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The third floor, 42 dormitories, 25 music rooms, with 468 feet-length of hallways.
All the stairways are wide and of easy grade.
The buildings are built of brick and covered with slate.
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The buildings and the grounds are lighted by gas and every floor is abundantly and conveniently supplied with water. A beautiful lawn stretches in front of the buildings. Well kept walks and hedges, evergreens, shrubbery, shade trees, and intermingled grass plats and flower beds, render the grounds pleasant and attractive.
For half a century the Judson has been a leading factor in the civilization of the south ; and, for the character of its work, it points with confidence and pride to the hundreds and hun- dreds of noble women who have come under its training, and are now exerting a potent influence in almost every refined community from the Chattahoochee to the Rio Grande.
The faculty consists of a president and twelve teachers.
There are four departments of instruction : Preparatory (including primary), collegiate, music and art. Spanish, elocu- tion, penmanship, bookkeeping and typewriting are also taught.
The whole school is divided into two classes for the study of the Bible. There is an eclectic course, consisting of the English language and literature, with any four other subjects of the full course that the pupil may choose.
The full graduate's course embraces the following subjects : English language and literature, Latin and one modern lan- guage, or two modern (French and German), mathematics, natural science, history, moral philosophy. Certificates of pro- ficiency, eclectic diplomas, and diplomas with the title of full graduate, are given according to the course completed.
Young ladies who may wish to pursue the course in music, art and elocution, and who may not desire to take the literary course, may be allowed, at the discretion of the president, to enter as irregulars.
A young lady must be at least seventeen years of age to be eligible to the class of irregulars.
The Judson has recently fitted up a complete gymnasium, containing six technicons, for piano students, where all neces- sary appliances (weights, springs and levers) for the muscular development of the fingers, wrists and arms, are now in use. The development of the piano pupil's hand is based on physi- ological principles, and muscle training receives its full share of attention.
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The library contains 1,632 volumes, and embraces many valuable works in ancient, classic and modern English litera- ture, also in history, biography, criticism, etc. Encyclopædias, gazetteers, classical, biographieal and scientific dictionaries are always accessible. The pupils are encouraged and required to make diligent use of these valuable helps.
All the pupils except Jewesses are required to attend the regular chapel services every morning and evening. On the Sabbath they attend the Sabbath school and church of their choice. While no denominational tenets are made subjects of special instruction, and sectarianism is discountenanced, a regard for personal religion and reverence for the word of God are inculcated on all suitable occasions.
To promote economy, and to avoid rivalry in dress, all the pupils are required to wear a prescribed uniform. Any suit- able material may be worn in school. The cost of each uni- form, including hat, gloves and making, is about $13.50. 1
The home department is under experienced and superior management. The president, with his family, resides in the institute, and exercises personal supervision over the depart- ment.
A competent housekeeper gives her personal attention to the table, which is abundantly supplied with wholesome and well prepared food.
The rooms are carpeted, neatly furnished, and well warmed with grates and stoves.
In sickness pupils are assigned to a room reserved for the sick. Here they receive the constant and faithful care of an experienced matron.
. Upon entering the school pupils become members of the president's family. Under his supervision the care of their domestic life is placed in the hands of the governess, whose part it is to look after their manners and habits, to promote their faithfulness in the performance of duty, and to maintain a motherly oversight of all their interests. The object is to secure for them the advantages of a well-ordered christian home. Teachers and pupils sit at the same table, worship at the same altar-and mingle in the same social cirele.
The health of the pupils is regarded as a matter of the first importance, and every possible care is taken to secure this.
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The charges for the entire session for board, including laundry expenses, and tuition in literary department, are $195, payable one-half on entrance, and the remainder in February. Send for the catalogue to ascertain charges for music, art and elocution.
Daughters of active ministers of the gospel receive tuition in any department of the literary course, without charge.
The number of pupils in attendance during the session en- ding June, 1892, was, in preparatory department, 26, collegiate department, 133, total 159.
: For full information and catalogue, address the President.
MARION FEMALE SEMINARY.
This educational institution, founded in 1836, and now in its fifty-sixth year, is located at Marion, Alabama, and isunder the control of the Presbyterians, Methodists and Episcopalians, all three of which denominations are represented both in its board of trustees and faculty.
The faculty consists of a president and eight other teachers. The seminary buildings are substantial, commodious, and well adapted to the pur- poses of the institution, while its ample grounds and beautiful groves af- ford pleasing and agree- able retirement for out- door exercises. The dormitories are newly and comfortably carpet- ed and furnished. There is a good supply of phil- osophical and chemical MARION FEMALE INSTITUTE. apparatus, the cabinets contain a valuable collection of minerals, fossils, etc .; and the art department has a liberal assortment of models, studies, etc.
The president and his family live in the seminary, and all the teachers board with them. The management of the board-
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ing department is under the wife of the president of the faculty and eminently home-like.
