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(Ulie lamkrg ifpralft Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1908 One Dollar a Year THE CARLISLI The Carlisle Fitting School was erected in 1S9J by the friends of Christian education in Bamberg and presented to Wofford College, it'is. Therefore, one of the oldest schools in the State, dedicated to the co-educational instruction of our youth. The school is the result largely of the efforts and foresight of that splendid champion of Christian education. I)r. John C. Kilgo. with co-operation of Bamberg's leading citizens among 1 DOR of healthful, out-of-door exercise. Aid and encouragement is given to all forms of athletics, but some member of the faculty acts as manager, and accompanies the boys on their trips away from town. Last year the base ball team made an excellent record?losing only one game to other institutions. A shower bath has been put in which adds greatly to the comfort and convenience of the students?especially in connection with their athletic exercises. DISCIPLINE. Last year the military discipline was instituted for the young men and was so highly satisfactory that it is the purpose of the authorities to con %* JR ^ Jjp:. W. S. HOCiAP Head Master EDUCATION AS AN ASSET. Parents Should Give Their Children a Christian Eduration. Happiness is the chief object of our existence here, and what we most need to make us haj py are religion, education and mat rial prosperity. It is therefore self-evident ? /vA nIio /\n?i z\l inai OII IlStlo.ll rumniwu i o uik wi the first and most important debts that parents owe to the children with whom God has entrusted them. Christian education not only unfolds the depths and beauty of the Christian religion ar.d reveals tilt wondrous splendor of God's crea i B BMCr i Cg iffc i:** BWfsfi'^; J/ tl jkJl * ^W ft Tfr FITTING SCHwhom might be mentioned the Brabhams. Bam bergs. Hays, and Folks. For fifteen years it has striven to offer the benefits of moral and intellectual development, under the best conditions, to the youth of the State and to embody as its ideal the spirit of the man for whom it is named?the greatest living Carolinian?James H. Carlisle. BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT, j The school owns a plant valued MLITORY FOR BOYS tinue it. Many benefits are derived from this change. "Military discipline tends to muscular development and physical well-being by an enforced regularity in food, sleep and exercise. It creates habits of promptitude. order, discipline, and suborI dination. It promotes self-reliance ! and personal character by removing all social distinctions, and puts each student upon his own personal responsibility." The discipline for the young ladies is home-like, and no privileges or liberties other than those given in any well regulated home are allowed. HEALTH. TIip health record for the past sev *> IgHS a^BBBSGr tioiis. but it also fits one to move among his fellow-men in a sphere preeminently above that of his less fortunate brothers who are hampered and handicapped by doubt and ignorance, and at the same time I places him in a position to become real benefactor to any community i:i which he may reside. As the gentle breeze bends the heads ol swaying grain while it moves noiselessly about them, so the influence of a real Christian character, armed with tact and education, will as surely and as unconsciously swa> the minds or those with whom it conies in contact and lift them to a plane of higher life. What higher or nobler aspiration W Jjfi^ ^f^^SSr^ B , * X IE LIBRARY OOL OF WOFF( at $:;<). 000. consisting of main building. separate dormitories for the boys and girls, the head master's home, and four cottages. The main building is a large modern brick structure, affording a commodious auditorium, music room, recitation rooms, library, gymnasium, and two literary society halls. All the buildings are well furnished, well ventilated. and lighted by electricity. They are located on a campus conmay designate. houses of worsh 1 school: Presbyter I .Methodist. Special I to Bible study in t J This asrociatior I ized by the youni I women for their I and help. Xearl I student was a met I meets once a wee I bership in the ass I and colleges in th I dents were sent to I tion in Columbia 1 | agement and aid I young people by t I Under the mana ting School lyce 5 course of attractic I small cost, to the zens. There is on the 1 diamond and a t the students can f eral years has probably been unsurpassed. During the past two years there has not been a case of serious illness among faculty or students. This is no doubt due in a large measure to the pure, artesian mineral water which flows into all buildings and is used exclusively for all purposes. STANDARD RAISED. The Carlisle Fitting School, in order to keep abreast with the great educational advance and thereby enter into a broader field of usefuliness. last year reeasted and expanded the course of study, it now embraces English. History. Science, and .Mathematics for four years, with MAIN E can enter the heart of a parent than ] a desire to fit his son or his daugh- 1 ter to meet the responsibilities of r life and become an honor and a t blessing to that community in which i he or site may reside? / By 110 means can this be more 1 asily or more surely accomplished 1 than by giving them a real Christian ( education, and the parent who has 1 the means and yet fails to properly 1 nlucate his child not only docs his * offspring an injury but also inflicts c u wrong upon the people among < whom that child must live. 1 But laying aside the question of the higher life and the goon that t would accrue to others, I ask < s a c purely business proposition, does it t him. Xo man. no wo Ily equipped for life v cation. Can we affor lect our children in I matter? I answer r times no, and in my is no better place ii Carolina to lay a foili Christian education t in Bamberg?at the < School. The true worth and sibilities of this scho< to be properly apprt people, but 1 am gla there has been a grad and 1 trust that the i distant when its true known and apprecia mountains to the sez From a Smart Henrietta and Loui ens of ten years, had been rivals for the hi IV. Louise's mother both been teachers?; tage in Henrietta's e upon being censured for bringing home a Louise's, she replied ' 1 you must remember, from a smart family.' Delineator. M) COLLEGE, I taining seven and a half acres, have frontage on three well shaded streets in the prettiest part of town. LIBRARY. The library, a gift of the late Gen. F. M. Bamberg, contains nearly a thousand volumes of well selected books. The reading table is supplied with a number of the best periodicals. Access is given the boys and girls on separate days. The students There are three ip.