LAGRANGE FEMALE COLLEGE

LAGRANGE, GEORGIA
RUFUS W. SMITH, PRESIDENT

MID-SUMMER BULLETIN, 1906

ONE OF THE HIGH GRADE COLLEGES FOR
WOMEN IN THE SOUTH. NONE HIGHER

College Opens September 19, 1908

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FACULTY, 1906-07

Literary Departments

Rufus W. Smith, A. M., President, Professor of Metaphysics
and the English Bible.

Mrs. Rufus W. Smith, Lady Principal, Emeritus Professor of
Astronomy and Physiology.

Rev- Hubert M. Smith, A.B., Professor of English and Greek.

Leon P. Smith, A. B., Dean and Registrar, Professor of
Physics and Biology.

Miss Daisy May Hemphill, B. A., M. A., Professor of Latin
and German.

Miss Marcia L. Culver, Grad., Professor of French and Ad-
junct Professor of Latin.

Miss Ethelle Whittington, Grad. in Exp., Professor of Expres-
sion and Harmonic Gymnastics.

Miss Nettie Powell, A, B., Professor of Mathematics and
Astronomy.

Miss Mary V. Duval, M. E. L., L. L. M., Professor of Peda-
gogy and History.

Miss Mattie Frazer Webb. A.B., Adjunct Prof essor of English.

Miss Willie L. Rogers, Grad., Instructor in Free-hand Drawing.

Mrs. Leon P. Smith, B. S., Instructor in History and Geography.
One or two additional instructors in Literary departments

will probably be secured.

Music Department

Alwyn M. Smith, Music Grad., Director, Theoretics, Voice
Culture, Musical History.

Mrs. Alwyn M. Smith, Music Grad., Voice Culture, Piano,
Pipe Organ, Sight-singing.

Miss Eleanor C. Davenport, A. B., Mus. Grad., Piano, Theory.
Sight-singing. On leave of absence for the year in Germany.

Miss Leila M. Irvin, Music Grad., Piano, Theory, Sight-singing.

Miss Sarah S. DuPre, A. B., Music Grad., Piano, Theory.

Prof. Alwyn Smith will secure two additional instructors in
Piano in Leipsic, Germany, during his stay there this sum-
mer. They will be American students.

Miss Mattie Frazer Webb, A. B., Violin.
Art Department

Miss Willie L. Rogers, Grad., Instructor in Art,

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Till NEW MJMI1IHS OF THE FACULTY

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Mise Mabi v. Di i \i. M. i.. L, I.. I.

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an she 1 1 pecial << arse al th( I

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Chicaj] Teachers 1 College). At this Normal
'< of Proficiency in Psych<
position was al Anniston I Ala. I I

has been employed by t 1
] '. i and Missh si ppi t teach Pi -
I* . I [istory and Phj siologrj in 1 1 "1

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which i^ the state history , U A1 ( - 1

erni ised in the same state, and a Drama, "l Q

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wit 1 , the A. B. . and aft pursu<

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THE WORK OF THE FACULTY DURING THE SUMMER

Prof. Hubert M. Smith of the English Department is spend-
ing' his fourth summer studying at the University of Chicago.

Prof. Leon. P. Smith of the Physics Department is conduct-
ing courses in Chemistry and Geology in the Summer School
of the College. During the latter part of the summer he will
examine the mineral properties of the new Atlanta-Birmingham
line of the Seaboard Air Line R. R. for the Industrial Depart-
ment of that system.

Miss Daisy May Hemphill, Professor of Latin and German,
is studying German this summer in Germany.

Miss MarciaL. Culver, who was last year Assistant in French,
and has been made Professor of French to succeed Miss Ramsey,
who resigned on account of illness, is continuing her studies in
French this summer at the University of Chicago. This is her
third summer there.

Miss Nettie Powell, the new Professor of Mathematics and
Astronomy, who succeeds Miss Head, spent a short time sup-
plementing Miss Head's work in the Summer School, as Miss
Head was compelled to begin upon duties incident to her new
position as Associate Secretary of the Woman's Board of Home
Missions with headquarters at Nashville, Tenn.

