The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-12
ALLEGHANY INSTITUTE.
An Excellent School with an Excellent
Record.

An Excellent School with an Exoellont
Record.
Martin Luther said: 1.-THE prosperity
ola country consists in the number of
Its cultivated citizens. and in it's men
OF education. enlightenment and
character; here are to be found it's true
interests, it's chief strength, it's real
power"
This fact is being realized and recoR.
nized now as never before. A good
school should, therefore,, be of interest
to every citizen of the country and of
double interest to the community in
which it Is situated.
Allegheny Institute ia held by an in.
dependent board of trustees with self
perpetuating powers. inc orporated by
act OF legislature, FEBRUARY "a, 1886.
Prof. Chas. L Cooke is president of the
board, and L. II. Cooke, Hon. II. S.
Trout. e. II. Stewart. S. w. Jsmison
and w. G. Evans compose the exec
utive committee.
The school Is under the management
OF Prof. s. Speiden Handy. The fac
ulty is composed OF the principal, of
Richmond College; Mr.. Walter Lowrie,
OF Princeton College; Mr. Perkins, of
the University OF Virginia, and Mr.. A.
X. Handy, Of st. Johns College. Mrs.
Alice Riggin, motherly lady Of refine
ment and culture, has been chosen ma
tron, and DR.. William Fl. Harrison, of
Roanoke, is tho attending physician
The courses of instruction have been
arranged largely in harmony with tho
report of the committee of ten" Of
which President Eliot, OF Harvard, is
chairman. The remaining members of
the committee are eminent educators
from Columbia, Yale, Cornell, Johns
Hopkins and other institutions Of like
rank. There are classical, English,
scientific and commercial courses.
These are planned to train and de-
velop boys mind, so that his subse-
quent work at tho university or college
may DO done with ease and pleasure.
Diplomas are awarded to those complet.
ing any one of these courses 1t is
endeavored to make the English work a
strong feature Of the school, In the
English CLASSES tho special aim is the
possession of practical familiarity
with the writings OF tho best authors.
As the best way to attain this, the
principal works OF such writer's are read
and discussed.
Much care is taken that each grade of
pupils shall read what is suited to it's
intelligence and what shall arouse
genuine love for good reading. Atten-
ton Is given to reading aloud, that
pupils may be helped to pleasant and
intelligent expression of whatever is apt
to be found interesting in the family
circle
In the preparatory department in.
struction ia given in accordance with the
latest and most approved meth DDS of the
best educators. Errors which blight
mental development for life often have
their origin in bad teaching during the
carly years Of childhood. The aim is to
bring out the natural power of the boy
and by association with him to know
and to develop the powers with which
he Is endowed. These pupils occupy a
room entirely removed from the higher
classes. Their hours of study, recess
and recreation are adapted to their in
dividual wants Singing, free hand
drawing, objecs lessons. reproduction of
stories, map drawing, classics for chill.
dren and elementary lessons in science
arc INDUCED in in this department.
In the commercial course notes, in,
voices and receipts are M ade 81 in actual
business. The special advantage offered
to commercial students is that they are
enabled, while securing o preparation
for business, to prosecute other studies,
such as English, French. German and
mathematics, which are indispepsab
to wide and liberal education
In all respects Allegheny Institute is
fully abreast Of the times. The en-
deavor is to give the boys tho advantages
OF all that is wisest and best in the
latest and most modern systems of edu-
cation.
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