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McGuire, Holderman And The Future
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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campus for expansion
of its experimental
farm.
IN 1885, THE college
had 213 students but
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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
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