The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-18
THE GIRLS, NoaMAL coLLEeE.
Chatham County Entitled TO SIX Scn0l-
arships in the School

The examination Of girls to become ap-
plicants from Chatham county for scholar
ships in the Georgia Normal and Industrial
College at Milledgeville will be heil oy Su-
perintendent of Public Schools w. d.
Baker at Chatham Academy at ~ o'clock
| Tuesday morning, Sept. ! Gu,
! The Normal aud Industrial College Is a
state institution for the education and
special training of girls preparing 14ein 70
make their own way Ia the "orld. Under
! the apportioument Chatham county Is en-
I titled To six scholarships in this school,
threa of which will eutitle the recipients to
/ frae tuition. and tie other three of which
will REQUIRE a tuition fee Of $40 per year.
! The examination will include the elemen-
tarv English branches, arithmetic, history,
geography and Engiish grammar. No ap-
| pltcant under 10 years of age will be eligl-
bic to scholarship.
The Georgia Normal and Industrial
College was established by an act OF the
last legislature. which appropriated $685.
900 for its establishment to be paid from
the state road lease, was afterwards
donated for the use of the college.
the site OF the old state penitentiary in
Milledgeville, including twenty acres
of land beautifully located near the
center Of the city, aud the old executive
ing Of twenty rooms, with two acres Of
land attached. The state appropriated
Sc, 000 to pay the current expenses of the
college for 0ctoaer. November aud Deem
Der, 1891, and SIS 900 for current expenses
Of 1899. To these appropriations by the
state the city Of Milledgeviile added dona-
ton OF $4,000.
The college building is a magnificent and
beautiful edifice recently completed, in the
best style OF modern school architecture.
The cost Of the building is s45. 900. 1t is
designed for class room purposes only. The
old executive mansion has been fitted up as
dormitory.
The object of the state 10 establishing
this school was TO provide for the young
women OF Georgia an institution in which
they may get such special instruction and
training as will prepare them TO earn their
own living as teachers or in the industries
suitable to women.
There will be four departments, normal,
industrial, collegiate and domestic.
The normal department will prepare the
young women as teachers. Besides a
thorough collsge education by teachers
skilled in the normal methods, they will be
given practical instruction in the schools
attached TO the institution. Graduates in
the normal department will be awarded
special diplomas.
Its proposed to get the legislature to pass
an act making these diplomas equivalent to
first grade license for teaching in the public
schools Of Georgia.
The industrial department will give in
structions in stenography and typewriting,
biography, bookkeeping, dressmaking, free
hand and industrial drawing and cooking.
Other industries will be added as the
school progresses. A course in the most i'm
portant English branch will also be required
OF the students Of the industrial depart
ment. No pupil whose knowledge of En-
glish is inadequate will be allow TO enter
the classes Of stenography, typewriting and
The curriculum of the college department
will include all of the branches usually pur-
sued in the best female colleges.
The domestic department will include
cooking school, school OF dressmaking |
and a home department
Applicants will only be admitted to the |
'chool upon passing a satisfactory exam
nation. No applicant making lower aV-
rage than IS per cent. will be admitted.
ln selecting the appoIntees the county |
boards OF education will be governed by the |
considerations: Excellence of |
and excellence of moral charac-
acter; earnestness of purpose on the part of |
5he applicant to attend the school in good |
faith with the intention Of fitting herself to |
earn livelihood by teaching or by some |
one or another of the industrial |
lrts taught in the college; the financial cir |
,umstances OF the applicants family should |
hey renoer it necessary that she should |
prepare herself TO earn her own living; and |
'ther things being equal, the daughters of |
deceased, disabled, or impoverished con-
ederate soldiers to have the preference over
IL other applicants.
Each county in the state will be allowed
IS many free scholarships in the college as
be county has representatives in the Iegis-
ature.
The school will open Wednesday, Sept. 80.