Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-09-04
BETTER THAN SILVER on
GOLD.
Are the Advantages Offered for
the Education of Your Son
BY Emory and Henry College.

''NesN VIC WV w iistt
the right educrtion of the young have
parents and teachers found in the little
village and average town with their
gossip, examples of idl,ness and stealthy
ailurements 60 vice? What Is city by
day but great workshop filed with
the buzz and whirr of spindles, the
chatter of hoofs and wheels, bang of
looms, roar of engines, smoke of fur
naces, dust and din of trade; and at
night, but the same, with business mea-
surably suspended, and itself illuminat
ell and decorated as house of pleasure
wherein entertainments are given, a
few that elevate aud refine multitude
that utterly debase aud destroy.
Reason may Justify the location of a
University whose students are mature
men, near or within the corporate linn
it's of IA city, but to thus locate u college
proper lis more than IA blunder The
country, with its outstretching earth.
its over;lrchiug heaven, is God Is temple
built to soothe and incite the mind, TO
inspire study.
Our Location is i'm "Old Virginia, " in
her Great Southwest, nina mountain
valley, twenty-one hundred feet above
the sea, amid beauty that charms and
retines like poetry or music, and in an
atmosphere that enriches blood, builds
up bone, nerve, muscle, body and brain.
Our Age has attained TO three-score
years. Nothing in the new world can
claim real antiquity. Relatively, En-
DRY and Henry is venerable; she was
the first institution OF collegiate grade
established in Virginia's great South
west. The country was then new and
sparsely settled, untouched by foot OF
railroad anywhere, and having no good
roads of any kind. Money alone can
not make an institution. Time is essen
tial TO create history, form an atmos
phere, give personality aud individuals
ty. Sixty years have generated and
kept renovated an Intellectual, moral
and spiritual atmosphere for this insti-
tuition whose quickeniag, refining and
elevating effects every student spending
20 much as % week upon her campus has
felt. Within this same lapse of years
she has come Ia massive personality and
marked individuality, AS is attestcd 10y
her prominence among Colleges OF the
South, and by that peculiar impress
through which she makes distinct and
distinguished many OF her sons. En-.
phasis put upon accuracy of acquisition
thoroughness of attainment, anl upon
ability 90 think aud speak forrefully
even eioquently, in the presence of {
multitude are significant facts in hci
history. e .f.e -..
Our Studies embrace Latin, Greek
Natural Sciences, Logic. Political Econ
omy, Psychology aud Ethics, arrange,
i'm four courses, three leading To the de
grecs b. a. and NJ. A., one TO tho degre,
r. s. These studies and courses are or
daiDed to promote symmetrical, harmo
NOUS and substantial growth of the pu
pill, and represent the combined wisdom
OF foremost educators for they consti
tute the curricula of all good grade Col
leges. Yet. judge no Colleges by ia
printed courses Of study. Poor institu
tons can and do copy. Let the stand
ard OF requirements to pass, the meth
ODDS of instruction, the strength gained
by those exercised i'm these studies de
clare their advantage and worth as pur
sued in Emory and Henry College.
Our Faculty has been composed oi
suuch men as Collins, Wiley, Longley
Davis, Peters, Buchanan, Vawter, SUI
Inns, Price, Hoss, Jordan, Jones, Atkins
and Bishop. who rank with the first q
their day, and whose influence still af
fects the work accomplished. Our Fac
ulty IS NOW MADE UP Of worthy sue
cessors To these men, mature youni
men who have had and improved tie
best opportunities and who have chosen
teaching for their life work. The Col
lege may be pardoned for claiming tina
ments was never equaled by the past
and that as whole it is unsurpassed
by any existing institution of like grade
Our Old Students and Alumni mum
Der nearly 1000. In them the Colleg
has the wealth OF gratitude, affection
and character. The alumni and othe
students who have received the mos
valuable part of their education mt En-
Org have in the various relations an
employments of life revealed the grace
and virtues of the highest manhood
and achieved distinction as ministers
teachers, physicians, lawyers, soldiers
senator's, judges. To such compan
any young man may well esteem it a
honor TO be joined.
Our Student Body each year, consist
p of one hundred or more young men an
, boys from the best homes of our peopl,
| Some are poor boys working their wa
through College. A few are of wealth
families. The majority are FROM home
of parents who possess only n comp'
tency. Almost all are earnest, cage
students, careful to improve their tim
and attain To true manhood. The ne'