The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-11-26

college oil Music, In addition to the
normal, there is free school depart
ment. The primary department is in
charge Of Miss Mary Porter; in the
advanced grades Misses Erin Priest
and Eva TONNES are class teachers,
and Miss Maggie Brown is in charge
of the study hall, and teaches calls
themes, arithmetic and drawing. The
free school department has los pupils
and the most approved modern meth
DDS and text books only are used,
The curriculum is as comprehensive
as that Of the foremost uni iersities in
the country, and the same methods
are pursued. At 6 80 o'clock in the
morning chapel exercises are held in
the lecture room, and are attended by
all the students. The first recitation
at z 80 o'clock in the morning and the
last class recites from to o'clock at
night. In the interims students may
repair for study to their rooms in the
dormitory, to their homes, or the
library, which is we'll stocked with all
the classics in modern as well as ac-
Gent history and fiction. The hours
are long, but by this economy OF time
the student is liable to acquire in three
years what it requires double that to
accomplish in universities where six
hours constitute day Of study.
Seven years are required to COM
plete the course from the primary de-
partment to graduation, but four years
Of this are spent in the primary and
intermediate departments, so that
those sufficiently advanced to COM
mence with the grammar department
may graduate and acquire degree in
three years. This is taken advantage
of by many young men and women
who have taught school, but who take
the university course to fit them for
higher grade certificates and positions
in graded schools. Many such stu
dents were seen in the class rooms by
the Scimitar man when on his tour Of
inspection, and their faces wore the
impress of ambitious determination
which insures success.
The course comprises in the COM
mon branches the usual studies. In
the higher departments are taught
physiology, zoology, botany, geometry,
rhetoric, algebra, elocution, debating,
parliamentary practice, drawing, vocal
music, and Caesar, with modern sports
and authors, in the department OF lit
erature.
The scientific conrse embraces bota-
ny, trigonemetry, physics, chemistry,
geology, mineralogy, debating and es-
says in English, American and Roman
history, the study OF Shakespeare, Mil
: ton, Ovid, Virgil, Sallust, Cicero, and
English literature.
( In the department Of liberia arts are
taken up metaphysics, logic, political
: econmoy and ethics, criticism, debates
in Greek, French, and biblical history
, and the topics of the times, and the
: study of Zenophon, Homer, Horace.
: Eschylus, Livy, Thucydides, Tacitus,
g Juvenal, Sophocles, the Greek Testa-
4 ment and the higher branches OF
} science. There is special teachers
: department in which the best methods
, OF teaching are acquired by those who
! expect to follow that avocation in a
. course of twenty-five weeks, provided
: they are sufficiently advanced to enter
! in the third terms work.
/, Although chapel exercises are held
, daily, the university is strictly non
: sectarian. The university opened its
e doors on October 10, and was asuccess
4 from the opening day. About 300 stu
dents reported in the first week, and
s now there are $50, many Of them from
y various points in Tennessee, Texas,
: Georgia and Kentucky. A second
+ dormitory is being erected the refec-
8 tory can seat at table 500 at one time,
A
t and the university as arranged for rec
itations, twelve hours in day, can ac-
: commodate 1000 students, and this
g number the faculty expects to get as
g the fame of the institution broadens, as
: it surely will.
8 The grounds are to be beautifed,
j too. They will be planted with trees,
}, sodded, the walks graveled, and a
Q fountain in the center is contem-
1 plated. Huntingdon is justly proud Of
I it's university, and liberal as the citi-
: zens have already been they say If nee
. essary they will financially aid in the
identifying of the grounds, just as they
made possible the location Of the uni
versity itself.
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