Here is a picture from the advertisement of the 'Female Institute' of Columbia; Tennessee.

The following remark is from the same advertisement-- 'The Institute building has long been famed as a model of striking and beautiful architecture.

Visitors are charmed with its resemblance to the old castles of song and story, with its towers, turreted walls, and ivy-mantled porches.' Keeping school in a castle is a romantic thing; as romantic as keeping hotel in a castle.
By itself the imitation castle is doubtless harmless, and well enough; but as a symbol and breeder and sustainer of maudlin Middle-Age romanticism here in the midst of the plainest and sturdiest and infinitely greatest and worthiest of all the centuries the world has seen, it is necessarily a hurtful thing and a mistake.
Here is an extract from the prospectus of a Kentucky 'Female College.' Female college sounds well enough; but since the phrasing it in that unjustifiable way was done purely in the interest of brevity, it seems to me that she-college would have been still better--because shorter, and means the same thing: that is, if either phrase means anything at all-- 'The president is southern by birth, by rearing, by education, and by sentiment; the teachers are all southern in sentiment, and with the exception of those born in Europe were born and raised in the south.
Believing the southern to be the highest type of civilization this continent has seen, the young ladies are trained according to the southern ideas of delicacy, refinement, womanhood, religion, and propriety; hence we offer a first-class female college for the south and solicit southern patronage.' {footnote [Illustrations of it thoughtlessly omitted by the advertiser: KNOXVILLE, Tenn., October 19 .-- This morning a few minutes after ten o'clock, General Joseph A.Mabry, Thomas O'Connor, and Joseph A.Mabry, Jr., were killed in a shooting affray.

The difficulty began yesterday afternoon by General Mabry attacking Major O'Connor and threatening to kill him.

This was at the fair grounds, and O'Connor told Mabry that it was not the place to settle their difficulties.