The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-09
CARR0LT0N MAN
coMMENDs
Grenada College. High Stand.
ard Of Scholarship and
the Demand for its
Graduates. ReIis.
ious Training.
(From the New Orleans Christian
Advocate OF June 10, 1909

O'SVu VIC ulUSt COIulOI titJk ScSSlOu ]
all its history. The past seven year
v 'een a time Cf stress and strain
and Of deep anxiety.
The session OF the school just ende'
was the best we have ever known
Best in average attendance. best IL
enthusiasm and loyalty OF students
Be-, IN work done by students. Bes
iu material interests. Best in numbe
OF students enrolled for next session
Besl in religious work Of students
Best in all respects. The student.
meet daily in groups Of about tifteer
for worship and Bible study, in add
tion to other regular religious exer
CiSeS
Our graduates are sought by the
best graded schools in Mississippi,
and by SchOOls for young ladies.
This Is q sample sentence OF letters
received: Can you furnish US two
teachers? We know we can always
get the best from Grenada"
Tho demand for them is greater
than the supply.
We have los. pupils because we will
not graduate them on easy terms. 1t
has happened that some students whe
would have completed our sophomore
year have gone elsewhere 50 as to
graduate that year-and they did.
The boast has been made that girls
completing the course in the graded
schools take a degree in a certain col.
lege OF wide reputation in two years.
OF all such , we require four years for
our A. b. degree. All this has made
it difficult for US to impress our work
on uniform persons. Some people
who will not be allured by get-rich.
quick schemes will Do misled by get.
Observation-Disclosures offers. OF
these two evils, the latter is the
greater.
We have offended some patrons and
people because we would not grant
diplomas that had not been earnd.
All this, hal pity, is being changed.
NV our girls say, II fear l did not
pass. II SO, / shall return next year
and get my diploma
Each year the proportion Of girls
vino come prepared to enter our col.
Rgr classes grows larger. Could all
snch girls be made to know the high
Character OF ~ work, we should be
c, npelled to enlarge our capacity.
| do n t claim that oN trustees
were wise enough and sufficiently |
Il ID TO do all this. But we did pos.
sess the grit. grace and patience TO
uphold President Clifton in his firm
purpose and wise effort TO do none
but honest, thorough work.
The results are gratifying, and are
becoming manifest. Some day our
people may know the heroic work
done, and the heavy burdens borne
for their girls college by w. L Cliff
ton. For Seven years no man in
NJ >SiSSppi has done and borne more
than he; and none has accomplished
So much with the same slender ma
terial resources that we have been
able TO furnish te him. This is our
seventh year with m. We hope
that ia the year OF our jubilee he will
still be Our president. He would not
permit any OF these personal REFER.
enceS to go into print il ne could pre-
vent it, but he will know nothing OF
il till he shall see it in the types.
But for the help # our pastors
and Of the Annual Conference we
could not have done the work per-
Annually about two thou
S nd dollars in aid is granted to stu
q tntS many Of whom would have been
G-Eied these advantages. That leads
me 60 say that Of every ten letters
received, nine say. Here is the Lame
OF a worthy girl who wants an educa-
ton, but cannot get it unless the
college can aid her Our only re-.
greet is that we cannot, in all in-
stances, take these girls. We shall
c nLlnue to tax TO the limit. and be-
yOnd, u rec0urces, and none shall
b- denied whom we can possibly aid.
Our friends can aid US and hello these
good girls who need aid by sending to
Us names OF those who are amply able
to pay. Mississippi is full Of such
girls, and many Of them 20 to school
the work does not compare
with that done at Grenada, and
which they pay from four hun
1red to eight hundred dollars per ses-
sion. Some of our own Grenada Col
|ege girls have pad elsewhere as high
n nine hundred dollars a session, aud
have said u work is superior in every
respect. And we furnish it for about
one.fOurth the amount
We want at Grenada the girl who
a real education. The girl
who wants to do superficial work and
get a srnattering II knowledge will
ind 1t uncomfortable there because
that is contrary to the intention Of
bur trustees and faculty, and out of
harmony with the sentiment Of our
student body.
The girls who expect to do only
high school work aud for that re-
,eive a diploma will be disappointed
MethodiSts uf North Mississippi,
1elp us to help your girls!
BY order OF the Board OF trustees.
J. r. Bingham, President.
CarrolltOn, May %, 1909.
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