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cOF THE sour;UtA City Of Letterii if the UTooda—Origin *md Development of * Large Design— Twenty Years of BuildJo£—Temper ami Tone of the Place.(.Correspondence Of The ErfcnJt Foet.1 ^Bxwajo®, Tehn., November^-Wsmw sight of the new buildings of the University of the South, the impulse isdrrwdsfcible to seed a few, notes, that win amtiredly interest tr large nurnber of readers of Ts* Evxxlira Post.There has never been in the history of educational Institutions ian instance iso marked of what can be accomplished by the steady- purpose of a few men without capital ot itsonrees convertibleinto cash. Twenty-five years ago 10,000 acres ofland (a gift the donors scarcely valued as such)was -the only endowment of -the University. The scenery surrounding. *the siteis beautiful, but the soil, until the^experiment of cultivation was thoroughlymade, was ihougbt too unproductive to justify trade stropsensible men in working it The Cumberbmds “whipped !this ridge have the tops flat apparently, lieve that cJ*iJfflBMtoourowjwdlway^idustrioo*, resource, ;rateinkeetry’s exten and cattleadvantage contained On the handicaof Ei^ -own vast eexpenditnrfree. Heror £5 per IAs. Gd.; anc rage rate £711,000.0C cost per hei about ^£4,0 ingoff adi Our naval a£50,652,400Her food enearly Great Briti need be saijust her cc*man who lt;m*1*although in fact they are slightly undulating,giving beautiful building sites and the most perfect drainage through the porous soil of lightsandy learn. When the. Commission decidedupcn f his point before the war, climate, altitude,water, and accessibility were the considerations,net the economics of soil production, as the University was to be endowed by a million .dollars,more than half of which was eagerly subscribed in the first year after th^design was made known.Had a few years been granted the originators, theworld would have been astonished by a development. # War shattered the prospects,, but did notdestroy the magnificent design. To-day I watchthe masons swinging into place the ereat blocksof sandstone quarried from the bluffs that goone by one to make the gymnasium*, chapter-house, and cloisters of one of the greatest Christian institutions m our country. The design is by Mr. Halsey Wood of New York.In I860 the Rt. Rev. Charles Todd Quintard,Bishop of Tennessee, dedicated his life to thebuilding up of this institution from its veryfoundation. Out of the sapling oak of themountains he cut a cross, a few earnest men and women gathered oh the mountain- top, with chant and prayer the cross was planted, and the Oik had begun. A log-house was built nearthe spot. The native timber cut from thedomain was sawn ia a mill, and wooden houseswere constructed, tasteful, and large enough forth. ‘ accommodation of a greater number of students than was expected. Mr. Hayes of New Jersey came to the spot and offered a liberal gift and a fine anility to the development of the scheme f»»r a he.me university for Southern youth. Villas were built for the ladies who were to establish a home life and training for students.Look now at the stately buildings surrounding the log bcuse that still stands, vine-wreathed, facing the beautiful Theological Hall of St Luke’s.The new buildings will be completed when a new St. Augustine’s i* added that will take theplace of the present chapel of the name, which will probably be used for clas-s-rooms. The cost in money cf the new chapel and chapter-homewill be $120,f 00; about $80,000 is tow in tbr*bands of the Vice-Chancellor, the Rev. Dr. Telfair Hodgson of New Jersey.rl he schools are under military as well as proctorial discipline, and the command, “Company, bait!” brings into line for your inspection the best blood of the; Southern State?. No saloons,or carousing, no money aristocracy. “Cheerfulpoverty/’ the toast of the “E. Q.IB.,” means muc h or nothing to the observer unless the inner life of the school be considered No hint of the 44 poverty ’’ comes to you from the uniform which evei 11 dent wears until he gets a gown by 1 rtu? reeding. Dr. Morgan Dix, who delivered the Baccalaureate in August, 1885, made ataif^ui examination of febe institution and return*, d to New York fegjgive the world several pages of Lis faultless English in praise of the design ard its admirable progress. England in1877 gave money to it liberally. Since then