Evening star., 1902-03-19
G R A N I'll EE HALL
NAME OF A BUILDING OF LIN
COLIN UNIVERSITY.
A Memorial in the Cumberland Noun.
tains to the Civil War President
The Blue and Gray.
From the New Orleans Picayune.

| From the New Orleans Picayune.
They'll take We I'm at Grant-Lee for the
| felix's thar are mighty 'commodatin'," said
| our boy driver. .'JIm.' who had piloted us
| over the limestone ridges in hack. that
| tossed us right and left, and In darkness
| that could be felt
we were strangers in a strange land and
after three days travel We were glad OF
the hope of resting somewhere
| But what Is Grant-Lee-a hotel?'' we
asked
No" answered 'Jim.'' hits a school
but the folks at the head OF hit will take
We in. know
Jim was right
| But what a transformation! From bump.
| iEg in the dark over the rough highway
| we were driven through the gateway OF the
| Lincoln Memorial University and over mac
| adamized roads that wound In scientific
| curves and easy grade to Grant-Lee Hall.
| ramed with the thought OF commemorative
| the virtues OF blue and gray.
mere Is nothing more picturesque than
| this institution. 1t Is situated a few miles
| from the town of Cumberland Gap. i'm the
| very heart of the Cumberland mountains
| The shaggy crests Of the eternal hills err
Eiron 1t on every hand. In fact. 1t is with
a shock of surprise that the visitor finds "a
| THIS remote corner of the state an fnstitu-
| TOR so elaborately planned so superbly
| housed and doing philanthropic work IL
/ SuNii an ilieiiSent and DrOadmindei way.
| Lincoln was n man of much the same tyI,e
| as that which ahounds today in this noun
| tairous region. and there Is good reason
| why the people who seek to perpetuate the
| ne mory of that eminent man, admired ard
| respected in the south as well as In the
Ecrth, should establish this school in this
| particular locality. There has been great
| lack of proper educational facilities amon.,
| the mountains Of the Cumberland rang.
anC the people. as exhibited In the writings
OF some or onr most popular authors. are
ii,iterate and uncouth in many instances
/ Hence the Importance OF the work which
| this school has undertaken and which il
Is pleasure to say, is steadily being ac-
| complished
Gen. o. o. Howard.
/ We stayed here q few weeks as the
guest OF DR.. John Hale Larry who has
| cnarGe on the ground. of the development
OF this institution General o. O. Howard
the noted philanthropist, has been for years
the moving spirit in the school work keep
| Ing promise made to President Lincoln in
| their last interview
| General Towards idea was that ,i,,t,g
| memorial. like school I'm the mountains
| was better monument to President Lin
| coin than piles Of stone and mortar lie
sun sun soiiclts for 1t, for 1t is not yet suit
| ably endowed. and others are with him, in
| GLIDING Dr. +. b. Avery, an Episcopal rec
| tor from Painesville, Ohio who is managing
director; but We met and studied particu-
| as they all call him there We wrote q.
them because. while schools for practical
| euucation all have something in common
This one is unique. and the methods have
, more or less to do with the person who
| has given much CT his life to this line of
| ecucation, and whose heart and soul seem
wrapped up In the education OF the noun
| taineer.
These sayings OF his let you into nj,
| thought: 'S
The average white man must work for
hving: He will superintend or he COM
| mon toiler. We are educating superntend-
| ents. overseers, leaders,
Christian without being sectarian; pa
| triotic without being partisan"
/ "A boy of good blood will try to earn his
| own living"
Pupils Earn Tuition.
The followers Of Bellamy would enjoy a
| trip to this mountain university Students
| are paid in labor checks. which they ex-
| change for board and tuition. 1t costs but
50 per month for steam heated room. lights,
good board and the best Of tuition and
more than half the pupils earn their whole
| way. Tobacco. intoxicants. the carrying of
| firearms and the use of improper language
| bar one out of the institution. There are
no class distinctions. No janitors or SER
wants can be found I'm the school The stu
dents take their turns at duties that may
be called disagreeable. The discipline is a
| cross between the army and the home. They
rise. eat. retire, etc. at the call of the
/ bugle. and this regularity In living has
much to do with the health Of ALL
The school has a farm OF $50 acres about
| half of winch is under cultivation. Fifteen
hundred bushels of corn were raised last
! year. The products of the farm are used
| to help feed the students. mechanical
| building is being put up by the students.
| and money is being raised for woodworking
| machinery. A printing Office has been start
| ed and month"; v magazine known as The
| Mountain Herald is conducted by lne aid
1 Of students. who are paid for their work 1t
looks as though in time this might be the
| center of an educational settlement. a sort
| OF modern Utopia. When its progressive
yet peaceful life is contrasted with the
| noise of busy town or the quarrelsome
/ spirit Of some of the mountain hamlets in
| the region round about, 1t suggests an ideal
life.
While the name of Lincoln is honored I'm
| this institution, for the whole work Is
| known as the Lincoln Memorial University.
/ there is nothing about 1t that suggests the
| least of unpleasant political thought. All
shades of political and religious belief may
| be found among it's faculty. Blue and gray
| are the colors adopted by the students at
| Grant-Lee Hall, where side by side, the
/ children of those who followed Grant are
| found studying with the children of those
who fought under Lee. You never hear a
word that wounds the feelings OF either.
| and there seems to be a disposition there
| not to take offense anyway.