The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-06-18
For THE PROGRESSIVE R
GH POINT AND ITS COLLEGE.

Hen Po1Nr, N. c., June 5, 1889.
Col L. L. PoLK:-Dear SSr.-Ihls
town has been on a boom for some
time and still the boom goes on. Inc
people are alive and actively showing
that the life current is clrculatlng
steadily and along the proper cnan,
nels for building up a healthy n
vigorous town. The merchants are
wide.awake and kept busy exchanging
goods for money; and not drowsily
watching for customers from a shady
snot outside their doors. The manu-
factories are running on full time and
the music of machinery marks the
time for the "quick-step" march of
the operatives hurrying on in their
daily work.
These people are not forgetting an
other very important element in the
life current of any people, if they
would continue to have healthy
growth and expansive capabilities for
solid, substantial progress. They are
alive on the subject of education and
have shown it by recently placing such
inducements before Rev. j. N Stall
lings, formerly in charge of Thomas
vile Female College, as to lead him
to move with his faculty and every
boarding pupil, 40 in number, to High
Point. This was done about the 18th
of March last, without losing a day
from the work of the school. Pre-
paratory to this movement, they Sc
cured from the Legislature OF 1889 a
charter for High Point Female Col
lege. They secured a building admi-
rably located and we'll adapted fort the
purposes, added new rooms, supplied
lit with new furniture, new apparatus
for the mathematical, chemical, as
Economical, chemical, botanical and
natural philosophy departments of the
college course. This was done quietly,
quickly and easily, and shows how a
live people see a live issue and seize
the opportunity when it comes to do
a great thing for their town and its
future.
/ attended the exercises of the First
Annual Commencement of High Point
Female College, which occurred May
31st to June 4th inclusive.
The commencement was a decided
success all around. Rev. J.. A. Smith,
of Fair Bluff, N. c., preached the
annual sermon on Sunday. It was
1VeU done. Hon. Geo. W. Sanderlin
delivered the annual address on Tues
day, June 4th. His subject was "Hats
off to the Teachers" To say that
George Sanderlin did it is to say that
it was weU done. A large audience
heard him. Your correspondent was
one of them. We all enjoyed it, and
we let Mr.. Sanderlin know it. There
were five members of the graduating
class. They all did well and made a
fine impression for the work of the
college. The writer never could de
scribe the good looks of fair women,
but this one thing he can say in refer
ence to this class: They were well
trained in their studies, they had
sweet, modest, lady-like manners, and
he felt as he looked at them and after
wards talked with them that the col
lege faculty have sent them out to
bless humanity and increase the sum
of human happiness and to make the
world better and brighter by the light
of their knowledge and the graces of
true womanly character. Long may
the college live and stand in it's beau
tiful location, as a light house, to
throw its rays along the pathway of
many worthy girls who may be look,
ing for the higher knowledge as a
means to aid them in blessing others
about them. All honor to High Point
and to Mr.. Stallings and his faculty
for so good a work so well begun.
O IcurN