Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-09-11
Better THAN SILVER on
GOLD.
Are the Advantages Offered for
the Education of Your Son
by Emory and Henry coHeqe.

mas said, God mace the county. man
made the town. What hindrances 90
the right Sducrtion OF tho vouns. have
parents and teachers found i'm the little
village and average town with their
gossip,examples of idleness and steaIthy
allurcments 90 viceg What ia n city b,-
day but great workshop filled with
the buzz and whirr of spindles. the
clatter of hoofs and wheels, bang of
looms, roar of engines, smoke If fur
naces, dust aud din of trade: and at
night, but the same, with business mea-
Surably suspended, and itself illuminat.
cd and decorated as Il house of pleasure
wherein entertainments are given, a
few that elevate aud refine a multitude
that utterly debase and destroy.
Reason may Justify the location of n
University whose students are mature
men, near or within the corporate linn
its of a city, but TO thus locate college
proper is more than n hlunder. The
country, with it's outstretching earth.
It's overarching heaven. is God 4 temple
built 20 soothe and incite the mind, Co
inspire study.
Our Location is i'm "Old Virginia, i'm
her Great Southwest in "A mountain
valley, twenty-one hundred feet above
the sea, amid beauty that charms and
refines like poetry or music, and in an
atmosphere that onriches 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 i'm Virginia's great South
west. The country was then new aud
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 atmcs-
phere, give personality and individuah-
". Sixty years have generated aud
Kept renovated an intellectual, moral
and spiritual atmosphere for this insti-
tuition whose quickoning, refining and
elevating effects every student spending
80 much as week upon her campus has
felt. Within this same lapse of years
she has come TO massive personality and
marked individuality, ms is attegtod by
her prominence among Colleges of tho
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. and upon
ability To think and speak forccfully.
even eloquently, in the presence of n
multitude are significant facts in her
history.
Our Studies embrace Latin, Greek,
German, French, English, Mathematics,
Natural Sciences, Logic. Political Econ
ony, Psychology and Ethics, arranged
in four couraes, three leading 60 the de-
grees b. \. and NJ. A., one 60 the degree
Is. :. These studies and courses are or
dained TO promote symmetrical, harmo-
NOUS and substantial growth of the pu-
pill, and represent the combined wisdom
OF foremost educators for they consti-
t1te the curricula of all good grade Col
loges Yet. judge no Colleges by its
printed courses of study. Poor institu-
tons can and do copy. Let the stand
ard of requirements to pass, tic meth
dds of instruction, the strength gained
by those exercised in these studies de
clare their advantage and worth as pur
sued IN Emory and Henry Colleges
Our Faculty has been composed of
suuch men as Collins, Wiley, LongleE,
Davis, Peters, Buchanan, Nawter, Sui
Inns, Price, Hoss, Jordan, Jones, AtLins,
and Bishop, who rank with the first of
their day, and whose influence still az.
fects the work accomplished. Our Fac
ulty is NOW MADE UP Of worthy sue
eessors to these men. laature Young
men who have bad and improved the
best opportunities, and who have chosen
teaching for their life work. Tie Col.
lege may be par,loned for claiming that
the work done now i'm some depart.
ments was never equaIed by the past,
and that as whole it is unsurpassed
byany existing institution Of like grade
Our Old Students and Alumni mum
Der nearly 1900. In them the College
has the wealth of gratitude, affection
aud character. The alumni and other
students who have received the most
valuable part of their education at En-
DRY have in the various relations and
employments Of life revealed the graces
and virtues of the highest manhood,
and achieved distinction as ministers,
teachers, physicians, lawyers, soldiers,
senators, judges. To such a company
any young man may well esteem il an
honor to be Joined.
Our Student Body each year, consists
of one hundred or more young men and
boys from the best homes of our people.
Some are poor boys working their way
through College. A few are of wealthy
families. The majority are from homes
of parents who possess only IA cOmpe-
teney. Almost all are earnest eager