resignation of the latter in 1885, the present incumbent, John A. Jones, A. M., was called to the presidency of the college.

The college is under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Its history has been a quiet, unostentatious one, yet remarkably successful, considering the means at its command.

The college building is a two-story brick structure, consisting of seven spacious, comfortable, and conveniently arranged school-rooms, beside the chapel. The college has, connected with it and located near it, a large and well-equipped boarding department. The whole property is worth about fifteen thousand dollars.

The college curriculum, requiring from ten to twelve years for its completion,' is about as full and extensive as that of most of the female seminaries of the country. There are eight teachers in the faculty, three of whom superintend the music department. The alumnæ of the institution number almost one hundred. The last (1886-87) register showed an attendance of one hundred and eighty-two pupils, one hundred and sixty-nine of whom were in the literary, fifty-three in the music, and twenty-nine in the art department.2

THE METHODIST COLLEGE.3

This institution, which is situated at Gainesville, Hall County, having been chartered in April, 1881, with full college powers, was established for the higher education of young women. Its officers are a president, secretary, and faculty, supervised by an incorporated board of directors, and visited by a special board, appointed by the North Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, under whose fostering care the college is administered.

Beside the preparatory and collegiate departments, a piano school, with Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior classes, is attached to the college. The art and ornamental branches, also, receive attention. Inclusive of the Rev. Charles B. La Hatte, A. M., president of the college, the present faculty consists of eight teachers. The 1885-86 catalogue gave the college an attendance of seventy-nine pupils. The first class graduated in 1883.

ROMAN CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONS.

PIO NONO COLLEGE.4

This college, the only one which the Roman Catholic denomination has ever owned, or of which it has ever had the supervision in Georgia, is now extinct. It was located at Macon, and the Rt. Rev. William H.

This includes college and sub-college classes and the preparatory department.

2 For our facts in this case we are chiefly indebted to a letter from President Joues, dated November 22, 1887.

3 Henderson's Commonwealth of Georgia, pp. 279-80.

Catalogue for 1885-86.

Janes's Hand-Book of Georgia, p. 187.

Butler's History of Macon, pp. 302-3.

Gross, D. D., bishop of Savannah, to whose efforts since his consecra tion in 1873 it principally owed its origin, laid its corner stone in May, 1874. Soon after his entrance upon his new duties, Bishop Gross deter mined to erect a college within his diocese, and was cordially aided by members of his own denomination and many who were not Catholics. The college building was commenced in the spring of 1874, and was completed during the following October. It was a handsome brick structure, one hundred and seventy-five feet in length, sixty-five in width, and five stories high, and cost fifty thousand dollars. On the 28th of February, 1876, the institution was chartered. At that time, we are told, it had a regular college curriculum, including classical and scientific courses. Surveying, engineering, book-keeping, and commercial law were taught. There was also a theological course.

Ten professors and tutors, of whom Rev. C. P. Gaboury was presi dent, constituted the faculty. The attendance during the session ending June, 1876, embraced eighty-six students. In September of the ensuing year the college was entirely reorganized, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Gross himself assuming the presidency. This position he held until 1883,1 when Rev. H. J. McNally succeeded him. The latter remained in office only one year; and in 1884 the last president, V. Rev. L. Bazin, was installed. His term of service expired with the life of the institu tion, in August, 1886.

BECOMES A JESUIT NOVITIATE.

The building and property2 were then transferred to the Jesuits, and what was once known as Pio Nono College has become the Jesuit novitiate, and is now regarded as a training school for those who desire. to enter the priesthood of that order.

It should be stated that the functions of the bishop were more in the nature of a general supervisor, Rev. J. W. Daley doing most of the administrative work.

2 A library, museum, and chemical laboratory were possessed by the college.

Griffin Female College was incorporated in 1848, organized in the following year, and graduated its first class in 1850. Though most of its pupils come from Georgia, its alumnæ are found in many parts of the South. The college occupies one of the most beautiful groves in the city of Griffin, Spalding County. The system of instruction is thorough, provision being made for six courses of study; viz, primary, preparatory, academic, collegiate, music, and art. The school of instrumental and vocal music is especially fine. The college outfit consists of a library of fifteen hundred volumes, a fair philosophical and chemical apparatus, and a cabinet of minerals. The faculty, of which Mrs. A. C. Winters is at present the head, numbers four teachers.

GEORGIA MILITARY INSTITUTE.

The list of institutions of higher education in Georgia would be incomplete without a mention of the Georgia Military Institute. This school was located within a short distance of Marietta, Cobb County. Originating under the direction of Col. A. V. Brumby, and first organized by him in 1851, its first session opened on July 10th of that year with only seven cadets, but the attendance swelled to twenty-eight before the term ended. "Since that time," says Mr. White, writing in 1854, "the number has steadily and rapidly increased at each session up to the present time; and now, having completed but two years of its history, it numbers one hundred and twenty cadets, five professors, and one assistant professor."2

At the instance of Colonel Brumby, in 1851, a joint stock company had been formed, and the institute chartered as a military college un

1 Henderson's Commonwealth of Georgia, pp. 281-2.

Catalogue for 1882-83.

