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From the Carolina Times
Erskine Conege.-----Education
Cheap.

Erslsine Couege.----Education
Cheap.
IKeSsrs. Editors Il have been engaged
Tor some time in attempting to secure an
endowment for Erskiue College, OH the
scholarship plan.-During Il recent visit to
your city | called the attentinn of one Of
your leading citizens to the plan, who sug-
gcsted the propricty of presenting its advan-
tages to the public through some of the
papers Of the city.
Will you be kind enough to allow inc
little space i'll your valuable paper for that
purpose desire to be brief.
Erskine College is located at Due West,
apleasant, healthy village, i'll Abbcvillc Dis
trict, four miles from Donald's Depot, on
the Columbia & Grccnvillc Railroad. The
College commenced its operations as an Ac:l-
deny, in lS3G.-It assumed the Collegiate
form i'll few years, and graduated its first
class i'll 1S42. 1t WAS chartered by the
Legislature i'll lS49, under the name of
Erskinc College. One article in the charter
prohibits the opening Of any shop or store
Tor the retail OF ardent spirits, within two
miles OF the Colle@e-thus gnarlin. the
pupils against the degrading vice of intcm-
| rcrancc.
The College is under the supervision of II
Board of Trustees, subject to the control of
the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod
of the South. 1t has been, and continues
to be, patronized by the christian comn,l-
nifty at large. The Board Of Trustees is com
posed OF Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian,
and members of the A. r. Church, and its
faculty, six in number, arc of the a. r..
Church, with the exception Of one, who is
an Episcopaian. The above may be items
OF interest to some, and for that reason they
are given.
Many of the friends of the Institution
live out of the State of South Carolina, and
altogether some have been liberal towards
it, yet us a general thing. they do mot mani
fest the same deep interest in its welfare
that they would, if it was located in their
own State or vitnity.
For this and other reasons, the College
has always lacked funds. In order to furn-
ish it with funds and enlarge its sphere of
usefulness, the Board Of. Trustees, in 1853,
resolved to endow it on the scholarship plan.
To this scheme of cheap education, will
call the attention Of your readers in another
article. Yours, &c. 3; y2t$;5$ ....
In former article gave some items of in
formation touching the location, origin, and
government OF Erskine College, its demand
for funds and the plan adopted by the Board
ofTrustees to secure the requisite endowment.
now call the attention of your readers
especially, to the "plan of endowment and
ask them to aid in its completion and enjoy
its advantages :,
The plan is similar to the scheme adopted
by Colleges in other States. The object is
to secure permanent fund, the interest oi
which will he sufficient to sustain the Pro,
fcssors, purchase books and apparatus; with
out depending OH tuition and the semiiocca.
sional and scanty contribution oftEiends. y
In order to raise permanents fund for
Erskine Of one hundred &thousandf dollars
the Board Of Trustees adopted plan, some
of the leading articles of which we. .Ssnbjoin,
omitting the preamble: = - y:,ssst
Resolved, That the following plan of en-
dowment be adopted by the Board Of Trus.
! tees for Erskine Colegc,,viz:: ~
he An endowment Fnnd of&sa, Hundred
sstIhousand Dollars shall be created by the
Stsalc of Scholarships which, Scholarships
Eshall be offered on the following terms and
conditions:'' tfsYt s.s5s sySs. s..;s.
l. Thspasmsnspf forty dollars $40,
shall endowt,a siayle scholarsh whicl
shall entitle tile subscriber to theFthiti6n O
one student during;tIe term, syearssssSs;
i 2. The payment of 6liarsi5 $60s
shall endow Scholarship wlickshall entitlf
the subscriber to. tlle5saition Of One or more
of lis own sons, oFtohahy student he may
select, amounting in the aggregate, t
t~clvesyears. 8
s.Any peison securing tosthe Trustees
of said College, the sum Of onesi9huhtired
dollars, O0,) shall identified toShe educa'
tiou, free of tuition expenses of one son OF
nominee, for the term Of twenty five years
or of two or more pupils lat the same time
amounting inthe aggregaats,tto twentyiavil Nl
years. - ~" q asa
%. The epprchaserof a limited scfoi oiaS}lf
may enjoy 2the, advantages Of. the
such time, andsa such intervalss. as may
suit his conyepience.,a. S,.5
y y Any individual associalion of, indiyis}
Euats, or congrega alton, who pay sor Aecurs fe
Il The Trnstaes of fErskine {, he sum- b
Hfye hundred sdo ollaya( SOC, J s6eli beeptitled
Il y toe perpetual dip ich tlls part
4 4 e peItias any 81 pupil 81 Asa ~
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