The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-10-05
GRENADA FEMALE COLLEGE.

1t is with great pride that the SEN
TINEL calls attention to this grand
old institution OF learning, which for
more than a half century has been
the exponent of higher education for
women. Every State or community
is guaged by its educational facilities,
and putting this test to Grenada, we
find that she is abreast with the most
progressive communities in the Unit
ed States. To say nothing of its past
record, but judging it solely by its
present status, brings a thrill of pride
to every public spirited citizen of Gre
NADIA. The growth of the school I'M
der the present management-that of
Rev. W. NJ. Mcintosh, has been phe-
nomenal enough to astoniSh the most
optimistic. Circumstances when he
took charge of the school were, to say
the least of it, rather discouraging,
but his untiring energy, unfaltering
faith IN himself and in Grenada have
built up a school of which any North
ern or Eastern community might well
be proud. We say it unhesitatingly,
and without fear of successful contra
diction, that there is no other man
within the bounds of our State who
could have done what the present
president of Grenada College has done
within the past three years.
In his choice of a faculty. he was
guided by his experience and knowl-
edge of human nature, and the result
has been that with a few unimportant
changes, the same corps of teachers
has been serving him, for more
than two years, their experience and
knowledge of the situation making
them more and more efficient as the
years go by. The crying need of the
school is room to expand, and it is
enough to discourage any good friend
Of the school to think how long the
prospective annex of the school has
been discussed. and with how little
result. Their are at present within
the walls of the college ninety pupils,
making the Sum-tOtal of the college
family to amount to something like
one hundred and twenty persons.
With a suitable annex. President Nc
Intosh could easily have doubled the
number, and there is really no limit,
with the needed cooperation of the
town and the North Mississippi Con-
ference, to the growth and advance
ment of the school. Asst is now. we
are missing golden opportunities.
Patronage that should come to us.
especially, from the great and
wealthy Delta, west of us, is being di-
verified to other schools and other
states that are only too glad to make
capital out of our deficiencies. The
SENTINEL would remind those most
interested, that: There is a tide in
the affairs of men which, taken at the
flood. lead on to fortune. Omitted,
all the rest is bound in shadows and
in miseries."
Unless we are very much mistaken,
Grenada College is now at the very
1ood-tide of her prosperity, and every
effort should be put forth to take ad-
vantage of it. The location of the
College is all that could be asked for
by the most eXacting. Grenada is
situated near the center of the State,
at the junction OF three important
lines of railroad, making it accessible
within a few hours of every portion of
the State. The town itself offers
every facility that modern science has
discovered for the comfort and luxury
Of mana magnificent electric light
and telephone system, water works
and sewerage, being an absolute guar
antee for the health of the city. The
mineral well, the properties Of which.
have been but recently discovered will
be an additional advantage to the
school, as delicate girls sent here may
get free Of charge, the benefit of the
health giving waters that are already
making Grenada renowned as a health
resort. The College is located in the
suburbs of the city in the center of a
lovely campus, shaded with magnfi-
cent trees-in the distance Pine Hill
towering aloft, and sending forth in
the atmosphere the balsam that
makes it Natures own Sa~nitarium.
The moral influence surrounding the
pupils is of the very best. An Ep-
worth League and a Missionary Socic-
ty are conducted by the girls of the
College, while three flourishing litera-
ry societies give tone and ECLAT to
the members of the same.
Taking it all in all, Grenada has an
institution of which it may well be
proud, and we cannot too confidently
recommend the College to our readers
and the nublic ppppraUv