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tralt .. T A__.__ V0OL L. NO. 48. bwI~In..0 DAY. TJUNK~ 1!. 1906. WG EK 15 E Originil Building Dataged b Semi-Centen New Annual Commem Close Fifty Yeo Ils3 WNithl the annual coiienlcemleit. which blegan Suna(Iy Imorilng Ne'w herry college will close Ii half een tury of history of which any institu tioi of learning might be proud. The semi-centennial exercises have attracted large crowds from every part of South Carolina and through out the South and fron some of the Northern states, and hundreds of cemmencement visitors are in New berry this week. The record of the college during the past session under the adminis tration of President James A. B. Scherer has been peculiarly gratify ing to tihe more than three hundred alumn1 and -to every friend of the institutioin. Some time ago it was determined to endow the college, and President Scherer And those who had the matter in charge went actively to work to faise the endowment. Presi dent Scherer took a trip to Chicago and soon after his return it was an nounc1ecd that.Dr. R. K. Pearsons, of that city, , had given twenty-five thousand dollars on condition that other friends of the college raise fifty thousand dollars additional. Some time after that Hon. Andrew Carnegie gave ten thousand dollars to tihe technological department on condition that the friends of the in stitution raise an addition ten thous and dollars for the endowment fund. In a few hours ten thousand dollars was raised in the .city of Newberry, and1 Mr. Carnegie wired his donationi of ten thousand dollars to the bank here. The ten -thousand dollars rais ed in order to secure Mr. Carnegie 's offer, being raised for the endow ment fund will count in securing Dr. Pearson 's donat ion also. Some few (lays neo a comimittee wvent to the town of Prosperity, in this county, and raisedl another five thousand dollars looking towards securing Dr. Pearson 's donation. In all Mr. Car negie 'a donation is now in the t reas ury of thne college, for the techino logical depart menit, and about twen ty thousand dollars have been raisedl on Dr. Pearson 's offer, leaving about thirty thousand (101lara necessary to beC raised to secure Dr. Pearson 's twenty-five thousand doll ar.s. Theriel is no doubt this amount will 1he rais ed, anid when it is raised the college will have 'secuired Mr. Carnegie 'a ten thousand dollars for tho techonm logical department, and will have an endowment of seventy-five thousand dollars. Newh~berry college in a half century of existence has had six presidents. The first was Dr. Theophilus Stork, who was' succeeded by thme followving gentlemen, in the -order named: Dr. J. A. Brqwvn, Dr. J1. P. Smeltzer', Dr. Geo. W. Holland, Dr. Gleo. B. Cromer, T)r. James' A. B. Scherer. There have b)een times since it was established ini 1856 ivhen the college had a hard struggle -for existence and whlen its life was hanging ini the balance, But It v reder al Troops in 1865. 1*al of berry College. ement Brings To, !Irs of Globrious Ory. there have ever beenl earnles( mlenla its head an1d onl thle facultyN, men who loved their church anld her inlstitni tionl, anld through1 their efforts it s affairs were broughit forwai-d to' thle; present glad commencemenit timle. More than two hundred students attended the college during the past V session. This is the largest enrol ment ini-the history of te institu tion. Thle graduating class mnbers: s thirteen. There are now more tha a thiel ofdedaunit preached Sunday morning. by Dr. A J. Bowers, a member of the faculty. Dr., Bowers is an eloquent speaker, i and his sermonl was full of thoight, clothed in beariful language. Hist i 1 text was taken from Revelations 2:7:i ''To him that overcometh will I give to at of the tree of life, which is in tie midst of the paradise of - God.i nsi Thie opera house, where the exer cises were held, was erowded, and Dr. Bowers received the close and b andivided'attention of his large aud- t4 ellee. u N H It was the purpose of The hIhrald 9 and News to print Dr. Bowers's ser- tj mon in full today, but lack of sapee a forbids. The sermon will be printed on Friday. It would not be justice' to Dr. Bowers to print a synopsis of i his eloquiien't discourse, and it is for a this reason thm it is held util hel issue of Friday, when it will be o printed in full. ''The Age and the Man'' was the1 sub,jeet of the semi-centennial ad-I dIress to the students of Newberry colleire Sunday night l)y Dr. WVm.