Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-23
ABSOLUTELY PURE

Rankin, A. b.. Oxford I~nstructress
in Primary Department Miss Anna
Truan, (of French speaking family.)
Instructress in French; Miss Louise
Wardlaw, NJ. NJ, Cincinnati Direc-
tress OF the Department of Music.
The following degrees were conferred
during the year on the following per-
sons: ID. Drew. Alfred HI. Fahen-
stock, Syracuse, New York and Rev.
t. s. Dewitt, Brandford, Connecticut.
B. L.-Misses Mae X. Dobson and Mat
tie Il. Brown. B. S.-Miss Maud Mil
Ter and Samuel F. Mitchell. Mistress
of Music, Miss Louise Wardlaw.
The Board Of Trustees for the class
of '95 are Rev. J. N. Baker, Rev. E. A.
Elmore, d. D., Rev. G. A. Duncan,
Rev. JAS. T. Cooter, L. A. Waddell,
Esq, DR.. t. w. Whitlock and DR.. J..
d. Campbell. Officers of the Board,
Dr.. A. s. N. Dobson, President, s. H.
West Secretary, and Prof. E. G. Nc
Clure, Treasurer. Executive Com.
mittee, DR.. A. s. N. Dobson, E. II.
West and Rev. j. T. Cooter.
The environments of Washington
College could not be- more perfect to
insure its immunity from disease.
Freedom from the excuses of heat and
cold, high elevation, the unobstructed
sweep OF mountain bret yes, shady re-
treat, pure water and perfect santa.
ton make it a station for health, where
life is a pleasure and study a recreation.
j. b. Q. Patton, the man for the place
and the place for man, will continue
in charge of the boarding department,
in which he has given satisfaction,
The briefest history of Washington
College would be incomplete without
mention of one of its prominent and
promising features. The Industrial De-
partment, in this enterprise an oppor.
tunity is afforded to ambitions and
worthy boys who are not able to meet
the full College expenses, to secure a
good education. 1t is founded on the
brightest and best of the humanities-
the true theory that those deserve help
who have the aspiration and moral
strength to help themselves. This is
not u charity the students are required
to earn a part of their support, and in
so doing they learn the methods of
business and acquire habits of industry
that will equip them for the fierce con-
ficts of life and for the mastery of the
obstacles that beset the pathway of all,
Every boy to whom the offer is made
u accept the conditions without a
sacrifice of independence or manly
spirit. 1t is a welcoming hand held
out to help him up to the high plane of
self help where he is free to take all to
the utmost limit of his receptivity. 1t
is a kind, tender, loving message from
generous hearts to ambitious souls, an
unlocking of the stores of knowledge to
those who would enjoy and appreciate
its priceless and glorious treasures. In
the language of DR.. Willoughby, its
founder and sponsor, its object "is to
put an education within the reach of
every free, healthy, manly boy" The
conditions of the offer are simple and
easily met: Each pupil will be ex-
pecJed 10 pay twenty i've dollars an
nually. To work eighteen hours week
ly. To be free from all expensive or
injurious habits. To loyaly aid in
supporting all the rules of the Institu-
ton. To give n half hour daily to
Bible reading, quiet meditation or
prayer. To pledge himself to take at
least the full English course. Each
pupil on entering shall pay a security
fee of 50. All damages shall be paid
out Of this fund. 1t shall be returned
to the pupil when the course is COM
pleted and all bills settled, or when he
retires from school in a way satisfac-
tory to the Executive Committee"
When these conditions are complied
with, the pupil is entitled to a furnish
ed room; board with lights and fuel:
tuition and entrance fees, and will be
aided to ecure text books at the lowest
possible figure.
The enterprise was so strikingly
feasible and met such a long felt want,
that, during the year now closed, the
Superintendent was under the painful
necessity of refusing more applicant s
than he received for lack of accommo-
dation and equipment. The principal
part of the work has been confined to
the farm, but when expected funds are
available, workshops will be erected
and the appliances for teaching many
Of the useful arts will be supplied.
This will materially lessen expenses
and compass one of the original de-
signs Of the notwithstanding the
boys masters Of trade. The time may
be delayed, but a grand and glorious
success will surely reward the philan-
tropic efforts of the promoters.
The Faculty, with a staff of contribu-
tors representing the four literary So
c~ieties, are publishing a twelve page
paper called The East Tennessee Col
legian. 1t is a bright, sparkling sheet,
''every whit clean" and a credit to the
College in every respect. S. A. B.