Download or read book First Annual Catalogue of the Officers, Teachers and Students of Southern Illinois College written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from First Annual Catalogue of the Officers, Teachers and Students of Southern Illinois College: Carbondale, Jackson County, Illinois, for the Collegiate Year, 1866-7 The piopei-ty purchased consists of a brick building. Three stories high and sixty bv forty feet, with thirty acres of valuable land in the corporation and village of Carbendalc. Twelve acres around the building are covered with a beautiful grove, and make one of the most beautiful College campuses we have ever seen. It is new contei'nplated to resent the upper story, so as to seat one hundred and eighty students. And to seat the second sterv, so as to accommodate one hundred and fifty more, and arrange the lower storv for school purposes, or as much of it as is needed. He can then accommodate three hundred and fifty pupils as comfortahlv as it can be done in this region. It is designed to provide facilities for self boarding, and to render the expense as light as possible. So that the advantages of the school will he brought within the reach of all. Our school has been thus far but a preparatory school. Ye have begun with our pupils in the elementary branches, and' have drilled them carefully in Orthography, Reading, Penmanship. Geography, Grammar and Arithmetic. Classes have been taught in Algebra. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.