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the school, for they can be made to contribute to the health and pleasure of 

 both the students and the faculty. 



"The Scenery 



is most beautiful and romantic. In a single glance, from a central point, the 

 eye surveys an ellipse, the circumference of which is 150 miles; and 'out- 

 stretching in loveliness ' the lawn, the woodland, the meadow, the town spread 

 out beneath, the gushing rills, the flowing rivers, the farm-houses scattered 

 here and there, the rugged cliffs all make up a landscape which is at once 

 picturesque and sublime. The future home of Neophogen was not selected 

 without canvassing the advantages and inducements offered at all the most 

 noted points in our country. 



"The Community. 



"We claim for the citizens of Gallatin and vicinity that true virtue and magna- 

 nimity found alone in the most refined society. 



" Here, identity is lost in public spirit. Here, a studious observance of the 

 rights of others is ever manifested. Here, the principles fostered by those noble 

 old pioneers are infused into the minds of their successors. 



"Here are the descendants of those worthy spirits the Winchesters, Trous- 

 dales, Jacksons, Peytons, Wynnes, Halls, Guilds, Turners, Barrys, Heads, Black- 

 mores, Lauderdales, Bledsoes, Babers, Aliens, Bennets, Blounts, Elliotts, Odoms, 

 Dismukes, Blythes, Millers, Donelsons, Williamses, Boyerses, Bates, Mont- 

 gomerys. Smiths, Duffys, Boddies, Glovers, Alexanders, Waltons, Kirkpatricks, 

 Deshas, Blues, Winstons, Tomkinses, Houses, Hallums, Eascoes, Bakers, Greens, 

 Stuarts, Wilsons, Wallaces, Moores, Joyners, Buggs, Franklins, Cantrells, Loo- 

 neys, Hassells, Harrises, Malones, Pattersons, Parkers, Kings, Johnsons, Shutes, 

 Guthries, Cottons, Branhams, Douglases, Bells, Tyrees, Martins, McCoins, Harts, 

 Cages, with many other names worthy of emulation, and the half is not told. 



" While we studiously ignore the idea of aristocracy and nobility, our minds 

 are pleasantly associated with dignity and purity." 



All this information is evidently just what a careful parent would 

 require. The healthiness of a college town, and the character of its 

 people, must be important to every father having a child to educate. 

 As for the qualifications of the professors, the following passage is 

 sufficiently suggestive: 



" What is the duty of many, is generally neglected by all. Here is continued 

 and special stimulus to president and professors ; here are no easy and assured 

 positions, with fixed and positive salaries, but they depend upon the patronage, 

 prosperity, and reputation of the institution. That this should be so, is too ob- 

 vious for comment. A very little knowledge of human nature is necessary to 

 see why. To each teacher it is plain, the greater the labor, the greater the 

 reward." 



This passage is also instructive : " Learned men who have failed 

 in business are tendered every inducement to take a life-home here. 

 We intend to take the most active measures, and use every exertion, 

 to raise a large life-fund for the relief of unfortunate literary men. 

 Let them have homes, and the society of congenial spirits." 



