Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-09-11
8ETIER THAN SILVER D.
GOLD.
Are the advantages Offered for
the Education of Your Son
BY Emory and Henry GoNeqa.

Our location is in the country, One
has said, God matc the county, man
made the town. What hindrauces TO
the right educrtion OF tho young have
parents and teachers found in the little
village and average town with their
gossip, examples of idleness and stealthy
alluromcnts 20 vice? What is city by
day but u great workshop filled with
tho buzz and whirr of spindles, the
clatter of hoofs and wheels, bang of
looms, roar of engines, smoke Of fur
naces, dust aud din of trade; and at
night, but the same, with business mea-
surably suspended, and itself illuminate
I'd and decorated as II house of pleasure
wherein entertainments are given, a
few that elevate aud rciihu multitude
that utterly debase and destroy.
Reason may Justify the location of II
University whose students arc mature
men, near or within the corporate lin
its of city. but to thus locate college
proper is more than hlunder. The
country, with it's outstretching earth,
its ovcrarching heaven, is Gods temple
built TO soothe and incite the mind, TO
INSPIRE study.
Our Location is in "Old Virginia, in
her 'Circat Southwest, ~ in mountain
valley, twenty.one hundred feet above
the sea, amid beauty that charms and
reinos like poetry or music, and in an
atmosphere that enrichos 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 obuntry was then new aud
spnrsely settled, untouched by u foot of
railroad anywhere, and having no good
roads of any kind. Morley alone can
not make an institution. limo il essen
tial to create history, form an atmos.
phero, give personality and individuali-
W. Sixty years have generated aud
Kept renovated I'M intellectual, moral
aud spiritual atmosphere for this insti-
elcvating effects avery student spending
no much as u week upon her cnmpus Inns
felt. Within this same lapse of years
she has come to massive personality and
marked individuality, as il attestod by
her prominence among Colleges of tho
South, and by that peculiar impress
through which She makes distinct and
distinguished many of her sons Elm
phasis put upon accuracy of acquisition,
thorouBhness of attainment. and upon
ability 20 think and speak forcofully
even eloquently, in tho presence of n
multitude are significant facts in hei
history.
Our Studies embrace Latin, Greek
German, French, English, Mathematics
Natural Sciences, Logic. Political Econ.
oniy, Psychology and Ethics, arranged
in four courses, three leading to the de.
grecs B. a. and Nj. A., ono TO the degree
Is. =. These studies and courses are or,
dnined To promote symmetrical, hnrn,o,
NOUS and substantial growth of the pu,
pill, and represent the combined wisdom
OF foremost educators for they consti-
tutc the curricula OF all good grade Col.
lcges Yet. judge no Colleges by its
printed courses of study. Poor institu-
TONS can and do copy. Let the ,:tnnd.
ard of requirements to pass, tito meth
obs of instruction, the strcngth gained
by those exercised in these studies do
clare their advantage and worth rs pur
sued in Emory and Henry Colleges.
Our Faculty has been composed OF
suuch men IA Collins, Wiley, Longley
ljavis, Peters, Buchanan, Vuwter, Sui.
Inns, Price, Hoss, Jordan; Jones', Atkins
and Bishop, who rank with tho first OF
their day, and whose influence still nc
fects the work accomplished. Our Fac
ulty is NOW MADE UP of worthy sue
ccssors to these men, mature young
men who have had and improved til,
best opportunities, and who lave chosen
teaching for their life work. Tile Col
lege may be par,loned for claiming thai
the work done now in some depart
ments was never equnIcd by the past
CIV 1iihV 40 ~ muOlb ~ ~ u1lHiI ItlSSet
byany 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 Other
students who have received the mos
valuable part of their education ut En-
ory have in the various relations ant
empioyments Of life revealed the grace
and virtues of the highest manhood
and achieved distinction rs ministers
teachers, physicians, lawyers, soldiers
senators, judges. To such COMPANY
any young man may well esteem it al
honor 10 DO Joined.
J, Our Student Body each year, consist
of one hundred or more young men ant
boys from tile best homes of our people
Some are poor boys working their way
through College. A few are of wealth,
families. The majority are from homes