The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1901-1982, February 19, 1901, Image 4
COLLEGE COrIPETITION.
President F. C. Woodward of the
South Carolina College Before the
Southern Educational Association.
[Continued from last issue.]
Quite as harmful to this much
to-be desired organization of our
educational system is the practi
cal denial of headship to the in
stitutions representing culture and
education; their authority is not
acknowledged as it used to be, in
fixing and maintaining standards,
and in the direction of educational
effort. Perhaps such authority
as formerly should not be ac
corded them; but they should
still be allowed such leadership
as the superiority of culture
studies approves of them, and as
the commanding influence of their
work and their aims naturally im
plies. It is the prevalent indif
ference to liberal studies, the
modern scorn of culture, that is
most responsible for this popular
indisposition to follow the guid
ance of these, the only possible
educational leaders. Formal ideals
in education have been largely
modified, and even displaced, by
a new order, in the south es
pecially. The development of the
south's material resources, and
the accompanying i n d u s t r i a I
awakening, find no parallel in our
history. This revival is attended
by a wide popular demand for in
dastrial and technical training;
there is unfortunately an accom
panying neglect of the culture
education, that prevailed here be
fore the war. We cannot help
seeling that there is a marked
turning away from the liberal
studies and an unusual demand
for the courses that prepare either
directly or indirectly for the in
dustrial pursuits. The people do
not find their pressing needs met
by the study of the humanities
and divinities; the old genteel
curriculum studies of the past
seem unpractical, unremunerative,
and they have been tagged with
"cui bono," that is regarded as an
unanswerable exposure of their
impracticability. As Paradise
Lost was cast aside by the old
Cambridge professor because "it
did not prove anything," so the
A. B. and A. M. courses are being
eyed askance, when they cannot
be so manipul t d and supple
mented a practical,
t *v e. '
St
t e in ustria revivil, a movement
as acceptable as inevitable. It
is welcome; but we need to under
stand what it can do for us, and
what it cannot; we need to realize
that it is no millennium harbinger.
and not at rill an unmixed blessing.
Hampering conditions having
been swept away by the war, the
south could not help plunging
into a period of material pros
perity; we are inundated with im
provements, we wallow in pro
gress. But the inundation has
swept off some old land-marks
and overflowed some old customs.
We have gained, and we have
lost; more than that, we are in
peril of losing some things we
cannot spare. We have already
given up, among other valuables,
some courtesies, sentiments, ideals
that were deart to a leisurely, cul
tivated, comfortable folk, but that
seem indifferenat or undesirable to
the new men and women, the
bustling, strenuous leaders of our
commercial hordes, who are mak
ing the new south wherein
dwelleth trade. Far be it from us
to deprecate this new movement;
it is the symp ;om of a vigorous
populaar wakening, earnest and
enduring national life. It will
lay the foundation for a higher
-and a deeper culture doubtless
than we have known. But like
all such movements, it has to be
restrained and directed; let alone,
it menaces revered traditions;, it
threatens established institutions,
.it ignores lofty ideals, and un
controlled may even subvert them.
Against these imminent perils the
note of warning must be raised,
against the reckless innovations
of industrialism the protecting
han3 of culture must be inter
posed.
The popular conception of edu
cation is not simply practical;
there is no objection to that. It
is narrow, materialistic, selfish; it
holds education as primarily an
apprenticeship to the living-mak
ing, money-grabbing callings. The
popular clamor for education is
nothing more than a commercial
demand for hasty preparation for
the industrial competitions of the
age. Education -is not being
sought for its' best but for its
sordid use. Is it possible to
-keep eyes and ears open and
doubt this? Observe what schools
are most sought, and what courses
are most popular. Note the dis
inclination to studies whose bear
ing on the oread-winning voca
tions s not evid ent; observe how
the arts and the humanities are
subsidized to so-called practical
ends; and consider how the stand
ards of education are being thus
degraded. It is futile to deny the
facts; it is equally futife to hope
that laissez faire will find a rem
edy. It is the part of wisdom to
mset the issue squarely.
