The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-09
Two School Catalogues.

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| Two School Catalogues.
A few days since the mail brougE
us the Annual Register of Marti
College, Pulaski, Tenn, and til
annual catalogue of Huntsville Fe
male College, Huntsville, Alabama
We feel an interest in and have
pride in both institutions, and re
ceiving the catalogues simultane
ously, commenced at once to exam
inc them. Evidently the respec
tive presidents are men of taste
adaptability and ar fat in the ar
of getting up attractive and well AT
ranged exhibits of the schools owe
which they preside, and if there
were no tangible or intangible evi
dence other than the catalogues
before us, the most incredible anC
Obtuse would at once be forced tt
say that w. X. Jones and A. B
Jones are the Fright men in the
right places
These catalogues show that the
two colleges have been well patron
lied during the past year, that they
are well manned with full and com
petent faculties; that they are sup
piled with extensive and valuable
philosophical and chemical appara
tus, that they are centrally located,
with spacious buildings of modern
architecture, that the rules and reg
ulations are such as to promote
the literary and moral culture OF
young ladies attending them, that
the course of study is replete and
that the necessary expenditures, in
point Of economy, will compare IA
vorably with those OF any other
first-class school.
The title page of Martin College
shows that the printing was done
at the CITIZEN office, in the town
where the college is located. The
title page of the Huntsville Female
College shows that the printing was
done in the city of Cincinnati, dis
tant about five hundred miles from
the location of the school. A gen
tleman, whose name is McCord,
living in Pulaski, owns and makes
a living by the printing press on
which w. K. Jones had his regis
ter printed, and on looking over
the list of pupils who attended NJ ar
tin College, we find the names of
four Misses McCord, from which
we learn that there has been a re
ciprocity of support going on be-
tween the college and the printer
the printer sends his children to
the presidents school and the pres
ident sends his copy" to the prin-
ter's press. A close examination
of the Huntsville College catalogue
failed to disclose any such inter
commercial transaction, any reci-
procity of support, at least on the
part of the printing Establish
ment that did the work for the
Huntsville president, for looking
over the list Of pupils there is a to-
tai absence of any evidence that
Cincinnati, or the state of Ohio,
contributed one particle of support
to the college. Huntsville, which
for thirty-three annual sessions has
nursed and supported the school,
is passed by and the president goes
Tor sends) to. Ohio that is not now
and quite likely never sent a pupil
a day to its recitation rooms. If
the printers of the state and those
of the Spring City follow this gen
erous (?) example they will hunt
educational advantages for their
daughters outside of Huntsville.
But then it is asked did not the
president have a right TO get his
catalogue printed in Ohio? Ger
tainly he had legal right, maybe,
not moral one, however. So the
Huntsville parent has the same
right to send his daughter to school
in Cincinnati; but it is not expec-
ted that he will do it, and if equal
advantages ale offered at home he
will not do it.
In justification of sending from
home to get this sort of printing
done, some have argued that they
get it done cheaper and better
abroad than at home, but,a compar-
ison of the catalogue printed at Gin
cinnati with the one printed at Pu-
laski would deter the Huntsville
president from making that expla
nation in this instance, and would
overthrow it if he did. The Hunts
vile catalogue is well gotten up but
placed at the side of the Pulaski one
one it is the positive degree so far
as the style and presswork is con-
cerned. The latter in every partic-
ular, even in quality and kind of pa
per,is furlong ahead,of the former.
We have shown the two to a gentle
man of good taste, good Judgment,
large observation and notable for
candor and sincerity, and he says
the Pulaski job gets away with the
Cincinnati one very much. We
have shown them to a practical
printer who has done such work
from early boyhood, an ex-editor,
ripe in years and full of experience,
and he says both are good jobs, but
in all that constitutes neatness,
modesty, diversity of style, harmo-
ny of arrangement, scientific me-
chanism, the CITIZEN office sur
passed the Elm Street Printing
Company. AS to the relative pri-
ces we are not advised, but will ven
ture the opinion that in this, as well
as the matter of style, the advan-
tage is in favor of the Pulaski
Catalogue. When a mutual Deepen
dence exist it should be recognized
and men, all men, in all positions
should act accordingly. We stand
on that hand and are ready to shiv-
er lhnces with all who antagonize
this correct principle Of acting.
There now! we have given the
Martin and the Huntsville colleges 6
free notice. such an one as they
never before had. If the Messrs.
Jones want to get any patronage
from this section of the country
they had better advertise theil