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DURING Tuesday and Wednesday the classes li ' ere subjected to an im- partial and searching examination. The result was satisfactory to the friends .) the institution and creditable to the pupils and instructors. These exercises vjece enlivened by occasional music, umentair ithern Methodis Turning through the pages of the register, she wrote her name under the column Fresh- men. which name had come into use at Greensboro College sometime in the 1890 ' s. With her satisfactory high school record balanced against the entrance requirements, and with her mind fully made up. she chose her studies from the wide selection of courses leading to the A.B. and B.M. degrees, and began at once on her career at Greensboro Col- lege — a four-year standard college for women whose standard of scholarship, ever abreast ol the limes, has made a name for her among Southern schools.
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A TIMID little southern ass picked up her skirts and followed her par- ents up the walk and sloidy through the door of Greensborough Female College which that day. April 15. 1846. had opened to receive students. Just what was to happen, she did not know, for in those days it was no everyday occurrence for a girl to enter college. True, she had spent tiresome hours poring over an atlas, practicing penman- ship, and learning to spell, read and figure accurately in order to meet the entrance requirements of the college; but whether she should be placed in the first class. junior class. or senior class. she did not know. What if she should have to go into the Primary and Preparatory Department ' . But being a particularly good student for a girl ol her age. she was placed in the tunior class. Hardly had her mother and father boarded the train, when the teachers to whose control she had been submitted entirely. began giving her instruction in Rhetoric. Botany. Philosophy. Logic. Latin, and Algebra. When she had arranged her studies so that outside work would not interfere, she was allowed to take up the orna- mental branches, needlework and music. It was with no little anxiety that she waited to see whether she would receive very good. good. respectable. or tolerable on her report, but she worked diligently and soon her natural ability, her previous prep- aration, and her application to study warranted her graduation. In 1879 a sturdy young lady in homespun hoopskirts climbed the same hill up which her mother had so timidly walked thirty-three years before. 7 he trying experi- ence of Reconstruction had made her unafraid as she entered the Sophomore Class, which had acquired its second year rating and name in 1854. Like all other southern women she had come to realize that with the changing conditions it was necessary for girls as Well as men to know how to earn a living. It is no wonder, then, that she was anxious to take up book-keeping, stenography and typewriting which college authorities had added to the regular college course. But. of course, she must get one of the three diplo- mas: ' the Full Diploma for young ladies who stand an approved examination upon the regular English course and one Ancient or Modern Language: The English Diploma for th e who complete the regular English course, which embraces all the studies of the curriculum, except those called extra or optional: Certificate of Proficiency for those young ladies who desire to take an eclectic course, on the completion of any special depot tment. I he streamlined l c ' 38 automobile pulled up to the curb, and a young girl hopped out. She slopped a moment lo look around at Odell building, the tennis courts, and the rotunda. I hen eagerly she ran up the ivalk which her grandmother had climbed in ' 79.
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