The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-12-04
tuition are valuable agencies in the proper
moral and physical development Of the
youth of the State,

direction of the President as Professor o
Military Science and Tactics.
BY virtue of my Office. I have been
member of the Board of Visitors for tht
last two years, aud have given close
attention to the affairs of the Academy
1 am satisfied that it has been conducted
with all the economy consistent with the
standard of usefulness that has beer
established, and that the estimate submit
ted for the maintenance and education o.
the beneficiaries of the State cannot be
safely reduced. If the full amount of the
appropriation asked for is not granted
some of the beneficiary cadets must be
dismissed at once. From the fact thai
these cadets have entered into an obliga.
tion to teach for two years after gradua
alton in the public schools of the State
it is bat due to them that none of the
number be dismissed without fault before
the completion of the course upon which
they have entered.
The wisdom of the legistors of our
State who in 1842 established the State
Military Academy has been amply vindi-
Gated by time. 1t stands to-day an i'm.
portant element in our educational
scheme-one which we'll deserves your
fostering care and liberal support.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE.
The prosperous condition of the South
Carolina College is most gratifying, and
abundantly demonstrates the wisdom OF
the policy which effected its reorgani-
zation in 1882. The last session was
most successful. The catalogue shows a
total enrolment of 202 students-a num-
Der exceeded but twice in the history OF
the institution. Of these 202 students,
1913 were natives of this State, the largest
number of South Carolinians ever assem-.
bled at one time within the walls of the
institution. If comparison be made of
the fourteen leading universities of the
South as regards attendance and collegi.
ate charges for the session of 1883, it
will be found that this College shows the
third largest number of collegiate stu
dents-the University of Georgia having
but thirteen more and the university of
Alabama eleven more. AS regards
cheapness, it stands at the head of the
list. 1t can be safely affirmed that equal
educational advantages are not offered as
cheaply to the students, and at less cost
to the State, by any other institution Of
learning in this country. The number of
matriculates for the present session is
now 160, and it is confidently expected
that it will reach 200 before the close of
the second term. That the general bust.
ness depression and the gloomy agricul-
tural outlook in so many Counties of the
State have affected the attendance so
little, is as surprising as it is encouraging
to the friends of the College.
The work of organization has been
rapidly perfected. The courses of study
offered by the institution are comprehen-
sive and varied, and the instruction
afforded thorough and progressive. The
discipline is good, the bearing of the
students admirable, and the relations
existing between them and the Faculty
kindly and harmonious. The require.
ment for admission, at first judiciously
conformed to the educational necessities
of the State, are being steadily advanced,
and the standards for graduation, as high
as those which obtain in the majority Of
the leading colleges of the country, are
rigidly enforced. While loyal to the
traditions of the past, and therefore
desirous of maintaining its reputation in
the important department of classical
learning, the authorities have wisely de-
termined to adapt the College to the cir.
cumstances of our people and to the
activities and the demands of the present
day. During the last session the courses
intended to prepare young men for the
learned professions, for scientific pursuits
and for the ordinary business ayocations
of life have been extended and improved,
and new courses of instruction in law, in
the science and art of teaching, in phys
iology and pharmacy added. The scien-
tifc teaching is not confined to theoreti'
cal instruction in the class room. Thor.
ough and systematic drill in the labora.
tory and field is offered in surveying and
engineering in general, and in agricultu'
raj chemistry, in uineralogy, in botany
and in pharmacy. The series of exper.
iments made by the agricultural depart.
ment during the year is extensive and
valuable, and the results will be given to
the public this Winter. That the inhu-
ence of the College is already felt in our
educational affairs, is shown by the fact
that of the twenty.four graduates sent
out last year, thirteen, or more than fifty
per cent, are now engaged in the work
of teaching.
The organization and work Of the
College are beginning to attract the
favorable notice of the leading educators
Of the South. A distinguished college
President predicts that this work will
soon place South Carolina in the lead
among Southern States in university
education"
What has been already accomplished
gives abundant promise that the future oi
the institution will be in every way
worthy of its past, and that it will, as in
former years, repay the liberal support
and patronage of the State by equally
liberal returns. To the value and large
ness of these returns many of the most
distinguished among my predecessors in
Office have borne willing and eloquent
testimony-testimony with which every
one at all conversant with the history OF
the State is familiar.
To dwell upon the many beneficial
results which can, with confidence, be
expected to follow from the establishment
of the University of South Carolina in
all its branches upon safe and perma.
nent foundation, or to press upon the
General Assembly the importance oi
according to it a liberal support, is surely
unnecessary at the time, when our polit'
ical skies are so bright with promise.
when hope and confidence have returned
to our people, when loyalty to the past
and proper regard for the future, when
the teachings of experience and the best
philosophy of the day, when enterprise,
progress and true wisdom all demand
that our institutions for higher educations
should be honored and cherished as a
certain means of advancing the material,
the moral aud intellectual interests OF
the citizens of this Commonwealth.
The reports to be submitted to you
will rive fnll estimates of the amounts