It is granted that the indus
trial movement is unnatural and
necessary, that the bases of our
national and social structure must
be planted in the mud of ma
terialism, even down to bed-rock,
to be founded deep and sure,
that there should be an accom
modation of the former courses
of even liberal study to'the wider
and higher needs of modern life,
that these courses, indeed, should
be adapted, and to some extent
conformed, to the demand for
economization of the student's
time, and the necessity of ad
mitting into the liberal courses
subjects that look chiefly to pro
fessional and vocational pursuits.
But granting all this and more,
the unyielding contention should
still be for something better and
higher than foundations, for a
superstructure of social and
national life that shall give signifi
cance to our unexampled material
progress, and shall add the arace
of culture and splendor of Chris
tian character to crown the fin
ished edifice. To this end the
ideals of liberal education must
be maintained, and the leader
ship of the highest educational
institutions musc be accepted.
No system of study, no philoso
phy of life is to be approved that
treat human beings as chiefly
bread-winning, gain-getting mech
anisms, limited to the straitened
scope of things temporal, sensual,
perisLhable. It is the delirium of
the times that would have it so;
but Christian scholarship, culture
md art must deny and thwart
this doom, and show a more ex
cellent way, by exalting the ideals
of education, and insisting on the
spiritual definitions that alone
make them worthy. Our age
tends downward to the limbo of
temporalities, seeking both profit
and pleasure chiefly in gratifying
the senses. We are wandering
so far into the wildernes
perity thatw
losing tho
high , en
emselves become
demoralized, they win
in Cannae, they dally in Vanity
Fair, they are deafened by 'the
hum of the exchanges and the
roar of the marts. There is an
overpowering propulsion towards
material standards, a blind faith
in facts and figures, a groveling
confidence in machinery, a help
less dependence on mere force.
So we spend on bricks and save
on brains, train the intellect and
leave character to take care of
itselfj "What is your whole plant
worth?" insisted the multi-mil
lionaire, about to build himself a
university. "Well, about ten mil
lions," at length faltered the wise
head of a great university, who
knew that such values were not
measurable by Troy weight. "I'll
double it!" cried the enthusiastic
university-builder. He thought
that double the money would in
sure a doubly great university;
and so thinks the crude public
whose short and simple creed is
"Anything you like for the
money!" It is the brutifying
blunder of the ages; the best
things cannot be bought at all.
As for education, money can buy
only the opportunity for it. If
one might venture to put it arith
metically, education as attain
ment is one-third knowledge and
two-thirds power; and as influence,
is one-third training and two
thirds personality; and none of
these is purchasable.
.The practical effect of this in
difference to culture and to liberal
education is to underrate the use
and excellence of the institutions
that represent these things, and
to scorn th eir leadership, and this
renders -organization impossible,
for it makes the system headless.
There is a clash of standards and
authorities; the objects, methods,
final results of the industrial edu
cation are practically divergent
from, and sometimesg! even an
tagonistic to, those of the liberal
education. And so powerful have
industrial institutions become,
because so effective in fitting men
for the physical struggle for ex
istence, that they are put first in
the work of education, or divide
the leadership with the higher
institutions. Yet it may be taken
for granted that the place of any
merely scientific or industrial in
stitution, in any rightly organized
system, is ancillary and subordi
nate; the controlling ideal,, and
directing influence, can come only
from the colleges and universities
of liberal arts, from the hig-hest
eduational instiintions. We shall
never have an efficient system
save with this acknowledged
single authority to fix the objects,
establish the standards and direct
the agencies of educational ef
fort. There must be no doubt
where the authority lies, and no
doubt that it lies in the nands of
the institutions that stand for
liberal culture. No criticism is
here intended, even by implica
tion, against the great industrial
foundations that bear so noble a
part in the work of modern edu
cation, and that are so necessary
to the general system. They do
not claim such leadership, it is
forced on them by mistaken pub
lic opinion, which blunderingly
insists on varied standards and
divided authority. It is no more
to the advantage of the industrial
schools than to that of the culture
schools to continue this policy;
all should, and doubtless do de
sire to fix the standards and th6
final authority where they rightly
belong; it is the wide-spread pop
ular misapprehension that needs
to be corrected.
