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?Maw? * ? _ August 25,1981 ? GAMECOCK ? Page 9A McGuire, Holderman And The Future ... continued from previous page , Social life in downtown Columbia was more lively than when money had been < available. Refugees i from Charleston were still in the capital and ? they added to the spirit. People would party for the joy of being together again in THE YEARS OF goodwill were dampened by the new state Constitution of the Reconstruction in 1868 which stated that all schools supported by any public funds were obligated to admit anyone regardless of race. The first of the 4'white flight " had begun - enrollment at USC dropped from 113 to 65 in 1869 and LaBorde was the only faculty member who *1 remained. The act was amended to specifically include USC; a new Board of Trustees, two of whom were black, was formed. A preparatory school was opened on campus which was filled mostly by former slaves. The legislature of "carpet-baggers," "scalawags," and "negroes" even admitting they were using USC for the sole purpose ot a melting pot for the races. When a black man, Secretary of State ? Henry Hayne, entered into the then-existent medical college, LaBorde as well as two other professors resigned. In that year of 1873, the percentage y Restaurant I Spin v / hmi?u of whites in the University dropped to 10 percent. The South was not ready to accept a new way of life, especially one that was forced on it. Nearly everyone was disgusted over the way the Reconstruction had V 11 4 1 downgraded ine University. John S. Reynolds, in Reconstruction in S.C. claimed, "The requirements for admission were so lax, the regulations in matter were so flagrantly disregarded, that the so-called university soon became little more than a high-school whose chief aim was to inculate and illustrate the social equality of the black race from the white!" So, as soon as the Federal troops marched out in 1877, the General Assembly moved in, closed the University and appointed a new Board of Trustees. The. College of Agriculture and Mechanics was opened solely for whites on the Columbia campus in 1880, Claftin College in Orangeburg was declared a college lor blacks and was compelled to be under the direction of the Columbia Trustees. The College of Agriculture and was a free three-year college, and under the presidency of William Niles, it boasted 66 students. The college's brief duration was the r M A i 1 /% % rv f f Vft 1U1 UldllUli U1 (.lie and Lounge J LUNCH I 11:30-2:30, X Mon.-Fri. x DINNER $ 6-U, l\ Mon.-Fri. / he | naker $ nnH oun|f im roit from Ri< hljml M4II A klilmr Hlvd 781 227S V Alumni Association during the reunion of the class of '46 in 1880. JOHN M. MCBRYDE took office after Niles resigned and the college began drifting back to the traditions and classical cirriculum of the old S.C. College. In 1883 the South Carolina Pnllpap wnc nffiriallv reborn, offering twoyear as well as fouryear degrees. The church colleges across the state beagan complaining that the free-tuition system at SCC was drawing away prospective students, so to appease them the SCC Trustees nKlioV\rkr1 o fnl/on coiauiioiicu a IUIVUU tuition of $40, which was refunded to needy students. Thomas Cooper's ideal of a free college was not entirely defunct. Despite the fact that farmers were calling for a separate agricultural college, SCC bought 70 acres of land adjoining the Frankly, there c Master Cleaners. Ar buying cheaper cle< But, to tell you n 1 OetdUb*: I1UULX watch it tum premc 190H BLOSSOM STREET / 71 campus for expansion of its experimental farm. IN 1885, THE college had 213 students but j i enrollment oegan dropping rapidly each succesive year. Therefore, the Trustees agreed to expansion, and the second S.C. College gave way to the second University of South Carolina. McBryde remained president, the Columbia campus remained white, and Clafin College remained black. Under the university system each college had its own dean and faculty. There were 28 teachers and 148 courses for the 12 degrees and six certificates offered. When Clemson Agricultural College was founded, the University lost nearly 25 per cent of its new students. The loss prompted Gov. Tillman to suggest the lUl lllctLiUIl U1 <X UlCdlUs for a cheap, practical; are cheaper places ir id we could offer the aning solvents and q the truth we don't b uy wcii iio iu g iturely gray ^00 C.ARNERS FI RRY ROAD / IMS Bl 11 continued on page 12... nnnHHBHKi | - ; yy!'^'-Wf'^ '1 ;-"":v -. ; >' ,;V. Ml WSBB hTp> ||| Moxcy Monument In The Horseshoe atFEwaSi i town to get your clothes clear same cut-rate prices they do i uit changing our chemicals so elieve our customers would st; ood money on a new blue sui /JyWtet l imi ii/ \< ri i\/aoi\ \?r n i akh tx o i ixftm UI*I iw. a?ii VAVXA/ m jmr ymmrmm v. en lsujwi )N A (CX)HH > ' ^ : ^ | . _ ^MnflCHRr \ ^HB , JB&SttSii&SFi ,.r>^H mH led than f ?i. L 1 j wt: bidiifc:u often, and for it. t and then >) RY /