~ Hayne Leavell, of Houston, Texas. D)r. Leavell is a native of New berry. and attend1ed Newberry col le.ge before it was moved to Walhal ia, Ini fact was one of the student body before thme war. It will be re coIled that Newberry college was es tablished in Newberry and was af terwards in 1869, moved to WValhalla and subsequently in 1877, brought bacek to Newherry. D)r. Hayne Lea veil is one of the students who at tended it bef'ore its re,mov'al to Wal halla. But while that is true, Dr. Leavell is still a young man. HIe saidl in the opening of his address Snday night that lie came to the United States only six years before' Newherry college wvas founded and took up his abode in Newberry. Boy e as he was, lie remembered the fact v well-'' the fact of the founding ofn the college, of course,'' lie said, ''.not nm that oif my own founding.'' ' Dr. Leavell was, up until shor't ni time ago, p)astor of the Presbyterian v church in H-ouston, which church wasb bunilt durinig his pastorship at a cost of somnet hing like one hundred and e fifty thousand (dollars. Hie has now retiredl for thle time being from ne-d tive work, however, and is tak;iner a ret. HIe was leading' counsel for the a. lev. Mr Caldwell in tihe case against I im in the General Assembly of the )resbyterian churei lield in Green 'ille a short time a-o, whieh case ex. ited great interest throughout the oiitry. Mr'. Caldwell's course be l-, srustaiid by the Assembly. Ih-. Ieavell in his address Sunday ilt, which wits heard by an aud Lene wilich filled the opera house, aid thot. for the young men of the olleve lie had chosen the Apostle a.ul's brief but pre.-nanlt admioni ionl, "Look to yourself.'' The fanii :n- form of it, ie said. "take.heed to hysel and to thv tenching.'' All f irs found it eiler to teacl others o be gOod thai to be good ourselves. Ie assumed that the sidents wduld level- ienme so abandoned as to eatch men to do wrong by any prin iples they advocated. So ie would P* i'J e::i. 5: ). MIlt' I i"'J10t - the. eLt'rt a ' d lonlishing. them to lIm k to themsolves. il v I man, ie siid, was he Iwh1o ized li- -oehs. "The occasion 'hioh '-'I - Is torethe,'' ie said, the e,_eAtrnti- n cf the fiftieth an iversary - f , I-- .I.- t : col !".e. is anr epochr both inl tire history f this seh, I of learniirz and in ori itividual history. It i4 a unine vx erieniee for its, Oid ntAny of is ate ever w-ainr like:v to 'i:d it -at;h. I constitutes ait opoci for irs all.' ie past e 'hl Mn: wN b reviewed, he lid. " Wt. h--vfale ":mort cf (aur nity. e1P .zhort of His glory, have ri td- ii u pii.. We have done le thin-is wv- otlt it to have dlone, avd left u,nldone the thi:tas we ought > have doire, and. inl or1 higher and irer moods, feel that there is Io oOd inl u1s. While we.0 (imI)llot recover. te past, God eal cover it, an.- that ian is blest whose sin is eovered. \ ih timne as- this wve ep.n turn-: to the resent nd fitire an dal i1ermine hv it help of Cod to depart from evil Id do good ai tilhe days of' or life.' )r. Leavell said that if the age in Iich we live was cotnsidered, tihe RT.JAE' A RO N htaracter'istics of our modernt tuime, a re would seet hiow impotrtanrt, eve cy (e('dsry,iv it is forj every one whro I rens to -lo his par't in the world toy look to hrimself. '' Tihtis was as s rnt etial ant age as the Citrist ian s orld had ever knouwn. It was ito nier~ dleiuht ful, it wvas a set tied fact .s rat,th le orders of society werie gradi Ilby the pimouint of mronecy (rie p'os "ssed. "'lit the langu~rage of our1 re tales, wh'Io is an explosive anrd far- ] inding illustration of iris owvn vig-] REV. d . SMELTZER, President, 1801-77. rous dictu11111, this is a strenuous age. Jr. Leavell