Miss Willie L. Rogers, Instructor in Art, is traveling during
the summer in Europe and hopes to do considerable study dur-
ing her vacation.

Prof. Alwyn M. Smith, Director of Music, has returned to
Leipsic, Germany, to spend the summer. He is renewing old
associations at his alma mater, the Leipsic Conservatory of
Music. He is accompanied by Mrs. Alwyn Smith, who is also
pursuing further work at this celebrated Conservatory, where
she received her last musical diploma.

Misses Eleanor C. Davenport and Sarah S. DuPre, Instructors
in Piano, are also studying this summer in Leipsic. Miss Dav-
enport has obtained a year's leave of absence and will continue
in Germany until at least the fall of 1907.

Miss: Leila M. Irvin, of the Department of Music, is teaching-
Piano in Washington, Ga., during the summer.

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:.. \ bo ind desii rid-

in 1907 tnd of public e

in P< . i inough in l><>th t >upe

t<> i Prof . Leon P. Smit

\ and Geology ; Miss Mabel Head (suppl< I by

M - Nettie Powell) >rk in Theory andMetl P

Prof. .I. EL Eticketson, Prim
i School conducted courses in i metry, \

n: and Miss Miriam Vaughan, Instructor in II

School, gave courses in Constitutional History,
tory and English Parallel Ri Ml of this n

conducted <>n the same | is the r pilar work <>f tl i

This feat are of the institution Lb pennant i ill.

in man] enable u student to finish herwoi rlier

than could otherwise be done* Let our patrons keep this

i] in mind for nwt BUIDJ

SOME EKKORS IN THE CATALOGUE

I Jar catalogue, Issued in June, gave the addre*

J, \V. Quillian, D. D., as Elberton, when it should be
iii. Likewise Rev, J. K. Mixon, D I>.. should be
Law rencei ill*'. < in., instead of Tails
members of the Board of Trustees. Likewise tl
Hon. Prank Harwell should appear in tin' E&xaminu I imh>
ird of Trusts

COl.l.l (.1 Sdllllll 1

The l> I to hai e the S I [ours foi I .

os and Laboratory W 1 l.v for t tin.

but was anable t<> complete it in time, I
points regardini I wo in I

t print it oi out t< the faculty .

students n 1 1 mooted t" retun uln is -

i in time, and t< such others as i
ale.

ACTS OF INCORPORATION, ETC.

The Board of Trustees at their last session made the very
sensible suggestion that the Acts of Incorporation regarding
the LaGrange Female College be printed in the catalogue. The
catalogue for 1906 had already been printed at this time. Some
consideration of placing them in this mid-summer Bulletin was
made, but it was deemed best to wait and place them in the
next Annual Catalogue to be issued in the spring of 1907.
These Acts reveal a long history that the College can claim,
which will place her among the oldest chartered women's Col-
leges in the world. It was incorporated as LaGrange Female
Academy by Acts of the Legislature in 1831 (See Acts 1831,
page 3). Is there any surviving College that gives degrees
which goes back that far? In 1815 it was given the right by
the Legislature to confer degrees and the first diplomas were
given in 1846. Its name was changed to LaGrange Female
College by the Legislature of 1851-52 (page 312). The Acts
will be printed in the next catalogue.

SOME FACTS ABOUT THE LAGRANGE FEMALE COLLEGE

. its faculty keep up to date. The Professor of Latin and
German, the Director of Music and three other instructors in
Music, and the Instructor in Art are studying this summer in
Europe. The Professor of English and Greek and the Profes.
sor of French are studying this summer at the University of
Chicago.

its faculty are all well educated. Pres. Smith has been
a teacher for 50 years this June and has been a College Presi-
dent for 27 years. He is a graduate of Emory College. The
Professor of English and Greek graduated at Emory College,
spent ^one year at Vanderbilt University and 12 months at the
University of Chicago. The Prof essor of Sciences graduated at
Emory College and studied at the University of Chicago. He
has served as Geological Chemist for theS. A. L. R. R. system
and was instructor in Geology at the University of Georgia
Summer School in 1904. The Professor of Latin and German
graduated with the B. A. and M. A. degree at Vanderbilt
University and had post-graduate w T ork in Latin, Greek, Sans-

