The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-14

one-half feet long, and is of attractive
architecture. The floor of the main
exercise room contains 4,26S square
feet. The room is supplied with the
best quality of apparatus, and a Rog-
ers running track of the latest pattern,
five feet wide and twenty-six laps to
the mile in length. The building is so
skillfully planned that it may be occu-
pied cotemporaneously by the boys and
girls in their respective apartments
with perfect seclusiOn. 1t has two dis
tinCt and exclusive entrances. 1t is
supplied with the best grade of mod
ern baths and lockers, three bowling
alleys (two for boys and one for girls),
with skylight over the tenpins, two Of
fees and examining rooms, respective
ly for the physical director and direct
ress, foot ball and base ball rooms,
room for visiting teams, boxing room,
trophy room, and spectators gallery.
The gymnasium is complete in every
appointment
The Faculty.
The faculty of Wyoming Seminary is
composed of twenty-five instructors
and five lecturers. The Rev. l.. L.
Sprague, NJ. A., d. D., is president and
Miss Charlotte l.. ChubbuCk, NJ. A.,
| lady principal. The instructors are
from the leading colleges of this coun-
try and Europe. Lectures on social
| and moral subjects are given to the
students. Receptions, teas musicales
and other social gatherings afford ex-
cellent opportunities for students to
maintain social usages. Lectures on
| health are given by competent phys
icians and the faculty take great care
to avoid exposure by the students to
| disease.
The seminary is furnished with a
valuable library, consisting of nearly
! 1000 volumes, besides pamphlets, etc.
! There is also a museum of nearly 400
| specimens of natural history and a
| large collection of Indian relics. An
/ herbarium of 1.50O plants has also
| been collected. Nearly $1,000 have re-
Gently been expended for additions to
| the philosophical apparatus, among
| them a stereopticOn costing 5000. The
| mathematical, physical, chemical and
astronomical apparatus are superior
| including a telescope large enough tC
reveal the moons of the planets. Two
reading rooms are well supplied with
the best political, literary and relg.
| iOus periodicals.
The literary societies are the Am.
phiCtyOn, Eta Chapter of Alpha Phi
| Fraternity, the Adelphian and the
| Platonian. The two former are sus
tained by the male students and tn,
| two latter by the ladies. Each Of
these societies has an appropriately
furnished room and a carefully selected
| library.
There are accommodations for abou
100 boarders in the dining room and /
is well adapted for its purpose in venti
lation, light and general convenience
French and German tables are organ
lied and a bulletin board is provided
to furnish topics for conversation. TIL,
best of material is used for food, whicl
is properly prepared by experience,
cooks.
Advantages of Location.
Many positive advantages are le
rived from the location of the Sem
mary in great business centre. Th
best musical and platform talent in tn
world is brought to the city of Wilkes
Barre, one mile from the school. Som
of the finest pulpit orators of the stat
preach in the churches there. Th
OsterhOut library one of the larges
| in the country is there located TIL