Only one case of fatal sickness in the college in thirty- seven years.
The number of boarding pupils is limited to fifty, and this is a marked peculiarity of the seminary, distinguishing it from all other female colleges in the State.
The studies in the collegiate department are embraced in the following schools: school of the English language and literature, school of history, school of languages, school of natural science, school of mathematies, school of philosophy, school of fine art, school of music. Friends of the seminary believe that the art and music schools are as good as any in the south.
The schools being distinct, the pupil may become a candi- date for graduation in one, or in all of them simultaneously. Special attention is given to elocution. Instruction is given, also, in stenography and typewriting.
The seminary has, also, a primary and an academic depart- ment. In the primary department the kindergarten system is adopted for beginners.
Certificates and diplomas are conferred in the collegiate department.
For the promotion of habits of economy, as well as simplic- ity in dress, the seminary has adopted an inexpensive uniform to be worn by pupils on public occasions, and by boarders when they leave the premises.
The sessions, divided into two terms, begin in September and close in June.
The charges per term, or half session, are: board, includ- ing lights, fuel, furnished room and washing, $70; tuition, board and incidental fee, 897.50: board, tuition and music (including use of piano) $135; board, tuition and art, $125 to $135; board, tuition, music and art, $145. The charges for tuition alone, music, alone, instrumental and vocal, use of piano, modern languages or Greek, elocution, stenography, typewriting, drawing and painting, are moderate, and can be learned on application to the President.
The number of boarding pupils for the session ending June, 1892, was 41 ; day, 77 ; total, 11s.
For full information and catalogues address the President.
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SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY, GREENSBORO, AL.A.
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SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY.
The Southern University is located at Greensboro, Alabama, and was established by the Alabama Conference of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, South. It was incorporated by the general assembly, January, 1856, and the first regular meeting of its board of trustees was held March 17, 1856, at Greens- boro. The corner stone was laid January 11, 1856, and the university opened for students, October 3, 1859. From that date until the present time, its doors have been opened, with the exception of the session of 1864-65.
The charter was amended in 1882, so as to make the uni- versity the joint property of the Alabama and North Alabama Conferences, these two conferences having united in its sup- port and pledged their respective bodies, and the churches in their bounds, to raise an endowment for the university and to use their patronage and influence to make it a success. Under "the joint direction and control of these two conferences, and with the support of 80,000 methodist communicants in Ala- bama, the university has become, in power and usefulness, one of the leading denominational colleges in the south.
The Southern University, prior to the late war, possessed an equipment, in buildings, lands, apparatus and libraries, amounting to the value of $100,000, and a productive endow- ment additional of more than $200,000. In the financial dis- asters attending and succeeding our civil strife, the endowment fund, owing largely to the nature of its investment, was almost entirely lost. The institution, however, preserved its mag- ficient building and valuable outfit.
In addition to this building, a new and commodious hall, called " Hamilton Hall," has been established for the benefit of students who may wish to pass through the college course at the least possible expense.
The university possesses full and valuable chemical, philo- sophieal and mathematical apparatus, purchased from the best makers of instruments in Europe and America. The museum contains a large variety of valuable specimens, mineralogical, geological, numismatic, archeological and anatomical.
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The university is governed by a board of trustees, and the officers of the board are president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary.
The faculty is composed of six professors, four tutors and two assistants, in the various departments of instruction, and a principal of preparatory department. The head of the faculty is a president.
The following are the schools taught in the university : school of ancient languages, school of modern languages, school of history, English language and literature, school of moral philosophy, school of natural philosophy and astronomy, school of mathematics and school of chemistry, mineralogy and geology.
The Bible is a text book in the university, and lectures are delivered by the president on christian evidences and natural theology.
There are two literary societies connected with the uni- versity, having for their exclusive use two large, attractive, nicely-carpeted and well-furnished halls, and good libraries.
The degrees conferred by the university are: graduate in a school, bachelor of philosophy, bachelor of science, bachelor of arts, master of arts.
The Southern University Monthly, a monthly magazine, is published by the students.
The session is nine months, divided into two terms, and commences in September and ends in June.
The expenses are: Tuition, per term, $25; bookkeeping, per session, $15; incidental fee, per session, 85; library fee, 82 ; board, with lights and fuel, in private families, per month, $10 to $14 ; board in Hamilton Hall, per month, $7.50. The whole annual expense of a student boarding in a private family need not exceed $190, and those of a student boarding in Hamilton Hall, $160.
Free tuition will be given to two students from each pre- siding elder's district in the two conferences, who receive the proper recommendation and are unable themselves, or by the aid of their friends, to pay tuition.
Tuition fees are remitted to the sons of itinerant methodist ministers and to young men preparing themselves for the itin- erant methodist ministry. The latter must be licensed by the
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quarterly conference from which they come. They will be required to give notes for their tuition ; said notes to be void when they are admitted into full connection in an annual conference.