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tize ' ( ompai e the ma " ( ratoi as" pi itl

LaGrange'a Music Department as to pact lti and bqi i
The 1 >ir m tor, a G ai ESmory Colli

Valparaiso Normal College, has attended the Musi S I of
the Valparaiso Normal, receiving i Diploma from it: 1"- after-
ward attended the N< I Conservatory (B the
Metropolitan College of Music (Ne* fork), spendi]
time in each; subsequently he spent t\ sin the I.-
(Jen I atorj . reoeii ing i I >i i I * orld
owned school: since then he has >p i ther Bummer in
Leip and Lb now there for the Bummi Lnoth<
itir M \ 1 ' i ,h y is i graduate of bol N E
Leipsic 1 1 my) Conservatories. Tv membei
Mi ! h.\ are Btudying now in Germany and mi
, luates in music * itfa i ft

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THE COURSE OF STUDY IN COLLEGE AND IN MUSIC LEADS
NEARLY ALL THE COLLEGES FOR WOMEN IN THE SOUTH- This is

a large claim. Send for the catalogue, write to the Corres-
ponding Secretary of the Board of Education of the Methodist
Church, South, for their required course for Colleges, and note
that they have graded us as doing College work, only six

METHODIST COLLEGES FOR WOMEN IN THE SOUTH ARE SO GRADED.

this is one of them. In Music LaGrange was the first insti-
tution in this section which introduced the modern system of
Theoretics in music such as is emphasized by the European
Conservatories. Graduates of the other leading schools will
find from one to two years of regular work provided and regu-
larly conducted here.

LAGRANGE CANNOT SUPPLY THE DEMAND FOR ITS GRADUATES

as teachers in school and music work. It has more of its
graduates in proportion to attendance in regular employment
as teachers than any other College in the State. they are

WELL PREPARED AND ARE A VALUABLE ASSET TO ANY COMMUNITY-

NOTE THE FOLLOWING THINGS PECULIAR TO LAGRANGE
THAT SHOULD BE REMEMBERED.

Courses in Sight-singing and Free-hand Drawing open to all
students free, each two periods a week for the entire year.

A two year course in Pedagogy in an institution where the
student has also access to the best Collegiate and Musical ad-
vantages, etc.

The rate of tuition is lower than any institution of similar
grade in the state. This is possible because the College is
under experienced management of a family of teachers who
have had no other business, but have under one management
with the College a dairy of considerable size, a truck farm of
several acres, and such other business arrangements as that they
can run better on cheaper tuition rates than similar institutions
elsewhere.

LaGrange Female College has a historic past covering 73
years and has been empowered to grant degrees for sixty years.
It has 869 Alumnae. Over half of these graduated under the
present President Rufus W. Smith.

LaGrange was the first College in the South to abolish the

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en dolla
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than LOO girls I owhollyor partly i

by i this fund It is :i monument totl

. S. Witham, of Atlanta, I e number of irorl
the hell fund makes il

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wit i and the Sulphide of h

lemic of diseases and the majority
leave in improved health. The College

mi-mow country. Hie campus

a hill above th< LaGn

Qitarium managed iding

>uth, where youi
in the < tollege Home, can ' student

best treatment for the eyes, throat,

L ,< , u b decidedly religious atmosph
for the pat' her policy

uracter, which is free froi ianism. I re ious

ord has been unbroken for n Rev. A. J. J irrell,

in the W Life, D tys; *' I ' '

oale Coll ' ' school for girl*. I i

. | is the most rel l I " u

I-. Quillian wrote on July 19, Lfi >7: k4 The rul<
but options, that all who school h<

. members of the church,
in the I " Etev. R. 1 '.

1902: "I do oot think President Smith and hia faculty would
with the attainmei I ipiji ui

rious while under their tuitioi " I.
has furnished mon

pro to aU.i :i in lhl "

n.
I ther infonm rite for \ ]

which tellfl exactly what a

which is becomii rnimon. 1

n nil departments, address th< i" lent.
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