The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-10
NEW SYNODICAL COLLEGE
 AT ANNISTON IS OPENED

the great importance of the institution
 Here Is an opportunity for the Pres-
 byterian women of the State to do a great service This school must nave
 There are. two class rooms and a
 number of bed rooms on the second
 floor. of the building
 The laboratory Is located on the tnltd
 floor and directly over the large room
 set aside for a library. Adjacent to IT
 Is the class room for the department
 society halls and more bed rooms on
 the third floor.
 The college is near enough to the city to avail itself of the waterworr,kas: ing Is heated by steam, the boiler rooms and other utility rooms being h the basement.
 At present there are but three mem
 White. Latin and Greek. and Reed Smith. English and Modern Languages This year they are adjusting them two teachers are to be added to the faculty and perhaps matron and ,aa supervisor of farming operations. IL direct the. farm work himself. In ad- dition to his other accomplishments ne Is practical and successful farmer having had iarge exper1ence wi'h az
 riculture in North Carolina.
 Tn the unbounded enthusiasm which
 Dr. McIlwain brings to his work and
 his unceasIng labor in executing his cherished idea he has the loyal and loving support of tWo earnest and proyesnng yonng Smith are his lientenants. They are are
 as devoted and as loyal as the Old Guard of Francis Napoleon.
 Professor White gave up his ire
 Training School and merged 1t into the college. He is a native of Louisiana, is married and is a graduate of Wander biit University. Professor Smith is unmarried. He is from Columbia, s. C., and is son of a distinguished Presbyterian minister. He was educated at Davidson College and at Harvard. He came here direct
 from Harvard to take up & this iI,'vtrK;,,o work from Uniontown and from other sec tions of the. State. But the students who attract the most interest were
 Francisco Angnlo and Aureliano @ ser MT Angulo is 20 years old and MT Serrano is 16. Their parents are said to be wealthy. They came to the Unit. ed States to be educated. They brought was not to their liking MT. Angulo sought Dr. McIlwain and arranged Tor his young friend and himself to ma .
 triculate here. They are the happlest boys in Anniston. ,, My first introduction to the college was through MT. Angulo. The work I oI the school had closed for the day when I climbed Tyler Hill. The, other boys were away playing tennis.l The place seemed deserted slender figure. at tired in an immediately white ducK | suit slipped out of a doorway and con l fronted me. T am no fit companion for you" was | the perfectly correct but unusual phrase the young Cuban used Tn de- cidedly broken speech, to answer my request for guide. ,,. .. But the boy, with the politeness oi | the Latin race, made quick to put me me in touch with persons who were I'll The city of Anniston has forged an other link in it's chain of claims; one | of them reads: "Anniston Is the School 1 City of Alabama" And it has three great schools of higher education. The
 Noble Institute for Girls was foundso and endowed by Samuel Noble. the | father of Anniston." It is under the care of the Episcopal Diocese of Ala ha ma. The Anniston College for Young | Ladies, occupying the picturesque old Anniston Inn property is conducted by pr. Clarence B. Owens, and there are six fine public school buildings. Of all of these, Anniston, like the devoted mother. is accused or pelne ! nroudest of the Presbyterian College | because it Is the youngest. The school | has begun with fine promise for the l future