Circulars for 1886-87 and 1887-88.

Historical Collections of Georgia, p. 401.

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der the control of a board of trustees. The act of incorporation dates from December 8, 1851 (Laws of 1851-52, pp. 298-9), and it is worthy of note, in this connection, that it was largely to the influence and active intervention of Col. John Milledge and the Hon. Francis S. Bartow that the passage of the bill was due. At the same session an act was passed, entitled, "An Act to provide for the education of a certain number of State cadets in the Georgia Military Institute, to defray the expenses of the same, and for other purposes therein mentioned." The Legisla ture likewise directed the Governor to make requisition upon the Government of the United States to furnish the institute with arms and accoutrements. The arms were received in due course, and were, we are told, "of the most beautiful and appropriate kind for their purpose." The government and discipline of the institute were strictly military. The course of studies was thoroughly scientific, modelled as nearly as possible after that of the United States Military Academy at West Point, of which Colonel Brumby was a graduate, and was almost identical with that of the Virginia Military Institute. A full collegiate curriculum was provided, in addition to those departments of study more immediately connected with military affairs.

The land and buildings occupied by the school remained the property of Colonel Brumby and his associates until 1857, when the entire establishment was purchased by the State, and appropriations were made for the erection of additional buildings and the purchase of apparatus for the scientific departments of instruction. In addition to the board of trustees, a board of visitors was appointed at each session of the Legislature, whose duty it was to report to them directly upon the affairs of the institute. From this time that seminary became, in all respects, a State college.

Colonel Brumby continued to fill the position of superintendent of the institute until 1859, when he was succeeded by Prof. F. W. Capers, at present a member of the faculty of Charleston (S. C.) College. The superintendent and commandant of the school were usually aided in their labors by some six or seven professors, several of them being graduates of West Point. Of the character of the instruction there afforded we have already spoken. The average attendance of students after the second year ranged from one hundred and fifty to two hundred. It appears from the annual messages of the Governor that the exer cises of the institute were conducted without intermission down to 1864, when the battalion of cadets was placed in active service. They re1They were David Irwin, Andrew J. Hansell, Wm. P. Young, John H. Glover, Martin G. Slaughter, David Dobbs, John Jones, Charles J. McDonald, William Har

ris, Mordecai Myers, and James Brannon.

of this act, eight cadets were sent from the Congressional districts, and two from the 2 See act of January 21, 1852 (Laws of 1851-52, pp. 6-8). Pursuant to the intention State at large, the appointments being given to young men who could make proof of

to pay their expenses.

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mained in the field, faithfully, gallantly, and efficiently discharging their duties, until after the surrender of the southern armies, and were disbanded at Augusta, May 5, 1865.

This disbandment of the battalion was a matter of necessity. Their guns and tents had been turned over to the State or Confederate authorities, under special order; the buildings at Marietta had been burned;1 the apparatus, library, and furniture of the institute, which had been removed to Milledgeville for safe-keeping, had been destroyed by the United States Army; and the condition of the currency was such as to leave the superintendent destitute of the means of furnishing even the poorest subsistence. There was nothing of value remaining to the institute but the small tract of land near Marietta, upon which the buildings once stood.

An unsuccessful effort to revive the Georgia Military Institute was made in 1873, when a convention of former officers and cadets was held at Atlanta. The meeting was largely attended, and why it failed to accomplish the desired results, it is difficult to say. "Perhaps," says Professor Capers, who was present on that occasion, and to whom we have been indebted for much of the foregoing, "the formal resolutions demanded too much for the convention, leaving little to be done by the Board or the Legislature."

COLLEGE TEMPLE.

This institution was founded in 1853 by Prof. M. P. Kellogg, A. M., and during the greater portion of its existence enjoyed a liberal patronage throughout the United States. Located at Newnan, Coweta County, the object in its establishment was the higher education of young ladies. The first degrees conferred at College Temple were in 1855. The class of 1876, composed of twenty-eight members, was the largest ever graduated from the institution. According to the 1885-86 catalogue there were one hundred and sixty-one pupils in attendance. The faculty numbered eleven teachers. The course of study embraced primary and preparatory departments and a collegiate course.

College Temple is now extinct. Its existence ceased when, in January, 1888, President Kellogg turned over the building to the town authorities for public school purposes.

BOWDON COLLEGE.

This college was founded in 1856 by Col. Charles A. McDaniel and Maj. John M. Richardson. It received a charter in the following year, and the name of Bowdon Collegiate Institute. This appellation it bore until 1871, when it became the present Bowdon College. "The chief object of its founders," we are told, "was to establish an institution of learning on the strictest principles of economy, so as to place an education within the reach of young men of moderate means." "This is

This was done by Federal troops during Sherman's march through Georgia,