The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-07-13
SMOKER FOR TRAVELLING
MEN BY COLLEGE,
Brngs Out Interesting Crowd-Ta BY President
Others Also Make Sympathetic Remarks-Sentment of
Meeting Crystazed In Writng-Luncheon
At McCaslin's.

Among Grenada's splendid citizen
ship are the numerous travelling men
who have cast their lots here because
of the desirability of the town as a
place of residence and its accessibility
from rail road point of view, and,
too, because of Grenada College,
where those who have daughters may
educate them. Travelling statesmen
are natural boosters. They believe in
talking everything up. Naturally they
have many good words to say on
their rounds about Gretada Colleee.
| As an expression Of ~Epbreciatiea W.
their power, DR.. Countiss, president
of the College, and Rev. T. M. Brown
lee, commissioner of the College,
gave smoker" on Friday evening
of last week in the handsome and
spacious directors room of the Gre
NADIA Bank in honor of these "knights
of the grip" Besides the commercial
men, there were just few other cit
izens of the town present. Rev. Mr..
Brownlee presided. He said what he
had to say well and acted the part of
the master of ceremonies with most
commendable skill and cleverness.
In fact Mr.. Brownies seems to be
Charley at the Wheel anywhere he
is "yOked up" DR.. Countiss ex-
pressed the very greatest appreciation
of the interest of the travelling men
in Grenada College and of their will
ingness to talk the College on their
rounds. He explained at length the
standing of the various colleges for
girls of the South and gave the data
to show that Grenada College was
equally rated as among the very best
of the non-endowed institutions. He
paid a nice tribute to the splendid
work of his predecessor, DR.. w. l..
Clifton, and stated that he had raised
the curriculum even since Mr.. Cliff
ton, left here. He showed how
much money had been put into the
College since he assumed it's manage
ment, seven years ago. He stated
that there was not single dollar of
the profits of the College that went
to any individual or concern but that
whatever there was of surplus earn
ings went towards improvements and
repairs. He said that there had been
62 graduates since he had been presi-
dent of the institution and that 55 of
these were either teaching or married
! He said that those who were teaching
were filling important places in some
of the leading schools in this and
three or four other states. One of
the graduates of the College in music
was filling a place in one of the lead
| ing schools of Virginia Mr..
Countiss' address was enthusiastically
received.
Several others made short but
pithy talks and the evening was a
most enjoyable one. Something
after 10 o'clock, an invitation was
extended to repair to McCaslin's
where some sandwiches and light
drinks would be served, but before
proceeding to McCaslins, the follow
ing was adopted as the concrete ex-
preston of the sentiment of Grena-
da's travelling men towards Grenada
College:
The problems that. confront the
! thoughtful parent when the time
arrives that the daughter is required
to seek school advantages away from
home are manifold. 1t would be
difficult to measure the anxiety of the
father and mother when first the
childish bark sets out from the
parental harbor on the untried and
troubulous sea. All who have allow
ed themselves to think beyond their
immediate surroundings can not have
failed to realize that these are peri
lOus days for the youth of the coun-
try. Truly we are beset with a cloud
of vicissitudes. But fortunately
there are beacon lights whose lamps