Mary Sharp College (1851–1896), first known as the Tennessee and Alabama Female Institute, was a women's college, located in Winchester, Tennessee.
[1] The college was first chartered in 1850 and was directed by Dr. Zuinglius Calvin Graves and the Baptist Church.
He patterned the classical curriculum at Mary Sharp College after those offered at Amherst College, Brown University, and the University of Virginia.
He emphasized religious and moral training and required every student to attend chapel.
Students at Mary Sharp, unlike those at other female colleges and academies, studied algebra, geometry, and trigonometry; Latin and Greek; English literature, grammar, and composition; ancient, English, and American history; philosophy and rhetoric; geography and geology; and botany, chemistry, astronomy, and physiology.