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South Carolina College, 180 South Carolina College, 1801-1861 On the l'9th of I)vecnher, 1801, the legislat inc in.orlpr.ated the institIU ti-n not rlte a tlonth after Gverno r Juhn T)raytun had utrted it, fouinl:i tiun in his melsIge to the General A,,embly. rhrec years later. January 10, I$05, yctrrtg W illiatti I larper of Newhcrry signed his matriculation card anid Suth Car'Iina had a col ILte, w%ith a factlty of two, a student. and two butildings ( itutledge and DeSassure . As a matter of fact there was tnore than one student, for Wiliham Ilarper was merely the first of nine who registered the opening lay, and twenty-nine were admitted before the term ended. lBut faculty. 9 sttidents and platit were the ingre dients needed to make a reality out of the legislative act. The powerful fourth ingredient, the college's spirit, was to c,une from time and the slow wrrking of the other three factors on cacl ntile'. One hundred and forty years is not a contemptible age as American ages go, but it does not put the University of South Carolina in the group of old American colleges. Led by liar vard and \\illiam and Mary, there are twelve which date to colonial times. Lighteenr others were founded between the Rev'lution and the es p tablishment of the South Carolina College-both North Carolina and Georgia preceding us. W\'hy was South Carolina slow in buibling a college ? Suggestions had ieen advanced as early as 1723 and 17ii7. imt remained plans on paper. In 1783 and 1788 a group of five embryo cdlleges had been chartered by the state, only two of which developed at all. and for a generation those two ere no more than grammar schools. To understand what caused the failure of these schemes you must get in niind a clear picture of the state. The Old Province I he old pr-i ince ctnistcd of a strip that began at the Atlantic and contined theiretically as far west as the mind 'of the IStht century could reach aid the guns of the 18th cen tnry coul pu,lh the indians. Gut for all I,tactical purpoes Sottlh Carolina wa, riL coast, ttitli Clarleston as the capital and Centelr of a plantation pi'puilation w lich was held to the tidew ater by the str'onge-t economic an,l political tie'. Aloig the coast th e- South (arrlinian> of E"nglish and i rench de-cent planted the rice and inrdigu that W et their :.ource of weahth. In i harlest'i werc their mrarket,, their h:nt or for export and import of all goods, their seat of giv ernment and their amuscnents. From ( harleston the sons of the well-to-do wtere sent blick to England or north to I harvard, I 'rintontt oir Ysale for t heir edlucat iion. liesponibility' for ed - uratimi: the le's well-.t.-do disturbed the coinsciences (of few ini authority. I iraduially! thet'C country back of tide w ater was tilled upl byv a pio pulation w ithI a vere di fferenmt stamird of liv in~g ftroii that whlichi the riding grouip oat tIhe coast had enijos ed for ac.rly a 'enit ury antd actcepitedl a t heir right. T1'raders, soldIiers , cat tle-riaiwsrs andi( t.miall farmers friomi Sco tlanid, North I rehantd, \\-ale's, Switz,erlaind. and Ger iniany camti either directly by sea or overland from the no(1rthIern colonies, took 1over what is now cal led the "up eontmtry," atual biegan ti m nake it pay. I .iw cIlmlttry planters het'aiti inter' ested and bought large tracts (If land, but they did not migrate anorih and ,west in ntnbers sufitciently large to prtevent a marked divergence betweeni the two halves of the kppulatioin, and this was intcreasedl by the fact that Charle-sti n. The llevoluti 'i showed the split ini sympathy very plainly and wvhenu thle new statte was