Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-09-03
INSTALLATION EXERCISES,
Hardin College Opens Under
favorable Auspices.
INSTALLATION OF THE NEW MAN
AGEMENT.
interesting Exercises.-Brfght Pros.
peet Tor a Fine SchooI.-Notes.

Hardin College opened yesterday
under the new management with a
bright prospect. The installation ex-
ercises last evening were not only
most interesting but instructive. a
large crowd was in attendance and
all showed their appreciation of what
vas said and done without reserva-
ton.
The exercises e opened with an
appropriate prayer by Rev. W. S.
Irimble. After music the keys we're
rendered to President Yancey by ex-
Gov. G. FL. Hardin in the following
appropriate and eloquent language:
PRoF. YANcEY-About this day
twelve years ago this institution was
opened for instruction. This time
embraced two administrations Of six
years each. As no catalogue was is
sued for 1878 and 1879 the number
OF pupils for that year is estimated.
The first administration for the first
half of its six years labored under
many disadvantages, especially of
very limited room as compared with
the present buildings and grounds.
With the estimate of the number of
pupils for 1878 and 1879 the record
shows that there were in attendance
under the first administration 745
pupils, including 45 graduates who
graduated during the last four years
of this administration, none having
graduated during the first two. The
record shows also that during the last
administration 724 pupils attended,
including A graduates. During these
twelve years much good has been &C
complished for society IN the intelli-
gence and instruction that have been
impaired at this institution. The
friends of the institution are espe-
cially proud of the graduates. Quite
one-half have become most efficient
and popular teachers, the others most
excellent wives and useful members
of society. Circumstances have so
turned out that you are charged with
the present or third administration.
Living at a great distance you were
necessarily a stranger to the board
and our people, yet your fame as an
executive officer, as an experienced
and successful instructor, as a highly
cultivated and accomplished gen
tleman, as one who has, at all
times, as his guide honest and
commendable purposes, and one
to whom parents and friends might
implicitly trust their daughters
and wards, had reached them, and
you were unanimously employed
by the board to become the president
Of the institution. You have accept
ed the high and responsible trust,
and IN behalf of the board of direct
ors I now deliver to you the keys as
a symbol of the engagement that has
been entered into between you and
the college corporation. It is natu-
raj that high hopes and expectations
are entertained of a new administra-
ton; that new zeal and fresh ener-
gies will prevail; that system and
method, without which there can be
no success in any enterprise will
enter into every action; that harmony
and good will, impartiality and par
entail management will be the happy
bond between all the precincts Of the
| college; that the highest standard of
scholarship will be reached, and not
lowered for any class Or individual
that thorough and accurate work will
be the ambition of teacher and pupil.
These points r expectations, as I
have said, but / am SURF they will be
enforced and fully met by your ad-
ministration. And again I am sure
the. board of directors, as well as the
friends Of the institution, will give
you throughout your administration
every needed help and encourage
ment within their power. You know
well that it takes years and vast en-
ergy, and sleepless car and watch
ing, and judlcious management to
build up and maintain a college.
But let us be not discouraged at any
time or at any thing. Reverses may,
and perhaps must, come, but patience
and renewed zeal would soon turn
these into prosperity and grand sue
cesses. The education of rising fe-
male generators has been and is the
motive for all the effort and anxiety
that our present surroundings indi-
cate. It is supremely the cause of
humanity, nay, it is a responsible
Christian duty imposed upon every
one who car by influence or effort
promote it among neighbors and
friends. Youhave voluntarily chosen
the profession of educator az the
work of your life. It will, therefore,
be your pleasure on all suitable occa-
sions, aside from your work and in
fuence within these halls, to popular
ize the cause of education in our
midst. Parents who are not dis
posed to give their daughters the adj
~2antages of the power of knowledge
should be, if possible, reached by
argument and persuasion. I dare say
IL JuSblCS HClC uOLC ~ ICaoe WV duh-
dred of the daughters Of the county
would now be enrolled as students
for the wc1k of the coming year.
We knew that those that are not at
school, here or elsewhere, are losing
one of the richest blessings ttat could
attend them. Soon they will be be-
yond school age and the residue of
their lives will present many regrets
of lost advantages.
MI. President, your relation to
this institution has now been fixed
by all the forms of engagement and
installation. May the blessings of
God be upon you, your associates
and all the students who may seek
the shelter of your care and protec-
ton.
To the above President Yancey re-
piled in the following touching and
sensible remarks:
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