The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-20

Among the prominent Birmingham wo-
men who are going abroad this summer,
there is none more fitted to enjoy Eu-
ropean travel than Mrs. Edmund Taylor
Taliaferro, principal of the Pollock
Stephens Institute. Mrs. Talfaferro will
sail June II and will go direct to Berlin
where she will join her daughter Mrs.
Chiles Clifton Terrell. who with her
husband, DIR. Terrell, of the University
of Mississippi is spending several months
\ in Europe. DIR. and Mrs. Terrell are at
present in Venice, but they have engaged
apartments in Berlin for the early sum-
mer and have matrioulated at the Uni
versity. Mrs. Taliaferro and Mrs. Fer
relI will travel together on the Contin-
emit and In England they will visit rela-
tives.
Mrs Taliaffero's deep investigation and
her research into the literature of the
European countries. her familiarity with
the history, places and events that make
the old world so intensely interesting to
the student, her critical powers of obser-
walton, make her especially capacitated
to enjoy foreign travel.
There Is no one who deserves more
charming vacation than Mrs. Taliaffero
for as principal of the Pollock-Stephens
Institute she is an extremely busy wo-
man year after year. Her literary duties
are very great, Tor ever since she came
to Birmingham to reside she has been
a strong factor in the intellectual devel-
opment of the city. She Is easily one of
the most brilliant leaders in literature,
science. philosophy, the language that
the south has produced and she stands
among the foremost women of the coun-
try a critical student of literature.
The standard to which Mrs. Taliaferro
Nat oGce elevated the Pollock-Stephens
gave 1t q prestige among higher institu-
tons of learning, and its certificates are
accepted by Vassar, wellesley, Bryn-
Mawr and the University of Alabama.
Through Mrs. Taliaferro's efforts Biz
mingham offers superior educational adj
vantages to young women, the Pollock
stephens ranking among the best equip
ped institutions In the south. Mrs. Tall
aferro realized that in Birmingham were
great possibilities for institution of
higher learning and she believed that
such a school as she proposed the Pol
lock-Stephens should become, would be
supported. To this end has Mrs. Taliaffero
labored, to give to this section an educa-
tional institution where its young WON en-
would be able to enjoy every advantage
offered by similar institutions in the older
and larger cities. She selected her faculty
from among educators well known and
well qualified to assist her in this work
and every year has added to the strength
of the Pollock-Stephens and emphasized
Mrs. Taliaferro's splendid ability to pre-
side over magnificent school for young
women.
The preparations for the approaching
commencement are now occupying much
of Mrs. Taliaffero's time, and as the time
approaches, the pretty school girls them
selves are in a fiutter of excitement.
There will be nineteen graduates, the
graduating exercises to be held at the
Jefferson theatre on the evening of June
the twelfth. There will be four gradu-
ates from the Normal department.
In a recent conversation with Mrs.
Taliaferro, she was asked her Views re-
garding co-education, attention being call
ed to a reaction In the public mind on
this subject.
1t has been pointed out that there is a
distinct alienation in the attitude of sew
eral institutions toward co-education and
also that the rapid growth of attendance
at the womens colleges for the last few
years is a very significant fact that the
tide in certain ways seems to have ebbed
1t Is said that the old objections have