Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-11-17
PRINCIPAL RESIGNS
Prof. E. r. Wharton Suffers
Nervous Breakdown

as principle of Pleasant Hill Acad-
emy because of a nervous break
down and Prof. r. F. Colby has been
appointed to the vacancy.
Last week Prof. Wharton. was
stricken with a severe attack of
acute indigestion and but for the
good fortune of having a trained
nurse at had in the person of Mrs.
r. E. Newton, the worst might have
happened. AS it was she gave her
entire time to rendering relief and
SO successful was she that he passed
the crisis without the greatest fears
of his friends being realized.
At the time he was stricken his
wife, DR.. May c. Wharton, was in
the north attending medical meet
ings and delivering addresses to
those medical bodies. She was sum-
moned home by wire and arrived FRI
day. Since then she has constantly
been at the bedside of her husband
and with her broad knowledge of
medicine she is helping him to win
the fight with prospects of assured
victory. While Prof. Wharton is
still confined to his room and likely
will be there for some time. His
condition is so much improved that
time and rest are snow only regar-
ded as necessary for him to recover
from the severe nervous breakdown
that the attack of indigestion brought
on.
Prof. Wharton has labored most
earnestly for three years and what
he has accomplished in that time is
little short OF marvellous. When he
took hold Of the school the wri.er /
had . personal talk with him and he
outlined briefly his aims. which
were in substance as follows:
He purposed to layrspecial stress on
motherhood and the sanctity of the
home; to strongly stress the fact that
the small things of life, when done in
the proper spirit, become as exaulted
as the great things. He endeavored |
to develop the mind with the pur-
pose of bros dening te judgement and
ability to direct; to educ the hand
to insure II ability to accomplish; to
cultivate the finest sentiments of the
heart to the end that the life might
be directed by the warmest sympa-
thies and highest Christian principals.
In this effort he has been most for
tunate. He has been able to enter
SO fully into the lives of the young
people that they caught the vision
he had and no where in the country
is there finer student body than at
Pleasat Hill.
Prof Wharton would not pretend
to claim all the credit for these
splendid results for he realizes he
as been ably supported by corps
of teachers who had the same vision,
the same conservation of action and
who labored just as earnestly as he, /
but to him as the directing head
falls the greatest honor.
Prof Wharton went to the people
of Pleasant Hill with the true sit :
uation relative to the school in that ,
he told them that the school was
theirs, s,thatis is usefulness would be in
to the manner in winch
hey supported it, The people
grasped the situation and {
II order to show their willingness !
o help, pledged $1,000 to the school. d
The A. M. A. Board was SO much
by the attitude of the +
,eople and the wise and broad lines
long which Prof. Wharton proposed d
o conduct the work that they arran-
ed for the expenditure of close to e
100000 for the betterment of the in it
In brief, they backed UP
he plans of Prof. Wharton with a
loney and encouragement to such fl
extent that at this time the school
as never in more flourishing con- HI
ition, in spite of the fact that the vi
ork of Prof. Wharton has only be-
IN to make itself felt in the real &
,irit he intends il. ch
The going away Of Prof. Wharton
not at all likely to induce the A. Ol
A hnayA "a f0reO0 op cha01aN