Salem College - Sights and Insights Yearbook (Winston-Salem, NC)

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Salem Academy and College Founded 1802 WHILK .W ' W l- n,t;laml was still discussin;,; tlio inKstidii wlicllicr the educa- tion (if Minns;- women was a desirable tiling ' , there was fonnded in Xorth Carolina the Salem Academy and C ' ollesje, a school which at once united all the neeils of a hi.yh-Ljrade institution of learning;- and the re(|uisites of a refined, home life. .Vbdut the car IJ .S. or a little earlier, the school for S ' ' ' ' ' - ' founded in S.nlem. This school |]ourished and did its work for a (|iiarter of a century or more. Then the need of higher collegiate education was felt and a [ ' resident for this higher school, now known as Salem Academy ami College, was elected, hrom the time of its beginnin.g till the yiresent day it has had an unbroken history, and even though nearly a century and a half has gone by since as a little village school its

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SALEM ACADEMY AMD COLLEGE

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u. irk was l)cgiiii. ami cvi.-ii tlinu.u;h there lia c licc- ' ii tinies wlicn its pupils were required to apply cjuite a while in advance of their registration, still, never was the attendance larger than it is now. never was the course of instruction higher or more painstaking in the methods employed, and never were the prospects brighter for an enlarged and increasing work than tliev now are. In this brief sketcli, the object will not be so much to attempt a historv of the School during the years following and during the Revolutionarv War. when it was only a villa.ge institution : nor will we strive to de. ' scribe its work and grow th during the first half of the last centm-y : nor will we depict the thrilling vears of the Livil War. when .safe shelter and school advantages were given to nianv hun- dreds of yi ' ung women, whose lionies were in ashes: nor will we even touch upon the reconstruction period of the South, when the Scliool had its trials, as had all other interests in the Southland : nor is it necessary to tell of the renewed growth of the last quarter of a century, and the bright future before the College at the present lime — a point here and there, a description, a worthv tribute, this is all that caivbc done in the space assigned to the sketch. CJnc feature of the i)ast is always pleasant to recall in tlie historv of school and homeland. The culture and refinement of the women of the South has- been 10