formed seri otis efforts were made ti unmite the sectionts, culmitiating ini the removal of the capital to a cetral locat ion andI the foittding of Columbia itn 1785. The Revolution The Revoluition had two definite re stilts ott edlucatin inii America gener ally. F'irst, English t rainting was dlis credited ;atid, seconhd, in the intense rivality attong thle new states there waV.s a getneral mo. ve to create colleges ini eachi oneL, so that younimg meiniC coutld be ecatttedl at hiomte. The tcharterinig ill thle beflore- metionited tive little tcol - beges in Siulth iiaroi' lina wtas part of tis~ phase, ai also an attempt to give th li'pil-LIitiatr y smeiL edtitcationial aidvanit age:, sincet threc of the five we re stitateid tre. Buit thle 'iea of (ine 'g.o i colellege whinch woiuld give tIme besitiposile traiinug to bot s I romI bothI secti otns t.s a great adtt iie L\t Ip tviOtiS plants atnd wa.s inihiI ,t based ('n the existeince of the newv( unt al capital. Althoiugh ColumbIia we,a iio litger thian a. vilage', it had the blt I hiuse, chiuches and a growI~ ing population of cultivated people to rit e the iileh1ge a uctium. The sni,i . f ciI it-connttry 1-1865. University of South University of S planters and up country farmers were alike eager for college training which %ould give them equal stanling with other young Americans. Governor I)rayt'on put the need and hopes of the new college very simply when he said: "The friendships of .%oung men would he lomotcd and strengthened through out the state and our political union much advanced thereby." So we have our little college found ed for a political as well as an educa tional need. The first President is commemorated in the quaint monu ment in the center of the campus: )r. Jonathan Maxcy, a New England Baptist minister who had been Presi dent of Brown in Rhode Island and Union in New York state before he accepted the South Carolina Trustees' invitation. Iis administration lasted until his death in 1820. and during the fifteen years the college grew to a student body of 100 and a faculty of five. The president's house (pulled down last year to give place to the new library at the head of the can pus) two faculty -houses, and a science building had been constructed, and the institution had become an integral part of South Carolina life. What did the students learn and what did they do? It is difficult for you to reconstruct a course of study and recreation so different in every essential from the one familiar to you. Earliest entrance requirements int cluded about the same amount of Latin that some of you offered, plus (;reek in place of a modern language. A legible hand, correct spelling and English grammar, and acquaintance "with arithmetic as far as the rule of three" completed the list, and no one was admitted without examination in all of these subjects. Fifteet (later fourteen) was the entrance age limit. Later, as preparatory schools im proved, algebra and geography were also required. A fier passing the examinations. studeilnts were adnitted to the dorni t' iEs. 'ach man furnislied his oii rootn, firewood, coal, and lamp oil. There was no running water in the building", but pitchers and buckets wcrc filled at pumps in the yard. Though many Of the 1bo1iys came from hontes in which they Itad been a-cus tomed to eve Innr , they seem from the fir,t to have taken uincti''niigly to the-e Spartan lodg ini. lcal-. were sered in the Stew ard's Ilall and were the caue of al most endles; strife het\wtc1 studetits and anthorities. Turbulent had tman ners, and the natural (issat is fact ion of the younng with any tienu thought good for them, resulted in tiery peti tions, lights, duels, and wholesale sus penisiIIs. 