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VOLUME SIX
NUMBER SIXTEEN
FRENCH CAMP—A DREAM OF RURAL CULTURE
Fine Old Mississippi Town With Two Splendid Presbyterian Schools.
By WILLIAM D. UPSHAW.
Good luck to the city brother
In the crowded marts of trade!
But in the country home
And the rural school
The world’s great men are made!
Ah well for the city maiden—
And blessed be her fate I
But the country girl
With her modest curl
Is the girl who saves the State!
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MADE that all by myself—and
French Camp made me think of it.
I believe in progress, and I do
not undervalue some of the nota
ble advantages of the big city col
lege or university, but there is a
rare and awakening something
for the wholesome inspiration of
youth and the making of real
manhood and womanhood in the atmosphere
of the high class country school which the
city institution can not approach.
These observations have come to me as I
have remembered my visit to beautiful
French Camp—the sequestered rural home of
those splendid “light houses” for Christian
education, the Central Mississippi Institute
for girls and French Camp Military Academy
for boys. These twin institutions were
founded by enterprising and consecrated
Presbyterians about twenty-five years ago,
and under practically the same board of trus
tees, they have worked side by side through
all these years of planting until the garnering
time has come, and the sons and daughters of
the first pupils are now being taught within
these classic consecrated shades.
Schoolmates Often Wed.
Really, it is a mighty sensible,
practical thing for our denomi
national schools to be co-educa
tional, or to be situated in “talk
ing distance” in the same com
munity, so they can mingle to
gether in occasional social func
tions—yes, my dear, and “fall in
love” with each other—for our
poetic friend had sense as well
as sentiment when he wrote:
“ ’Tis love that makes the
world go round.”
And in the sacred processes of
this process it is a fine thing
when young people of the same
religious faith facing each other
at the table and engaged in the
sacred task of making a home
what it ought to be—not that
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there are not countless happy homes where
the parents are united in heart but divided
in denominational name, but all things being
equal and principle being regnant it is better
for them to be wholly together. But while
French Camp performs its own high mission
in this it often occurs that the opposite takes
place—for the French Camp schools are so
fine and their attitude toward struggling
youth so generous and liberal, that boys and
girls of all denominations are found among
the students of both institutions.
Sensible, Stalwart Sandersons.
Talking about a genuine marriage of
hearts, hands and ideals, I found it in Presi
dent and Mrs. J. A. Sanderson, of the Central
Mississippi Institute in whose auditorium I
lectured to a great and generous crowd. Both
are educators, both are devout Christians;
both believe in sanity, “common sense” and
foundation principles in building solid cul
tured Christian character in womanhood. In
a recent declaration these noble, modest
workers say:
“We wish to express our profound thank
fulness for the large measure of success
which has been ours for the last twenty-four
years. During these years we have sent out
hundreds of cultured, intelligent young la
dies. These well-equipped young ladies have
established themselves in various lines of
skilled work in New York, New Jersey, Vir
ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor
gia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri,
Colorado and lastly in Cuba and the Philip
pines. Thus the good work goes on and the
range of influence widens. We are now edu
cating the children of the first pupils of C. M.
I. We have been able to test the plans op
erating here and they have yielded fine re
sults.”
Those Fine French Camp Cadets.
Upon my word, if I were a girl and were
romantic enough to fall in love with a school
boy I think it would be a bristling, gleaming,
shining, chivalric cadet. Under the Presi-
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dency of the scholarly Dr. F L.
McCue and limited to the num
ber of One Hundred the French
Camp Academy boasts as fine a
set of manly cadet students as I
ever saw anywhere. There are
no rough and rowdy ones. That
kind can not grow or stay in the
French Camp Barracks. They
believe in being “soldiers of the
cross” as well as “soldiers of the
realm.”
Eight Miles From the Railroad.
Never mind about the distance
from the railroad—it is only
eight miles over to the charming
town of McCool on the “Illinois
Central” with hack and automo
bile accommodations and seven
lines of telephones coming into
French Camp. So the students
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