The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-24
WHAT THE SCHOOL IS
UNSURPASSED IN ELEGANCE
AND EQUIPMENT.
A MAT FER OF PRIDE TO CITY AND STATE
Something of the History of the Institution,
The Faculty for the Ensuing Year,
The Addition Recently,
Purchased.
Purchased.

Inc Baptist Female University here is
going to be an institution in which Raj
eigh, the Baptist denomination and all
friends of education can take justifiable
pride.
When it opens its doors ON Wednesday
of this week it will do so with the most
flattering prospects of amy private school
IN the history of the Stute-it will begin
its first term with an attendance equal
to that of the male college of the same
denomination after 1t ipad a record Of
nearly a half century of usefulness to
its credit That is Il beginning that
should promise something in the way Of
achievement in the years to come.
This is all the more remarkable when
it IS recalled that when the question Of
establishing the school was first taken
up not one in ten of even the denomina-
ton to which the school belongs be-
lieyed that there was room for the school
or that it could ever be made sue
cess. The majority never expected to
see a roof ON the build.ng.-llntll the
men who believed IN it put faith into
them. The school is somebody's monu-
ment-who would wish better?
There is perhaps not a handsomer
school building in the State than this
womans college which will be filled with
all the GIRLS it has room for before the
weeks end. Alphabetically a delight
to the eye, the building is being furnish
ed and fitted UP within la Il way to
warm the heart of amy good housekeep-
er. From the range in the kitchen to
the furniture of the living rooms in the
top story, everything put into the build
ing is first class. The interior looks
much more like that of the home of Il
citizen of taste and aftluence than that
Of the traditional boarding school. The
rooms are abundantly large and with
that plentitude of light that nobody
needs so much as the student.
The laboratories and part of the reci-
tation rooms are on the first floor togeth.
or with the Presidents office and the
dining room. The second floor is taken
UP with recitation and living rooms and
the chapel, while the space above the
second story is given up to living rooms
entirely. The dining room is handsome
ly furnished with oak chairs and light
extensions tables, amid size and weight
We're not solely emphasized IN the pur-
chase of tlle china The scientific labora-
tories are well fitted UP and supplied with
the latest apparatus.
The living rooms of the institution
have been largely furnished through the
generosity of individuals, churches and
Sunday Schools. The following have
furnished rooms:
tonia First Baptist Church, Fayette.
DR. FL. T. Chaplin. Pittsboro.
]. ]. jenkins, Pittsboro.
!. d. Moore, Gastonia.
First Baptist Church, Fayetteville.
b. f. Keith, Wilmington.
w. \. Faircloth, Oh. ].
First Church, Asheyille.
j. G. Price.
Mary Powell Edmandson, Scotland Neck.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. Il. Aydlett, Elizabeth
City.
Mt. Moriah church.
Rev. Harrington, Wilmington.
b. A. Pope, Weldon.
Mrs. W. e. Daniel, Weldon.
Thomas Jones, Auburn.
Rocky Mount Church.
IS. G.. Pool, Raleigh.
Mr.. and Mrs A. W. Goodwin.
Abotts' Greek?
Mrs. r. J. Ramseur, Ramseur.
John 70. Ray, Raleigh.
John u. Pullen, Raleigh.
Reidsvile Church.
L. T.. Jenkins, Gastonia.
Sunday School, Gastonia.