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 Principal, Latin; Elsie Morrison, S.B., Science and Mathematics; Cora C. Tardy, A.B., Expression; Alice N. Simpson, A.B., German and French; Harriet Lee, A. B., English; Bertha R. Bowman, Domestic Science; Delana Bailey, Stenography; Martha Green and Martha Powell, Assistants. All these are in the Scholastic Department.

In Music, Emil Liebling, Chicago, is Visiting Director; Dora G. Knight has Piano, History of Music, and Counterpoint; Lyravine Votaw, Vocal and Harmony; Isabel Sleight, Violin and Piano; and in Art, Grace M. Bawden is Instructor.

These teachers make the Academy what it is, as an institution of higher education, and it is to them the Trustees are indebted for a large, very large, measure of its best endeavor and highest success.

Our Fifty-Seventh Year

The Academy is in trouble because of its prosperity. It cannot grow more in house pupils without a new dormitory. It needs $20,000 for this purpose. One offer of $5,000 has been made contingent on securing the rest. The Trustees do not know what to do. They do not see their way to solicit the same friends who gave $45,000 a year ago. Yet progress in numbers is stopped until the dormitory is secured.

Meantime, it is definitely determined that a new academic course will be established called “The General Course” from which a girl may graduate without Latin.

This will be in addition to the regular College Preparatory Course, as now given, in which four years of Latin are offered as of yore. These academic courses will be enriched by the addition of a half-year in Botany and a full year of Bible-Study.

It has also been definitely determined that more Junior College work shall be given next year—the fifty-seventh. This means that a full two years of college work will be offered and will be given so far as a demand for it appears.

This will be good news to many people in Mt. Carroll who like to send their girls from home, and to many mothers who like the home care of the Academy and want their daughters to have more of it.

Not all the work outlined below will be given the coming year.