'Th,ie "I3iscuit Rteb.ellioni" of the 'S0's ended in a walk-otit of thirty students who saer iliced their dIipllotnas rather than their dlignity. l)oubtless the food wa- often poorly cooked and servedl, but trouble with eollege coin mons has noit been comnmed to the South Carolina College. .it is well night universal. Ante-Bellum Students You must remember wh lenever the turbuletice of the ante -hlhlunt st udents is remiarkedl on, that the college was e xpected( by its patronts to holdh the bioy> to a strict regime outside as well as inside the- class room. The list of "mi sdemecanors and criminal olfentes'' in the 'original laws of the institution runs to hundreds of items. They in elude regulations against dluell ing; tisticutIs; playing cards and (other gaimes; visiting taverns: appearing in wvotimn's clothes ;(drinking ;keeping tirearms,. gunp~owder, "dirks, swvord canes, howie knives" and( dogs; hutild i1g a boniir e, Il 'owinig a born, ridhitig a hmors-e or mtzle on the e' lIege camipus, and simokinig "'segars or pipes ini any part of the eollege excepit in their ownt rocomts. Tfo make the problenm of discipoline mWore difficult we must conitsider the temper of the t imues, when personoial digity was a very delicately balanced chip ion the shoulder, anid mien fought Cn the slightest point of hto nor. If a member of the faculty qutestionied a stttdent t' o closely on his behavior, or kept a class which considered that it had a r ighit to a cuit, ir oine stuident pul11led a serving dIi- h a way fromot an other at table, thlie trifluig iincideit might easivlyoheomie deadly serions ando cnd ini riotinig. expulsion, bilood shed ,md dleathi. lteadl the chtapte-rs on the,e stormly initeslutdes of college life in Laliorde's or G reen'is htistorie~ oif the I iisersity, anid thank yotur stars for athllet ie! lin all four '(atas LI-.tin and Greek were stuiedi'i, iut h eumphiasi , on the classical mnodels o'f COtnmemig argn nmenit, oritore, and( historical analogy. Mathemiatn :~, w a. a four year study conmbining. witlIi logic in thle Junior- ieatr aind mnetaphysics; itt tIme Setnior "ear to' in,amio studoet-,. for pre 'osion of thought. F-ngli'h and Belles i.ettres (as Luteratumte was called) .dhe emnhasized the critical a to Carolina, 1866-1877. Closed, outh Carolina, 1888-1890. Sc eutiotlary t. pes of literatutre. )r. Maxey was considered one of the toest orators of his day, and the presidents who succeeded him were in tist ca'e, powerful and convinc ing speakers w ho continued his pol icy of requiring frequent orations and debates from the studetts. Commence ment exercises ( which, by the way, came in I )ecembcr ) were given over to impassioned oratory from the lead ing members of the graduating class, for which chapel speeches and literary society meetings had given thenm ample preparati in. The Second President The second president oi the college, Thomas Cooper, introduced or great ly encouraged two new branches of study - political economty and the scienceS,. It is impossible to give you a notion of this English firebrand in a few words. Look at his grim bust, silhouette and portraits in the old li brary, and read the account of his life in the Dictionary of American Biography, for he is probably the out standing figure in our college history. lie had been in the thick of political strife in England, taken part in the l'retlch Revolution. gone to prison as a martyr for the right of free speech in Pennsylvania, and lost the chance of being first president of the Univer sity of Virginia because of his unor thodox religious beliefs. lie came to Carolina in 1819 to teach chemistry. But his administration was