Neophogen College

Neophogen College was a private university in Cross Plains and later Gallatin, Tennessee, founded in 1873 by J.M.

The college was noted for an attention to etiquette and English language instruction, for which it was often satirized in other university periodicals such as The Harvard Crimson, Yale Literary Magazine and the Daily Princetonian.

Do not lounge with the men at one end of the room, and never fail to go and talk with the girls when the President asks you.

[5]It was also coeducational: Today, at Neophogen, the chairs of Latin, Greek, Commerce, Agriculture, Horticulture, Phrenology, Physiognomy, Hygiene and Telegraphy are vacant.

This proves the extent of our blindness, when we go on in long arguments pro and con for years, wasting time, paper and patience, when, if we should but turn our heads, at our very elbow we find a satisfactory practical solution of the whole difficulty.