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| EDUCAT/ONAL
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I INDUSTRIAL
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ESTABLISHED 1887.
* # GRAHD OLD SHORTER COLLEGER >
ONE OF THE LEADING FEMALE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
In selecting a school for ’their
daughters, parents very wisely
have in view the following requi
sites :
Healthfulness, Superior Edu
cational Advantages, Material
Comforts and conveniencies,
Pleasant surroundings, Parental
Care and Kindness, Accessi
bility. Reasonable Charges.
Shorter College combines
these essentials in a remarkable
I . degree.
H E ALTHFU LNES S.
This is of the very first impor
tance, for without health, educa
tion is worthless. The altitude
of the college and freedom from
[ malaria of the city and sur
rounding country, secure phe
nomenal healthfulness. It is the
testimony of some of the most
| eminent physicians, that Rome
. is freer from epidemics than any
I city in the south. Drs. Battey
( and Holmes selected this place
I for their sanitariums, on account
of its superior climatic condi
tions.
MORALS AND MANNERS.
Careful attention is given to
the morals and manner of the
young ladies. Nor is religious
influence overlooked. A daily
> prayer meeting is kept up among
the boarding pupils, which is
never omitted, and is attended
by all the girls. Regular
Bible instruction is given to the
school, a. missionary society
Jiolds monthly meetings, and
i the" pupils regularly attend Sun
day school and church. The
Shorter girls are noted for their
graceful manners and their good
deportment in all places.
EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES.
B These are of unsurpassed ex-
■ cellence. In breadth and thor-
Koughness of scholarship, in es-
I fectiveness of discipline, in the
ability of the faculty, and in the
■ {Superiority of equipments,
L Shorter ranks among the best.
B At great expense the college has
■secured the services of the most
able and accomplished teachers
in literature, ancient and mod
-1 ern languages, mathematics,
science, music, art, elocution and
physical culture. A school of
French on the Berlitz method
has been established, directed by
a distinguished graduate of the
of France, whose suc
cess in teaching the pupils to
jrspeak French has created much
■ enthusiasm in the College and
■ city* There are also classes in
■Latin Greek and German taught
■fry competent instructors. The
■conservatory of music is well
■ with every facility for
■ instruction. The director is a
■ progressive, liberal, cultivated
■ man, and, as a teacher of piano
■ ind choral classes, is a master.
■His assistant on the piano is a
of distinguished reputation,
■and an artist of great merit. The
■as-cal teacher is regarded as one
Hts the finest singers in the south,
as a trainer of the voice,
Aias no superior. The violin,
■ola, violincello, guitar and
are taught by a gen-
■ eman of finest teaching ability,
BBiul (?f rare powers of execution.
|Blie art department has at its
■lead a lady who enjoyed the
Best advantages that can be as-
Sfißrded in New t ork City, and
work she has accomplished
entitles her to runk second
Kione.
■liocution and physical cul
|g|Bj receive much attention in
ngßrter and are taught bv expe
■iiced and skillful teachers. In-
HHi'd none but expel ienced. t'aitli
and successful teachers are
wMptiloyed. and parents need
■Hive no (bar that their children 1
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will be at the mercy of novices
or charlatans.
PERSONNEL OF THE FACULTY.
The President, Dr. A. J. Bat
tle, has had a long and success
ful career as an educator and
ranks among the south’s most
eminent scholars. He is a na
tive of I lancock County Georgia,
and was educated with dis
tinction at one of our best State
Universities. He occupied the
chair of ancient languages in his
alma mater for several years
after his graduation, and subse
quently was president of three
of the most noted female col
leges in Alabama. In 1872 he
was chosen President of Mercer
University, the great Baptist
College of Georgia, a position he
held seventeen years. In 1892
he succeeded Dr. Gwaltney as
president of Shorter College.
Dr. Battle, besides directing the
educational work of the college
and maintaining its discipline is
himself a distinguished tegcher.
His department is psychology
and the advanced latin classics.
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Prop. Ivy W. Duggan, Bus. Mgr. Dr. A. J. BATTLE, Pres. Miss Eleanor Churchill Gibbs,
The latin course embraces
Caesar’s Gallic Wars, Virgil’s
Aenied, Ovid's Metamorphoses,
Horace’s Odes, Satires and
Epistles, Levy’s Roman History,
The Agricola and Germania of
Tacitus, and Cicero’s Etheal
Work. Dr. Battle has been
honored by the colleges and uni
versities of the country by the
bestowment of numerous degrees
and other honors. Three col
leges, without his previous
knowledge, conferred on him the
degree of Doctor of Divinity,
one the degree of Doctor of
Laws. He was appointed sev
eral years ago a member of the
American Philogical Associa
tion. He is also a member of
the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
perhaps the oldest and most
celebrated society of scholars in
the United States. Besides nu
merous lectures and addresses,
he is the author of a volume
“The Human Will, which has
won the most favorable opinion
of scholars and thinkers.
PROF. IVV W. DUGGAN.
Prof. Ivy W. Duggan is the
THE ROME TRIBUNE, ROME, G-A., TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1896.
thorough and successful teacher
of Mathematics. With him
teaching is a labor of a love.
He never fails to meet his classes
unless physically disabled. And
his clear method and practical
teaching combined with a kindly
spirit and affectionate manner in
the class room beget in his pu
pils a love for their work and
enable them to get the best ben
efit. Prof. Duggan comes from
the good old county of Hancock
in Middle Georgia. He has
lived there the greater part of a
long life and has taught hun
dreds of the boys and girls ( now
the finest men and women) of
that section. He made himself
so esteemed by the people of
the county that they took him
out of the school room and sent
him to represent them in the
State Legislature, where he
served them effectively for four
years.
