The leader., 1898-12-14
wHTTwoRTH COLLEGE.

wHTTwoRTH COLLEGE.
An educational institution, wisely
managed, is blessing to any country
and a special means of grace to the i'm
mediate community in which it is loca-
ted. 1t is no fulsome praise to state
the simple facts in regard to Whitworth
College. Organized to meet the neces-
stiles of a rapidly developing country,
its promoters never lost faith In the
central idea of its inception, that Mis-
sissippians needed school for the
higher education of women, located on
the healthy pine hills of South Missls-
sippi. That it became Methodist
institution was the accident that It's
earliest founders were members of that
communion and the additional fact
that Methodism needed such an insti-
tuition. The limits of this article will
not permit an extended notice of its
trials and triumphs during the stormy
years reaching from 1857 to 1865. 1t
was in the year 1866 that final action
was taken by which Rev. H. F. Johnson
came to the head of Whitworth Col
lege. He was man of the people. He
knew their needs, he knew their ability.
Wisely he planned and grandly did he
fulfil his mission. He made the name
ofWhitworth College familiar through
out the educational world, and demon
strated not only that Mississippians
believed in the education of their
daughters. but also that they were
willing that those daughters should be
educated at home.
The day of DR.. Johnson's death was
a gloomy day for Whitworth College.
Who could take up and carry forward
the work? After much patient effort
"a new faculty was gathered together
with Prof. L. T. Fitzhugh as president
and Rev. w. B. Murrah as vice presi-
dent. Under their joint presidency a
new idea was thoroughly infused into
the college, foreign, it is true, to all
ideas of development as expressed by
DR.. johnson, but certainly helpful i'll
establishing an almost national repu-
tation for the conservatory of music
and art which under their administra-
ton formed the most attractive feature
of the work of the college.
The building of Millsaps College at
Jackson and the effort of that people
to infuse into the whirl of their social
business and political life, something
of college life, took away from
Whitworth it's vice president and
later its president. At that time it was
questioned as to whether Whitwortf
had not already fulfilled its mission
The growth of the High School, it was
said, had done away with the necessit!
for so many colleges.
Experience, however, has justified
the election of Rev. J. w. Chambers
A. NJ, of Mississippi Conference, "a
president and has demonstrated tn,
fact that no institution outlives it.
time, if that institution is a leader o
the times Education by the church
has never been so firmly believed in as
in our own day and generation
Never before have there been so many
schools of good grade preparing young
women for college work.
No institution has a better course Of
study to offer than Whitworth College
Its teachers are well qualified, its pu
pills are well taught. 1t is not toe
much to say that the best ideas of DR.
johnson are being carried out accord
ing to the necessities of our day, and
whatever was good in the later plans
of Drs. Fitzhugh and Murrah has been
incorporated in the present plans foI
the still further development of the
influence, power and usefulness OF
Whitworth College. Its plan of helps
gives Is young ladies the opportunities
of collegiate educations for the
small yearly outlay of 5000 each.
Its department work is of the highest
order. Its plan of management is
unique among the colleges and gives
the Whitworth girl confidence and a
cheerfulness that attracts the attention
of every visitor.
To every reader of this article who
has daughter or ward to educate, we
say, come to Brookhaven, call at the
College and see for yourself. The
present motto of the institution is
Education, NOT Graduation"
AS to the cost, elsewhere in these
columns will be found the information
you wish.
The best heritage which can be be-
slowed upon boy or girl isa Christian
EducdttOH.
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