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# GRAND OLD SHORTER COLLEGE. *
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 requisites:
Healthfulness, Superior Educa
tional Advantages, Material Com
forts and Conveniences, Pleasant
Surroundings, Parental Care and
Kindness, Accessibility, Reasonable
Charges.
Shorter College combines these
essentials in a remarkable degree.
Healthfulness.
This is of the very first import
ance, for without health, education
is worthless. The altitude of the
college and freedom from malaria
of the city and surrounding coun
try, secure phenomenal healthful
ness. It is the testimony of some
of the most eminent physicians,
that Rome is freer from epidemics
than any city in the South.. Drs.
Battey and Holmes selected this
place for their sanitariums, on ac
count of its superior climatic con
ditions.
Morals and Manners.
Careful attention is given to the
morals and manners of the young
ladies. Nor is Religious influence
overlooked, A daily prayer meet
ing is kept up among the boarding
pupils, which is never omitted, and
is attended by nearly all the girls.
Regular Bible instruction is given
to the school, a missionary society
holds monthly meetings, and the
pupils regularly attend Sunday
school and church. The Shorter
girls are noted for their graceful
manners and their good deportment
in all places.
Educational Advantages.
These are of unsurpassed excel
lence. In breadth and thorough
ness of scholarship, in effectiveness
of discipline, in the ability of the
faculty, and in the superiority of
equipments, Shorter ranks among
the best. At great expense the
college has secured the services of
the most able and accomplished
teachers in literature, ancient and
modern languages, mathematics,
science, music, art, elocution and
physical culture. A school of French
on the Berlitz method has been es
tablished. Miss Ivylyn Duggan, a
distinguished graduate of this
school, is now at the head of
it. There are also classes in
Latin, Greek and German, taught
by competent instructors. The de
partment of music is well supplied
with every facility for instruction.
The director is a progressive, lib
eral, cultivated man, and, as a
teacher of piano and choral classes,
is a master. His assistant on the
piano is a lady of distinguished
reputation, and an artist of great
merit. ■ The vocal teacher is re
garded as one of the finest singers
in the South, and as a trainer of
the voice, has no superior. The
violin, taught by a gentleman of
finest teaching ability, and of rare
powers of execution. The art de
partment has at its head a lady
who enjoyed the best advantages
that can be afforded in New York
City and Europe, and the work she
has accomplished here entitles her
to rank second to none.
Art Embroidery.
Elocution and physical culture
receive much attention in Shorter,
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and are taught by experienced and
skillful teachers. Indeed, none but
experienced’ faithful and su< cess
ful teachers are employed, and pa«.
rents need have no fear that theii
children will be at the mercy of
novices or charlatans.
Personnel of the Faculty.
The President, Dr. A. J. Battle,
has had a long and successful ca
reer as an educitor, and ranks
among the South’s! most eminent
scholars. He is a native of Hancock
county, Ga„ and was educated with
distinction 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 subsequently was
president of three of the most noted
female colleges in Alabama. In
1872 he was chosen President of
Mercer University, the great Bap
tist College of Georgia, a position
he held seventeen years. In 1892
he succeeded Dr. Gwaltney as pres
ident of Shor;er College. Dr.
Battle, besides directing the edu
cational work of the college and
maintaining its discipline, is him
self a distinguished teacher. His
department is psychology and the
advanced Latin classics.
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PROF. IVY W. DUGGAN. Bus. Mgr, DR. A. J. BATTLE Pres. MISS ELEANOR CHURCHILL GIBBS.
Dr. Battle has been honored by
the colleges and universities of the
country by the bestowment of nu
merous degrees and other honors.
Three colleges, without his previ
ous knowledge, conferred on him
the degree of Doctor of Divinity,
one the degree of Doctor of Laws.
He was appointed several years ago,
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a member of the American Philog
ical Association. He is also a mem
ber of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
perhaps the oldest and most cele
brated society th the United States.
Besides numerous lectures and ad
dresses, he is the author of a vol
ume, “The Human Will,” which has
won the most favorable opinion of
scholars and thinkers.
