The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-12-30
COLUMBIA, IS. G.
Tuesday Morning, December so. 1878.
Boylng stadetnts.


Buying students.
We have lived to see strange things
como to pass in South Carolina. The
State University, which has not q
student within it's walls in the academic
deparsments-the departments proper
in college -thupgh the Board of. Trus-
tees calls upon the Legisiatuse fsr
$5o.00O for its support for the next
year. In The specifications, the sum OF
1924. 600 is demanded for twelve profes
sors The only professors who havo
Glasses are the professors Of law and
medicine. There are also. we are in.
formed. o few boys in the school called
preparatory, in charge Of one of the
newly-elected professors, Mr. Fox. That
is nothing but a primary school, which
could be taught better anywhere else
than in the college, and us we'll by
almoit any one else as by professor
with q house and big salary. It is a
proposition. therefore, to support nihe
or ten professors in absolute idieness.
These professors. excepting, OF COURSE,
those in the professional departments,
are utterly unknown in South Carolina,
as well ss to the world OF letters. We
say nothing as to their private character.
But they have made no reputation in
soieuce, or in the discharge OF duties
elsewhere similar to those they have
been elected to assume here. A more
obscure set Of men could hardly ba got
together within the bounds of the Ame-
rican Union. They are utterly without
power to. attfaot scholars, or to give
reasonable satisfaction to parents in
charge OF their children.
The most pitiable thing we have seen
in connection with the proposed cleo
mosynary support of these needy
strangers. is so. o.oalled bill now pend
ing in the Legislature. to establish GER
tain State scholarships 10 the University.
It is scheme to buy students to come
and be taught, and was no doubt sug-
gested by the practical difficulty that,
notwithstanding the gates of the Col
lege are flung wide open for the entrance
OF students, mono have gone in. Our
new oitiaens from the North and East,
who have sons to educate, tnrn up their
noses at the University, and send them
any where else in preference to it.
Even the colored people turn their
backs on it. There are no colored
students. with the few exceptions mem
toned above, and they ere not in the
College proper.
The bill provides for four permanent
quadrennial scholarships for each Coun-
ty in the State, at q coat each of 5000
annually For the first year, each
County is to send one scholar; for the
second. one additional scholar; and for
each year thereafter. one additional
scholar. until the four scholarships for
every County shall be filled: The num-
Der then will amount to 1913. These
scholars are to be supported by appro-
priations from the State Treasury, paid
to the pupils in monthly installmen.s of
$40 each, upon the order of the Board
Of Trustees. $4,000 are to be appropri-
ated for the year beginning November
l, 1873. When the scholarships are all
filed, the cost of support, ut this r4te,
will be $685. 900 annually. The further
peculiar and most preposterou, recon-
mendation is made by the House Com
mitteo on Education, that eacb such
student may, upon entering the Univer-
sity, pay the sum of $40 to the State
Treasurer, and thereupon contract
(mark the WORLDLY shall arise between
the State on the one part and the stu.
dent on the other, by which they shall
be cliDched together indissolubly. The
State shall be bound thereby to provide
annually for four yeurs for the support
OF the scholarship, and The scholar be
bound to fill it!
When shall this mookery of ednca.
ton, this outrageous imposition upon
the people who pay taxes, and whose
property is for sale to make mp the re-
sidae which they cannot pay, come TO