The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-25
MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE.
What She is and What She is
Not.


that | cannot do this subject justice,
but as | think that the noble work of
the College is doing should ring out
through our secular papers as well as
our religious ones, have decided to
write for this grand institution as well
as speak for her every opportunity /
have.
LIST. Mississippi College is not Il
theological school. A great many
people have the erroneous idea that
she is. l have had good many to
ask me if any body besides young
ministers attended the College. There
may be some who will read this article
that are also in the dark on this ques-
ton. For their benefit, | will say
that boys who are studying for almost
all the various vOcations of life are
going to school there. Some people
think that the young ministers who
attend the College write sermons and
preach them to the professors and
students, and therefore when the
young minister goes out to preach,
they think he ought to preach fine
sermons, God pity the young min
isters The ministerial students take
a literary course, and they do not
have time to prepare sermons.
End. Mississippi College is not the
school for bad boys. President Webb
says, eff you send us turkey eggs we
will hatch you turkeys, and if you
send us goose eggs we will hatch you
goslings; but we cannot hatch you
turkeys from goose eggs" Just so he
also says, eff you send us good boys,
we will give you back better ones; but
if you send us bad boys we will re.
turn bad boys" Bad boys go to Gin
ton, but they do not stay there long
the faculty sends them home. They
send from three to eight and nine
home every year. And therefore you
see by sending the bad boys home, we
have On excellent class of boys
there.
Methinks, sometimes, that our Ian
guage is not a strong enough vehicle
to convey to our minds what Missis'
sippi College really is. But first,
would say that she is one of the
grandest literary schools in the South
know there are some who will moi
agree with me here; for they will say
she is not equipped for teaching
the sciences like Oxford. Though she
may not have as good a labora'
tory and museum as some other col
leges of the South, yet those in
genius Professors explain the differ
ent branches of science so well, thai
the Clinton boys understand the
sciences about as well as the boys
from other colleges. l know of ne
men who are any better qualified to
fill their positions, than the professors
of Mississippi College. You could
not find man, l believe, who
could fill the Presidents chair any
better, no, not so well, than our learn
ed and honOred President Webb. He
has been President of the College
about II years, and he knows JUS
how to deal with boys. | would like
to speak of the other learned and ex'
perienced Professors, but it would
make this article too long.
Second. She is religious college
This is what makes her such Crane
institution. Any school which does
not develOpe the students morally as
we'll as intellectually comes far shor
of accomplishing the paramount thing
Young men who go to Mississippi Col
lege, instead of coming away worse
as they do from many of the col
leges, come away much better, as ;
general thing. Why is this so? Ia
Because all the faculty is composed o
pious christian men. Not many morn
ings pass without some eff the profess
ors, at the chapel exercises, speak t.
the boys about their spiritual welfare
(b) Because the majority of the young
men who attend the College are Chris
tian men. And when boy goes t.
Clinton he associates with the hes
boys of our land. I heard that
prOfane young man who went to Gin
ton said it was the most religion
place in which he had ever been. HI
said evey time he swOre some of tn
boys would speak to him about it; ant
he just had to quit swearing, or ge
away off to himself to swear. (c) Be
cause there are from twenty-five t.
Fifty prayers offered every day by tn
professors and boys for the boys o
the College. And do you think tina
God who is so merciful would no
answer those prayers which are offer
ed by such godly men'
Third. She is poor boys school
l would like to speak about how cheal
some of the boys manage to ge
through school, but l will only sa,
that it doesn't cost any more to 60 t.