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FOR THE INDEPENDENT rREss.1
: Examination
OF TIE SouTII CAROLINA CONFERENCE AcADEMY.
AT CoKEsBUEY, S. c.. |
Messrs Editors: This was not the frat occa- |
sion in the history of the world in which the
girls took the wind out of the sails of the stern
er sex. What could the Rev. Mr. RouSD and
Rev. MIR. WIcnrMAN do with their masculine
genders, after all the hue and cry made about
the girls on Monday and Tucsdaya Why sirs,
IT You had been there both days instead of ono,
you would have been persuaded that the ladies
constituted not only the tuircr, but the entire
portion of the human. family. Such praises rs
were bestowed upon them! they must have had
their heads quite turned. And if We sorry
scrubs we black; jack specimens of creation, get
the buttons scwed on our shirts, or the holes in
our heels darned up nicely for the next four
weeks, why, sirs, it will be by IN act of most
graceful condescension.
But the boys had their time; and it is but
due to the girls to say that they paid back with
interest the need of admiration which had been
so gallantly bestowed on them. When were
women ungratefuls There they are with smi-
ling faces and beaming eyes shifting the hearts
OF our youthful Juniors and Seniors with
strange and indcfnable fear Who would not
like to appear to advantage in the eyes of his
fair and admiring frienda
The boys performed we'll in all the studies to
which their attention had been directed. and bS
their promptness and accuracy in answering
reflected great credit on the whole corps of
Professors.
TIE EXHIBITION
On Wednesday and Thursday nights, gave cvi-
dence of much pains on the part of the Teach
ers to improve the boys in elocution, and of
considerable ambition on their part to excel
We have not before us the subjects of the
speeches nor tho order in which they were de-
liVcred.': But that is of but little consequence
when compared with the entire impression
made on the public mind in favor of the ad-
vancement of the students in this divine art"
We must not dwell here, rs we are anxious to
bring your readers to the great event of the
occasion, the
ADDRESS BEFORE THE EnosorH1c SOCIETY.
This was delivered on Thursday morning at l
O'Clock, by JAMES CARLISLE, Esq, Professor elect
of Mathematics in tho Wofford College. It's
hoped that Mr.: CARLISLE will yield to the enr
nest solicitations of the Society, and indeed of
all his personal friends, and furnish a copy of
this most excellent Address for publication
His subject was:'The Dangers of Students
Life, and was treated Of in a familiar and mas.
terly manners None but one who had been
himself a student {and in this case n student
of tho first order could have depicted in such
glowing gSolors the dangers which surrouud the
young man at this most interesting period of
his lifdgsAll We can do at present, is to furnish
your readers, with the merest outline, bsggar.
ly synopsis, ofsone of the best speeches we have
ever listcnsdto. He introduced his subject by
q reference sto labor as the common lot of all,
and as constitutinga ut; the same time the gloryI
and the curse of = men-the glory, as it is the
price ofexcellepce in every department. Of life
and the curse, as it robs us of the time and IN.
clination for the higher pursuits of life In the
judgment of the spenker,
Improper Stendasds Of Duty constitute one
of the dangers Of studentiss life. Men
viii seek to shelter thenlselyes under the
patronage Of erospd-rto divide responsibility
will do without hesitation, in numbers, what
each one would ccorn 70 do, singly and alone.
Crowds never blush -orovds have no con-
science, &e. Passing from this theme, the
speaker introduced x ~ s. ff.e:# +
jElls gssbordinatio, as another and an alarming.
la psegslent danger of the student. In the
M9st iful and eloquent manner lie showed
nature is subject to the most ex
aess esd regulation from the / most mag
niss ssnt osB tbssEroll through infinite spaee,3
down 20 ahe snas2lae particle Of matter, all are
subject 70 thAsa III fixed laws ,=-how: much +
more: approprisba That: mind should BE con-.
trolied and direeted by d oss Is whom; God has
given il In shafge. + 1hss feryent speakar then +
proceeded 20 snIeii on 6 ~ ~ a.
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