- all near the 8S8BRT-^ ian. Baptist, and MSfcTW* attention is given he course of study. l has been organg men and young ^ spiritual training y every ooaraing nber last year. It k and holds memociation of schools ast year. Eneotirare given these he faculty. gement of the Fit- hH| b uni an excellent ins are offered, at Kjjj30jl?J students and citi- HH|^ campus a base ball nnis court, where lave an abundance either Latin or modern language for three years. In mathematics the students are taken through Spherical Trigonometry and the effort is male to take the other subjects pari passu. FACULTY. The faculty consists of four experienced teachers and two thoroughly competent matrons. The head master, Prof. W. S. Hogan, has been successfully engaged in school work for the past seven years, having had charge of a large graded school before coming here three years ago. The present condition of the school speaks for his ability as manager and < teacher. Prof. J. C. Guilds, a graduate of' historic Wofford, who has for the ; rn^rffi UJILDING 3ay to educate? For an answer I t *efer you to the history of the world. < That nation which has paid most at- r ;ention to education has always s nade the most rapid strides in civili- ? cation and all else that goes to make c nankind happy: that community i vhose sons and daughters are edu- t ated. has ever been the most pros- t >erous and progressive, and that \ nan who possesses the best educa- t ion has had his earning capacity in- f meased thereby and has ever held in advantage over his less fortunate , mother. i Education is an invaluable asset f o any man or any community. The t educated mind is enabled to see and t o seize opportunities and therefore t man is proper ithout an edud then to negthis important 10. a thousand opinion there [i lower South ? idation of true mban right here ? fe Carlisle Fitting S the great pos- ? I A do not seem k HVf I ?ciated by our H ual awakening, JKh merits shall be ted the |H| SHyBml se, little maidonors in Room ;?uS9BBX|H| and father had 5B5g5I^B a great advanyes. One day. by her father . report below Yes, papa, but Louise comes "?The August BAMBERG, SOI are encouraged to form the habit of reading good books. LITERARY SOCIETIES. There are two literary societies, the Kilgo for the boys and the Sheridan for the girls. These societies afford excellent opportunity for practice in composition, elocution, and debate. The halls are carpeted and furnished with opera chairs and are attractive meeting places. A mem DORMITORY FOR C past two years been in charge of the department of English and History, and has acted as first assistant, will be in charge of this department next year. Not only in the class room but in every phase of school community life Prof. Guilds is a teacher par excellence. Capt. P. S. Connor, the efficient commandant of cadets and instructor in mathematics, is a B. S. graduate of the Citadel. The Fitting School is fortunate in retaining the services of Capt. Connor for another year. The department of music and elocution will be in charge of Miss Ida Blocker, of Tennessee. Miss Blocker has studied under the best masters and has had three years of success "m/' WQ^^P) *>' <: V o accomplish results that the uneducated could never accomplish. This, in part, is the reason that the services of educated men and women ire ever in demand, and also ac-1 mints for the fact that their servces command higher wages whether hey be needed on the farm, behind he counter, in the office, in the vorkshop, in the school room, in he pulpit or any of the great proessions of life. A well balanced education in reases the earning capacity of an ndividual from one to an hundred old. according to the mental camcity of that individual. It is herefore a matter of easy calculaion to determine whether or not it I v^;' THE ARTESIAN WI JTH CAROLINA ber of the faculty presides at each meeting. All students are required to join one of these societies. RELIGIOUS ADVANTAGES. The Carlisle Fitting School is a Christian school--one in which the spiritual and moral influences are positive and assertive. Pupils are required to attend Sunday school and preaching service on Sunday morning. at such church as their parents n * * * - . ? . ? jIRLS ful experience. Mrs. Josephine Beach, the matron of the boys' hall, has been connected with the school for six years. During this time she has taken the place of a mother in the life of every boy who has attended the school and there is probably no woman in a similar position more loved and admired than she. The girl's hall will be in charge of a competent matron yet to be selected. With the above mentioned advani - !. 111 1- 1 4. iV./, lages it win ue seen mat mc suuuvt offers unusual opportunities to the boys and girls of our State who are seeking to prepare themselves for college or for life. Ik ' V^K/ ^EjpjP J. C. GUILDS First Assistant \ ? 4 1 | I ? I pays to educate. The most profitable hours in life are probably spent in an honest, earnest effort to oh tain an education, and the money J invested in education yields larger and more profitable dividends perhaps than any other money invest- \ ed in the world. A few hundred, or J even a few thousand, dollars Jg placed in the hands of an ignorant, giddy youth can. and very probably 'Jj will, soon pass into the hands of another, but a Christian education is an asset that will remain with the possessor throughout life. It is more valuable than a bank account and cannot be dissipated in fast and \ riotous living, but will remain to bless it's possessor and those about .J 1 1 m J 1 g 5 Bfcp /." '