Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-09-27
YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE.
Noble Institution Amid Beautiful surroundings.
Good Religious and Moral influences.
[By Rev. w. NJ. Harden. ]

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1t was our pleasure to visit Young
Harris College few days ago, and
we hope it may not be amiss to give
the readers of The Courier q few
dots as to our impressions while on
the way and something ss to the
merits of this popular college.
We left Walballa on the morning
of September 9Th, travelling by way
of the iron bridge, Clayton, Burton
and Hiwassee, Ca, Young Harris
being eight miles beyond the latter,
making total of IS miles from the
starting point.
There are along this short journey
some very interesting things to st-
tract the attention of the traveller,
many of them calculated to exotic
astonishment and admiration. If
there is anything in the whole world
to cause surprise and to impart USE
full information and to captivate the
imagination, holding the traveller
spell bound, and to so fascinate him
as that he will be eager for each new
disclosure, we are confident it is to
be found among these picturesque
and beautiful hills.
We are to some extent at loss,
not being able 20 give the names of
mountains and streams, which is
natural when in a strange portion of
the country. The mum her Of streams
crossed was one point of attraction,
while we crossed some of them seve-
raj times, we noted as many as 1872,
and most of them very beautiful and
clear.
The mountain scenery on this spe-
cial line Of travel is nearly all of the
most imposing, but in passing, with
but little time to spend on the road,
the bold features of the most glow
ing outlines the more exquisite pen
cling is lost for want of time.
AS we look for the first time upon
these awful peaks, whose bold heads
veil their faces AT times in a cloudy
pillow, overlooking the vast valley
below, we are reminded that these
are TO remain from age TO age and
they are an emblem of Gods support
to his people. Then it is we call TO
mind the beautiful lines written by
great man, whose work and history
are numbered with things of the
past:
THE monarch of mountains,
Which the genius nature
Crowned on a throne OF rock
In a robe OF clouds,
With a diadem of snow"
Toward the summit of some of
the most imposing it seems incredi-
BILE that any one should ever have
made an attempt to climb such a
colossal mass, which to us appeared
inaccessible.
However little man may care for
the gorgeous scenes of nature the
mountains attract his attention, and
when fortune permits us to view
with admiring eye these gigantic
monuments of this earth's ancient
convulsions, we are lost in wonder
ment.
The enormous masses rising into
perpetual snow, upon whose tlanks
the vast forests appear as patches of
n.oss-even then we discover but a
faint resemblance between their
reality and the conception we have
formed of them
"Beautiful for situation," nestled
among this inspiring scenery, in the
Northwestern portion of the State of
Georgia, we find the Young Harris
College.
This institution was conceived in
the mind of Young Harris about 16
years ago, then resident of Athens,
Ga, which, in order to accomplish
the noble results that are now being
realized, made quite a handsome do