Liberty Ladies College - Liberty Yearbook (Liberty, MO)

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I115. undedin Ioughout creasing Eastern ach edu- From popula- girls, at rom the ually to onal ad- ed facil- a great ing de- College stitution. : seat of endowed e famed Western d Which special 3 found- : public- ; for the With all 'e. ierty, is town of :althful, ngs are 5H l l 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 8i St. Joseph and the Chicago, Milwaukee 81 St. Paul. The Wabash railroad is four miles distant, and makes easy connection with the other roads at Birmingham. Liberty is accessible by rail in twenty-four hours or less from Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, St. Paul and Denver. The churches of Liberty are Baptist, Christian, Presbyterian, Methodist and Catholic. BUILDING. The building is modern in architecture, three stories high with basement-the last being of stone and the other three of brick, with stone trimmings. The main building 050 feety fronts to the east; the wing tllO feety fronts to the south. The building contains 140 rooms. Those for the pupils are mainly for two each. They are large and well ventilated. Ceilings 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 dormitory floors. 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, commandng 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 re- Hecting the bright sunlight-all combine to make this an ideal college home, conceded 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. 21

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Glnurap nf $1371th. The curriculum embraces the most liberal course of study, modeled after those of leading universities and C01- leges Of the country. The course is both prescribed and elective. Students who so desire may, With the approval of the Faculty, pursue a select course of studies, provided the selections do not conHict with the schedule of recitations. For a thorough and comprehensive College course, preparatory work is necessary. Studies in this department are so arranged as to form a consecmive course with the collegiate Classes. PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. FIRST YEAR First Term. Practical Arithmetic Grammar, Geography, History of the United States, Reading, Spelling and Writing. S ecend Term, ; g i i 3, Practical Arithmetic, Grammar. Geography, History Of the United States, Reading, Spelling and Writing. SECOND YEAR. First Term. .-m....xu.- me-u: .- Higher Arithmetic, Advanced Grammar and Composition, Mental Arithmetic, Physical Geography, Reading and Spelling. Second Term. Higher Arithmetic. Advanced Grammer and Composition, Mental Arithmetic, Physiology, Reading and Spelling. THIRD YEAR. First Term First Year Latin, Algebra. Zoology, CompOSition and Rhetoric. Second Term. Second Year Latin, Algebra, Botany. Composition and Rhetoric. 23