Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-12-04

anians $si,Sf9 -
languages the 1en@iE S,2,isv
chair OF applied mathematics :Le "a
ians $4,000 for their chair, and each =.
these States will complete its endowment
to $4,000. 2
In addition to this, the Confederate SOL
diers and their friends ore raising q fund
for the endowment of the presidential
cl.aiy as a MEMORIAL tribute to. our noble
CHIEF. ~ 81
The University now has an endowment
of 100000, and an aggregate capital OF
more than half million dollars. Its
finances have been managed with such
ability, that while the university has been
greatly expanded and its usefulness in
creased, it's free trO" delA-~lts manage.
ment commands the entire confidence Of
the public, and the people Of the South
see that by uniting upoll it they can make
it such university as will meetmost fully
the wants Of Southern youth.
1t is attracting donations in large sums,
the late R. II. Bayly, Of New Orleans.
having bequeathed it $4,000 to .endow a
chair to bear his name, and w. w. Corco-
ran, Esq, Of Washington City, has given
it SEC, 900.
Although ills upon this solid basis, one
million. dollars are needed to. carry. out the
plans Of its lamentedpresident. IL /
General Lee was statesman as well as
a soldier, and he saw that the only hope
of our Southern country was to provide
for our youth through instruction in the
scientific and practical branches of learn
ing. He saw that there was nothing that
would contribute more to promote the
material prosperity of the South than men
well INSTRUCTED in the application Of mathe-
MATES and ohemistry-ciyil engineers,
mining engineers, practical chemists, me-
chanical engineers architects, machinists,
carpenters and master-workmen Of all
kinds-men capable of constructing lines
Of railway, developing mines. erecting
suitable buildings and constructing within
them the most improved machinery, and
of filling the positions of superintendent,
chemist, machinist, &C., required In con-
Quoting successfully a manufacturing es-
tablishment. With these views, when he
accepted the presidency of the university,
he urged in, addition TO the 4literary and
professional. schools, the establishment of
the scientific schools now in operation,
and others to be added as soon as the re-
uuisite funds shall be procured. He
Gathered around him a faculty composed
Of men of high character and attainments /;
men worthy to unite with him in mould
inc the character, principles and views of
the Young men Of the South. sBesides
| Professors White, Harris. Nelson and
Campbell, who were In the university be-
fore The war. and who have filed their
positions SO acceptably. there have been
added to the faculty the president, eight
professors, four assistant professors and
several tutors. -
chair of natural philosophy graduated at
Princeton College; was chemist in the
| United States Mint, Philadelphia was
nrofa,sor,ins Princeton College, then pro-
fessor in Columbia College, New York
City and while there was sent to Europe
for fort, two, years to visit the scientific schools
and examine the modes Of. instruction and
the apparatus used. he was chemist to
the Confederate Government during the
war and since that has been sent to Eu-
rome Ly the university to examine i'm
provements in apparatus and the modes
Of instruction, and to make purchases for
the. different departments Of the university.
He He is regarded as one; Of the most scien-
tific men q in the United States.
Col William Allan, o master of arts of
the University Of Virginia, and ,Gen.
Stoaswall IacksQn's chic chief q # ordnance
during the war, has. made the school Of
engineering 9 quite success, and there
y1,a,s'1 WERE more sthdente initlast session than
Gen. Gusts Lee, president, now has
charge Of the:school q snginesring; he is
greatly e Il il Ginterestedin its development, and
p @ eminentIy qualified to give instruction
He graduated gst IN al his classes in The
.I1n;fed. States Military Academy. West
Point, and was consideIedione Of the best
engineers in the Confederate army Fo.
several years before be was elected'to sue.