CARTER COUNTY, TN - SCHOOLS - Newspaper Account - Buffalo Male and Female
			      Institute, 1871
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Newspaper Account from the Herald and Tribune, Jonesborough, TN, 6 April
1871, p. 3. Buffalo Institute (now Milligan College).


	This institution is situated on Buffalo Creek in Carter County.  We had
the pleasure of visiting this school a few weeks ago.  We found it in a
flourishing condition with about one hundred pupils in attendance.  Mr. Ben
Akard, the Principal, is a live teacher, fully awake on the subject of
education, and a young man of great promise.  Miss Anna B. Bohannan is a
young lady of experience, and rare literary attainments.  We listened to
the weekly exercises and found them exceedingly interesting.  The
discussion between the young ladies and the young men on the subject,
"Should the sexes be educated together?" made quite an impression on our
mind.  It was conducted in writing and rather ably too, for school girls
and boys.  The young ladies argued that the sexes should be educated
together, the young men that they should not.  In our oppinion the
affirmative gained the question.

	The school building is an elegant structure of brick, two stories high,
standing on an eminence which commands an extensive view of the country
around.  The grounds are enclosed with a neat fence.  Everything looks
cheerful and pleasant.  The teachers have large and airy rooms and the
pupils ample play grounds for out door exercises.

	We found Rev. Mr. Barker looking after the interest of the school with
unceasing diligence.  He is a great worker and to him chiefly belongs the
honor of establishing the institution in the pleasant neighborhood in which
it is located.  This school draws three hundred dollars from the Peabody
fund.  It is a public free school and doing a good work.