Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Carolina's Campus and Buildings. "The History of the Buildings of the University of South Carolina" is the title of an excellent pamphlet which has just been published by Prof. Edwin L. Green. This accur ate and readable account of the cam pus will become an integral part of the history of this ancient seat of. learning, wlhere the affections of thousands of alumni have centered for more than a century. Surely, this is hallowed ground. Each building, the wall, the walks are interwoven with the life experiences of thousands of men who hie'e had stirred within them their deepest impulses and projected their highest ideals. A college is essentially spirit. Sentiment compacts all the elements of its life. In it "every common bush is afire with God." It is this fact that lends significance to the history of the buildings and grounds of such an institution as the Univer sity of South Carolina. There are many plants, industrial and com mercial, with far more splendid and imposing structures, but they are only brick and mortar. Not so with edifices devoted to the nurture of the spirit. A glory rests upon them that is not of the earth. The homes in which illustrious teachers like Francis Lieber, Joseph LeConte, A. B. Longstreet, Thornwell, William C. Preston, R. Means Davis, J. W. Flinn and J. M. McBryde lived be come shrines where all truth-seekers instinctively resort. The life of the individual is brief and frail, but eter nity attaches to an institution of learning, in which mind finds its permanent horme. College is a Growth. This timely pamphlet shows how an institution is a growth-an acorn unfolding into an oak. There is a bronze tablet on one of the old buildings at Harvard University, which says that $5,000 was the larg est gift received by Harvard during the seventeenth century. Millions come more easily now to that great school than thousands then. It is most interesting to see how a college, like a snow ball, grows as it goes. The history of the present buildings at the University of South Carolina will only increase in interest throughout the decades as new and more stately structures arise upon our campus. Dr. Green has placed the whole constituency of the college under dbligations to him for the patient research that he has be stowedl upon this subject. It is an enduring piece of historical work. In it the author has set a fine exam ple of wvhat others may follow with profit, for one of the chief needs to day in the South is constructive scholarship of this kind. The Three Periods of Activity. "There has been three general periods of activity (says Dr. Green), in the erection of buildings: the first twelve years after the open ing, after the reorganization in 1835, andl the.last three years." Rutledge College, so dear to the hearts of the students, was conm pleted in i8o5; DeSaussure College, in x8o9. The plan for the dlormito ries. adloptedt e mature de,.me.. tion in 1802, cannot perhaps be im proved upon today. A suite of three rooms was assigned to two students, the large front room serv ing as a study, and the two smaller rooms as a bed chamber for each student, the windows being so de vised that a current of air sweeps through all of the rooms and admit an abundance of light. The. Library, which, in spite of the fact that it was built in the pre Carnegean era, is still an imposing structure within and without, was completed in 1840. The Old Science Hall. The assembly hall which stands at the foot of Sumter street, imposing by reason of its Greek brow, was built in 1855. The home of John LeConte, now occupied by Prof. Gordon 13. Moore, was built in 1859. It is thus seen that the college, on the eve of the Civil War, was expanding rapidly; for these two buildings, by reason of their solidity and fine effect, indicate wholesome growth on the part of the institution. Of course, all these gathering hopes were shattered by the Civil. War. Present Expansion. Few people ralize that during the past three years more building has taken place than in any former period of similar length in the his tory of the institution. Yet this is true. Witness the three new homes on Sumter street, which were erected in 1907, now occupied, respectively, by Professors Hand, Twitchell and Snowden. Second, the landsome Wallace Thomson Memorial Infirm ary, the gift of Mrs. Ann H. Jeter, was completed in 1908. There is now rising oil Gibbes' Green a splen did Science Hall, with modern labor atories. These six important build ings have graced the campus within the past three years, adding greatly to the facilities of the University. Location. Beautiful in location is the Uni versity, situated in the capital city of South Carolina. The tendency at present is to have all of the social life of the students center in the old quadrangle bounded by the colleges, Pinckney, Legare, Rutledge, De Saussure, Harper and Elliott. The new educational buildings are being grouped upon Gibbes' Green, an ex cellent plot, just in the rear of the President's house. Thus the cam pus has in recent years begun to face about, turning directly to the city of Columlbia, while on tile southl wardl are rangedl all tile agenlcies thlat hlave to do0 withl tile healthl of tile studients, suchl as tile gymnasium, athletic field and infirmary. Dr. Green's luminous treatment of tile growth of tile campus hlas value, not onlly for every alumnus, but also for every citizen of tile State. S. C. Mitchell. Freshl Cook wants to know if there are any cows in thle "milky way." WE ALLOW A SPECIAL 25 per cent DISCOUNT TO UJNIVERSIVY SIIJDENIS Shorthand and Blookkeepin g are indlspensabie to rapid and systema tic work. 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