also spoke of the struo gle .or leisure which is going on, a1 -tru le for which. whenever main inied. his always cursed mankind. I spoke (f tile respon,;ibilities of? hv "lti in t'is dly amn1l time. 1r n1v4r was a I civilizatiol !]',! Ill-f 1114 e prospermls that did not frrl .!I th1e rvadl tI.,m he Snid. ,h, ('b1-islian Itavihmr nm11st assumet ;uae <ther than111 Lot's. lie r . a~ .ain- ev!: he m1ust tir ln: an'l wN.Ile-I 11 a remeit 11'an11ce 14 a sweeter and iiebier obli 3Atinill (f life. That was the dit to which the tildents were Smum1111ened1ol inl this r(1-.1 aid awf,ul time. It was the "Wmilmiis fruim G(od. 'he a-e was as he hadl deseribed . The man fcr the the age must be IIa "1ind V1'-perY eulIipj)ed. Hero raS Where the college nian came ini. 'he whole mainii must be trained, lie 4id. to mereily his brainl. It was 11o M-er a <ill(Asti<in that a soludil and ell-develgel(d pyinewas of, veryN rent im-t1a1.1nce fior m n and wmeln ril the vc1ntests of !ite inl Ihis age. . eave. Spi ke IT athleties at somle snth, srongly ad4vocatilnz phaYsie.1, ultulre along with mental training, sonl mind in a souild bodv. The scope of edhucation sholdl be -' 1.- e . W .- iiiul A Ni I). es i d Im c 1 it. I v-!.r iel( -ie.eCr ) Life' had amil it ino lie would ae smopen 114 ien l)ail he ai.mEnt 1ipment shonId b hefoe, boeth lieneraisli parti1n tr. Te tgenera51lihIs th basfisfr thev mid tiiear. Iour mcothecd i ie ay tworefo,as spcil, andgothe iicial eqi~4upmet stI hae an liae bIfhasism to5 supor it.OS 1Vi Thinaei (If th ('ollege ntor the ei "ife, lme t respo niiliey and~Ii chlife the (sbi 'llity ofe this ay '(d time i ort countryan in theil~ e mhoud hav aC foun body.ii)I ThereC trument ofn t)he oeefo theu ro-Ili sense was better than genius, he said. The result (if hisi observation and ex perience was tie conlvietionl that a sOlind judgment. was the highest in tellectual quality. It was th le result o? common sense. It could -be devel oped. The sound mind ieeded to be train ed, bducated, drawn out, developed. cultivated, enriehied. ,It needed to know many ihings, he said, to know some things well, to linow something perfect ly. Cuilture could not be couniterfeited, said Dr. Leavell. le wanted, how ever', to sound it warning against too iueh culture. Culture should not, be an eld, but a means. The maii for Ilie age1 must have a SOunlid soul, said Dr. Leavell. 'lat would, of Course, include his affee tions, his heart. As a num thinketh and as le loves, so is lie. A man WoUld. seek to do, to reach, to get what, lie loved. The man whose heart was riglit, whose soul was sound, A IDM. (4E-1. 13. CRME-4, President, 1895-04. would n bt be an a "-nlostie. He wotildi believe in somellin. and believe it .ith all his mlliOit. le would be !iuve in Godh. le woul believe in .is fellow-men, believe that they %Iere woth servil- and worth sav h I:. wiuldl belive in himself, w tld believe that he was worth Nhile. tliat 1 Wa1S hIere 1)1 11 fr Ja p - ,1F4. Ilat lie was vI.dowed withi cap We'Iy, burldenl-1 with responlsibility, : .edw witi a detiny. Ile woIuld :w i w I use h.i. p".wers of body, minld anlI ,I Id m.111 vomineli tholm into 1v f1lit isiillent to Itect the -ood * 11":1n .1 -1 Imlhe .:h ry ( o, God. Tiis ul man - i %% 1ldl have not n'y a S1mni . dyml , a oundolml llilid, A Sund sI'l, hut Ihe would also have c ie mnl cmpniiiOnl. I)r. Leavell sI km of the inlllucie of woman, 2as n N byI Iv these who had had wives "Ad mnvlhers. and dauighters and14 sis.. ter.