Prof. Duggan is a man of su
perior business qualifications
and incorruptible integrity. As
“business manager” of Shorter j
College, he has placed the col-
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' lege on a firm financial basis,
and has won the respect and
confidence of the entire com
munity. The Mathematical
course includes Arithmetic, Al
gebra, Geometery (plane and
solid), Trigonometery and
Analytic Geometery.
MISS ELEANOR CHURCHILLE
GIBBS.
I Miss Eleanor Churchill Gibbs
is the peerless instructor in the
department of Belles Lettres.
A queenly woman gracious, cul
tured, magnetic, she is ■praesi
diitm et dulce decus of Shorter
College. The following sketch
is taken from that splendid col
lection of biographies “A Woman
of the Century.”
[ Miss Eleanor Churchill Gibbs,
educator, was born in the plan-
1 tation home of her parents, “Oak
Shade,” near Livingston, Ala-
‘ bama. Being descended from
families pre-eminent for many
generations for culture, talent
and refinement. Miss Gibbs
1 possesses these in a marked de
gree. The Revolutionary hero,
Capt. Churchill Gibbs, of Vir
ginia, was her grandfather. On
her mother’s side he claims as
her ancestor Rev. John Thomp
son, of Culpepper, Virginia.
Miss Gibb’s education was
given to her principally by her
mother, a very brilliant woman ;
later she pursued her studies in
Livingston College. After com
pleting the course there she con
tinued the study ofhigher mathe
matics and science under the “Ar
nold of the South”, Dr. Henry
Tutwiler.
In 1865 Miss Gibbs accepted
the position of assistant teacher
in Livingston College; in 1870
she was elected principal of the
institution. In 1875 she resigned
this position in order to take
charge ot high school work in
Selma, Alabama. In 1887 she
became professor of English
Literature and history in Shor
ter College, Rome, Georgia.
Miss Gibbs is an able, earnest,
enthusiastic and successful teach
er, and stands in the front rank
l of her chosen profession. She
1 wields a strong and graceful pen
and is a paid contributor to lead
ing journals in Philadelphia,
Chicago, Boston and elsewhere.
Miss Laura Bennett Brown is
the accomplished teacher of
Science and the German lan
guage. Miss Brown has had
the finest advantages, having
received her education at Central
Female College, Lexington. Mo.,
where she achieved many honors
for accurate scholarship. She is
variously accomplished, being.a
fine lingiest as well as a superior
teacher of Science. Her gen
tle spirit and sweet lovable nature
make her a great favorite with
her classes, while her fidelity
and efficiency are attested by the
thoroughness of her instruction
the advancement of her pupils,
and the perfect discipline she
enforces. For conscientious de
votion to duty, she is unsurpass-j
ed—“a lovely woman nobly
planned”, and Shorter College is
fortunate to h ive her services.
Miss Lola W. Milner, the faith
ful presiding teacher of the study ’
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■-! hall, is in many respects a model
11 teacher. She “would not flatter
s 1 Jove tor his thunderboldt nor
- I Neptune for his trident”, but she
lis kind and thoughtful of the
si pupils best interest even while
rishe insists on the observance of
: | law. Her teaching is patient and
1 accurable, and her success is
- marked. She would be an ac-
- quisition to any school.
Miss James E. Selman is the
skilltul instructor in elocution.
>’ and physical culture. Miss Sel
man’s heart is in her profession
1 and that is the best guaranty of
r success. Her interest in her
5 favorite studies amounts to en-
- thusiasm. Her own interpreta
-1 tions of the thoughts of others
? are wonderful—conception and
1 expression being natural and im
' pressive. She teaches elocu
-1 tion not in the way of servile
- imitation and artistic display, but
of natural interpretation—the
, outflow in expression and action
-of one’s individualism. SJie is
; gifted with a fine presence and
her renditions are much admir
ed. Her use of physical culture
is to develop the physical organ
ism so as to promote health and
strength sacrificing gracefulness
of action.
Prof. Joseph Lustrat is a mas
ter in his department, the teach
ing ijt<4ie French languages and
literature. Indeed he is a scholar
of wide culture and varied learn
ing. Born at Vichy, France,
and graduated with honor from
the University of France, he
brings to his task the knowledge
of many languages and sciences.
His acquaintance with the princi
ples and philosophy of language
has enabled him to acquire in
an incredibly short time a mas
tery of English, so that he speaks
and writes our language with
correctness and facility. He cer
tainly has no superior in Ameri
ca as a teacher of French. His
hundreds of pupils in Shorter
College who speak and write this
beautiful language are living
proofs of his his superior merit.
He employs the “Berlitz meth
od," which has now superseded
other vaunted methods, and is
adopted all over the world. Prof.
Lustrat was born of refined
Christian parents, whose ances
tors have occupied for centuries a
pre-eminent rank in his native
country. And he has enjoved.
the highest University advan
tages allowed to the youth of
France. ;
Miss Mary N. Duggan, sister
of Prof. I. W. Duggan, is the
principal of the preparatory
school. It would be hard to find
a parellel to this sweet and gif
ted lady in her chosen line of
work. To say that the children
lovelier is putting it mildly, they
adore her. The consequence is
that they study hard to please
her and their advancement is
rapid. “Miss Mary” has almost
as strong a hold upon the hearts
of the parents as of the children.
It goes without saying that her
department is overflowing.
Mrs. E. A. Cunningham is the
efficient matron. To her is
assigned the care of the boarding
pupils out of school hours, and
she is especially the’“mdther” of
the sick girl. Fo'rtuhatelVy the
almost uninterrupted good health
of the boarders secures for her
much immunity from the burden
often laid upon like oflic rs ; but
every really sick girl learns to
prize her unremitting attentions
and to love, her as a mother. M rs.
Cunningham is judicious and
kind in all her intercourse with
the boarders, and is indefatigable
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