The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-08-11

ton and oratory, plain and ornamen.
tai penmauship, modern languages
and Hebrew, fine art, primary. in
termedlaie, biography, instrumental
and vocal music and law.
The faculty claim that the founda-
tion of the Institutions great and
rapidly-growihg popularity rests on
the four corner stones of economy,
co-educatiou. normal methods of in
structions and non-se ctarianism. BY
an economical system of business
management good table board is fur
nished at So per month. Text books
are rented to the students for 10 per
cent. of lie cost per term aud large
reference library, presided over by
an accommodating librarian, is fur
nIshed free. Every phase of econo-
my consistent with thrift aud thor
oughneas is taught and practiced bv
the institution, not only 10 enable
thousands To become educated who
could not otherwise do so, but also
/ TO in culcate into the next generation
the greatest principle that underlIes
| individual business success and ma
tional prosperity. This Is right. 1t
| is a more valuable lesson to the sons
and daughters of wealthy parents
than 10 any other class. The poor
learn it anyhow, the weather. must
learn it or fail. and when we remem-
Der that most of the great and good
Of Of all times were most severely
taught this self same lesson of strict
economy We can appreciate what a
grand work is this institution doing.
We take the following from their
magnificent catalogue, which every
lover of education ought TO read, for
it is the best text book on naturallsm
we have ever read: Generalization
does not mean the destruction of all
restraint among students. 1t means
the training OF young men and wo-
men into right modes of thought 1t.
feeling and conduct by placing them
under the natural, helpful and slim
ulating power OF each others associa-
ton, and under the watch, care, adj
vice and control Gf necessary of
helpful teachers. The idea of some,
that in normal schools no control
whatever Is exercised is the most err
roneous OF all ideas. Here is whel e
| the great est amount of control Is Sc
cured. 1t is self control, the only
kind of successful control. 1t is IN
that school where the student is at
once under the ban of long list of
r useless ard obnoxious rules that con-
, troll becomes an impossibilitY. We
have made every provision that
could be desired for the protection Of
girls. They are not put in dorm J.
. ries, as in some schools, but only in
the very best families. They are also
met once week by lady member
of the faculty in praYer>meeting,
where the many difficulties pertains
ing to their conduct and W sltare are
discussed fully and freely. Here are
inculcated the principles of moral
tone.
The most important feature of the
uni versity Is the normal methods Of
teaching and study, by which every
| faculty of the students nature is uu-
. dividedIy enlisted and sustained at
its utmost possibility throughout his
entire course. Truly does the cata-'
logue say: "The difference between
e college work and normal work is
r not so much difference of theory as
of practice" One has only to GO in
to the recitation room In the Southern
Normal University to feel new
throb Of life inspire his soul. He
I, can then aud then only understand
how it is possible to give the students
q in arithmetic and grammar complete
classical education in three years,
to teach him to read Caesar In nine
weeks, to give mastery of Greek in
one year. All this, too. at an eX-
pense to the student of les than $3.50
year. The Dormal system. of which
, the Southern Normal Univ erslty
seems to be the embodim en- and rep.
resentative in the South, is revolu-
5 tionizing and undermining educational
institutions and systems as .nothin g
else has ever done.
The last OF the corner-stOnes we
started out to speak of is non>sectari-
anism. The faculty maintain that
sectarianism, either political or relig-
ious, defeats true culture, biases the
: student and works prejudicially to his
future interests. There is nothing
: narrow about the institution. Its
: conception, its management ard con-
: seq ueutly its patronage are broad and
2 liberal. We would advise anyone
: who is looking for the best ativaa-
ia ges for getting an education to in
vestigate the merits of this university.