The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-10-05
THAT ..SsEOO.FLY'' UNiVER-
SEEY.

university. Professors have besn
! secured with difficulty, and the
; buildings, like the Greenbackers,
are going up rs rapidly as lack Of
mouey and other adrerse circuol-
tauces will permit. Texas has not
yet acquired system of common
schools, but she is going to have d
university or explode. Explode
is more classical and sounds much
more genteel than bust but it
conveys toe same idea. The idea
of Gov. Roberts having a univer-
sity before the boys aud girls
know how TO read and write, re-
; minds one of the ostenta&ious lit.
tie boy who inp!ored bis father
to supply him with a finger ring.
The poor boys garments were al
most as we'll ventilated as the star
route swlndle, and his person Was
improperly exposed in several
places, but that did not embarra>s
him in the least. Little be cared
for the jeers of the popuiace, as
long as be could feast his eyes
and gladden. his heart on the be
wildering sp!eudor ofafnger ring
procured from a 'sboo.fy' box Of
candy. He said be could manage
to get through the winter without
much suffering, if he could only
be allowed a ring. Possibly he
would have been more than will
ing TO have braved the rude au- .
tumpal blasts with one solitary
abbreviated garment, if be were
permitted to warm bimself with
two 'shoo fly rings or a brass
watch chain.
Thanks to the present admins
tration, the university fund has
been reduced to its lowest demon
inator and numerator, so to speak,
to a mere pittance, With which it is
proposed to erect a building, and
when it is finished, and provided
with a homemade faculty to
match, it will bear just abort as
much resem blance TO a bona Jfde
temple of learning as a 'shoo.hy'
ring does to $4,000 solitsire. 1t
does not affect the Governor in
the least that Texas is to be the
laughing stock Of the whole coun-
try, on account of the defective
condition of her educational re
quirements, as long as he, can
show off with that shoe hy' uni
verSity.
The usual plan for educating
the people in civilized countries.
is to have efficient common schools
for the masses. In these schools,
the children are taught the rudi
ments, and in q few years they
are able TO read, write and cypler.
1t is by these common schools
that the whole mass Of the peo-
pie is leavened with intelligence.
The girls grow up to be intelIl-
gent wives and mothers, while
the boys have q chance at least Of
holding their own in this age of
fierce competition. They are not
so apt TO be driven to life OF
servitude and crime as they must
be when they are raised without
d very we'll defined idea of what
the alphabet really is.
Besides free schools, there should
be higher schools, where those
pupils who so desire can acquire
the higher branches and the at
complishments, and finally a real
Institution of learning, where the
young men who desire to follow
the learned professions can obtain
classical education. Instead Of
this con- mon sense gradation OF
studies, we are to have i sort OF
'shoo.fy' university, and no free
schools at all. We suppose a lit.
tie boy will be placed at the uni
versilv, ard after hs ilas .raduaten
with hlgh honors, then. perhaps,
the State will establish free
schools, at which be can learn the
alphabet. This is not common
sense, but it is evidently Gov.
Roberts idea of a system of edu-
cation. The only objection to
Gov. Roberts as an educator, is
that he does not try his plan on
some other State.
70 be consistent, the same plan
should be adopted in erecting the