Let it be borne in mind also
that it is the duty of the true
leaders of education, the repre
sentatives of liberal culture, to
see that the higher institutions
are worthy this headship; the
ground of this claim is not to be
laid in tradition and custom;
when culture is mad4 a fetish,
and liberal education a boast, let
the innovation smite them- But
when it is shown that this claim
is based on the ability of the
highest education, and of the
highest education, and of the
highest education alone, to set
and maintain the highest and
worthiest ideals, then that claim
may not be denied. It is doubt
less true that the leaders of the
highest education themselves now
and then forget their high calling
and fall below their own mark,
tempted by popular clamor, or
solicited by temporary advan
tages. But let us cease to swap
future possibilities for present
expediences, planning for present
success and leaving the future
take care of itself.
never yet
Is
"asidis
ciple dmaintain the
highest defn ons of its princi
ples, making their scope comn
mensurate with the destinies o
man the immortal. Such defi
nition will meclude in its -widi
range, as a snbordinate matter
the small item of 1iving-making
on which immortal energies art
wasted and divine opportunitiel
frittered away. Mere livelihoo<
never yet took account of cultur<
but cuilture-winning' takes th<
living for granted; the one mean
at best income, the other mean
outcome and outgo as well as in
come.
dyspepsiaI
biliousnessI
and the hundred and one simi
lar ills caused by impure blood
or inactive liver, quickly yield
pothe purifyn ad cleansilg
It cures permanently by acting
naturally on all organs of the
body. Asa blood-cleanser, flesh
builder, and health-restorer,it
has no equal. Put us in Quart
Bottles, and sold at SI each.
"THB MICHIGAN DRUG coMPANY."
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John II. Mc~[aster & Co.. Winnfsbor(
S C.; T. w. Woodward & Co., Rociktor
S. ' .; W. M. Patrick. Woodward. S C.
T. (i. Patrick & Co., White Oak. .'. C.
THE IfALLARD LUHBER CO.
(Lirnitedi,)
--OF
GREELI YY TLLEali GEENVlLLE~ S. C.,
Foglwhea~p Lumi er. Boilding MatIerial
or a'l kin'1u, and are cont ra..tord
Thair representative,
MR. J. M. McROY,
i now ini WinnabQor. doin'g work fo
the cotton mills andi erecting severa
dwllings in town
Information will be given by U
)dnlo ra w innaboen. 11-13-Sm
A Monument to Timrod.
The Timrod Memorial associa
tion v .I c: - a monument to
Henry Timrod in the city park of
Charleston. The monument will
be made of South Carolina granite.
The pedestal will be made nine
feet high supported by a granite
base, the four sides of which will
contain a bronze tablet with
suitable inscriptions. On the top
of the pedestal will rest a large
bronze bust of Timrod.
The monument will stand just
where the fountain nearest Broad
street is located. The site was
granted by the city to the as
sociation. The fountain will be
torn away in ample time to make
room for the monument, whieb
will be erected in April, and the
unveiling will take place May 1,
1901. The ceremonies will be
public and will doubtless be at
tended by a large number of
South Carolinians from various
parts of the State. The cere
monies attending the unveiling of
the monument will be most im
pressive.
Capt. William A. Courtenay,
who was a close friend of the
dead poet during his life, is at
the head of the association. It
was he who organized the associa
tion to perpetuate the name
Timrod, who Paul H. Hayne once
said was the truest and sweetest
singer this country has given to
the world.
Timrod was well known to
many persons now living in
Charleston, which was his birth
place and where he received his
early education. It was here
that he met Miss Kate Goodwin,
the "Kate" of his poetic visions,
whom he married in 1864.
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pneumonia or a seri
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else fails. There is no doub
Tabout it. It nourishes,
stu~ngthens, builds up and
makes the body strong and
Shealthy, not only to throw
Ioff this hard cough, but to I
fortify the system against
urhr attacks. If you are I
ru ~down or emaciated you
!should certainly take this :
jnourishing food medicine.
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EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER.
Notice to Voters
Tne Books of Registration for regis
tering voters or the next municipal
election to be held on Mondas, April
1st,1901, for Intendent and Wardens
for the town of Winnsboro, B. C.. w
All voters for this election must
register within this time. Each ap
plicant for registration must produce
his counsy registration certifcate and
town tax receipt for -all town taxes
due before he can register for town
election.
J. E. COAN,
Intendan.
W. M. Cathcar , Supervisor of
Rgtralio -
Tax Returns.
