The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-12-04

eStaDllSnlnS agricultural ana NC
chanical Colleges. He was furnished
with certified copy of the resolution,
duly authenticated, and filed it in the
Department of the Interior. From a
communication addressed to me by
the Hon. 9. H. Browning, Secretary
of the Interior, copy of which is
herewith communicated, it will be
seen that he declines to issue the
scrip until the Legislature accepts, by
Act, the donation in conformity to the
provisions. of the law of the Consrcss
of the United States, making the
grant. No time should be lost in Sc.
curing this munifcent donation to the
cause of education and science, and
recommend that an Act be passed for
Chat purpose. This step will certain.
ly be accepted as compliance with
all the requirements of a Congressiou-
al law.
In some of the Northern States, tic
fund thus raised has been used in es-
tablishing schools for teaching the
branches required by Act of Congress,
IN existing colleges AMI universities !;
and if this policy should commend it.
self to your approval, the agricultural
and mechanical features of the Col
lege may be ongraftcd on the Univcr-
sity of South Carolina, and save the
State all expense for lands and build
ings required to be furnished by it,.
The buildings of the University are
comnodious enough to Accommodate
all students. that may desire TO ma
triculato, and the lands adjacent t6and
owned by the College will furnish suf-
iicionc land for an experimental farm.
1t is very important, if the donation
be accepted, that such legislation shall
be adopted at the present session, as
will Make it available, Independently
OF, or In conjunctfon With, tho UniVor4
sity..
TIE SOUTH CAROLINA UNiTERsiTY,
was organized early in January last,
and has now about sixty-fite students.
but its tiunber of matriculatcs has not
been equal to the expectation of its
friends, The Act Of last December,
establishing an University, requires
further amendment, by providing for
Medical and Law Schools as part of
the general system of University cdu-
cation. Many of the young men who
go to the Universities of other States,
to prosecute their studies in these
professions, would willingly avail
tn ''msclves of the opportunity, if offer
cd, of pursuing thcmhcrc. With one
Professor of Law, and two Professors
in the Medical School,, in conjunction
with thc Professor of Chemistry al
ready there, these schools could he put
into complete and successful operation,
and the hope might then be reasons
bly, entertained that tie number of
students would be largely increased.
The Board of Trustees, for reasons
which were doubtless, satisfactory to
them, declined,'ip May lastto fill the
chair of Modern Languages. This i'm
portant branch Of modern education
should notlonger go unproyided for,
and tho Trustees will, doubtless, Gll
the vacant chair at their annual meet.
ing in December. The Institution as
organized during the present year,
though by law an 'rUnivcrsity,o has
been practically nothing more than
the College revived. No new branch
es have been taught, and so long as
provision is not made for tcaciiingthe
modern languages, and for organizing
Medical and Law Schools, so lortg will
the youth of the State seek Other m4
stitutions, whore these studies may be
prosecuted. Uutil the University can
be made to merit the patronage of the
State, by enlarged facilities for acquir-
ing knowledge in science, languages,
and the learned professions, it's
friends cannot expect to command
general public patronage to sustain
it,.
The Board of Trustees now num-
Befs nearly forty members. This
makes it a worry unwicldy body. It's