destruc tive as well as contructive. lie was the sort of man who arouses violent antagonism and his unorthcxloxy brought doss n upon the college such ill will from the Presbyterians and others throughout the state that echoes of it are heard even today. I)r. Cooper resigned in 1835; the student body was reduced to twenty and it lo.,ked as if the newly founded de rtnitational c 'llcges would replace the state school. But it was more frnly rx,ted than its enetmie" sup p 'scd. and had other strong teachers who carried on under I'rcidents Rob ert W. Barnwell. William C. Preston, and James Ii. Iltoriell, bringing it back to an even higher prestige. The era including the three major pre""ide"ncic., mentioned, with several shorter adminitration', co'ercd the ,ec'nid thirty years of the anite hellium uiory f the Collegc. .More build ings were added to the campus-the w%all in 183., Ill i'.tt and I'inckney in 1837, the old I.il'rary in 184), 1larper and I.egare in I1$. tiwoo more double faculty hotu e:, the old observatory (1(w the New.. Itreau), and the Gymnasium, built for a chapel but unusuable because of the poor acous ites. TIto'ugh thtisssar a pertod oifintiat cial sceurity, as the building program (of habit and detmocratie equality amontg the students, It is interesting to dliscover that poor boy who cooked their iwn mealk int theiir rooms we re undeer no. isadvanttage itn thi s unp ScIharsh,ip~swere prmid ted lby the twos literary societies, by classes anid itndisidtral s. andI after t1857 a free stut den t was ad.hmiitte irf om eacht judicial dlistrict atnd 'i one from the (Iharlestont ,.t p'h;ttage. Thec sttudy '4f scice itnctea'ed in andu antiomy'ti w%ere tautghtt per idically. I'l itit'al ec' 'it in hi 'etwever, cottiti iuced to be' th In'ttan itntg subiect, as binlliatitly prese'ntedI as itn (. oper' tie by a pri or' wIho joinedi the iartlil the year- (rapet" re>igtled. Frtanicis I .iebert ws a pol'itical exile tont t ettinatte, ai intti ofI enevil e(lic leaurnng .at,'h Urtat chiarml. Thtugh lie *t.tjedi tweti iears 41 ' t' n lliipus hei ws nevloer itirith hapy here. his h -t ni 'rks in the houii,.se hich face- the ''ld I.i r'r. I Ie risignedl in 1850' to teach at t,'lhtihia 1.'nitvers ity in News York. Next to' tooper's this is the mtiti' famut'is naimte ott our list of schtolars ofi our facuilty. The Middle Period IIThrouigh l'rofessr 'i1 ratncis L.ieber's amtily wec can see as clearly into the tri 'tbled Ii fe of thi college, state, antd tnatiiont in the 186'.s as it is possible for 'itsider s ini tune anid space to see. l'riofessor I.iebier andu his wife, k indly and cutltivated G ermant exiles, lived o(i the camtpus for twenty years andt were accepted as a part of Co lutmbia though they always felt them selvs stianigers. L, i e b e r liked Sotttthrner:, but ttit S<tthern politi cal idheas. A critic had said, '"no great teacher itn political scietnce ever sought mtorre faithfully to make his sttudents serve andl love their state. But to the mtaj"iitv of them 'thie State' was Soth Carolina, Georgi.a, Mississippi ror Alabama. D)r. ieber':> 'state' was the consohmdatedl American union." Slavery was abhorcnt to him,,: nd,e 1877-1880. South Carolina luth Carolina College, 1891 lie owned slaves for himuseli I ser vants. The economic gulf between white and black, slave and free. seems to have been a nightmare to him. When he went to New York in 1857 to teach at Columbia University, he went to condition', which suited his mind and conscience, but lie left be hind him in Columbia his favorite son. Oscar, who had grown up in South Carolina except for a few years dur ing which he had been sent back to (.;ermany to complete his education. There