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| EDUCAT/ONAL AND I INDUSTRIAL I EDITION. 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 THE ROME TRIBUNE. 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. \\ ' Ww// k■\\ i WUlsf ] z \\' Bl / / -EL -- V . ■■■ . \ -L. -- L -_ 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- Ip * ' '' L IF ’ ‘ ■L LBf IoHbBIHH ■ ■ fl* ft ft EBb ' 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 ’ PAGES 9" 16 PRICE FIVE CENTS. ■-! 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 ■ ■ ■■ ■— - —at (Continued on 16th page)