The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-09-24
THE STATE SEMINARY.


nary West of the Suwannee River will be-
gin on next Tuesday, October first.
The painstaking and laborious efforts
of President Edgar and bis associates. in
the past two years, to put the institution
on advanced ground and to make it what
the trainers of its charter designed it to
be, the State College for Western and
Middle Florida, are bearing visible fruits
in the increased respect for the institu-
ton, in the disposition of the people to
give its Board Of Trustees and Faculty
their corporation and in the stimulus it
is giving to the cause Of sound learning.
1t is certainly "a matter 81 congra.ula-
ton that the Legislature recognized its
claims TO State aid and voted it an appro-
priation to carry out the purposes of It's
creation. 1t is to be regretted that the
sum appropriated was pot twice as large,
but though inadequate to supply all the
needs Of the institution, it will enable the
Board Of Education to erect ore good
building and supply it with the essential
implements for effective educational work
and to afford accommodations to an aD-
probable number of boarding pupils, at
nominal cost. The plan of this build
ing reflects credit upon the architect and
inspires confidence in the intelligent fore
sight and judgment of the Board. The
prelminaries for building are nearly com
pleted and it is believed that the work
will soon be under way The Faculty
of the institution for the next year will
consist of five instructors-three male
and two female. President Edgar and
Misses Bangs and Brevard were unani-
mously elected to the positions they
have held for the past two years.
Professor Thomas O. Deaderick, \. W.,
of Knoxville, Tenn, was chosen to succeed
Professor Lewis, who resigned to prose-
cute his studies further in Johns-Hopkins
University, and Professor c. II. Warfeld,
a. b., of New York, was elected Instruc-
tor of Mathematics and English.
The new professors are men of ability
and character Prof Deaderick filled ac-
ceptably for several years the chair Of An
cient Languages in the University of
Tennessee, and has recently had the ad-
vantage of years study in Germany.
Professor Wartield is distinguished
graduate of Hamilton College, New York,
and is recommended as a man of excel.
lent scholarship and exceptional promise
With this corps of able instructors and
with the increased accommodations and
appliances to be supplied, the work of
the ensuing session can not fail to be
most effective and highly satisfactory to
the people Of the State, and to enlarge
the usefulness and add TO the reputation
of the institution. We are glad to learn
that the prospect is good for large in
crease in The number of students-not a
few young ladies and gentlemen from
other counties having already engaged
boarding preparatory to entrance, while
busy squads OF boys and girls, all over
our city, are daily to be seen saying
their review lessons to interested friends
to be ready for the much dreaded en-
trance examinations.
We are gratified at the bright prospect
before our seminary and bid its President
and associates Godspeed in their efforts
to make it tirst-class college for the
thorough training of our youth for the
duties and responsibilities of citizenship.