Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-07
|NISSSSLPPTS COLLEGE,,
AN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
FOR GIRLS.
"a CHARMING LETTER DESCRIPTIVE
oFTHIs CHARMING GINs7ITUTI0N.

| "A OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
oFTHIs CHARMING INSTITUTION.
Governor, Tillman Has Given
i South Carolina One Like
it at Anderson.
In an extremely picturesque old
town in Eastern Mississippi, is .
new and progressive. college, the
first of its kind lin the United
| States. -
The Industrial Institute and
College on Washington :, Avenue
i'm the town Of Columbus! Well
does this school deserve ifs
1connection with two such
|illustriouanames, for as Columbus
discovered a new geographical
world, Washington a new political
SO / believe the Industrial
Institute and College is destined
to open to woman a neweducational
world. The interest, love, and
pride of the Mississippians center
in this great enterprise, and few
tstrangers ever visit Columbus
without making tour of inspection
Through the college.
Let us follow such a party of
visitors, thus gaining glimpse
of this great school. LISA bright
December morning, and as We
approch the building the first
object to become visible is the
college clock in dormitory tower
which is now striking half past
eight. A square or two further
brings to our view an imposing
scene. Facing the broad avenue
are two stately brick structures,
with a smooth green lawn in front,
a lovely flower garden to the back
land stretching toward the east-a
sylvan park Of many acres.
The. lawn and flower garden are
tastefully ornamented and kept
!: in perfect order by the patient
Aeforts and untiring energy Of: the
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Approach ching the Main Building
by wide gravel walk, and
entering the Presidents Office near
the door, we are delivered into the
charge, perhaps, of a member of
the senior class, Miss Rhoda Carr,
a dignifed, intelligent student
who makes our visit to the College
interesting and instructive.
Soon after our entrance at $3.50,
we hear whistle blown. At once
the first chords of march are
struck. Now long lines Of
students, all dressed IN navy blue,
file out of the lecture rooms in
} perfect silence; nothing is heard
save the regular tramp Of more
} than three hundred pairs of feet
keeping time to the: music. The
presence of SO many earnest girls
cannot fail to arouse our. interes!
at once; we follow the; advancing
files to the Chapel which occupies
the second and third stories o1
the main building, and seats a bout
fifteen hundred. The stained
, glass windows cast dreamy light
making the artistic interior of the
; Chapel a delightful scene, but the
most beautiful sight of all is thu
assemblage of three hundred
!, earnest, intelligent faces into which
:, we look from our visitors sea-
on the rostrum. Ws ), perceive
even at the first glance that We are
not in an ordinary "girls' school
the oldest students of most such
, schools are rarely more than six
teen or seventeen, while here few
are under sixteen, and the mem
, bers of the senior class, almost
. without exception, nineteen
, twenty, or older.
y This fact is significant. Al
Y schools where the majority grad
t uate at sixteen or seventeen, VI
r know thorough collegiate course
f is impossible. While we are will
f ing to claim much for women w
b do not consider them such prodi
f gies that they can acquire by six
Y teen what their brothers canno
8 without earnest endeavor gain til
t they are twenty or more.
o But to return to our visit. If W.
e are distinguished, one of our part.
s will now be invited to address th'
! students. If the sneaker be a tru,