Liberty Ladies College - Liberty Yearbook (Liberty, MO)

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US. years ago, st, for the number of titutions of mm in the oulation of at the risk I, go annu- Clvantages. :d. Surely i meet this bout seek- 3f Liberty, ildest and telligence, ; City, was fashioned LIBERTY LADIES COLLEGE. l3 with speCial reference to the location of such a school. Here the founders resolved to locate the new College. Aided by the public-spirited citizens of Liberty, they bought eleven acres for the site. Elegant buildings were erected and equipped with all the apparatus needed for a first-Class Ladiest College. LOCATION. The location of the College, in the city of Liberty, M0,, is admirable in every respect. Liberty is a beautiful town of more than three thousand inhabitants, perfectly healthful, and free from malarial influences. The surroundings are remarkably picturesque and attractive. Within half a mile of the City limits, are the famous Reed Mineral Springs, the seat of the Odd Fellows' Home of Missouri. Fourteen miles east of Liberty, are the well-known Excelsior Springs. Kansas City, fourteen miles from Liberty, is connected with it by two lines of railway, viz., the Hannibal 81 St. Joseph aid the Chicago, Milwaukee 8z St. Paul. The Wabash Railroad is four miles distant, and makes easy connection with the other roads at Birming- ham. Liberty is accessible by rail in twenty-four hours or less from Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Denver. The churches of Liberty are Baptist, Christian, Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal, and Catholic. BUILDING. The building is modern in architecture, three stories high, with basenientmthe last being of stone and the other three of brick, with stone trimmings. The main building Ugo feeti fronts to the east; the wing tIIo feeO fronts to the south. The building contains 140 rooms. Those for the pupils are mainly for two each. They are large and well ventilated. Ceil- ings are high and hallways are wide. The entire building is lighted with incandescent electric lights and heated by steam, the electric and steam plant being located 200 feet from the building. Bath rooms with hot and cold water on every tioor above the basement. The stately buildings on the crest of the hills, facing William Jewell College on the opposite side of the City; the campus, eleven acres, covered with greensward of blue grass and Clover, sloping in every direction; the College windows, commandingr as far as the eye can reach, a most charming view of, the surrounding country; here and there, glimpses of the classic Missouri river, its silvery sheen reHecting the bright sunlighteall combine to make this an IDEAL COLLEGE H,OMIC,COI'1CedCd by those who have visited the College, to be without a parallel in all the land. The great prosperity and the unprecedented growth of the College, year after year, since its foundation, prove the wisdom of the selection. COURSE O F STUDY. The curriculum embraces the most liberal course of study,mode1ed utter those of leading universities and colleges of. the country. The course i both prescribed and elective. Students who so desire may, with the approval of the Faculty, pursue .1 seieet murse of studies, provided the selections do not conHiCt with the built dule uli recitations.

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LIBERTY LA D I lCSi COLLEGE. C. M. WILLIAMS, PRESIDENT. HISTORICAL SKETCH AND PROSPECTUS. HE LIBERTY LADIES COLLEGE was founded eight years ago, to meet a growing demand, existing throughout the west, for the i HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN. i This demand was made manifest by the ever-increasing number of Western girls who annually Visit the Eastern schools 01' the institutions of Europe in order to reach educational facilities that are denied them in the West. From this broad area of 2,000,000 square miles, with a population of nearly 20,000,000, hundreds of our noble girls, at enormous cost, at the risk of health and life from Change of Climate and the perils of travel, go annu- ally to the East and to Europe to secure the best educational advantages. These would all remain here, if the desired facilities were afforded. Surely the BENEDICTIONS OF A GREAT PEOPLE await the school that is to meet this growing demand. Inspired by this lofty aim, the founders of the College set about seek- ing an eligible location for such an institution. In the Classic city of Liberty, a college town, the seat of William jewell College, one of the oldest and best endowed Colleges in the West, with a people famed for intelligence, culture and refinement, near the gr eat Western metropolis, Kansas City, was found a spot of ground which benefieent nature seems to have fashioned x

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LIBERTY LADIES' COLLEGE. PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. MISS GILL, PRINCIPAL. For a thorough and comprehensive college course, preparatory work is necessary. Studies in this department are so arranged as to form a consecutive course with the collegiate classes. FIRST YEAR. First Term. Bible Stories, 0. T. Reading. Spelling. Primary Arithmetic. Language Lessons. Geography. Writing. Second Term. Bible Stories, 0. T. Reading. Spelling. Primary Arithmetic. Language Lessons. Geography. Writing. SECOND YEAR. First Term. Bible, N. T. Elementary Arithmetic. Grammar and Composition. Geography. Primary History of the U. S. Reading and Spelling. Writing. Second Term. Bible. N. T. Elementary Arithmetic. Grammar and Composition. Geography. Primary History of the U. S. Reading and Spelling. Writing. THIRD YEAR. First Term. Higher Arithmetic. Higher Grammar. Higher Geography. Mental Arithmetic. History of the Unlted States. Reading, Spelling, Writing. Second Term. Higher Arithmetic. Higher Grammar. Higher Geography. Mental Arithmetic. History of the United States. Reading, Spelling, Writing. FOURTH YEAR. First Term. Latin. Algebra. Physical Geography. Reading and Spelling. Higher Grammar. Exercises in Letter erting. Mental Exercises. Second T arm. Latin. Algebra. Anatomy and Physiology with Lectures. Reading and Spelling. Aalysis. Exercises in LetterNWriting. Mental Exercises.