Liberty Ladies College - Liberty Yearbook (Liberty, MO)

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Within half a mile of the city limits are the famous Reed Mineral Springs, the seat of the Odd Fellows, Home of Missouri. Fifteen miles east of Liberty are the welle known Excelsior Springs. Kansas City, hfteen miles from Liberty, is connected with it by three lines of rail- way, viz.: the Hannibal 81 St. Joseph, the Chicago, Mil- waukee ch St. Paul and the Chicago, Rock Island 82 Pacific. The W abash 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, Dallas, 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 basementethe last being of stone and the other three of brick, with stone trimmings. The main building t150 feety fronts to the east; the wing tllO feeti 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, commanding 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 com- bine to make this an ideal college homey 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.

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'COURSE OF STUDY the selections do not conHict with the schedule of recita- J The curriculum embraces the most liberal courselof . ; study, modeled after those of leading universities and tions. 2'; h 5 colleges of the countrv. The course is both prescribed For a thorough and comprehenswe College course, preparatory work is necessary. Stuches 1n thls depart- and elective. ment are so arranged as to form a consecutlve course ' . g Students Who so desire may,- with the approval Of W h the Faculty, pursue a select course of studies, provided with the collegiate classes. . IEreparamrg Eepartmmt L FIRST YEAR' SECOND YEAR. First Term. Higher Arithmetic, Advanced Grammar and Composition. Men- tal Arithmetic, Physical Geography, Reading and Spelling. ' ' ' ' ' First Term. Practical Arithmetic, Grammar, Geography, History of the United States, Reading, Spelling and VVriting.- 9 Second Term. h t t Second Term. h h Practical Arithmetic, Grammar, Geography, History of the Higher Arithmetic, Advanced Grammar and Composition. Men- United States, Reading, Spellieng-and Writing. tal Arithmetic, Physiology, Reading and Spelling. THIRD YEAR. First Term. Second Term. 26 First Year Latin, Algebra, Zoology, Composition and Rhetoric. Second Year Latin, Algebra, Botany, Composition and Rhetoric. Lmir. lt' ' and Pram; t PhyFicx L'H e Laiin MM e tGJ-amnznf. t L; ' Ahebm: T1365 XX'rI-kiex Prose Cultij-WKi French: Plzzt't kit V'wrkin: T tSelectimi; Prose L ,miw q hI-Vtht'tlogy