uni
versity of Va. and yet he says, $50
called" DR.. G0odloe knows many
of her Alumni where they rank and 7
what their influence: Esq. w. e.
Peters, l.. l.. D., Prof. University
Va. Jno. l.. BuchannOn, L., L.. d.,
late Prof. Vanderbilt University,
C. +. Vowter, A. NJ, Pres't Miller
Institute, Va. and nearer homo
Prof. Minis, Frank Williams Esq,
A. E. Jones, Esq, DR.. Leffwitch and
others of Nashville, and scores al
through the South and West and
why dare he say $50 Called" DIR.
GoodlOe knows Rev. DIR. Sullins,
Pres't Emory and Henry College
and his worthy associates Profs.
Longley, Davis, Price, Hoss and
Jordan--all good, true experienced
and able men-all, except Prof.
Longley, graduates of Emory, and
yet Dr Goodloe says of Emory and
Henry College, SO called; DIR. Good
loe could not have written as he
cid, because Of ignorance, we can't
think that, could it have been the
result OF mere carelessness or loose
ness; hardly so, for that is not
of the careful Secre-
tary. Can it be that "fesh of his
flesh and bone of his bone" so filled
his heart as to blind his eyes with
selfish nepotism and lead him to
thrust indiscriminate blows on II,
any-all so that he might promote 4
the glory of his son the Associate
of McTyeire Institute;
the taste under all the circumstances
was doubtful, not TO say bad, in the
invidious and uncalled for compari
son. Surely expected better taste
and more fairness from my good
brother Goodloe.
Can it be that the monster jeal- .
ously, green-eyed, perverted the cor
rect view of DIR. Goodloe and made