The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-09-20
FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE.
A Correspondent Predicts a Very Sue
! cessful Year for the Institution.

/ ceSsful Year for the Institution.
The forty-fifth annual session of the
Florida State College, at Tallahassee,
| begins next Thursday. The old stu
dents will find many changes on the
campus that will give new air to the
old college, and the new students will
| find many more comforts in the new
dOrmitOries than have been spoken of
through the papers, says correspond
ent Of the Times-Union and Citizen.
Notwithstanding Tie continued rains
during the summer, it is expected that
the new buildings will be ready for use
| by the 26th.
President Murphree has recently re-
| turned from ThOmasVille, where he
made full arrangements with the ma
trOn of the boarding halls.
Mrs. M. J. Howe, the matrOn, is not
unknown in Florida, being native of
Gadsden county; and her husband a
graduate Of Brown University, Rhode
| Island, was, during his life time, one
of the ablest and best known educators
| in Florida and South Georgia. Mrs.
Howe is a christian lady, pronounced
| u 81
uate Of Wesleyan Female College. For
| several years she has resided in Thorn
asville, Ca, and during the pasL eight
years has kept a high-class boarding
house in that city. The college is lucky
| to secure Mrs. Howe for the position
of matrOn, and the new session will
open with every assurance that the
| management of the dOrmitOrieS will be
| successful.
PrOfessOrWilliamS, the new profess
sOr of English language and literature,
and his family, will arrive next Sat-
urday. Professor Williams was prin~
cipal of a large teachers summer
school at Arcadia this summer, and re-
signed the principalship of the Sum-
merlin Institute, at Barlow, to accepr
the chair of English in this college. :
Professor BuChhOlZ, the new prin-
cipal of teachers training school, is
expected on the oath. Professor Buch-
| hOlZ is one of the best known teachers
and SchOOlmen in Florida. He is the
author of the teachers normal arith-
metic. He was principal of the larg-
| est State teachers summer school in
! the STATE this summer. This school
was conducted at DeLand, in StetsOn
University. In addition to directing
the training school, Professor BUch-
hOlz will be professor of philosophy
and pedagogy in the college.
Other professors will come in DUR
| ing the first of next week. During the
summer Professor Murphree has bee&
experimenting the construction of thS
new buildings on The grounds. Prog
fessor Bierly has been studying il
Chicago University, and visiting the
| laboratories Of the largest universities
in the North and East Miss Miller
has spent the best part of the summer
at Buffalo, N. Y. Professor Long spjent
| the summer with relatives and friends
| in Tennessee, spending a season at
MOnteagle. Professor Calhoun was al
| Chicago the greater part of the sum-
mer. Professor Calhoun is regarded
as one of the finest linguiStS in thS
country. At Chicago University he
was called on by the professors iu
charge to address the classes in.
| French and German, a compliment to
the ability of Professor Calhoun and to
l'the standards of the Florida State Cot
lege.
Miss Provence has spent the summer
at Richmond, Va, with relatives.
1t is expected that the college will
enroll many more students than usual
at the beginning of the new year. Las
year 2O6 students attended. In this
2O6, twenty-four counties and five
Southern States were represented.
The college is becoming better
known, and with the unsurpassed IA
cilities for tanIng care of the non
resident students, it is no exaggeratiOn
to say that the patronage will be aug
mented at least so per cent. during the
next two years.