| 词条 | Whitworth Female College |
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Whitworth Female College was a Methodist women's college in Brookhaven, Mississippi, founded in 1858 by Milton Whitworth. HistoryThe college was founded in 1858[1] by Milton J. Whitworth,[1] opened in 1859,[2] and disestablished in 1984.[3] It was associated with the Mississippi Methodist Conference until 1938.[4] During the Civil War the college was used as a Confederate hospital and managed to reopen after the war's end.[1] In August 1878, local freemasons laid the cornerstone for a new brick building at the college, into which a time capsule was placed. Both U.S. Senator from Mississippi Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II and Jefferson Davis were expected to attend the ceremony but were "unavoidably absent."[5] In 1925 the College was first accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.[4] In 1928 the College began operation as a two-year institution associated with Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.[4] In 1938, because of financial difficulties, the board of trustees of the College voted to cease operations and merge the school with Millsaps College.[4] The city of Brookhaven bought the campus and leased it out to various short-lived colleges between 1941 and 1984, when all educational operations at the location ceased.[4] In 2003 the state of Mississippi opened the Mississippi School of the Arts on the grounds of the former college.[6] Vardaman's visitDuring his term as Governor of Mississippi (1904-1908), white supremacist politician James Kimble Vardaman, known as the "Great White Chief," spoke at the college and was presented with a bouquet and the following poem:
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References1. ^1 {{cite news|title=Renovation Funds in Housing Bill Old College Will Benefit|publisher=The Sun Herald|date=October 9, 1998|page=A14}} 2. ^{{cite book|author1=Works Progress Administration|author2=Robert S. McElvaine|title=Mississippi: The WPA Guide to the Magnolia State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C4VQ8viRWvYC&pg=PA515|year=2009|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-60473-289-4|page=515}} 3. ^1 {{cite book|author1=Patti Carr Black|author2=Marion Barnwell|title=Touring Literary Mississippi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EVLjDK5othUC&pg=PA110|year=2002|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-57806-367-3|page=110}} 4. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|url=http://www.llf.lib.ms.us/LLF/Archival%20Project%202002-2003/Whitworth/M1b.html|title=Whitworth College Archive|publisher=Lincoln-Lawrence-Franklin-Regional Library|accessdate=January 22, 2014}} 5. ^{{cite news|publisher=The Daily Picayune (Times-Picayune)|page=10|date=August 25, 1878|title=Agricultural. The Farm--Work-Shop--Factory-Home--School--Church.|author=Dan'l Dennett}} 6. ^{{cite news|title=Arts school director retiring, MS|publisher=Associated Press News Service|date=May 25, 2009}} 7. ^{{cite book|author=Trent A. Watts|title=One Homogeneous People: Narratives of White Southern Identity, 1890–1920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jYMllgAlKckC&pg=PA33|date=30 September 2010|publisher=Univ. of Tennessee Press|isbn=978-1-57233-743-5|page=33}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/legislators/Mississippi.html|title=Women Wielding Power-Mississippi|work=nwhm.org|accessdate=21 September 2015}} Further reading
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