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rniiFfiF op Hir.ii sphiuu- whiph? ^????????????????????????fH To Parents: 1 Sending your 1*?' or your girl to college I? a serious matter. It may be for hu everlasting good or for his eternal undoing. Parents ought to set. tie this question deliberately, courage ously, prayerfully, and with common sense. Instead. It Is frequently set tled by sentiment on the part of par ents, or by the whims of the child, or by what some neighbor has done or Is about to do, or by the seductive soph istries of BOme College drummer paid to get students. How are you going to settle this question? 2. Is your boy or your girl old enough to -? nd to college? Is either mature enough and fixed enough In habits to stand alone morally, and to do college work in the college way0 Ifnot. by no means send ein,., r. The average hoy or girl sixteen years of age has no buslneSfl on a college cam pus, At that age either needs a moth er far more than he needs a college professor, A boy at that ag? learns to adjust a cigarette or a pipe more easily than h i learn i Latin or English, and to some boys gambling is more fascinating than Physics or Ch< mis try. The majority of college Btudents are Industrious, of excellent moral li ber, and clean in their lives. But on every col logo campus are the derelicts ?the Idler, the morally weak, the vi cious, and often 'he reprobate. j>o not imagine that you know some col lege campus free from evil tern illa tions; It dOes not exist, if It lias any Btudents. II is courting disaster to your son or your daughU r to thrust either In the way of temptation, until old enough and settled enough to hope to resist it. Do not bank upon the strengt'h of your ow n immature child; many another parent has drunk the dregs of bitterness because he im agined that his child was unlike other children. 3. With the same preparation and equal native ability, the- young man entering college at eighteen or nine teen years of age will do more real work in three years than the boy en tering at sixteen will do in four years. The fact is demonstrated every year. At Sixteen years of age. the average boy dOS not realize tin- meaning of bis opportunities at college. He is unable to use his time or his talents to the best advantage. Granting that be makes a good record there and grad uates at twenty, he is not fitted to take up the dutlOH arid responsibilities of a mature man. Many a man's down fall is traceable to a season of en. forced Idli ness between his gradua tion from college and bis entrance upon the life work of a man. A grad uate twenty-two is a man prepared to play a man's part. 4. Is your boy or girl prepared to ; enter college? Is be just through the ninth grade of some .school? If so, he is not prepared to enter college. At best he has but two years of high school preparation, and It would be j an Injustice to him to send him to' college 11 is place Is in the high school; keep him there. 5. Has your boy or girl completed the work of some tenth grade? Per haps he has gone through the so-call- 1 ed eleventh grade of one of our mod ern educational wonders?a four-year high school taught by a single teach er, giving from to 00 minutes a day to each of four classes with from four to six subjects In each class. The grade from which your boy comes: says out little In itself. What is the rank of thai grade'' What is the rank of your school? How much has your son or daughter b.'.-n taught? How well has (ither been taught? What has each been taught, and what has simply be,.ii gone over Has he bare ly gone beyond quadratics In a school Algebra? is he still in Plane Geome try? Has he read three, perhaps four, books of Caesar's Gallic War? Is bis knowledge of History confined to a Smattering of names and dates gath ered from a few months' reading of the subject in school? Is he unable to write a simple English letter with out misspelling and misusing common everyday words? Then, do not send such a pupil to college. He belongs to the high BChOOl. You need not be in doubt about what to do. 6. We have colleges and colleges, then we have COllegettS. Hence, great confusion exists in the popular mind, and In the minds of some teachers, as to what preparation for college means. Besides, It Is no secret that not a few colleges publish In tnetr catalogs def inite requirements for entrance, then canvass for and admit to thler class es pupils who make no claim to hav ing done tho required work. In the blunt language of the business world such practlco is called fraud; In tho refined language of certain education al circles it Is called growth, flomc college can bo found to take any pu pH who has gone beyond the eighth grade. The college student-rolls proveo It. hov or fflrl anxious to go (O college? Does he wish to go. or must he be sent? If he wishes to go. why does he wish to go? I'nless he , Is anxious to go there for the best ! that the college has to offer him, do ! not Bend him at all. If he is going ! there simply to have a good time, or I simply for the name of having gone to college, it will be little short of a j miracle if he is benefited. The ehano ' es are decidedly against him. He is more likely to become an idler and a spendthrift. If not worse. Unless you are satisfied that he is able to do college work and willing to do it. put him to work. Boys and girls should be taught to work, anyway. 