THE OFFICE OF COUNTY! AU
ditor wll be open from the 1t dais I1
January to t he 20th dai of Februtr
for the'purpose of teceivig nx r
turns. Rtnrn to be made of alIt.'
sona; property A pr nity ot 50 per
cent will be added when parties 'ail ti
make etures within the abovc me-w
tiored dates. All maIe perso: e
tween the agJes of 21 and 60 re isble
to poll lax, unless otherwise exemwpt
by law, amil are required to make re
turn of sam'.
The~ Auditor or Deputy will be at
the fo'lowinig places on the days speci.
ded:
Albion, Tuesday, January 15.
Bnckhe:nd, Wednesday, Janary 16
Woibng, Thursday, .Janag 17.
Cro-byville, Friday, January 18
Wo'd ward, Tuesday, Januar, 2
W bi;a Oak, Wedunesday, Janiuar y 23.
Glaadens Gr ove, Thursday, Januaryr
24
Flint Hill, Friday, Ja' nary 2.5.
Longto'wni, Tupnda', Jaznuatr 29.
(Cntrevilh.', Wediesd't, January 30)
N. L. Coopel's, Thnr-day. Ja. uary
31.
Bh' i :ewood, Frida.' , Februari 1.
Rideeay, Tuesdav, Febnusr ', .5.
IHoreb (Cutre's Store), We. ne(14,
February 6.
Jenkinsvi'le. Thur-day, Februart 7.
Montc l' . Fi 'ny. Fehruarv $
A. F. 0.
TOO MANY
ON HAND.
JUST ARRIVED. .\ GARLO\m
of YOUNG MULLES h y v
on Land, and bhey must go. If i on
want to buy a mu'e Gome to 500 ma
anid I will se I p u cltioper thin y n
een buy ani~ where els-.
I have an' price mule or horse you
want irom S30 up. Also
all good wore and somec gocd sad.
dIe hor-se. Come to see mue before
yeu buy.
I want to buy your cattle, Let me
see them before you Fill.
A. Williford,
W:-nsb.r. S. r,
For Infants and Childrn.
he Kind You Rave
Always Bought
Bears the
Sigature
Of
Ie
For Over
Thirty -Y-rs
AST
We have trade-winners,a _
% low-i-prie f E
They will burn not - . ...
and anything els.. hat is
and will give greater best
fuel than any other stove In .
and beat more quickly. ~Thqe
keep the room waran al
night and every uight. Yo
your room at Iny temprat.
are as cheap as cost and'eap
I also havesa few coal tpSS
box beatera A OTT
We have also the new, l Ow~il
1Haters-SOKELESS ~ O
AND PORTABLE-soitabIi your
bed room, dining room, and ajr
COOKING ST~S
NONE BETTBRI RADU
Why pay sixty-elght
range from an agent w
buy as good one at bl
tour home dealers, whio
tation to sustain and .*16I
you more fairly The n
home with them is efrcul
as muvch as possible-tibst ass Sy
does no~ good !ocally..
R. W. Phillips,
WE HAV~.
Just Received DIrfruke
England a complete
line of
IRYONTONE CHmL
Aextra supply of (iLASSWAR-.
has also been adided to lidis depart
me;.t. :ogether w it h a nice se'ection ef )
IVhe andt White Isnaameled Ware.
We cordially extend an inspection
of the e .ioods to every one. N.
tmronble to show i hem or quoite prices.
J. W. SEIGLER
Final Discharge.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
fhat I a i I appty to the Jodgeof -Pro
b te f.r lII'irfield (ounty, ou the Irat.
dai .f March 1901, for a Us die
c: ar.' -- Ex-en'.r of the estat- ef
miistator( st f JaR'
Maser, Jr., deceased, and a. Adels-.
is rator de bonis no of thees~aeof
H.arrie~t R McMaster, deeme.d.
2 V-4' JOHN H. McMASTEB.
UNDERTAUING
IN ALL ITV 3IPARTNWU 2
a a fall stoek of Caskets, a I
Camad Comas, eenstaatty'.w bim,'a
and. as- af hearse when regeet*.
Thankdfal for past patremago sea seb
tai- 'er asbase ia to ise, i
old g'aud
-val'e at teaded tW at all hema.
J. M, UMLLE WY5
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