The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1851-05-03
The WOG0rd College.


We sincerely congratulate the people of
Spartanburg District and the country gene
rally, upon the establishment and location of
this institution in our midst. No human
foresight can fully comprehend or appreciate
the future and ultimate benefit to us, to our
children, to the State, and to our common
country, from this event, pregnant with bless
ings and great results.
The Board Of Trustees met al this place
on Wednesday, the 10th inst, and continued
their sittings from day to day until the bust
ness of location, system of training and nc.
commodatiug students, DC, &c, were fully
discussed and settled upon. There we're
various propositions from town aud coun-
try for locating the Institution, accompa-
MED with inducements to place the College at
the several points named, both in money
and land, ranging from 100 to 500 acres OF
land as gratuity.
The citizens Of the town held public
meeting, and raised by voluntary subscrip-
ton an amount sufficient to purchase forty
acres of land within the corporate limits,
and one hundred acres of woodland in the
country, as an inducement and condition of
locating tho institution in the neighborhood
of our quiet and healthy community. The
result was, the College was located on n most
lovely elevation, about one half or three
fourths of a mile north of the Court House,
in the direction of Church street. Forty
acres Of land in an oblong square, with the
privilege of taking more adjoining at the
same price, have been secured for the cam
pus and other purposes. The mon-resident
system has been unanimously adopted, viz
the students will neither eat nor sleep at tho
College building; they will be accommoda.
Ted in private families, sleep in private fami-
lies, and thus continue to enjoy the refining
and restraining influences of the domestic
circle. They will not thus, be crowded to-
ge,her in one large house, form themselves
into distinct community, nor feel that they
have any interest apart from that of the
town. In this way all collisions and unpleas
ant circumstances may be TO very great ex-
tent avoided. The plan of scholarships has
been Professionally adopted. Any one pay
ing the sum of$500, will receive a certificate
of so much stock, which entities him to the
tuition Of one scholar from year to year, and
the certificate is property which may be sold.
or will descend to his heirs-at-law. In other
words it is an interest in pcrpetuity. The
tuition fees will probably be $40 per annum.
The scholarship yields an interest of only
S35. Thus, it will be seen, scholarship is
a good investment Ifthe owner of a schol-
arshiP has no son or friend to send to college,
he may sell to others who desire to 20, or re-
ceivo from them the tuition fees. Rev. Fl.
A.C. WALKER is the Agent for this purpose
for the College.
We hail this event AZ new era in our
history and progress. The man who could
not afford to pay $4OO or 5000 year to send
bis son abroad to be educated, may now con
fer that inestimable blessing upon his sons
at comparatively small cost. Those at dis
tance may purchase a small building lot here,
and board their own sons, and thus educate
them at n cost Of about $50 or $75 per an
mum: Or they may board .bem-in good pri-
vate houses at $50 to 800 year, and thus
bring the expenses within the reach of very
moderate means. Let us look a. this event
in its merely pecuniary benefits. It is be-
Iievcd the College will have from 100 to $50
students upon an average. If each student
should expend the sum of 5000 per annum,
THAT amount is frequently doubled or .re-
bled,) then with $50 students, there will be
from that source, an expenditure of $4,000
annually in our District Add to this the
salary of President and Faculty, amounting
probably to $4,000 more. Add to this the
increase of the number and wealth of our
population from abroad, amounting most
likely to so per cent on our present number,
buying lots, building. &C., &c, and we may
add an additional sum of say $4,000 per
annum, and then we have the sum of S89. 600
to be expended annually in our district. while
most of this will be wealth from distance
brought into our midst. There will be ex-
pended within the next two years the sum
Of $4,000 in building. DC. Now, the bene-
fits thus glanced at will go on increasing from
year to year, and every one must see the ef-
feet of this will be to make our people pros
porous, intelligent and Independent. Look
to the next ten years. According to our es-
Inmates there will have been expended with
in our district more than half a million of
dollars in addition to our other ordinary ex-
penditures We hesitate not to say, that
between the pecuniary benefits of Rail-
road and College, 80 far as our own people
are concerned, We would prefer the College.
But the best of all is to tell. The establish.
mcnt of a College here at the proposed ter.
minus of the Railroad, will, ,oe haze no
doubt, ensure the success ofour great Rail
road enterprise. That will be the legitimate
effect, the almost necessary result of our posi-
ton, with such an institution in our midst.
For these two great results we have been
laboring. To these we have been looking.
And that we may have contributed some.
thing by our humble efforts to secure them
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