8. Are you thinking of sending your boy or girl to college because he Id not studying in the high school at home? On what do you base your hope that either will do better at college? Is it reasonable to hope that either will? One pupil In a dozen, perhaps. Improve on going awa> from home to school. Your child may b? that twelfth one; he may be one of the remaining eleven. Parents fre quently believe that their children are doing well away from home when as a matter of fact they are doing nothing. The parents do not see the failures, and no one reports all the' failures. I*. Are you thinking of sending your child to college because he has not been advanced, or promoted, in the high school? Sometimes the col lege professor and the high school teacher take 'he Bame view of a boy's fitness for promotion from class to cla.-is. He may fail or promotion after he gets to college. Then what? 10. Have you a good four-year high school at home? Has your child been through that school? If not. why do you not put him through it before sending him to college? If he leaves the high school before he completes the high school work, is it not plain to you that wherever ho goes he nvi.-t first complete that work before no can possibly begin college work? Has the pupil Rained anything by going to some college to do the work of the high school? 11, Have you no good high BCh4ol at home? Then would it not be better and cheaper to you to establish such a BChool? Won hi it not be a paying investment to you and your neighbors to establish a first-class high school? A:'(or making full allowances for' scholarships, free tuition, and other gratuities, the average pupil cannot be kept away from home at school for less than $200 to $.'100 a year. Four pupils at college would cost $1.000 to $1,200 a year?enough to pay for an additional first-class teacher in your home high school. Would it not be economy to keep this money In your own school for the benefit of your child and your neighbor's child Would it not be wise to make your own com munity an Intellectual center? 12. Why will people of sound judg ment attempt to run a high school with one teacher at $7." to $100 a month, and another at $50 a month, then spend each year enough on four or five pupils at college, doing high j school work, to pay the entire ex penditure in the home high school for 40 to 7"> pupils? Can such a com munity hope to have a high-grade high school ? 13. Two teachers cannot run a first class high school of three years. The teaching may be of a high class, but tiie teaching force is not sufficient for the work. Glvo each of the three grades or classes, five dally recitations of forty or forty-five minutes each, then sei; for yourself If two teachers can properly do the work. A teacher cannot do the impossible. You may cut down the recitations to thirty min utes, if you choose, but your school could no longer hope to be first class. 11. It Is absurd for two teachers to undertake to run a first-class high school of four years. The teaching, so far as It goes, may be first-class, but two teachers cannot do lustlce to four high school classes. The demon stration of the fact is only a matter of arithmetic. 15, Parents, what arc you and your neighbors going to do about this? Are you and they going to send your un prepared fledgelings off to college next September, just as you have been do ing? Are you golngn to spend your money in some college town instead of spending It on your own school? Arc you going to pay a set of college professors to teach your child what ought to be taught In any good high school? Are you going to take your child away from the home school, then undertnko to excuse yourself on the ground that your home school Is an Inferior one? Would you have a school at all, If all your neighbors were as patriotic as you? Finally, are you and your neighbors going to send from homo all the pupils you feol able to send, then call on the state of South Carolina to aid in keeping up your school for thoso pupils unable to get away? That Is just what some com r?E LAUK?N8 ALWEKHSER, I f munltles are doing. I 16. There Is but one way to sup port your high school: Put enough money into It to employ a sufficient number of competent teachers; keep your children In that school until they complete the work done there. A good banker patronizes his own bank. W. H. HAND, High School Inspector. Columbia, S. C. SMART BOY By W. D. S. A certain Laurens county teacher call out one of his boys in geography to bound the United States. "The L'nlted States are bounded on the north by the north pole, on the south by the south pole, on the east by the rising sun and on the west by the setting sun." Hurrah for t'ncle Sam: I don't know what land that will be able to hold this young man! Saved A Soldier's Life. Facing death from shot and shell in ..... l- ? ? I . ???*? fttUi ...u.v. f, . v. v....>. v. ;G A. Stone, of Kemp, Tex., than facing it from what doctors said was consum ption. "I cantracted a stubborn cold" he writes, "that developed a cough, that stuck to me in spite of all reme dies for years. My weight ran down to 130 pounds. Then I began to use Dr. King's New Discovery, which complete y cured me. I now weigh ITS pounds. > or Coughs. Col-Is. La Grippe, Asthma, Hemorrhage, Hoarseness. Croup, Whooping Cough and lung trouble, its supreme. 60c, $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by I^aurens Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. Tb? Bcsi h\ Idence. Spartanburg's chamber of commerce will have one thousand members and of the quality of them there is no doubt. When a man joins his city's chamber of commerce it is the best of Bigna that he Is a good citizen.?Tho State. 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