was nothing repellent to Oscar in the Southern scene or in its insti tutions. lie kept one of his father's slaves, he continued to live on the campus with another faculty family, and carried on his work as State Geologist. While his father agoiiized in New York over the darkening hori zon and the coming rift between North and South at his old college. feeling against the abolitionist pro fessor grew hot. The Euphradian So ciety of which he was a member had paid to have his portrait painted by the artist Scarborough. The students voted to return the picture to the painter. A bust of the professor met with more drastic treatment. and was thrown into the street. Tradition says that Oscar, getting into a car riage on Sumter Street to go to a dance one rainy night, found an un expected stepping stone in the mud and on investigating discovered his father's broken bust. (Another cast of it can now be seen in the Old Library. by the way, sent to the col lege recently by Dr. Lieber's grand daughter.) But the times were to break more than plaster busts. The father wrote to a friend in 1860: "I am %-crv un happy. My son Oscar i, so imbued ssith all that I hold worst in South Carolina that hardly anything i> left between us but the thread of affec tion." The next year he Wa writig: "Behold in me the symbol of (ivil \\ar: Oscar in the Confederate army in Virginia. his brothers in the Union forces." Then in 1807, the story i, completed: "My son Oscar fell on the Southern side, and his two brothers went to Rielunoud to place the tombstone on his grave. T hey fought and bled on the National -de. You see the Civil \\'ar has knocked To lose only ne i'in out of thicc in that war was go.1 fortune in South Carolina. however. The roll of honor for the South Carolina College alumnii has never been completed, but in complete, it is of ; taggering lengtli. Ardent enthusiasni for the Southern cau>e prevaded all ages, but burned with special brightnres in bl%.s of col lege years. \'When the Sece:,iow con vention met in C'olutribia in Decemiber, 1860) at the Blaptist Church. the stu (dilts were a part of the excited audi ences ands torchlight piarades waiting in tense eagerness to hear the result Cadet Corps Revived al1ready dullmg the precediing moniiths of the fall tcerm. the old cadet ciirp> of the college hadti beeni ies ived and drilled. This military organiia ti(in bad been establishted in 18.24 as a tentiKirary guard in1 tie proCcniill which welcomed General i.afave tte to Columnbia. The students baildl~ enive the exercise aiid uiniforme. andi the Cadet (irganli/ation cont tinuei fir 50 years. A rms and ammunttiti inl were ,upjposed to be kept very sti ietly in the Arsenal, ofi the camipmt, but gIuns ap' pecared in the dirnmitiories anid triubile w ithi the police iiften (occurred. Finailly illn 185 the givernoi-r had dhisbainded the ciompany. The revival in 1860 was a dceitiie piepa rat ion fo~r impl jendintg wsar, thut a melte parade. tint. At thlat ttime Coluimbia had a military prep school, tihe Arsental Academv. The t overmtn's mansion, once the offiicet s' barracks, is all that is now let t of it Captain I itugh S. Thompson of the Academy istr ucted the Co1llege t dets, and the State pr'videdl their eqhuipmnent. lIn the museum roomn of the Old Library yout may see the por trait of the tall young studcitt in grey' and white uniform who was their captain-John S. Gary of Edge neld. College continued through the winter of 18061, but with the com ing oIf spring it became increasingly dlifficuilt for the faculty to restrain the eagerness of the studetits to en list. When the firing on Fort Sumter began, all hope of restraint vanished. Captaint