Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-12-07

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certificates, which are now paid in full each
wear by the treasurers of the several counties.
The report of the superintendent of educa-
ton contains full accounts Of the management
of the two large and successful State Normal
Institues-one for white and one for colored
teachers--held during the last scholastic
year. The public school system is now firmly
established in this State, and the friends of
popular education may look forward with con-
fidence to it's steady progress and improve
ment.
cLAFL1N COLLEGE.
This College is endowed with portion Of
the fund donated by the United States Govern
ment for the promotion of agriculture and
the mechanic arts. 1t is located at Orange
burg and is set apart for the benefit of colored
students. 1t has been in beneficial operation
for some years, and the president reports the
past as the most successful year in it's educa-
tional work since its organization. There
have been 344 students in attendance, of whom
"a were in the collegiate department, 1876 in
the normal school and 194 in the grammar
school. The normal school is doing perhaps
the most important work in this college.
Both graduates and undergraduates readily
fiid employment IN tie public schools for col
ored children of the State. An agricultural
farm of $50 acres is attached to the insttu-
tion and is prohtably worked chiefly by STU
dent labor, under the instruction and drec-
tion of a superintendent.
THE MILITARY ACADEMY.
Before the establishment of the Military
Academy $4,000 annually was expended in
the support of two companies Of enlisted men,
who were entrusted with the care of the ord
nance and ordnance stores of the State. In
1912, by Act of the Legislature, this appropri-
alton, afterwards increased to S3O, ,OOO, was dl-
yerted to the maintenance of military school,
the cadets of which should also discharge the
duties hitherto performed by these enlisted
men. The school was modelled upon West
Point and approximated that institution in
thoroughness of instruction. Its career of
usefulness was continued for twenty-five
years, when at the close of the civil war it's
seat, as the building known as the Citadel in
Charleston, was taken possession of by the
Federal government and used for military
purposes. In anticipation of the return of
the Citadel to the possession of the State, at
it's last session the Legislature directed the re-
opening Of the Academy and appropriated
SIS, 900 for the purposes of repair and OF main
tenance for the short period which would
probably elapse between the recovery OF the
building and close of the fiscal year. The
Academy was also by law made branch OF
the University. The building has been re-
stored to the State, and on the 2nd of October
last the Academy was reopened with 1T Ca
diets.
The report of the board of visitors, to be
submitted, will inform you fully of the pres
ent condition of this school. A marked fea-
ture in it's organization is that of it's cadets,
sixty-eight, being two from each county, are
maintained as benefciaries by the State and
are required for two years after graduation to
teach in the free public schools of the county
from which they respectively receive their ap-
pointment. Regulations rigidly enforced seek
to confne this bounty to deserving youths who
have not the means in their own right and
whose parents are unable to educate them.
Selection is made among applicants by COM
petitive examination. The beneficiaries are
furnished, free of charge, with tuition, cloth
ing, subsistence and the necessary academic
appliances. The remaining cadets are pay pu-
pills, and are charged $500 per annum, which
is the estimated cost to the institution OF each
cadet, pay and beneficiary alike.
The curriculum of the Academy, as before
the war, seeks to approximate that OF west
Point, the variation. when it occurs, being in
view of the fact that it's graduates will find
employment chiefly in civil life and their mil
itary training be needed by the State only in
the emergency of such wars as will call for
other than the regular forces of the country.
The demand of our people for the practical
and scientific training accompanied ny the
wholesome discipline afforded by this school is
evinced by the numerous applications for pay
cadetships which had to be declined for want
of sufficient accommodation in the building
as repaired with the small appropriation of the
last session. The number of cadets admitted
in October exhausted all available room. The
means were not furnished to rebuild the burn
ed wing of the Citadel, which would double
the capacity of it's barracks. Such approprla-
Ltion as you may deem proper to make for the
maintenance of benefciaries 1.-THE pay cadets
maintain thelnselves) in this school must be
based upon the estimate of $500 for each. TO
continue this number will require S2O, 400 for
the present fiscal year. Arms and accoutre-
ments, which the acknowledgements depart
ment cannot supply, are also necessary. n
small appropriation to that department for
this purpose is needed.
A claim, ON behalf of the State, upon the
Federal Government, for the use and occupa-
tion of the Citadel since the war has been made
and will, I have no doubt, he soon adjust
ed. When this. fund is realized it will rem-
burse the State for the sum already expended
in repairs, and probably be sufficient both to
restore the wing burned while in the posses
sion of the United States troops and to equip
the Academy fully for the part which l am
convinced awaits it in affording to our people
the much needed facilities for higher educa-
tion.
SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE.
This branch of the University, situated at
Columbia, is endowed with the portion set
apart for the benefit of white students, of the
fund donated by the United States for the pro-
motion of agriculture and the mechanic arts.
1t was reorganized last spring by the establish
ment Of five additional professorshlps, making
| ten in all, and one of which is of agriculture
and horticulture. The scope OF the instruc-
! tion offered was largely extended, and for sew
eral distinct and full courses OF study some
liberal and some technical provision is made.
! The college, thus reorganlzed and enlarged,
opened with 148 students in attendance. Lodg-
ing is provided, the only charge being ten dol
lars annually for repairs, and tuition is free
to all students whose parents reside III the
State The students are boarded at their own
charge.
The development hereafter to be given to
this institution, should, in order to meet the
just expectations and demands of the age, and
the requirements of the Act of Congress, to
which it owes all of its permanent endowment
he largely in the direction Of applied science.
1t should he made the home of the practical
arts and sciences as well as of the classics 1t
should be able to send forth the youth OF the
State well equipped for the practical pursuits
and av0catiOns of life, and hence technical
training should be us anxiously provided for
us liberal culture.
The agricultural department should be so