- :1;1l swviet-liearts, Vlhoi knew that 11m,a: had broul.it the world its pur ity anid sweet ness and( syumplathly antd love and( jispiratioln and naobility an~d hiel pfuless--ini a word, its happiness anad worth.i The dliscussion of woman lHEV. .J MIPS A. i . SCIIHRER. P'resiudetit, 1904 broo('i h0 im nto thle subject of' thle :ew we man. of wvhmm lie adv'ised his y 1n2 fien(ds to fight shy. ''Leave'( her If< r the love (of thle Lo4rdI, who loves vevebod,' ' lhe saidl. ' 'But do yoiu se'ek oiut, find, andl cling to herI wVhoi ~ 'lit ouii and fashioned a fteor tle, 'tdyle of woman who liideI y'or father happy and made his son a man.'' ' Dr. Leavell 's closing admlioni tion to the young mon was to use all lie diligeice to Come into posses sion of the sound body, sound mind, 1111d soul andt] sound companion. Monday's Exercises. Yesterday might fittingly and ap priately be tenned Newberry col lege's Cor-ollationl (ily. It was the elimax- of fifty years of glorious his tory and glorious aehieventent. III t lie opera house yesterday 111omning greetiigs were brought to tihe college from the various colleges of South Carolina, from the State of South Carolina through the, chief jus tiee of the supreme court antid from institutions and friends throughout tlie Ilnitei States. It, was a1 matter of regret to the friends of the college and to his many friends in tihe audi eie that Gov. ). C. Heyward, who had accepted an invitation to be present, and whose name was on the p11rW1gr, (o1h111 not attend. T Ihe responses to the greetings were appropriate. The half century of tile College's existeice was re viewed and greater courage and greater hope sprang from the recol lectiou of the sacrifices and the struggles . which had made possible this glad (day. E"specially appropriateA was the ad dress of the Rev. J. A. Sligh, presi lient of tlie board (if trustees, anitd his Iriblite to teit' work of 'Dr. .1. p. Sim-ltzer, during wlmse presidency f'roml the( begi nnin1g. of, the Warl Be htemil Stah 'iif 1 S77, tihe ol lee was brouight throul..gh1 the a(1rkest perimds t1f its history was mmagilifi m. of, the (list ingumished visitors who took part inl the vxereises was Dr. in.jin i Sloanl, piresidmit of tihe Stut Carolina Universiy. The first speaker was Dr. Geoige I. Cromer, former president of tle colle-ge and former mayor of New berry, who extelded an address of of weleome by election of the city Nnncil of Newberry. Dr. Cromer was followed by Dr. A. G. Voigt, lean of the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Charleston, who brought ereet ings from that institution. (hief Just'e Pope spoke on behalf It' tile State of Soith Cari-oliina, anid was followed by Presideit Ben1jamin SlIn, of the South Catrolina Uini versity. The first resploise to the iretiings was by the Rev. M. 0. J. Kreps, president of the Sonth Camo lin Syiiod, tie motier of' the Col lege. Rev. J. A. Sligh, presidenti of flth board of trustees, Iespoided oil whialf, of' tle board. Durinig tie' exervises telegrais an1d messaiges we vre reveived from wvery par11t of the coluntry'. The opera house, \hret flit exer rises wt're held, was crowded with Ile aluimni and f'ormer students of Ahe college, tlie iope of Newherryv, an1(d friends of the institiution geler illy. 'lhet exercises were opeiied with amrnyer' by D r. A. ('. Voigt, dean of he Theological Seimiinary of thme L ut heran Church, Charles.. Byv elect ion of thle city councel of Mt'wherry the adtdress of wveb-'oni os deliv-ered byv Dri. Geoo. I. Cronier, formnei'r presidenit of' thle college anti ferm' miai yor of Newhemrry. IDri. C'romeri extended welctome on behlif of thle general commumity. We love those who love our' col lme'e said. There were memories I lit chlastenied the joys tof t his day. Of fte eight een Itrusteces namnetd in I le chlarteri of 1856i none survived. Olf fte friends who had nurturiedl the inistiittion thle reaper's, thle angels of' riodl, hiad ga thler?'d a golden har ivest. imit after fIfly years thle .olleger wats oniveiring with a new~u life. A won derfuil list ory thle etollege had. 'You reimeimbetr the foumndinLg in hope andi~ iiiayei' wh'en by legislative enact mnit a schlooil became a college anti lby donation of $18.000) fi'om the citi "ens uif Newberry it found a home in N'ewh)erry', '' he said. Dr. Cromer referried to its remoival to Wahalla andit its return aft erwards1 to New ht'rry. lHe sp)oke-~of the glorious his Soi'y ofd thle inst ituition and the sneri flees of -those who had made this his I ory glor'ious. By thle hei'oie sacri fIee of thle fat hers, thle pi'omoters of thme iinstit ution, by thle prayers and faith of' those who had livedt with it (Continune1 on Eighth pna