Maryville College - Chilhowean Yearbook (Maryville, TN)

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3s a token of our tipyrccitnioii of bcr interest in our Uiork, Uic DeDicate tt)is, tfje fiftl) volume of ttje CftilljoUiean to iiflrs. 3, 33. , aifxantirr a scholar — learneD anD luise, a teacfjer— I ' ust anD sympatftetic, a laDp— gentle anD refineD

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4 ■ Mrs. Alexander M RS. JANE BANCROFT S.MITII ALKXAXDER was horn in Williaiiisidwn, ilass., October 2;), 18fifl. iShe received her early eiln- cation iu the pnblie schools and the Vnung I adies Seminary of the same town. After graduating from the Seminary she became a special student at Wellesley Ctdlege, Wellesley, Mass. In addition to this training she has taken snnnner courses at the University of Vermoirt and ' Harvard Tniversity, correspondence courses with Chicago ruiversity, and lectures at Columbia. Two Eurojiean tours and a year of stud} ' in France and Italy, including courses in History and Literature at the Sorbonne University of Paris, fitted her admirably for her ])ositinn as a teacher. In her woi ' k in variiuis schools she has not only won the esteem (jf those in authority, l)ut also the love and res])ect of the students. She has held positions in Lindenwood College, St. Charles. .Mo., the Halsted School, A ' onkers-ou- lluds(jn, A ' ew York, and at Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn. Here she was teacher of Latin from the fall of 1883 until 188.5, being asked to take charge of rile Latin dejiai ' tmeut on the death of Professor l!ailleft. until the election of his successor. Dr. Elmore. So satisfactory was her woi ' k that, upim the death of Professor Roberts in 1892, she was again called to this position, and held it luitil the election of Professor iSJ ' e nan. 1)1 I ' .IOM she was married t(j Rev. .1. AI . .Mcxaiider, and came to live in Tennessee, and was soon asked to renew her work in .Maryville College. In l!»(H-05 she substituted for Miss jn-d in German and French. I ' liou the return of .Miss Lord, in liM), ,, ] Ii ' s. Ale.xainler was elected to the chair of Llistorv and Literature, and holds that ]iosition at the ])resent time.