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


has said, God made the country, man
made the town" What hindrances to
the right cducrtion of tho young have
parents and teachers found in the little
village and average town with their
gossip, examples of idlrness and steulthy
day but u great Workshop filed with
the buzz and whirr of spindles, the
clatter 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,
cd and decorated as house of pleasure
Wherein entertainments are given, II
few that elevate and ronne multitude
that utterly debase aud destroy.
Reason may Justify the location of II
University whose students are mature
men, near or within the corporate linz
its of city, but to thus locate college
proper in more than blunder. The
country, with it's outstretching earth.
it's overarching heaven, is Gods temple
built to soothe and incite tho mind, to
inspire study.
Our Location ia in "Old Virginia, +" in
her Great Southwest, "ina 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 Ago Inns attained TO three-score
years. Nothing in the new world can
claim real antiquity. Relatively, En-
DRY and Henry is venerable; she was
the frat institution of collegiate grade
established in Virginia's great South
west. The country was then new and
spnrsely settled, untouched by II 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 utmos
phere, give personality and intlividuai-
ty, Sixty yenrs have generated and
kept renovated m Intellectual, moral
md spiritual atmosphere for this insti-
tuition whose quickeniag, refining aud
elcvating effects every student spending
so much as week upon her campus hus
folt. Within this same lapse of years
she has come To massive personality and
marked individuality, rs is attestcd 10y
her prominence among Colleges of the
South, and by that peculiar impress
through which she makes distinct and
/ a. utft foh NJ
phasis put upon accuracy of acquisition,
thoroughness of attainment, and upon
ability to think aud speak forccfully.
even eloquently, in tile presence of u
multitude arc significant fncts in her
history.sf' tF i-. -.,-@
Our Studies embrace Latin, Greek
German, French, English, Mathematics,
Natural Sciences, Logic. Political Econ
omy, Psychology and Ethics, arranged
in four courses, three leuding to the de-
greos b. a. and NJ. A., one to tho degree
II. s. These studies and courses are or
dained to promote symmetrical, harmo-
NOUS and substantial growth of the pu.
pill, and represent the combined wisdom
tute tho currieula of all good grade Col
leges. Yet. judge no Colleges by it's
printed courses Of study. Poor institu-
tons can and do copy. Let tho stand
ard of requirements to pass, the meth
dds of instruction, tho strength gained
by those exercised in these etudies dc
clare their advantage and worth rs pur
sued in Emory and Henry College.
Our Faculty has been composed of
suuch mon as Collins, Wiley, Longley,
Davis, Peters, Buchanan, Vawter, Sui.
Inns, Price, Hoss, Jordan, Jones, Atkins,
and Bishop. who rank with tho first of
their day, and whose influence still af
fects the work accomplished Our Fac
cessors TO these men, mature young
men who have had and improved the
best opportunities and who have chosen
teaching for their life work. The Col
lege may be pardoned for claiming that
the work done now in some depart
ments was never equaled by the past,
and that ~ n whole it IL unsurpassed
by any existing institution of like grade.
Our Old Students and Alumni num-
Der nearly 1000. In them the College
has the wealth of gratitude, affection
and character. The alumni and other
students who have received tho most
valuable part of their education mt En-
Org have in the various relations and
employments of lifo revealed the graces
and virtues of the highest manhood
and achieved distinction rs ministers
teachers, physicians, lawyers, soldiers
senators, judges. To such a company
any young man may well esteem it al
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
throuOh C,olIeUa A few are of ~ ealthy