The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-07
Improve ments at Maryvills College.

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A visit to .Maryville College
shows several improvements Of great
interest to the people of this county
and vacinity. The college, now in
its Seventy-fourth year, has more
buildings, better facilities, and a
larger number of teachers than ever
before.
New Building and Furniture.
The Fayerweather Annex recent
ly erected is ninety feet by forty,
and three stories high. 1t contains
on the first floor, three recitation
rosms, the largest of which is fifty
six by thirty-six feet; furnished with
one hundred desks. This room is
occupied by new Professor, Mr..
Jasper G. Barnes, Principal of the
Preparatory department, and Pro-
lessor of the Science and art of teach
ing. The young men of the Prepa-
ratory Department except the Senior
class study in this room from s A.
M. to IL M: and from LIS P. M. to
8. Pm.
Miss Jennie B. Smith. A. B.
from Wellesley College, Pre-
ceptress Of the Preparatory Depart
ment, and Instructress in the
French Language, occupies the
large room in the second story, over
Prof. Barnes room, with the young
ladies of the Preparatory Depart
ment, which is now much more dis
tinctly divided from the college class
es than heretofore. The annex con-
tains thirteen rooms, eight of which
are large, while five are small, and
are used as cloak rooms etc. Fold
ing doors between Miss Smiths
room and the chapel afford room
ninety feet by forty, capable of seat
ing five hundred, for public exercis-
es. Two iron pillars have been
placed near the center of the old
chapel to strengthen the support of
the rooms above.
The annex was erected at an ex-
pence of $4,000, provided by the
Fayerweather bequest. Two furn-
aces have been supplied at cost Of
$1100: two hundred single desks,
made at Grand Rapids Mich, and
sixty settess of an expense of 5000.
The blackboards are of natural slate.
Painting and decoration have been
pu. upon Anderson Hall at an ex-
pense of 1900. Incandescent cleo
trio lights have been placed infront Of
the College buildings; in the chapel
and entries of Anderson Hall, and in
the corridors, dinning-room and par
lor of Baldwin Hall. Suitable walks
and pavements of brick have been
laid around the building. The whole
campus has been recently surveyed
and laid out by competent Land
scape gardner. 1t is expected that
roads, walks and lawns and avenues
of tress will be early made in accord
ance with this plan.
2. New or Enlarged Departments.
The Preparatory Department as al
ready noticed is furnished with greater
facilities and placed under new reg
lations of marked advantage.
(2) The Rhetorical Department,
including English Literature has an
additional Professor; a large room
IS feet square in the third story Of
the annex, has been assigned for vo,
cal drill and Rhetorical exercises.
90 Department of the National
Sciences. An additional Professor;
new methods and new facilities.
(4 Modern Languages. Teach.
ers in Spanish, German, and French
with better opportunities than evel
before.
(5) Business Department. Al
additional teacher, two Calligrapf
machines; copying apparatus and etc
Pennmanship, type-writing, Book
keeping and short hand taught.
co Athletics, Calirthenics etc
Young ladies drilled with the use o
dumb-bells etc. Instruction in Eli
quette, department etc. Additiona
teachers and rooms afford mucl
broader opportunities in all thes
directions than have been hithert
possible.