Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-12-03

teen or nineteen years of age should kno'
somewhat how to govern themselves. Unit
the students of the College shall tecom
alive to sense of their personal responsible
ity to the State and to themselves, the yer.
best administration of the College laws, as
government, is destined often to fail. Ol
entering College each student signs eth
Roll," the caption of which embraces
pledge to conform to the regulations, and t.
avoid unlawful combinations On the lat
occasion the young gentlemen seem to hav'
persuaded themselves that, in repudiatinE
the authority of the President, they wer'
acting individually, not in combination
Yet, after conference with the Professors
it was manifest to the Board that almost th'
whole College was implicated. The student
deemed it a point of honor to sustain th'
class, which refused to recite to their chic
Professor, because they had questioned hi
integrity and condemned his administrative
ability. Here is evidence of extensive com
bination, yet no student was made conscious
of it. 1t was deemed necessary that th'
Trustees be assembled to instruct the Facul
ty as to their execution of the laws of the
College. Our young men are commended t
the sentiment, we'll expressed elsewhere by
an able writer, himself an alumnus of the
College, "Obedience to law and to Lawful
authority is honor"
ARSENAL AND CITADEL ACADEMIES
l beg leave to refer you to the Report of the
Board of Visitors of the State Military
Academies, which are fourishing as ever
Their order and discipline are exemplary
The Graduating Glass of this year, consisting
of twenty, turns out to society in its various
callings, young men who, as heretofore, by
their capabilty and willingness to be useful
will do credit to their training, and to the
State whose patronage they have shared.
FREE Schools Free Schools are
doing more good than they have been allow
ed credit for. Wherever educated gentle
men of the country have generously interest
ed themselves in the subject, and with com.
mendable zeal and public spirit have de,
voted portion of their energies to the sue.
cess of the schools, the law has operated
we'll. As a basis for practical system, re-
garding the character of our population and
the geographical peculiarities of the State,
l have not been able to arrange one more
satisfactory. Let its provisions, with some
amendment, be faithfully and judiciously
executed, with consideration for those
chiefly interested, and it will discover itself
to our community system at once available,
useful aud creditable, inviting and reward
ing the services of qualified teachers, sup,
ply of whom cannot be too early provided
for. The excellent public school which has
been organized in Charleston by the Com
mitsioners of St. Philips and St. Mitchaels,
will very soon furnish a number of young
persons who, it may be hoped, will do some,
thing towards introducing into other portions
of the State, the benefits of the improved
system under which they have been trained.
| recommend that provision be made for
the establishment, without delay, of one OF
more Normal Schools, at which the promis-
ing pupils from the schools below may be
further educated for the purpose, and trained
to the art of teaching These are admira,
BILE institutions, and, if well managed, can
not fail to send forth the young people Of the
State into the business of life as witnesses
of their usefulness. They are eminently en-
titled to the notice of benevolent and public
spirited citizens of wealth, who may desire
to render useful to their kind, a portion Of
the surplus means with which they have
been blessed. The first Normal School in
America was founded on an offering of sl0,.
600, for the purpose, by Mr.. Dwight, a
wealthy citizen of Massachusetts,, to which
the State added $4,000, and the thing was
soon accomplished. l have seen that school
in successful operation, and freely give you
my belief, that State which pretcnds tc
sustain general system of public education
should not remain year without school Of
the kind for the regular supply of compe.
tent and accustomed teachers. In order to
add effect to the system by furnishing the
means for seIf.regulation, and by which may
be impaired to it equal usefulness in every
portion of the State, I recommend t1at the
several Boards of Commissioners cf Free
Schools be authorized by law to raise, by
assessment on the amount of general taxes
in their respective Election Districts, sum
of money equal to that appropriated by the
State out of the public Treasury, to be ex,
pended and accounted for in like manner
Whenever the funds can be raised for the
purpose, think it would contribute to the
welfare of the State to establish also a
Marine School, at the port of Charleston.
| ASYLUM FOR TIE DEAF AND DUNE AND
TIE BIND.-I transmit the Report of the
Principal of the Asylum for deaf mutes and
the blind. The public works there are in
progress, and am happy to have it in my
power. by aiding in the expenditure of the
public money, to contribute somewhat to the
liberal establishment of this high charity
Among the blind, as we'll as the deaf and
dumb, trades are beginning to occupy the
minds and the hands of pupils, thus assur-
ing them of their ability to be helpful, and
cultivating a wholesome self-respect and
cheerful industry. Soon will grow up a
colony of pupils on the lands of the State,
and a society which will be independent and
thriving, by their various trades and occupa-