The log cabin Democrat., 1911-08-24

The Lady Principal, Miss Blanche
Riggs, Phi. M. Of he Univerls of
| Chicago, has had large experience.
She taught English in Hardin Col
| lege the past year. President Mil
liam writes: ''If the lady principal
| ship were vacant here | would make
an immediate offer of the position to
Miss Riggs She has been with us
two years, and more genuine Chris
tan | have never met. She is as ca
pable of making as fine a chapel
ak, as appropriate and helpful, as
any eacher we ever had. There is
no question as to her influence upon
the student body There is no ques-
ton as to the thoroughness of her ed
ucation in English We are giving up
a woman of great strength and that
in every position She is a superb
woman in every way"
Miss Riggs not only will act as
Lady Principal, but will teach Eng
fish Literature.
| President Conger is fortunate in
securing w. G. Utermoehlen as direc-
tor Of the Conservatory. He comes
from long line of German compos-
ers and musicians. He is not only
| specialist in piano but a great teach
er in violin, organ and cornet and is a
leader of chorus work and orchestra
In connection with choruses of sew
eral hundred voices he conducted the
Pittsburg Festival Orchestra end the
Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra of
Germany He is composer of piano
and violin pieces, orchestral works
and two symphonic poems for o,ches-
ira. The course of instruction in the
Conservatory will embrace piano, vio-
lin, organ, voice culture, harmony,
theory, history of music, analysis,
sight singing, expression, dramatic
art, and all branches of art and Or
chestral instruments.
! 1t is not the aim of the college to
give the students mere snowy roper
toire, but to equip them for teaching
concert work or any other line of
musical endeavor.
We would like to speak more at
length of the department of voice I'M
! der Miss Eleanor Stevenson, who has
lyric soprano, of Mrs. Ada Glenn,
who has had a studio in Little Rock
for the past six years and is regard
ed as one of the finest teachers in all
line of art in the south, of Miss Has
| seltine Grimmett, teacher of express
sion, who comes with unqualified rec
ommendation from DR.. Curry of Bos-
ton and others.
Mr. Emil Liebling of Chicago. one
of Americas foremost musical schol-
airs, is the visiting director and will
come to deliver lectures and recitals;
and Miss Hettie Dunaway, the recog-
nized leader in drmatic art, is espe-
cially interested in the expression de-
partment and will lecture, give re-
citals and some special lessons.
| We clip the following from the
catalogue under the department of
voice culture:
"a beautiful tone of voice is the
first requisite of fine singing" Hence,
the method employed in Central Col
lege is based upon the fundamental
principles of "The Old Italian
School," modified and influenced by
the advanced thought of the day. 1t
is practical study of vitality; vital
ization of the physical, mental, and
emotional powers to the singer 1t is
radical departure from the prevail
| ing local-effort, Muscular systems.
The central thought is absolute free
dom and spontaneous voice. 1t is
claimed that this method has solved
the far-reaching and all-important
question of right breathing in singing
- Automatic Breathing - which is
said to be the most important prob
lem-for the singer and teacher
solved in the nineteenth century.
The College offers for the first time
full course in household economics.
The teacher has had the advantages