Gary telegraphed to Governor Pickens in Charleston, offering the services of the cadets to the state at once. Pickens wired in return that the students were accepted as part of the militia, but were to remain in Co lumbia until further orders. Suspect ing that they wsere being kepit out of the fight, the cadets cleverly made a plan which satisfied all scruples, but successfully circutvented their elders. Gjuns could not be used withiout con sent of the faculty, so they werre left n the ibraerra, Cpa...ar at... verit4 - College of Agriculture and N 1906. University of South Cai ,i,baelrd ti' tt emnpany t h %kili e ( >vr,r1 ha:d t"flrbidr'! t'" leatl ( ' lutbhia. f''rmed :I newc r'mn:. an,l mtarch d it *: t ailwa st.tti, teIcgra phing the g o fertr r ijut h f the train tart,d thtt a neCw rcmpani of eadet ta '1In it, h Iwa 1.iharir" thland. hl r ua thet Ihe ht and had w%hilt :,m' nntedl t) rmnt;ideI seal facIr the :urr:uler f F Irt S'linn. ter. Within i w,ei etk they were bark at college. but th.re w'a, mhe re tx:te ment than itudiy f'-r the rentait,der .,f the tera, dcpite tidea, of gove! n' ,r and faculty thate s r tat. i nted "more statesnn tha n b a n efort wa. made t have the compand gr to Virginia with i'r'fove,r C. . \~enable as Captain. b:t it wta, not tuccessful. and the mlany. cadet:e en listed during the summer in other cotmpanda, many others were back at college i Ottber, 1861. The corps wa,s more popular than ever, and drilled con,stanltly. In November when a Federal fleet attacked Beaufort, the students again offered their srcres to the govtern.'r for coastal defense. They were stopped ill Chiarlest and kept in camp there f'r a montl, after which Goivern'r Piken, di<bamnded the company and ordered the :t1lents back to college. Clase, continued l Jlet i ht. en "ne the terrible -ce'en d,a. h:attle for the posses'i""n of Richm-"nd and the call f,.r all met o>ver e ghlteen " The c''llege thent t . t'ed "per i e re for all the. studlent' v"lunte,"red.' The be,t at:c" unt of th i"li"..iig hard , ar a,it be tou.d in te it. btc. by0.Il Profeio J44p 4l1.ettnt. w he1 w-ithl hi, br~thier J,.hn taught .r.ience here f erem 16 t l( . lli - . ".i 'fri':;rax . anl 1hi, ta diar pu lIeI under the tI ic l',1' -tlon:,1a:. give a n >t t ivin picture of the time- :,nd ')f e the m.t ch.rming and! I"rceiful of "ur facult.: per:.-nahit:e . 1e l e tu ei.t, le t. f:it'ult : ud builiing- emil ain I. an1 tit . t. t. ltcre niteh , d in1 t , ie derat' -en 4 ice'. '1"hc 1.! mna-il . then calll I " lall, amil i .-t f t,e ca:mpn h :ih illin ", bcc.lnec p.,rt . - a mlilitr i . . pital. ' .Fni , ' of i and t1w :. n t i cd nied rt adh" r, .m,i \"rthe:in p+i-te"r I rrri-"i- tiare ter'. ar eina t.s tilt' j'".ir,,s t , C c t ilwt liIa arm ', oltee. were rtitI <t iI thet L .pit.: erl' antd -Iin ' the it.i Reh i .\ soCiati..n. J eh and ..n I . C r c ote turned their tcientite kntwledge t. accunt an.1 ewen put in ,lha:; a f th mlann1fat tnre t-1i t Ime.li,i!ine, i..r ti:c r 'niferl t.litc :tn. tan r e i na-e . "u .11i iean fctllre oll itre' ga r gn: puiwdtt er. I r in: ilie, an-il reingh< futh r"ere. the ee the faheuch l'tuiediUn til eapttn curcfdhesei hese,,li itt te t-:obythCeditt cpi ptal h flag Sutate I lo:- si hrdi 1t1 lt t he ('ft .wnc f . So . h n th Lgnt'latur ieiit in Octoer , it e it ".\ter the wa:e tm) watlg and thre th.m1 wbar."bth-w-: ta defieatur hadcld:e wa- rig.r t!t plea mniedity. it e leqn.fat:r of the hildiigsl.md condti.,on .