There is connected with the university a preparatory de- partment, designed to prepare students for the freshman class. The terms begin and close with those of the university. The course of study in this department covers two years. Tuition, per term, in this department is $15 to $20.
All students are required to attend church, and each pupil must elect, in the beginning of the session, which he will attend. The social and religious influences brought to bear upon young men are of a superior order.
For full information and catalogues, address the president.
GREENSBORO FEMALE COLLEGE.
This institution, located at Greensboro, Ala., was chartered - in 1841. The school, while under religious influence, is non- sectarian.
The building, recently enlarged, is a handsome, commo- dious structure, containing recitation, music, art rooms, and boarding department, and is situated on an elevated site in a primeval grove of stately oaks and sycamores. Arrangements of departments are such that no exposure on the part of pupils is necessary in going from one to another. A well of most ex- cellent water is in the yard.
The college is under the control of a board of trustees. The faculty is composed of a president and five lady assistants, who are all well and favorably known as teachers and have made enviable reputation in their departments.
In the literary course there are the following departments : Primary, intermediate, academic and collegiate. There are, also, a music department and an art department, presided over by thoroughly competent teachers. The school year, divided into two terms, begins in September and ends in June.
Board and tuition in regular department 862.50 per term. 16
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The number of pupils in attendance during the year end- ing June, 1892, was 100.
For catalogue and full information, address the president.
ALABAMA CONFERENCE FEMALE COLLEGE.
This college is located at Tuskegee. Alabama, forty miles east of Montgomery, and six miles from Chehaw station, on the Western Railway of Alabama, with which it is connected by the Tuskegee railroad.
It was chartered by the Legislature of Alabama in 1854, under the name of " Tuskegee Female College," and its title and management were placed in the hands of a board of trus- tees. It was organized and began its career February 11, 1956. Under its original name it continued to prosecute its work until 1872, when the Alabama Conference became the owner of the property in fee-simple, had the name changed by legis- lative action to " Alabama Conference Female College," and appointed a board of managers to supervise its administration. This board makes contracts with the president, who employs the teachers and manages its affairs.
The college grounds embrace twenty-five acres near the center of the town. An area of seven acres is used as a campus.
The college buildings have cost more than 875,000. Dur- ing the past four years 810,000 have been expended on repairs and additions. The buildings, all so constructed as to require no out-door exposure, embrace sixty-eight rooms, every one of which has an outside view and receives sunlight during some hour of the day.
The college courses of study comprise the English and the classical.
There is, also, a school of music and a school of art.
The literary schools are in charge of the president, assisted by seven able and experienced teachers ; while the schools of music and art are taught by thoroughly competent teachers.
Certificates of proficiency and diplomas are conferred.
The number of pupils in attendance during the session ending June, 1592 was 191.
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The college home is under the immediate supervision of the president and his wife, and when pupils enter it they are regarded as members of their family, and are cared for as their own daughters.
The health of the pupils is particularly looked after, and . there has been no case of fatal sickness among the boarding pupils for more than thirty years.
The charges per session, of four and a half months, are: Board, lights, washing, tuition and incidental fee, $100.00 ; board, tuition and music (including use of instrument) $130.00; board, tuition and art studies, $125.00; board, tuition, art and music (including piano), $145.00 ; physician's fee, per annum, $5.00.
No extra charge for Latin, Greek. French, German, calis- thenics, or elocution in class.
The daughters of ministers who belong to the conference are charged $50.00 a session for board and medicines. Lite- rary tuition free.
The school year, divided into two sessions, begins in Sep- tember and ends in June.
For catalogues and full information, address the president.
HUNTSVILLE FEMALE COLLEGE.
This college, now (1892) in its forty-third year, is located at Huntsville, in north Alabama.
The college grounds are beautiful and ornamental; well shaded, with an elegant fountain in the centre; walks ar- ranged in good taste, and beds constantly supplied with the rarest flowers.
The college buildings are brick-substantial, commodious, well furnished, and are admirably adapted to the purposes for which they were designed. The rooms are large, well venti- lated, carpeted, and suitably furnished. Electric lights are used in every room throughout the buildings, and there is, also, water, from the city water works on each Hoor.
The college has an excellent library, a large chemical and philosophical apparatus, geological cabinet of the finest and
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rarest specimens, twenty-one new and improved pianos and organs, the best typewriters, maps of modern date, and every necessary appliance, and is prepared to give instruction in all departments of female education, literature, languages, belles- lettres, mathematics, science, stenography, typewriting, dress making, music in all of its departments, art, and fancy work.
The college is governed by a board of trustees. The faculty consists of twenty-two officers and teachers.
