The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-08-13
SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL.

It will bo seen by reference to a cOmmunlca-
ton published on our first page an ASSOCIATION
of gentlemen have been formed in this County,
for the purpose Of promoting the interests OF
the entire State, by the establishment OF Sci
enti6c School at Fort Hill, near Pendleton.
They propose to raise sufficient amount by
subscriptions in every part of the State, for the
erection of suitable buildings, and the laying
out Of the grounds. This School is to be con-
Quoted on ali improved scale, after the manner
of the first class Scientific Schools Of France
and Germany, and is intended to supply the
place of that once noble, hourishing and high
ly honored institution, the University of South
Carolina. An able and efficient corps of Pro-
fessors skilled in every department OF science
will be provided for the management of the
School The Hon. II. G. Clemson, we'll known
for his labor in the interest and promotion OF
Science, has graciously offered to the Assocla-
ton, land at Fort Hill, as a site for the Scien'
titic School. We heartily endorse the move
ment and wonder that such an enterprise was
not projected years ago. Before the war the
University of South Carolina, which stood rs
high in the scale of literature and science rs
States, supplied in a great measure, the place
Of sucha school but under the present regime,
with all it's old and able Professors gone, and
in their places men who have been picked up
end put in the chairs of the various depart
ments simply to suit the tastes Of the now
trustees, and who are, in a great measure, in
competent to discharge the duties of the various
positions in which they have been placed, the
University is no longer Il first class institution.
The establishment of a Scientific School at
Fort Hill will not only benefit those who may
attend but also the communities to which each
student may belong; for, going out from
school in which are taught, in the highest de-
gree, the various scientific branches pertaining
to almost every department of life, particular
W to that of agriculture about which the peo-
pleof our State know but little, they will by
their experiments and labors ditfuse into the
minds Of the masses a practical knowledge Of
the scientific principles of farming that will bo
of q great benefit. At various places in the
Northern and middle States such schools have
been established years ago, and are now in a
hourishing condition, sending out every year
q class of men who spread themselves over va
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who by their efforts and ZEAL improve and
make fertile the lands, and enhance the wealth
and prosperity of the country.
BY geographical and scientific investigation,
and by experiments, we find that South Caro-
lima, both i'll climate and soil, is equal TO that
of any country in Europe or America, and that
the reason why its resources, both vegetable
and mineral, have not been fully and boncfici-
ally developed, is owing to the fact that scicn-
tific education has been sadly neglected. The
agricultural portion of our people only attend
the common schools, at which they learn moth
ing save the rudiments of an English educa-
tion, which is necessary for them to get along
in tho everyday transactions of life, and those
young men who attend the various collegiate
institutions, do so for the purpose of studying
some profession, learning nothing whatever
about the all important science Of agriculture.
10 develop the resources and instruct the youth
of South Carolina is the object and end of the
Institution at Fort Hill, and VIC hope that the
subscriptions to the school will be large in cy-
ery section of our State