The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-07-22
Specially emphasizing school and home Improvement

interest connected with that honor
ed institution of Claiborne County,
which should be not only dear to
all our citizens, but should at the
same time receive their constant
support and patronage.]
Materials have been ordered for
new coat of paint for the Annex
and other parts of the College.
America has yet to learn what a
wholly admirable and useful link
in her educational system is and
has been the small Church college,
where life is simple and inexpen-
sive, where ethical and scholastic
ideals are high and religious senti-
|ment is dominant. To exchange
such advantages for laboratories,
for large endowments, a numerous
faculty. and a student body run.
ming into the thousands is not to
make gain, but to lose. Nashville
Christian Advocate.
Miss Annie Taylor Longley of
Mariana, Ark, who is to have
charge of the English department
and will also do some work in Lat.
i'll. has been attending the Summer
School of the South at Knoxville.
Tenn. during the present vacation.
Miss Longley is graduate in col
legiate work, and has had five
years experience as a teacher in
the high school at Mariana, Ark,
and at Searcy Collegiate Institute.
Miss Pauline Herring of ColuIn.
bia, Mo-, who comes to us as a new
teacher in our piano department,
has had a splendid career as a stu
dent of music in that town from
which she comes. Her reccommen-
dations are of the highest ord
er, and we know that her work will
hold the piano course at the college
mp to the high standard already
observed. Miss Otta Stevens. who
taught voice and piano so accept.
ably during the past session, will be
associated with Miss Herring in the
music department. We believe
that Miss Stephens is probably the
best teacher of voice in Mississippi.
Each one of her students during
the past session showed marked
Miss Brittle Huffman of Rogers,
Ark, will have charge of our pri-
mary and preparatory department.
Miss Huffman has had several
years experience in this Kind of
work, and out of many applicants
for the position was chosen. She
has been a teacher in Henderson
College, Ark, and is also gradu-
ate of that institution.
Miss Mamie Boykin. who is to
have charge of the Expression and
the Art departments, was consider
ID by the authorities of the college
from which she comes as one of the
most valuable persons of the facul-
y there during the past two ses-
;ions; Thoroughly prepared for
Ter work, enthusiastic, energetic,
md an inspiration to her pupils.
rhe results in her departments
lave been all the most exacting
.ould demand. Not only her own
pupils but all the girls in the house
lave been devotedly attached toI
Ter, and her influence over them
S always for the best" Miss Boy
in has been studying under some
# the masters in New York city
Turing her vacation.
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Miss Araminta Kennard spent a
,art of her vacation with her rela-
ives in Port Gibson and Yazoo
City, and is now spending the lat
er part of her vacation at Mont
.agle, Tenn. She expects to return
o Port Gibson September 5th.
Mrs. ]. II. Hollis has been doing
,fice work in Port Gibson thus far
Turing vacation but contemplates
'pending the last month at East
nan Business College in New York
City.
Mrs. M. O. McCaa has been yis-
ting relatives in north Mississippi.
Miss Elizabeth Buell., who has
charge Of the sewing department Is
spending her vacation with friends |