The boarding department is under the immediate charge of the president and his wife, and the college affords a delight- ful christian home, where pupils receive the best attention and, at the same time, thorough instruction.
Boarders are in the care of the officers and teachers, who direct their studies at night and control their habits, and under the special care of the president's wife, who watches their health.
. A simple and inexpensive college uniform has been adopt- ed, to promote economy and avoid rivalry in dress.
Diplomas are conferred.
The collegiate year, divided into two sessions of twenty weeks each, begins in September and closes in June.
The charges, per session, for boarders in the college are : Board, fuel, washing, lights (electric), and tuition in the reg- ular, irregular, or normal course, $95 ; board, fuel, washing, lights and tuition in the classical course, including Latin and Greek in classes, or Latin, French and German in classes, $100; board, fuel, washing, lights, and tuition in the regular, irreg- ular, or normal course, with music and use of instrument, $115.
All ornamental branches, such as instrumental music, etc., drawing, painting, and fancy work, also the Latin, Greek, French, and German languages, are pursued at the option of the parent or guardian, and in such a way as to impede as little as possible the progress of the pupil in her regular studies. The charges for optional studies are given in the college catalogue.
Daughters of ministers in the regular work of the ministry are charged no tuition fee in the regular, irregular or normal departments.
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The number of pupils in attendance during the year ending June, 1892, was 263.
For catalogue and full information, address the president.
SOUTHERN FEMALE UNIVERSITY.
This university is located at Florence, Alabama. It was opened for students September 16, 1891, and began its work with 125 young lady boarders, representing almost every southern state, and coming from as far north as Massachusetts and as far south as Nicarauga.
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The university buildings are the pride of Florence. The main edifice was finished in October, 1890. at the cost of $80,- 000. It is beyond question one of the handsomest and most complete buildings for educational purposes in the south. From its dome can be seen the picturesque and beautiful mountain scenery of three states. It was designed by eminent architects expressly for the business of teaching and taking care of pupils. It has a campus of eight acres. It will ac- commodate 400 boarders without the necessity of crowding. The rooms are full sized, well pitched, airy and light. The halls are broad and spacious and extend three-fourths of the entire circuit of the building. The parlors, reading rooms,
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library and gymnasium are conveniently located. It is fur- nished with every modern convenience conducive to the com- fort of boarders. On each floor are hot and cold water facilities, plugs and hose for extinguishing fire, pure drinking water, and an abundance of bath rooms and water closets. Smeed's improved system of heat and ventilation, the best known to modern science, embracing in this case a plant of eight furnaces in the basement, with accompanying air cham- bers and steam radiators, insure uniformity of temperature and a constant supply of fresh air. The latter is admitted through fresh air chambers, and, after being heated by contact with the radiators and charged with moisture by the addition of a prescribed quantity of steam, passes into the rooms and halls through hot air flues. All the rooms, halls and stair- ways are carpeted, and the building is lighted with gas and electricity.
The faculty consists of twenty teachers and officers, se- lected with care and judgment.
The curricula embrace five distinct courses, three of which lead to the degrees M. A., B. A., and B. L. The ultimate scope and design of the university is most clearly set forth in its university, or M. A. course, the basis of which is laid in the study of English, Latin, Greek, mathematics, music and art. The scheme involves seven years each in Latin and mathemat- ies, six in Greek, six in music, and three in art. During the first four years of the period allotted to Latin, Greek and mathematics, the classes are identical with those of the college course. Around these six departments, in both courses, are grouped departments of study embracing modern languages, history, literature, and the sciences. Graduation in music and art is attested by special diplomas.
The college, or B. A., course is identical with the university
- course, except that the time set for three of its principal de- partments is shortened three years, and the requirement of Anglo-Saxon is omitted.
The English, or B. L., course is, with certain requisites for admission, a three year course. It makes the study of Latin and Greek optional, and increases the time devoted to modern languages and English history and literature.
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The business course extends through a period of two years, and embraces such branches as penmanship, single and double entry bookkeeping, civil and commercial law, typewriting, telegraphy and stenography.
Finally, an elective course, one year's duration, designed to meet the necessities of those whose time and opportunities are restricted, and made up of studies selected at the option of the student from either of the four courses mentioned, completes the curricula of the university. .
The expenses are: Half session-Board, including fur- nished room, fuel, light, and servant's attendance, $64.50; tuition, $25.00; board and tuition, $89.50.
For full information and catalogue, address the president, at Florence.
HOWARD COLLEGE.
Howard College, established in 1841, is one of the oldest institutions of learning in the south. Throughout the states of the south, and in many of the north, its influence has been felt in the usefulness of its graduates. From its inception in 1841 to 1887, the college was located at Marion. In 1887 it was removed to East Lake, near Birmingham. Ready access from the city to the college is afforded by a dummy line, on which trains arrive at and depart from Birmingham every half hour. The distance is six miles.
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