The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-12-15
Oxford

cidnus, law professor, was thklnS tne
train for health and rest and Biloxi, and
his good wife insisted on conveying us to
| the university. We found Chancellor
Fulton in his office, but he dropped his
correspondence pnd escorted us over the
| ground, and explained the great improve
ments that were being made, costing
something over twenty thousand dollars.
On or before the close of the year all the
buildings on the campus except the chapel
and one dormitory will be steam-heated,
and all the buildings and grounds will be
lighted by electricity. Half a mile of
eight-inch pipe, l6O-horse power engine,
two boilers of l25-horse power each, a
large dynamo, radiators in all the rooms,
and fixtures for hundreds of lights, have
been installed, and will add immensely
to the health and comfort of the entire
university population. The university
dynamo will provide the current for the
town, whose good people can dispense
with oils and matches. The university
has an abundance of pure water and per-
feet sewerage system. The School of
Electric Engineering, recently established,
will require considerable plant Prof.
Douglas Anderson, late of Tulane, is in
charge.
The Library building, with its $4,000
volumes, is in fine shape. Mrs. Lizzie NJ.
Hunt, of Ripley, is librarian. She took
charge in July last, and has re-arranged,
classified and catalogued all the books.
Chancellor Fulton was very compliment
ary of her management
With the improvements mentioned, and
many repairs that have been made, the
university will be in fine shape for better
| ~ 0f har and nrpsGinp
needs-a woman's building, a gymnasium
and number of cottages for married stu
dents. There are thirty-five young ladies
now at the university, and there would
be one hundred if woman's building
were provided. Chancellor Fulton related
many interesting instances of how young
men came to the university after they
were married, and pursue the course to
graduation, their wives helping in various
, ways In one of the university classes
there is now young man pursuing his
} studies on money earned by his beautiful
young wife, who has a position, on a
, small salary, in one of the schools that We
| visited When he shall enter upon lu
crative law practice and both are estab
, lished in comfortable home, they car
: think it all over, and enjoy it the more
, because of the separation and sacrifice
, now experienced.
/ On Saturday night the Phi Sigma hat
r competitive speech-making and selected
q two commencement orators, the topic dis
cussed being Resolved, that the progress
= of civilization is due more to physical sci
/. ence than to politics" Messrs. Russell
and Drummond were voted the bes
Y speakers The orators were honored b.
the presence of the young ladies OF tn
n Woman's College, who were in great force
!. in their becoming costumes, accompanied
, by President Malone and several of tn
; teachers.
: The present university enrolment i
y 240. Fifty or sixty more will enter afte
" the holidays.
: On the Sd of March, 1901, Chancello
II Fulton will complete his thirtieth year a
e a teacher in the University Of Mississippi
He entered as student in 1866, grad
uated as first honor man in the class
'e 1869. some of his classmates being +.
,e Critz, r. H. Thompson, w. Calvin Wells
r. N. Miller He has been chancello
y since 1892. succeeding Chancellor Maye
s. He is emphatically "the right man in tn
$ right place"
in Oxford has much improved since fol
Of mer visit, especially in the residence po
lie ton. One of the largest and handsomes
j. residences recently erected is that OF Hol
T. j. w. T. Falkner. Through the courtesy {
re Judge b. T. Kimbrough we were able
II see all of Oxford He poinetd out I'll
homes of L. Q. c. Lamar Jacob Ihoml
IN son. James NJ. Howry, H. A. Barr, Jude
g. R. A. Hill and Others who have passe
es away. Oxford has now the blessing
is pure water, and will soon have sewerat
s. system
10 All the Protestant denominations hay
nd nice churches, and the public schools a
among the best in the State. The Glol
and Eagle continue to prosper.
~ The Masonic grand bodies will no
"a their annual meeting in Oxford duriI
w the fourth week in February. This W
:, add about four hundred to the popul
al tion, but they viii be amply provided fe
:. :. There need be no anxiety on that score.
-, And this concludes our outing, mai
~. things being omitted for want OF spa'
ur Colonel j. NJ. stigier.
rs A comrade and admirer of this ga
ch liant Confederate, thus writes:
III In your department Of interesting al
pc important Mississippi matters and histo
cal facts, for which compliment you, tn
'ei occurred before, during and since the w
lr- of Secession, is brief mention Of the II
re and death Of Col. ]. M. Stigler at his hor
H. in Lexington.
,he Major Stigler commanded a battalion
,,o sharpsbooters in Featherston's brigat
o' Loying's division, Johnston's army.
~, was a brave, gallant and trusted offic'
".' md skillfully led bis little command in
III ,.ro,s augaoamants in which il parti