Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-07-16
The Bishops School for Girls.
RENO, NEVADA, July, 1890.

Bishop Whitaker's School for Girls
owes no apology for it's existence; it
is the only school Except the Con-
Vent) exclusively for girls in the State
OF Nevada, and as long as there are
young girls to be sent away from
home, there will be need for schools
especially adapted to their wants
schools where their manners, their
morals, their health receive the loving
care that growing girls demand, and
yet schools where the discipline never
relaxes into the indulgence too often
found in home life, and which may
be as ruinous to the child as neglect;
schools where the thoroughness of
work required, and the prompt and
hearty compliance with regulations,
develop the needless girl into the
thoughtful woman.
In the selection of our teachers, We
try to secure women who are i'm
pressed with the dignity of their call
ing, the Importance of woman's- edu-
cation, and an earnest desire to instill
into the nisds Of the young people
committed &c their care Christian
principles-principles which, fixed in
their souls, will hold them fast to the
right in the midst of temptation, long
after they have passed the protecting
influence Of these walls.
We have not here school OF that
o!d-fashioned typo, which considers
that little smattering of arithmetic,
little French, a little playing on the
piano, and good deal OF society
manners make up sgirl's education;
nor have we here o school of that ad-
vanced character which affords young
women every advantage which money
AMI inclination may demand. Our
school is then just what it's title
claims for it-"A School for Girls"
The grounds are, without doubt,
the most beautiful in the State, and,
somewhat removed from town, allow
the girls such exercise Of lung and
limb as modern ideas Of hygiene de-
mand, and even Dame Fashion now
sanctions. Their outdoor sports are
the turning pole, swings, baseball and
croquet. In Winter the gymnasium
affords them many pleasures, beside
the drill in calisthenics, for there, on
Saturday evenings, they hold high
carnivals, in which tneir teachers are
always welcome spectators, il not
participants.
TIE upper floor contains the alcoves,
lavatories, bathrooms and teachers
bedrooms. The second floor has the
schoolrooms, the library, parlor, and
suite OF rooms for the Principal. On
the ground floor are the gymnasium,
practice rooms, dining room, kitchen
and pantries. A second house, built
some years later, contains a music
room, room designed as the labor
atory, teachers rooms, alcoves, bath
room, etc.
Our Art and Music departments
are under the control OF competent
teachers, the former under Miss
Alice MacElroy, who has, during her
four years with the school, built up
large class, while Miss Eva Quaiffe
has, since the founding of the school,
been in charge Of the Music Depart
ment. Her good work speaks for it.
self. and is well known both in this
State and in California. Many of her
students have risen to prominence in
the musical profession.
Miss Julia Megquier is tho Princi-
pal, to whom all letters of inquiry
should be addressed, and with whom
all business is transacted.
ABEL LEONARD,
Bishop OF Nevada and Rector of tho
School.