Lineville College
College President's
- 1890-1892: E. J. Garrison, A.M.
- 1892-1893: W. A. Mulloy
- 1893-1900: Henry Jones Willingham, A.M.
- 1900-1901:Unk
- 1901-1902: W. R. Hood, M.A.
- 1902-1905: J. M. Langston, A.M.
- 1905-1906: D.H. McNeill
- 1906-1907: V. D. Whatley, A.M.
- 1907-1908:Unk
- 1908-1909: J. E. Hendley, A.B.
- 1909-1911: J. H. Sams. A.B.[1]
1890's Internal Schools
- School of Mathematics: H.J. Willingham
- School of Natural and Physical Sciences: Prof. Samuel Aughey
- School of Latin & Greek J.F. Willingham
- School of Modern Languages: H.J. & J.F. Willingham
- School of English: H.J. & J.F. Willingham & Miss May Willingham
- Intermediate Studies: H.J. Willingham & Miss May Willingham
- Preparatory Department: Mrs. Annie Waits
- School of Vocal and Instrumental Music: Miss Claudia Evans
- School of Art & Physical Culture and Elocution: Miss Eloise Montgomery
General statement of education
Lineville is situated in the eastern part of Clay County, Alabama. The town and surrounding country are elevated and healthful. In the late 1890s and early 1900s, Lineville was free from those temptations which arose from saloons, gambling dens, and other places of ill-repute. Church privileges are good as the people were refined and religious.
It was a coeducational institution founded in 1890,[2] incorporated in 1891.[3] and closed in the late 1900s[4]
Patrons of Lineville College were assured that their children were not subjected to those temptations which pupils so often meet while attending school in large towns and cities. For strict morality, temperance and good citizenship, Lineville is admitted by those who ought to know to be unsurpassed in the State of Alabama. No school in this section of the country offers advantages superior to those afforded by the old, reliable school. The College believed that whatever was worth doing was worth doing well. Their motto was “Education rather than graduation.” Students who prized the latter more than the former were accommodated elsewhere. The Lineville College brochure stated We have no method of making teachers of any and every student until they learn something to teach. We do honest, thorough work and guarantee satisfaction in the case of every pupil. Indolent, incorrigible students are not wanted in this school. We want to give value received for all money paid to us for tuition. Pupils who desire to attend school because they have nothing else to do, or who do so with the idea they will not have an abundance of work to do, need not enter this school. We want only pupils who desire to learn and are willing to study. To such, every possible chance is given, and no effort on the part of the teachers will be spared to advance such pupils.[5]
Co-education
The universities and colleges of the country were just fully awakening to the fact that no good reason existed for stubbornly maintaining the old idea of separate schools for young men and young ladies. While their minds and intellects are admittedly on an equal, their association in the class room can be wholesome in its effect upon both. No unnecessary communication between sexes was allowed during the school session.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.genrecords.net/alclay/misc/lingrads.html
- ↑ Harry Thurston Pech; Selim Hobart Peabody; Charles Francis Richardson (1900). The International Cyclopædia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge. Revised with Large Additions. Dodd, Mead. p. 815.
- ↑ Alabama (1891). Alabama Laws and Joint Resolutions of the Legislature of Alabama. J. Boardman. p. 712.
- ↑ http://www.genrecords.net/alclay/misc/lingrads.html
- ↑ Lineville College brochure 1896 text from the original brochure
- ↑ York University, Scott Library Archives CPA collection containing records of Ola Elizabeth Gay, a student of Lineville College.