donations have been received from different quar ters of the globe.Dr. Basil Gilder sleeve spent this summer here, with special students cf classics, of Prof. Wig gins’s department The Rev. Johannes Oerfcel, the artist whose fame as a painter of Scriptural and symbolical subjects is well known, is building his house on the bluffs behind the library, from whence the valley between thejagged spurs of the Cumberland reachesthe sky m the horizon of Middle Tennessee. The venerable Chancellor, ihe RtRev. Wm Mercer Green, first Bishop ofMississippi, has his summer home here. “Kendal Hall,” w hich is also the home of students, as is ** Fulford.” the house of Bishop Quintard. Bishop Green does not have the control of current events, but has in the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Hodgson, a man of such rare combination of abilities and graces as to free him not only of anypresent duties, but of all care for the future of the institution. Dr. Hodgson has endowed the University with a beautiful library building, and gives his time without any recompense, other than that loyal enthusiasm which is the best reward of generosity. The Trustees of the University of the South are the Bishops ofMississippi, Texas, Alabama; Tennessee, Florida,Georgia, Arkansas. South Carolina, North Carolina, Western Texas, Northern Texas, Louisiana,Eastern Carolina, Kentucky, and the Assistant Bishop of Mississippi. Clerical and lay Trustees, three from each State, form a Board to directthe workings of the University.Students are groaning over their examinations. Long vacation is from December 15 to March 15, Commencement occurring in August. It isbelieved the roll will have many accessions the next half year. Fraternities have little halls here, and there in the shaded avenues. Pranks are original rather than vicious. Hazing meetsprompt results in the expulsion of the perpetrators; A mutual feeling of honest integrity exists betweenstudents and the Faculty,The carmine has faded into brown on the trees.Yellow bolds its golden values in the landscapestill. Persimmons hang in blue-bloomed clusters on their (all trees. Partridges flutter from thesedge-grass at the tread of the sportsman. In fifteen minutes you can walk yourself into a ravine where holly is red with berries and the laurel is bordering limpid streams that take wild leaps from the i ocks into the valley; where the War dric ks and leaves the imprint of his great paw on the bank to warn you. All that could be spared is left of the native timber on the domain of theUniversity, so that avenues lead to pleasantsurprises.littie suspected,of clear lawn and prettyhome on the knolls in every direction.' ' W.advance ongenerally a What ever fostering hlt;not cow be sions incunnecessity foratio. 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His magistrates If Chinese, I a Cmarried.”During and by bis Frenchbad become tl by the Cassag fallen off, and losopher, and Paris, On oi of money, be 1 tending that China, he obte free passage tlt; with made ovlt;Empire, deligjIn his later da; steadied dowr were issued by members of 1 attended the h church at thethough. Tin-Tu genuine Chinsquainted wit!tongue spoken would not ha He taught th of China—indt with the mlt; aplomb.But on one o An illustrated ing, with a Cfa: tei mined to pr to his engravit self to Tin-Tuhesitation, uncthe following c set up in type, chance, a well*to the office. r.l egging him tchave been mt after comparii marked, “I ha the faintest resand the origin*a fSte; the illi event which has merely ex; evens to whicl pretending to Fete of July F the taking of tl ly illustrates tl ing, of the ec just been com* ery Land— Lc respcndence.A Manchester Merchant on Free Trade*in America.(letter ii) the .Vam*7ics(er Guardian, November 0.]My statement at tfae Chamber of Commerce that England is better off now with free_________1__The SpoThe spoils sy of Franklin Clt;cases out of t State and Uni' Franklin g* Blaine when h it gave over 7when Beaver’ * half that givei in Franklin i county morejorifcy this yeashould be app Tbey had a in Chambers! agreed that In unemployed ] knocked thin Petty bossesof human saiwhere, and th * Imaginary,petty office th The new ftl oronghly rejustly respec that be was a] unite the Det ticket, and idisappointmeithe boomerai but the spoilpower of offic
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