SHC 1830-1905 . the pupils, considering the difficultieswhich attend the organization of incipient classes, should have given proof of un-common advancement, although the nature of their studies had hitherto been limi-ted to the circle of elemental branches, yet the rigid and scrutinizing manner inwhich they were examined, the degree of self-confidence with which the questionsof the examiners were answered, the order and decorum which strongly character-ized the exercises, evidence favorably of the zeal, method and assiduity of theteacher. The course of studies pursued in the seminary is a lib
SHC 1830-1905 . the pupils, considering the difficultieswhich attend the organization of incipient classes, should have given proof of un-common advancement, although the nature of their studies had hitherto been limi-ted to the circle of elemental branches, yet the rigid and scrutinizing manner inwhich they were examined, the degree of self-confidence with which the questionsof the examiners were answered, the order and decorum which strongly character-ized the exercises, evidence favorably of the zeal, method and assiduity of theteacher. The course of studies pursued in the seminary is a liberal one, leavingnothing that can be wished for in a regularly classical and scientific instruction in the dead languages and vernacular tongue, we perceivedthat special attention was paid to French and Spanish which are taught by quali-fied professors. The course of studies, we are informed, likewise embraces rhet-ric, polite literature, and moral and mental philosophy, and the exact SPRING HILL COLLEGE. 19 The faculty have obligingly furnished us with a list of the premiums award-ed at the solemn exhibition we publish it the more cheerfully as we notice thenames of several youths of this city as honorably mentioned. While the fact thatno institution of learning, on an extensive footing, has yet been able to outlive tenyears in New Orleans, would almost have us believe in fatality, we cannot butsincerely rejoice that there exists within reasonable proximity of our community,a seminary, which presents all the requisites, all the guarantees, that parents ex-pect to find in those whom they entrust with the important charge of fashioningthe minds of their offspring. The present condition of Spring Hill College isthriving, the number of students being upwards of sixty and its future prospectsare of the most auspicious nature. Reminiscenses of Old Spring Hill. My earliest recollection of Spring Hill College dates back to the year 1839,the year of the dre
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