Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-02-09
TUITION PAID In TRADE.
DESCRIPTION OF A QUEER COL
LEGE IN LOUISIANA.
1t Comes Nearer to Placing Education
in the Reach of All Than Any
Other School-A Billy Goat
Paid on Account.


town takes it's name very properly,
says a correspondent of the Times
Democrat, and POLITICALLY from the
pretty fact that the great number of
the magnolia grandifora that gave
all the surroundings the appearance
of being ever green.
The town is situated mainly on two
streets, one following the trend Of
the Bayou Rouge, the business street,
so that the stores may be accessible
for loading on and unloading from
the steamboats, that come up and
down the stream; the other, a street
that departs at right angle from
the bayou and runs up the hill to the
residential portion of the town.
said steamboats, come up the bayou,
but one could never believe it to look
at it now. Between banks, forty or
fifty feet apart, perhaps, and possibly
thirty feet or more deep, is the Bayou
Rouge, so narrow in most places that
boy can easily straddle it. 1t can
hardly be said to flow. Trickle is a
more descriptive word, so narrow is
its threadlike water, and Just now
you would never call it rouge, for
it is clear, though insignificant. But,
when the Atchafalaya rears back into
it or the Red River roars through it,
then its turbid current is red or yell
low, and then the boats can come up.
Had nothing else tempted, | should
have gone to Evergreen just to gauge
the college there. | am now partic-
ularly glad | went, because, in its
way. it was a revelation to me. |
never saw anything aspirin. to the
name that could be said to come so
near placing education within the
reach Of every one as this. Any one
more shifty and adaptive than the
president could not be imagined. He
loves his vocation and compels sue
cess notwithstanding the most I'M
toward circumstances.
BY series of adjustments, founded
both on thrift and philanthropy, he so
combines and arrangcs as to make it
possible for almost anybody to edu-
cate himself, or any parent to edu-
cate his boy. Some boys are too
poor, or their parents, to pay any
thing. Very we'll. That boy pays
for his education in work; feeds the
hogs, milks the cows, saws the wood,
etc. Then parents cannot pay any
money-tOo poor, or failure of crops
Very well. He will take corn, cows,
pigs, Chickens-what country mer-
chant would call trade, in pay. The
other day he told me that he had
taken large, and no doubt vcner-
able. billy goat in this way.
This may seem amazing, but it is
really heroic, philanthropic, and
shows remarkable administrative
ability. 1t is heroic because few
men could brave derision in making
an educational institution move by
educating boys through taking pay in
wood, work, corn, hogs, butter, etc
But this president was the architect
of his own education. He got his
by management, honest, though, and
hard work, and without money, and
Is anxious to assist worthy and am
bilious poverty struggling for that
best of all earthly prizes-education
lie boards his scholars, male and
female, in separate buildings at $40
per month. And he gives them good
and abundant fare. And this pays
for education, too. II this be not a
benevolent institution in disguise, as
well as disguised educational one,
know not what it is.
There is not only cheap education
here, but there is pretty solid, old
fashioned discipline. The boys are
under the presidents eyes. He eats
and sleeps under the same roof with
them, prosides at the table, and meets
them in the morning at the chapel in
prayer. 1t is sort of family circle.
Then, when the boys have obtained
twenty-five demerit marks, they have
an option to either take a sound fog
cling or be expelled. As a stimulus.
however, for boy to retrieve him
self, he can by superior conduct and
lessons reduce his bad standing and
7ctOre himself.
went into the home or boarding
apartment and saw the boys. They
evidently had both a respect and
affection for their president, an easy
freedom and familiarity of inter
course, with registering enough to
show there was nothing servile and
degrading, yet with no touch of pre-
sumption or parade of temerity or an
1ifectation of it. Undoubtedly this
school is a blessing to the locality.
1t has an academic course, a partial
one, and business department. 1t
Is non-sectarian. Let us cherish all
the educational institutions we have.
Education is hard enough to secure
at best.