The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-02-17
For the Andersm IntelJenen.
The Carswell Institute-What 1t Pro-
poses-Word to Patrons-Appeal to
the Young-Opening Of First Session.

the Young-Opening Of First Session.
MRssRs. EDITORS: The advertisement Of
this institution in your columns has doubt
less attracted attention and provoked inqui-
ry. By your kind permission, will give
such information ss will satisfy the minds
of an inquiring public, and create or increase
an interest in its prosperity and success.
1. A very natural inquiry concerns the
peculiar work this institution proposes to
do. 1t is tho intention and hope Of its pro-
jectors that it shall answer two purposes,
each of great importance in the education
and elevation of the youth of our Land. 1t
is on the one hand, to be (what is called in
Germany q gy,nasi,m, or preparatory
school, in which students of either sex may
be trained and developed for the colleges
and universities. On the other hand, 1t is
to be college to such as have not the means
to "go off to college," Our curriculum will
be so constructed as to adapt itself to any
of our first class colleges, male and female,
and, at the same time, so graded, symmetri-
cal and complete as to afford substantially
the same order and class of instructions (as
nearly as is possible in the absence Of appa-
ratus) as are dispensed in the higher schools.
g. A word to patrons. 1t seems necessary
to have some fixed and published rates of
tuition. These are to be seen in the adVer
tising columns of this paper. But an ut
tempt is made (the first in our knowledge)
to adapt the tuition charges to all classes,
so that rich and poor may alike enjoy the
advantages Of higher education. The rates
advertised are the maximum charges; none
will be charged more than these published
rates, and all who send pupils to school,
without any private arrangement. prior to
entry, will be required to pay these outstand-
ing charges. But by personal conference
with the principal, persons having several
children to educate, or those who are in
very moderate circumstances, or young per-
sons industrisusly laboring to educate them
selves, may have the rates in each case so
reduced as to enable all to patronize who
desire. OF course, need not add that
reserve to myself the right to make such
reduction in each case as deem fitting and
worthy, and even to impart instructions free
if I choose thus to favor any. 1t will be
well also and profitable for patrons to note
well this one essential maximum Of our
school: No student will be allowed to enter
school this year until the tuition fees OF last
yaar are paid This will ever bo standing
and inhe1ible law of patronage.
And, now, before school opens, let me
emphasize the importance of constant and
regular attendance. make no promises
for students who attend school irregularly,
however apt or however much money they
pay. But those who are constant and regu-
lar in attendance, I promise will steadily
advance, improve and rise, to the teachers
qualification their own delight and their
parents satisfaction.
5. An appeal to the young. Would that
could reach the ear, mind and heart OF
every young man and lady, boy and girl in
our whole country. How fondly, and with
what burning intereat would sit down by
your sides, one by one, and talk with you
affectionately, sympathizingly and encour-
agingly in regard to your personal improve
ment and preparation for life. cannot
have fireside talk with all as have had
with seme of the dear young people who
may read this article. But I can speak to
you all perhaps through the Lrteligencer.
First of all, let me assure you, my dear
friends, that it is you that must share my
interest, my sympathy and solicitude. In
you, the highest hopes of my country are
fixed. You are unconsciously, but none the
less rapidly, rising up to fill positions of
honor and trust now occupied by those who
are receiving or soon to receive their sum-
mons to another world and other scenes.
And have you ever inquired about your
fitness, and what is necessary to prepare you
for these high and responsible trusts? As
this is reasonable and important question,
permit me to answer it briefly by affirming
that, without proper mental culture, and
without furnishing your minds with appro-
printe articles of polite and practical learn
ing, you mnst be unfit to well attend to your
own personal concerns, much less the weigh
tier matters which society and government
will force upon you. Then, by this one
plea alone would urge all to resolve upon
an education-the highest, the best you are
capable of receiving. What matters it if
you are grown and past the time Of life in
which it is customary to acquire the rudi-
ment. of education7 What matters it if
YOU have to enter classes with many Of far
fewer yearsr Are these embarrassments
sufficient to force you into willingness to
remain ignorant2 If 30, you will and
should live and die in ine1cusable ignor-
ance. Rather let your desire, your determi-
nation, be such as to enable you to leap over
the bounds of all embarrassment, and tun-
moi through every mountain of difficulty,
and drive you resistlesssly on until you have
become the worthy possessors Of we'll
trained, well-developed and well-furnished
minds. Ignorance, when unavoidable, is
only misfortune, but when willful it is q
disgrace. And the time is come when, from
the increased facilities of education, igno-
rance in this country at least must be will
full, and hence disgraceful, III it continues.)
You must seek education my young friends,
or you will soon be odd and left behind.
Your comrades and contemporaries will
drive by you in splendid style and with rail-
road speed, and leave you plodding foot
man, as it were, to trudge along life's busy
highway. Beg your parents to grant you
opportunities of education if they bequeath
YOU not one cent beyond it. And if they
refuse your ardent pleas, tell them, respect
fully, of course, but with zest, that you
mean to have it as soon as you can work for
| yourself. How many scores and hundreds
of students there are to-day in Germany
the nursery of scholars-hungry for learn
,np and by consequence hungry for food,