The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-05-20


anne Estave 10 the music department
Mrs. Mary Martin and Miss Susan
Polk daughter OF Gen. Leonidsi
Polk in the literary department, Mrs
Polk assisting Mrs. Beckett in the car,
lof the girls and DR.. Beckett in ths
chair OF anything which needed I
teacher Mrs. Beckett was equally
strong in her work. She kept the open
door to the tender. loving mother
heart which all the girls intuitively
knew = Their private
funds were mercilessly drawn on 10
equip the various departments. They
stood for right and there were no low
cred standards. They were ready and
eager TO give any girl a chance who
was unable to procure an education.
AS the years passed pupils were re-
fused for the want of accommoda-
tions. This genuinely grieved their
hearts. Then it was MissMarguretta
Bowles came to live with them. She
presented through DR.. Beckett to the
Institute her private museum, valued
at $500, also gave the money for
building the annex, which Dr. Beckett
engineered most successfully.
THE years rolled on. DR.. and Mrs.
Shoupe, of Sewanee University, came
next to man the school. High types
of Southern chivalry and superior ed
ucators they were. The chapel was
built at this period. the money having
been given by a gentleman of North
Carolina, whose name was suppressed.
While the amount was insufficient to
complete the chapel it was deemed
best to get it under Roadway. The
corner stone was laid with most beau
tiful ceremonies. DR.. Shoupe's death |
was within two years, and Mrs. |
Shoupe returned to Sewanee and left !
the old ship again without pilot.
Coming from Boston, a former |
teacher of the Institute we find Miss
Mary e. Bryant in charge Of the
school. We rarely find one whose
life is so completely consecrated to
he work of teaching. She taught her
pupils to love their studies and this
impulse toward the intellectual life
hen given has with many of her pu-
ills lasted throughout these years.
+ X
Our last mile stone is just ahead +;
nd we see our gracious host and host
So installed principal and co-princi-
al Emerson says: If man can ]
reach a better sermon or make
etter mouse trap than his neighbor, !
hough he build his house in the will
ath to it. It seems to me that on Il
MS basis Mr.. Capers was selected Q
or this position. In taking the re- 7
to tide over the school un- A
| other plans could be formulated it n
eveloped in a very few months that u
e was the man they were seeking. II
re another June day dawned they h
new he was the one to be secured r
on who remember the buildings four a
ears ago and see the improvements II
day can but be impressed with a.
e changes. Steam, light and water
e in the places of coal stoves, kero- r.
ne lamps and buckets, and the con- d,
ant repairs ever going on, added to n,
e beautiful completion of the chap n
certainly a monument to Mr.. Ca h,
RS untiring energy and superior cap it
ilities. ar
Il am not throwing boquets, but ra
len we know that they are leaving 90
stone untprned, and they have died.
ated every fibre of their beings to- G;
lrds making our alma mater the re
er of any in the land, we are glad M
express our gratitude and to pledge in
r cooperation. Let us stop mo- an
5HJ JlS CndpClB oO bCouIAIul de
stful and look on the window just
zen by devoted son in memory of oh
father, Rev George Beckett. There its
only one name for the chapel, that ma
St George. To the left we see the th,
autiful lecturn given in memorium In
one of his old pupils. But these
: minor, compared with the judg
mt and wisdom displayed in select
their coterie of teachers and these I'm
lin are minor considerations com 90 %"
ed with the beautiful Christian in inl
ences and exquisite refinement with SCI
ich your daughter is encircled. The idr
ne life is all a careful mother need ne
. To many of us Mrs. Capers is still
Use, and we look on with pardona- -
pride as she steers with wisdom. ID