Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-23
Tie High school.


This Is an enterprise OF recent origin
In our town that promises great re-
suits. A few Of our citizens carried
around list and 800 was sub
ser,bcd ut once. A meeting OF the
subscribers was held at the court house
last Friday evening, and n committee
was appointed to solicit further sub
scriptions. a committee was also Sc
lectcd TO draw n charter for the insti-
Triton, and they have done so, and
submitted SAME to the Governor, who
will doubtless approve Il.
The school i to be a joint stock cor
poration, for the purpose Of maintain
ng a high school for white males and
females. The object Of the movers in
the matter Is TO raise SIC, 900, IL pos
iblc, and then select site and erect u
6ne brick building Of modern style,
for school purposes. The institution
is To be under board Of control, con-
sisting OF five members, elected an
nually by the stockholders, whose bus
mess II shall be TO elect teachers, and
who shall also visit the school and cx-
crcisc general supervisory control
over It's management. The charter !.
we'll drawn and carefully guarded
instrument, and II will be very hard
for any trouble to arise, that IL not
guarded against and provided for in
its provisions. What the object now
needs is money, and 1t ought to be
forthcoming at once. The need OF
such an institution in every town is
too apparent 20 need attention. CO.
piah county sends from twenty TO
thirty scholars to college every year at
an average expense Of $3.50 each. In
two years this expenditure would
build the school, and our children
could be educated ut home. II il
should be deemed advisable to send
them off tor a year or two, IL could be
done after their minds were trained and
their habits formed at home. There
can be no moro fatal error than send
ing half trained scholars to college.
II may sound high and be very pleas
ant to the boys and girls who expect
TO go, and who think it looks smart
and all that, but when they reach col.
lege and are put in the preparatory de-
partment and called by the euphoniouS
name OF "prcp'' for a short while,
the starch Of the business soon willis
and they begin to see the necessity OF
thorough preparationat home. This
county does not turn out more than
three graduates a year, and 1t is per-
fcctly SAFE to say that all the pupils
who go to college from the county and
who do not graduate could do just as
well at home, and many Of them a
great deal better. Again, il We had
such n school at this point, great
many girls and boys who never sec
college could come here and get a
good education, and VIC would soon
sec the effects OF It In a general adj
vanccment in the matter Of education
There is hardly first rate county in
tho State that has not got a high
school for its boys aud g,rls, and we
must not he left in the rear in this
matter. Our farmers, who are able
should subscribe to this cause, and
thus get the benefit Of the school. rs
we understand it, the money Is to he
paid In installmcnts AZ the work pro-
crosses, and the stockholders will, OF
course, have the preference, IL tho
school is not able to accommodate every
one who wishes to send to It. Let cv-
cry one who feels an interest in this
cause go to work and boomit.