The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-20

nome for its students and is equipped
for the best of work. The costs are
moderate, the instruction and diSci-
pline thorough, the military feature
being used to advantage. The work
of the institution is highly endorsed
| and DR.. Murphy is commended as a
| man and praised as an educator by
! such men as ex-senator McLaurin, of
| South Carolina; Governor George W.
| Peck, of Wisconsin; Senator John w.
| Daniel, of Virginia; Senator l.. H. Ball.
of Delaware; Judge w. H. Neal, of
| Louisburg, and by all the people of
| his section. The curriculum prepares
for college or university or the gov
eminent schools at West Point and
| Annapolis.
The purpose of the school is to COM
| bine home and school life; every effort
| is made to surround the boys with
refining influences and to train them
! to habits of purity and manliness,
| and to entlemanly department ana
| agreeable manners on the street and
in the house, as we'll as to make their
| social life joyous and elevating.
The freedom of the boys from bad
habits and their uniformly correct
I behavior have been highly compii-
mented by those acquainted with the
| social and moral life of cadets. The
spirit and discipline of the school cause
| the DOyS 10 Ieel l1ldI lIlelr
are working for their best interests
hence they are led to work with them
| in UNFOLDING the rules.
| Arrangements have been made with
several colleges and universities of
| Pennsylvania, Virginia and North
| Carolina to admit young men from
| this school on certificate without eXa-
| animation.
Southern Presbyterian College.
| How great would be the growth of
| the Red Springs Seminary" was not
| conceived by the Presbytery of Fay
! etteville when this was first establish
| ed, but it has grown by leaps and
| bounds, and today the seminary has
| become the Southern Presbyterian Col
| lege and Conservatory of Music with
| a splendid and increasing attendance.
This great growth has been made
possible by the virility, ability and en-
ergy of Rev. c. G.. Varden, d. D.,
the president Of the institution. He
has overcome many obstacles and the
college has steadily grown. The ear
lier wooden buildings and the name
are gone, and in their place are four
| intellectually beautiful and impos-
modern school work and BETTING the
| name of the Southern Presby-
terrain College and Conservatory Of
Music" with it's large patronage from
many states, with last year IT'S pu-
pills and a faculty of 26 teachers.
State superintendent of Public In
struction, j. Y. Joyner well describes
this institution for the education Of
girls, and young women in these
words:
1.-The growth of the institution under
the able direction of it's remarkable
president has been almost phenom-
email. 1t is today one of the most use
full, influential institutions of learning
for the education of women in this
State. and l believe we would be war
ranted in saying, in the South. It's
work has been blessing to the wo-
men, and an inspiration to the cause
of education"
All branches of education usually
taught in female colleges are taught
in this college, and there is splendid
spiritual and home life, the student
body being a remarkable fine one. Last
year about thirty of the girls entire
ly or in part, met their own expenses
by their own labor, and in this college
there are no social lines drawn. 1t
is place where a sound and vigorous
Christian education of the best kind
is given.
There is a primary department IN
art department, a French department
and a full conservatory course in mu-
sic, all features. There are literary
societies and a splendid college social
life. In fact the college has SO many
good points that it is difficult to emu
merate them. With it's lovely sur
roundings and it's modern buildings, its
strong faculty and it's splendid curri
culum, it is an ideal college for girls,
and moreover the prices are moderate
for the service given.
The Public Schools.
Red Springs boasts of an excellent
public school that is open nine months
in the year, the principal being Mrs.
w. H. McKimmon, a most able in
structress, with competent assistants.
The school is we'll managed and con-
Quoted, Red Springs being proud of
it. 1t is succeeding admirably and the
promise is for even better work in the
future than in the past.
Great is Robson County.
This tells all too briefly and hur
riedly of the history and life in
Red Springs which is in the great
county of Robson, which now, as IN
days past, is ready to "save the State
if called upon. 1t is a county of great
resources and great advantages, ana
which year by year is improving. 1t is
a principality in it's area of 1.040
square miles, one-fiftieth of North Car
DINA. 1t has magnificent farm lands,
a salubrious climate, and as fine peo-
pie as Gods sun ever shone upon.
1t is county that has developed
and this week when at Red Springs
the "Home Coming" for Robesonians
is celebrated it's sons who are among
"the dispersed" will learn from those
who stayed at home of its wonderful
growth, and that there are just us
many opportunities for fame, fortune
and wealth in "Old Robson" as in
any other place.
Back to The Old Home.
And it is back to this old nome the
Robesonians over the world are lnvl-
ted this week, back to the old, old
home with all it's smeet memories. A
welcome warm awaits you ana mere
is what Editor Branch of the Red
SPRINGS Citizen, speaking for the peo-
pie of all of Robson says to you:
"To return to the old home at some
time is a natural yearning implanted
in the heart of every man. to come