The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1902-06-17
MISSISSlPPfS PRIDED
INSTITUTION.

/ VI course everyone IN this city
knows that the Industrial Insti-
tute and College is the finest in
8titutiOn of its kind in the coun-
try, but We are glad to know that
there are a great many other peo-
| pie who have the same opinion,
and the following, from the pen of
Hon. Abe Sternberger, the brill
liant editor of the OkolonaMessen- :
ger, is duly appreciated, not only
| by the people of Columbus but by
the friends of the College through
out the state:
Church and state have been
interested in all ages in the edu-
catiOnal institutions of the day.
Since the discovery Of a system
by which information could be
made manifest through the use of
characters or letters the masses
have been enthusiastic for the
highest possible methods Of OBJ
tanning the advantages of educa-
ton. In former years the educa-
ton of the man, without much at
tentiOn being given to the woman,
was the principal thought, but
since the rapid growth of the idea
that women are not merely daugh-
ters of men, the Importance of
their higher knowledge of letters
as we'll as affairs has inspired the
growth of Institutions fit and es-
pecially adapted to their demands.
''It remained, however, for Mis-
sissippi, state making perhaps
the least pretensions of any one
of the sisterhood, to step forward
with the leading institution of the
day Cor the reception, care and
education of the young women Of
the land. The Industrial Insti-
tute and College, located in the
handsome little city of Columbus,
on the banks of the Tombigbee
river, stands today the peer, if
not the superior of uny education
al insiion for young ladies, in this
or any other country.
"WhiIe the improvements for
the accommodation of the pupils
in this great institution are still
unequal to the demands
made upon them, the seventeen
years of successful work of the
institution has demon strated that, |
in good hands, the institution is
one which must inspire the heart
of every Mississippian, and COM
mand the respect and most cor
dial support of the Legislature and
the state generally.
"When the Industrial Institute
and College was established, the
city of Columbus presented the
state with buildings and grounds
worth greater aggregate sum
than the state has since expend- |
ed in the enlargement of the great |
college, yet the rapidity with |
which the institution is growing
in popular favor, the efficiency of |
its broad educational courses, and |
the constantly increasing de-
mands made upon it by the best
people Of the state, without re-
gard to location, is sufficient to
brnsh aside any prejudice that
may have existed in the past and |
assure the managers of the great |
school that in future years there
will be no occasion for complaint |
at the meagreness of the appro-
priations for its maintenance.
Pig headed politicians, even,
who have imagined in the past
that they might score a point
with the taxpayers by opposing
liberal appropriations for this and
other institutions, will not dare in
future to resort to any such cheap
work. The people are for the in
because of the good
work it performs, and to further
stand in the way of its growth is
the most suicidal piece of political
jugglery to be imagined.
''In this great school there have
been enrolled the past year in
round numbers 500 young ladies.
There they are cared for and
guarded as carefully, if not more
sarefully, than in most of their