The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-09

Two eLOrleB OlgQ. Lie uTSL uooT alus LILO
library and readiDg-room, with about the
same number OF books and copies of The same
portraits possessed by the other s,clety, with
number Of valuable maps upoi the walle,
and capacinus lobbeB and committee rooms.
On The second floor is the Eain, ball devoted
TO literary exercises and dlspuhiiona, and
furnished in style very similar and with
degree of taste and richness eiual to the
adOrnmeDt Of the other hall. . G.;....
Erskine College was founded, and is prlncl-
pally sustained, by the denomination now
known as the Associate ReformedChurch, the
offspring of union formed In ls2 between
The Reformed Presbyterian Tor Csvenanters')
Church and the Associate Chisch, both OF
Scottish origin. The standard OF he Associate
Reformed Church Is the sWestmilster Comics
siun Of Failh,r and its founders lnihis country
came during the last century 10 the shores OF
the New Word from Scnrldnd AMI the north
aud fourished in America, an It bow has Two
Independent branches 10 this country. the one
n The Southern States being Known a. The
Associate Reformed Synod of The suui h. TDere
are about seventy ministers In ibis synod, and
more churches than miGisleru disrriouied
throughout North Carolina, Sqrah Carolina,
V1rgluia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Ar
kansas. tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri.
South Carolina is included paruy In The first
and partly in the second prrsb,tery, and has
twenty. .one minister's. located 10 Abbevllle,
Anderson; Newberry, Laurrns, Fairfield, Ches-
ter, York and Lancaster Couniiia =.
The germ OF the present c9lege was the
Clark and Erskine Seminary founded at Due
West in 1886. For three or fOnt years the in
stitu,ion was confined to fttl1g young men
for college, but In 1889 IL was reOrganzed as
college. aud q collegiate charter obtained
from the Slate. Sincs that time IL has been IN
successful operation, with steadily increasing
numbers and prosperity. Notwithstanding
the yicissitudes ofthe war aud other oiscourag-
Ing circumstances. and now 1t occupies
position of assured stability AND usefulness.
The reasons for the establishment of Ersklne
College have been stated as follows, and they
would certainly seem as applicable and
forclble now as In 1888, when these words were
written. One object was to o6viate The necs-
atty of s-ndlng young men from the South 10
the colleges 10 the North and Northwest,
thereby endangering their heallhby exposing
Them 10 an uncongsnal climate. Another
was, that from the location OF the college
surer guarantee might be aftorded Of the
preservation and the Improvement OF the
morals of youth than can DO enjoyed where
the Inducements to vice are numerous.
Another design of the institution was TO ausll-
fy young men of piety and OF miad tor the
puolic service of the church."
The Rev. E. e. Pressly, d.. d., was the
first president of Lhe college. he was elect
ed In 1889 and resi- igAed IL lS47, the Rey. R.
G. Grer, D. D being elected as his successor.
DR.. Grier, after number of years OF faithful
service, also resigned, and was succeeded by
the Rev. f.. L. Patton. D D but alter q lew
wears DR.. Grier was recalled 10 the presilen-
cy. which post he occupied until his death Ia
March, 1871. In September last his son, the
Rev. W. MoffAl Grier, WAS elected as presi-
dent and professor OF moral and mental phil
osophy, which position he now holds. The
other members of the faculty as ut preaeut
organized are as follows: Rev. ]. P. Pressly,
D. o., professor OF Greek; Rev. J., N. Young.
professor OF mathematics and natural sciences;
W. y. Lowry, A. NJ, professor OF Latin; VII.
liam Hood, A. NJ, professor Of bellies lettres
and history. ..'..3'i
record of useful labor and grali(Ji Ing results.
It has hal sCme severe hDancial Vicssltude',
among which the most severe was the swamp
Ing of almost its entire assets by the civil war;
bus although 1t Ia not yet by any means
wealthy corporation, II has always managed
to provide we'll for its current expenses. while
tuition at an extremely moderate
and In some cases merely nominal rate. The
college had at one Iime an endowment flnd M o. o.
seventy Thousand dollars, tho greater part VI
which was lost by the war. but prolectls IS
now on foot by which 1t 10 expected tnst new
endowment fund of one hundred Thousand
dollars viii be raised, which, will put The iDsti.
tuition above the probaol ity of want TOR sev.
pral years. The college ia running at present
on q five-year endowment plan, gotten up TOUR
wears ago. Parties paid, or obligated tnem-
selves for, one hundred dollars To be paid IN
fiye wears, at the rate of twenty dollars per
!, ear. In the meantime each subscriber had
ihe control of one years tuition for one stli-
dent for each twenty dollars 80 paid, THIS
endowment, which terminates at the cl"se of
1873. reduces the expenses Of tuition to
comparative trine in proportion to the advan-
,ns, ,,tnti,,r PICKET.