The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-09-29
INSTITUTE ITEMS.

The prospects for the coming school
year at the Columbia Institute are very
bright. Already seven states are rep
resented and more pupils from these and
other states are expected. All Of the
faculty arrived Monday, the only new
member being Miss Burtie Atwell, of
the University of Texas, and formerly a
student at the Institute, and Miss Sue
Graham, of Shorter College.
The weeks work has been varied by a
lecture on youthful Poets" by Miss
Bryant, and short one by Miss Wal
lace on 1.-The Early History Of Music. ;"
This was the first of the musical lee
lures which are to be delivered by Miss
Wallace during tie year.
Miss Graham's fret talk on nursing
was given in the study hall Friday
afternoon at 2:30 p. m. Subject The
Nurse. Hereafter Mics Graham's
lectures will be on Tuesday and Friday
afternoons at the same hour. All who
are interested in the subject "How to
Care for the Sick, are Invited to at
tend.
Mrs. n. F. Tiff, Of Albany, Ga, &C.
companied her daughter, Miss Renie
Tiff. to the Institute last week Her
sister, Miss Julia Tiff, attended the In
stitute from 1898 to 1901.
Miss Rachel Barker has returned
from delightful summer in the noun
tains of North Carolina
Rev. Frank Thompson, chaplain in
the U. &. Navy ana son OF the late
Bishop Thompson, of Mississippi, after
accompanying his two daughters to the
Institute and spending few days at
The school, has returned to Philadel.
phia, previous to rejoining his ship. Mr..
Thompson was so charmed with the In
stitute and it's possibilities, its historic
prestige, its opportunities for culture in
rare library and museum, that it set
him to questioning why town, that
might receive even more in the way of
patronage from large boarding depart.
ment, should be indifferent to it's own
business enterprises by withholding
aid to such a school. Mr.. Thompson
volunteered to attempt to raise for the
Institute $50, 900 by Christmas. "a
prophet is not without honor save in
his own country is still sad comment
on human nature in one of the most
cultured towns of the South.
Mics Sadie Short will gladden. the
hearts of her friends by returning to
the Institute as a student.
Mrs. Roberts, of Nashville, has pls q ed
her daughter at the Institute
Mrs. Carpenter and Mrs. Hutton are
attending the Travel Glass, and are
great inspiration to the students and ar
encouragement to Miss Bryant. Several
students from distance will enter the
boarding department TO take tie Travel
Course. 1t is outlined in another
The Institute Columbian, a monthly J
to be published by the stu |
dents of the Columbia Institute, promises |
TO be very attractive and to send out, to |
500 subscribers ten months in the year, |
news of the town and the school. The |
Literary q 1itors are Misses Allew Green
y and Lindsey Cooper. The Business
Editors are Misses Annie Barrow, Julia
Biddle and Sadie Short. Subscription
81 90 year.
A delightful outing Oh the rocks by
he river, near the cemetery, was en-
Dyed by the boarders Friday evening.
\ sight of the Duck with supper on the
ocks and some improvised ghosts in the
'emetery-when night came ou-ended
With the convivial drink of soda water.