Prof. Ivy W. Duggan. ,
Prof. Ivy W. Duggan is the thor
ough and succefsful teacher of.
Mathematics. "With him teaching
is a labor of love. He never fails
to meet his classes unless physi
cally disabled. And his clear
method and practical teaching,
combined with a kindly spirit and '
affectionate manner in the class
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room, begt t in his pupils a love for
their work and enable them to get
the best benefit. Prof. Duggan
comt s 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 bo s and girls (now
the finest men and women) of that
section. He made himself so es
, teemed by the people of the county
i that they took him out of the
school room and sent him to repre
sent them in the State Legislature,
where he served them effectively
for four years.
I Prof. Duggan is a man of supe
rior business qualifications and in
corruptible integrity. As “busi
ness manager” of Shorter College,
he has placed the college on a firm
financial basis, and has won the re
8] ect and confidence of the entire
community. The Mathematical
course includes Arithmetic, Alge
bi a, Geometry, (plane and solid),
: Trigonometry and Analytic Geome
try.
Miss Eleanor Churchill Gibbs.
* -Miss Eleanor Churchill Gibbs is
I the peerless instructor in the de-
partment of Belles Letties. A
queenly woman, gracious, cultured,
magnetic, she is praesidium et
dulce decus of Shorter College. The
following sketch is taken from that
splendid collection of biographies,
“A Woman of the Century.”
Miss Eleanor Churchill Gibbs,
educator, was born in the planta
tion home of her parents, “Oak
Shade,” near Livingston, Alabama.
Being descended from families pre
eminent for many generations for
culture, talent 1 afid refinenient,
Miss Gibbs possesses these in a
marked degree. The Revolutionary
hero, Capt. Churchill Gibbs, of Vir
ginia, was her grandfather. On
her mother’s side she,claims as her
ancestor, Rev. John Thompson, 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 completing the
course there, she continued the
study of higher mathematics and *
science under the “Arnold of the
South,” Dr. Henry Tutwiler..
i In 1865, Miss Gibbs accepted the
position of assistant teacher in Liv
ingston College; in 1870 she was
elected principal of the institution.
In 1875 she resigned this position
in order to take charge of high
school work in Selma, Ala. In 1887
! she became professor of English
Literature and History in Shorter
College, Rome, Ga.
Miss Gibbs is an able, earnest,
enthusiastic and successful teacher,
and stands in the front rank of her
chosen profession. She wields a
strong and graceful pen, and is a
paid contributor to leading journals
in Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston
and elsewhere.
Space permits only of the men
tion of the other stars in this bril- «
liant galaxy of educators.
Miss Carrie B. Leavell, thor
oughly educated in the Science de
partment of the University of Mis
sissippi, and who brings the strong
est endorsement of efficiency from
the faculty of that institution.
Miss Ivylyn Duggan, the star
pupil of Prof. Joseph Lustrat, of
the University of Georgia, teacher
of French.
Miss Celeste Ayer, a graduate of
Shorter, and a brilliant artist,
whose success as a teacher of Art
has been phenomenal.
Miss Mattie Rowell, of Rome, the
nonpareil teacher of Art Embroid
ery.
Miss Ada Brown, the talented
and- faithful teacher of Elocution
and Physical Culture.
Miss Bettie Ledbetter, the ener
getic and accomplished principal of
the Preparatory Department, and
her admirable assistant, Miss
Fosephine Bennett.
Miss Cordelia Veal, the scholarly
teacher of the German language.
Prof. Charles A. Thompson, the
highly educated, attentive and
faithful Director of Music.
Miss Nellie Dustman, the skill
ful performer and untiring and
successful teacher of the Piano.
Miss Annie Louise Griswold, the
far-famed teacher -of Voice Cul
ture.
All these, with Mrs. E. A. Cun
ningham, the faithful, kind and
efficient Matron, make up a corps
of teachers that have no superiors
in the South.
Shorter College has taken an em
inent stand among the female edu
cational institutions of the south,
and the many bril iant women who
have graduated from it will testify
that “The price of wisdom is above
rubies.”