\f .u loun trmy thae verymeito mpae wa,xy; ab1 le tday th,e.,iRra xpn,e wr fur. year pinoi. I aing br-n .o lorend fir trmy tetn, and theC tuott eg lected,ence ate t't repae< t whiten bllag. Mor\over, ing.lndvthe UdnIn menhrloode.i- theo fouth taoliga chough?lee co euset fnction,-a nerly ta acile, uith flifo, wille melr g hi allthsobegtiance The Taut n rustees retopeted the Gvtnrsrc i/uedti ansthe ufte was lmae o.t echonics, 1880-1882. South ( olino, 1906- . e - a1,d t-:.ne t p.laIim11W ".r tt pC J:t ft th i i.i4 and facutilt., the ;:;t 1 \C 1) ( -it,. ,-f t.NiutIif are"lnia wa .p,t d ,"n laniary 10. I(M/ -li.t" (.it a r>arlu t" 'i. "f the( t'tllegW hfrct t,pe.t'l int. Ih.c f.t:nlty of ten cectil a mod e -t l a . f,r the re,,t:n int' title! tsf the new.\ ",ch(-o of arts and A.iences Aln] tI>dern language.. Shr,ol, of Ia'. a,i1 ne ii(- ine wcre added the next .tar wtitlh a la er :taff, and ;tudents camne ealgtr. Reconstruction l . e: : i:.g : II ti i caine the l<e e .:-t:ni n c"1n tituio '-f 1868, in wti it I iiverit wtat delared "iret (.;."n t.. all w,ttb ut regard t., race a:,,! <lor." and the state guy. ernnmint u pin' int" the hands of : ..:ant egrlr- and U; crupulUS whitte t, itician . Reti tration nf \tr)ite 'tudevnt, dw\indlcd rapidly and South Carlina bys went to> the (c nominational cotlleges her(. or tO other states. One by one the face:lty re signed-the LeCoite- went west and helped to found the iUniversity of California. hy 1873 it was plaim that the -tanding -fi th. I. nivcr,ity had been destro ed. Th_ faculty could not -ave tie e:e'd'Ctl <>d institution ftr the white sttnlentc who wanted it, and for the .xt f,..ur years it was sacri f:ced! t" iegr, wt- \\i.") C~uldtl not t;s its facllitie. and did nt want then;. 1hi: dark cha;ter tf our ist,ry ended in the tri:unphant e"lecttion of S;vernor \ade H ampton in 1876. I\\hen the turbulent legislative w\ar wa- -tttled and rutitw h.tines: could be taken up. editcati.,nal atIair, werc "ra>tica?:_ 4thi auied. i he- c<>ndit in tf ti:e I-'nivcrsit. legally and actually. wA- -'> ' ius.d t!.at the institution \a> Ci':ed until 1 Ict"ber, IN8() ' t which .-1 :t' machinerv agai in min ti.n d ivir;d the Univer ,it .:. tw , b a g e. Ti. ,S t hti I ar, "ina 1 ,iige i:n (._ itnni;a d t la;li:; ' tr in i ran'Leu: g. It ".'a. n ~ t i ,' ateI that ti.e fortner was t' bc white. thi :atter iegrt. I,ut that wa.i ta :ti uindtr:.t- -..t+, 1: a- re 'imre. t tihe tru,tt to f".unrl an :Ir+i, ultt' ,epi tm;hl! e::t in th.e uni \, s:t -" th' becne t o"f b-..h whte and "t , ,t::dcnt'. An innen.e a m .i; .n..; e . r11i- t'" "'t . IIp; 1c he~ ~~~a i.l . 1 le .pn.41t l:a.r~ 1' rl,e \ n't:!tt:' ce t, a (.-'ei.;.teutu-e andh \b *n \\'!. . Ici.am t:;.cher N! .'e :.:, t h- t.i s ' rcri 'li. l 't" e r .i-;t", f t , ih. ,tuti "n wa brief .nl t it.. an- \\ gu t:pla: Itt' . t,titl un a '' :a ge :in 18' tail thr4.-.4t it itb. ti le ge:t agiiun i l'te ,b; t ." . . A!'U d -.\pri en!?ttre andt M "cha l.,ir, 't ere - ti;l taughtl t. t .. ..ther:' haimnc ete lae in itle, and thee secon d co lg ur aubiion .u nm-ctriv n I t o.g i a. -i h l 'n i :'.t:: t the w . 4 a 2 .ot :: tn *m:\ t ai p atera 1.:(.4:: 3 44th~ it, 1 ! t i tati o tileed ri t giaddith plaif :U.ean hs toa e --h! ca 'i;egmtred: on the cielle. y na C:::' .-biat an p he' niychea- it wasd attemting to the tti.haical ce : leg .ath Carinon, aa tantem,at.he ivrerst Mov e rnd t e.iam all llma ne tight mand iv ithep iamtan hi cuthance tnd tlo pti thie etury vle stitu- of tiri so rti ri:eg ureedh C:ae in1C tharer-stun at sre aof the cla xt saetn tsp plant A ariatea aricultural a mtchanicaatc.andegesatowlemsoor one,, :narmallv Tcho forwoenwer theirl Sotd taola alCollege o)4 n more, thdied lpr of the trwhoe istate tip-ounn eme learertrunthan atc and pime alince ierndminion. Whatois woul trinnge the xt taexcle? cl eiTe stut Fifthiyt nearsel stt-onhCaohna bhds alway beenta snay sate nde wasen a oo one, s inadciaeen Tesenth of the hole South Carolina, Coeiehdbe h tundividd souppoto h wholstae suate up-ontbryte adowCvilntr, rich and payors ako,nt Seninge boys aof prois fir 1ra90n to te stae tecellen coa tegiatew institutionsithinits inenel Southrolin -cene. rage imne. orolino College, 1882-1888. ht h i . 