Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-12
THE RICHMOND DISPATCH WEDNESDAY, APRIL y, 1898.
VA. COLLEGE, OF ROANOKE.
DIR. w. a. Harris, Of Staunton,
Va, Establishes an Education
al Institution in Roanoke for
Young Ladies.

In the Virginia College for Young
/ Ladies' DR.. W. A. Harris, the eminent
I educator, will present to Roanoke its
GROWING ornament, and 10 the vide and
diversified natural resources OF the city
a gem of instruction will be added.
It IS certainly compliment that DR..
Harris should have selected Roanoke as
the field for his future educational
work.
Such n home as will be furnished by
DR.. Harris and his faculty of twenty
five officers and teachers for collegiate
culture and refinement will be blessing
to the hundreds of young ladies who
will attend this school from all parts of
the country.
1t is the aim of DR.. Harris to make
his institute, both rs TO its buildings
and faculty. an ideal college for young
ladies. where they can find all the con-
veniences Of an elegant home. The
Virginia College cannot be regarded as
a now school, for its founder is now
president of tho Wesleyan Female In
stitute, at Stanton. Va, which has
gained national reputation under his
management, and now has 40 boarding
pupils from twenty different states. with
teachers and methods of the highest
order.
Virginia College, under DR.. Harri5's
guiding hand, will begin its career with
the same advantages that would attend
the opening of the Oldest schools in the
country. With such high advantages IN
ell that pertains 20 womanly culture and
refinement parents who wish to educate
their daughters cannot find a more de-
sirable collegc-hOme for them than in
this school, for it will combine every
possible sanitary precautlon with its edu-
cational facilities
The selection of its site is in itself a
criterion OF the wisdom OF It's protector,
for from the miniature plateau Of ten
acres, IL the centre Of which the college
will be located the eyes can feed upon
ceaseless succession OF magnificent
pictures.
Every inveption and improvement
will he used to procure unequalled sani-
tary arrangements for the school. These,
added to its elevated location IN the cen
ire of a tract Of land universally con
cedcd to be the most heIlthiul IN the
United States, will make this institution
one OF nature sanitariums. The school
will he four stories IN height AMI will
have "A frontage OF % icet with two
wings extending 20 depth OF los
feet the porch from which the hall u
entered will he 1890 feet in size the
first floor will contain two Offices.
eight lecture-rOOl-s q laboratory, study
hail, sixteen MUSHROOMS, kitchen, pan
tres, toilet, store aud hOusekeeper's
rooms. There will be four flights OF
stairs to the second floor, which will
contain two parlors, splendid chapel,
G6XiO, twenty bedrooms and two toilet
rooms. The third floor contains twenty
five bedrooms, also tollct-roOm. Three
rooms on the fourth floor are devoted to
art, the largest OF which IS 2jXl5 feet +;
also al inirmary consisting OF "A general
ward and four rooms for contagious dis
eases. The latter are 80 arranged as to
be entirely isolated.
Ample provisions have been made for
the protection Of occupants II case OF .
fire. "a large wSter-mlin will run I
the centre hall connecting on /
each floor with hose 100 feet in length, /
by which means fire IL any part of the /
house can be extinguished Immediately. I
Ga each floor in the rear of tue build .
ing will be q broad veranda $50 feet in
length. The entire structure will he .
heated with hot water and will lie .
lighted thoughout' by electricity, hot
water being used MS n sanitary precau-
ton and electricity as a safeguard
against fire. The college will be ready
for occupancy on July 18th, and 1t Is
DR.. Harris's expectation to see this
beautiful college occupied during the
school season with young
ladies from every State from New York
10 1eXAs.