The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-07-16
GROWTH HAS BEEN RAPID
Grenada College Receiving Many
BettermentS.
DEMANDED BY INCREASED ATTENDANCE.
North Mississippi Institution That Is
Fast Taking a Prominent Place
In the Educational World.

In a government like ours-a gov
ernment ''of the people, by the peo-
pie and for the people," education of
the masses must have a conspicuous
place in our political economy, for
two facts in life are incontrovert-
able, First, that no government form
can give a people freedom unless it
gives them knowledge, and, Second,
that no government, whatever its
form, can refuse it's people freedom If
it grants them education. The pur-
pose of our government is to elevate
and develope a free people, and the
best proof of the sincerity of it's pur-
pose is the extensive provision made
for the instruction of the childhood of
the land, and the full access to sources
of correct information that is furnish
ed to our citizenship by the press OF
the land uncensored and untrammel-
led. Every child, whose parents
wish it, can secure an educatiOn:
every citizen, who will, can familiar
ize himself with all live issues of the
day. This has been so for many
years, but never before were the peo-
pie so thoroughly awake to the fact
that the safety of the commonwealth
and government lies more in an en-
lightened citizenship than in forts
and ir0ncladS. Increased interest has,
therefore, been awakened in the
methods and scope of all educational
work, and telling impulse has been
given to intellectual life of the whole
country.
CHURCH POTENT FACTOR.
The church, which has alwayssbeen
potent factor in the education of
the people, was never more markedly
active than at this time. And no
church has been, nor is, more aggres-
sive and successful in this important
| field of endeavor than the Methodist
Episcopal church, South: and in no
State in the South has the church
made more rapid progress than in
Mississippi during the past ten years.
Something over a decade ago the
Methodist church in this State de-
cided that it must have real col
lege in which to educate the young
men, under such management and
With such surroundings as would guard
vigilantly the moral life of the student
and acquainty them with the varied
interests, and complex machinery of
their great denomination.
MillSapS College at Jackson, MiSSiS-
sippi, is the result Of that decision: a
College that is accomplishing educa-
tional work second to no institution
of it's character in the State, and one
that is proving to be one of the
strongest factors in the growth and
general advancement of the church.
The stability of Millsaps College is
now assured, and these progressive,
never-tiring Methodists have begun
another enterprise Of no less moment
than that of preparing for the educa'
tion of it's young manhood.
SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN.
Realizing that the young woman
: hood of the church is becoming a
vital factor in the economy of the
church work, the church is determin
ell to give them, also, adequate in
struction and suitable training for the
work expected and demanded of them
1t sees also that the first, and possibl.
the most important school is The
home, and since the girls are to make
the future home, surely they mus
have the education and training tina
will enable them TO do the fullest an,
). best work in character building. The
North Mississippi Conference has
therefore, set about with feverish en-
thusiasm to make of Grenada Colleg
a school thoroughly equipped to NEE
this imperative demand for the edu
- cation of the young womanhood c
North Mississippi.
GRENADA COLLEGE HISTORY.
IL The ground and main building {
" Grenada College has a history. /
1861 the Baptist church bought til
grounds and erected the main buildin
at cost of forty thousand dollars