1 .r tlihu a. ..un1 . , 1 1 i t : t r1 I , tu ri ,t t' tta t ' , -; " > - t,.1 'i, ',""" .I.f halr . i nt I t t t1, er it-ntI n . it., . r t }i" ( 1,. i 3's a e \\t: .30 a- S , i: 1 . si.r .h perar cnt rgvlit. emth n p.re, alt.c Tr he w 't; i- t.t t:e :vti tv ,uviarve at f:r>e. teI de M';1u"\elr-.te ies rig r. S:u . r l ,.. Cn nitih thi inl,titUti~:n 'r 'l'ed t, u(h !:mtit- d meand and hi . f mubit: plan . f.cr growti s, Ifr.etratd. Ih- : -cc -,nr wian a rn rnmbcr r.t t: ." faculty. Dr. Jame. Wo.,rtu. a Sr."tch I're ;by tcinan c1:rgy man with univer sa! sr ien tifC trainin:r. Iie had taught cheuis try and ge'oglg at the clle:gc ar. well anr var:uucourse at the Pre.-byt-,ta The,i(.giral lemlliar:t in C lutb.:, andd hIrbe.cn pubb her of chlurcl periiodicah. 'I hie pr-er:n kichIand County Publ:e Libraryihi cid cr,mc and printing iuse combmted. tDr. WIrow wa presidten}t f,.,r nlt ,is: %eara. but in ti.at timle the collt got on its fut agail. 1r:t i l ment increa'(,1: the> sii ilr,ci - inuta tir, w"a, added :aw,tkr the sam Dr. Patter -,n Wardiaw. whr,m wnc are till privieged to 'e on the capuiI, th.ngh he i. linger hld regular clo-rce-: the gymnnasiuml tta :.ttedJ up, and reg-:1atio were f,>r Ct. :irst ti:ne necesarv f,"r the cintrol of "athletic gaUit"' But tl.t ie n't :Iltp..rtal;t C.a: ti:at camel a 'Lut in in: :a1ministrat1.n1 \a the admitsivn t,f uomer, in 18(4 to any t' coure itir which i% ith.e Ci-e fud tlt .l.l.e , u 1 tn. l fande gualiet. Miss Frances Gailies t- (_lutmbi, the te ar.st girl who re;, ;cered;. She later became 1t;, lear teithl. wle ga the I,d (4 the ienc it artml t. and a wr rll m.." r th,an lo,cal iam.. 1.asern,. r I:ma11d , w{l h did tihecl'niter -Iy :s., much) h1arm1, m11a.a vne ametnu, in wt inn;_ ithe adlmi i1i fi w IIe n. piuttin d the revou1ta"itnar mi,.ve oni et.u,:'iI -. "ju ti,'e and c m:ni n i.itn ita.. lp igwthrlh the pritt i te~ ge" I OrgariIn ha ctar tn tie i en luai'' the eat aitt.t a -n . and t , -k "h athteti.:= ini nt . . r1 - :l!' :.Mic ti cH trnashil i la il r t-,w bied plei : ha tcamu. :. . 'it : : \ a-.~ Ti e rol:e tran I, sas Yankei-;rwid n. intater uin g ucthen 0 whenrethectear inl aied n..w st ra i ' e challe, fle ' ' a n.. t cc rkep.. an(ele. t ; i : i'- '.el atd Sa .pufar t- f.:allI for mlries amd ther the Clench rivad t"rnthe thimpus t asinoall. 'ea oui daz. wth caion erenewedt int siertob the eteat iwatm had in-l crbeed Gen.au b:- thre alumkni. \gamnc af growt we et:ed t eni Laret, scdevel. itig mtit t:tlei thaif t:e pitpwe .anot-illyti t thirouth. 'Ikt b b' pre it I nntit- o -eupt. ltrouin'a whi catee.y in 190u, wlrith sco ciien .\hand re ience,' I.w -dreaton.b thgeermg.d~ and the crasuate coeg. Commer..ii. l'r mae, anipod Journaitm ave beenn&ii aded sme th ati- ltaie u The antin wce,allhc thOere stte tar. it siemt itret'.eicain entry ben rltd \in rina e11 an ap ropryIiatiated militnw tbutiligs up-er keep wandenlargeme n At of I nesan in afar better ni cale o facutti sandre, lthoaus was omnw t a avolun mide tha the efth ohathd beenl Deparntmenrolldvloing the trinile ta in the pumepl df notcomt the T universiy ta th Bbnided to the rppk." Thru the etAreny Tran.. frgorthe Unie(rsyn was ysvde it tdreaomec o 'y ohe feoundeote classcoasi crainin. Ruad livi toaso been imprepd by0 e<atontin sani tation,ttod sroa d nialektic,at entyintdI World Warmpad adal although nollmen was voutay