The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-06-24

Institute viii be held between July 9th
and 18th They all expect to attend
that my colosed teacher who expects
Is attend the Columbia Normal will have
to mpays m ttill fare going on the Columbia
1 and M Grssnyiille Road, and. return free on
y pressnting to conductors certificates OF
attendance from the Office of State SUI.
psrinte dsnt Education.
Onr. recent visit TO Hones Path was q
charming one. The reputation of the
..place forsits nnhonnde led hospitality was
well sustained and increased, if possible.
{ No pains we're spared to make the visit
Iors COM Portable aud the occasion enjoy.
& able. A grand speech from q. grand old
4 man, tue venerable DR.. Furman, Was
vel reeeiYed by an attentive audience
and, ws trust, produced 9 lasting ira-;
preston upon the minds: and hearts OF
s. many young men and boys who heard it.
The opinions of a man, whose life,
though not yet ended, is acknowledged
81 to; Be al dispntable anccess, are invalu-
able, and Ilis advice TO young men is
worth The closes 5consid deration.
The school so ably managed by Prof.
IS S I Bs Watkins, has closed e successful
session III spite Of. the stubborn interfer-
Is ence enc Of the measles. Many Of the pupils
ddoBned at their bid ding, but as soon as
possible fell into line again and worked
s up Il, to tie end Of the session. The Honea.
Path School is q suceess- the town has 8
light to be proud Of it.
haye from time to time, in season
nd| out ofs season. urged upon our young
mea the utter folly of hurrying off to
Collegs befofe they are prepared for Col
siege work I,et US repeat: you had bet
S S. tsr never 81 i sae q College than go through
one MANNED from the beginning, for the
reason that too little time and work are
{ given 10 the ground Work the most in i'm:
porsant 81 all uctnres. This mistake,
81 s3. tan made, arises from 9 misconcep..
s. & s5i tion of the whole thing. A simple
s diploma Is worthless unless it be the ex-
&: p,,onentso of thorough mental and moral
nlture. Thore can be no thoroughly
@ trained intellect when the. elementary
steps Of the drill work are left out.
a thousand College diplomas can not
supply the place Of the missing links.
That diploma which smells, OF the grease
3 That was used to get the bearer through
Is away below par nowadays. Armed
with such document as his only capital,
Young man has rather 3 gloomy future
before him and IS leaning upon a broken
staff:
Many mems lives have been twisted
aud warped and completely circum-
scribed BY the very mistake that we are
NOW discussing. Few men have the
courage, OF determina to supply the
missing links after q few years have
passed. Some have done it. but they are
the except BY no means the rule.
II young men will go to- College and
every one blessed with the means ought
4 to go let them go prepared, ol end their
& school days before they go, rather than
do ahodd work or incomplete work, in.
tie preparatory school.
Il must be very hard on a spirited
young man 10 realize that his class is
dragging him along II he is not made
out Of. the best kind of stuff, he finds it
hard to bear and probably sinks, disgust
{ ed with the attempt to become an edu-
4, Gated man.
Onr Colleges are themselves to blame,
In great measure, for much. of the
8 shoddY work that has heretofore been
attributed to the preparatory schools.
In order to increase their patronage, the
j temptation has been very strong, Of
s course, TO mariculate students who were
wholly, or, in part, unprepared for the
College curriculum. + the examina.
lions for sdmisaion were doubly strict,
there would be less talk about poor work
Z amoes fhe schools and fewer shams
thrown ont upon society.
So long as our Colleges refuse to turn
OFF any who come, bnt admit them to the
freshman class with the hope that they
will make up deficiencies, or complacent-
II conaign them to- oTtheir own imperfectly
arranged preparatory department, just so
long must they expecs to do nnsatisfac-
tory work and meet competition among
The schools. With classical schools scat
tered all oyer the land, there is no ne
cessity for any College to have g prepar-
atory department Of its own. When she
does she puts herself into unfair compe-
tition with the very schools from which
abe hopes to draw her supply Of material.
Let the Colleges when student applies
for admission make him stand square to
the rack, and, in case of failure, go back
& 70 the preparatory school from whence
he came. or some other; then they may
expect the schools to do better work and
take pride in fitting young men for the
demands the Colleges make upon them.
s--....yu z.zs.z.Ezsss@
Rev. Charles B. Galloway, of Missis.
sippi who was recently elected to q
Bishopric in tue Southern Methodist
Church, is said 10 be the youngest man
ever elected to sucha q high position in
the councils Of his church. His ago is
thirty live.
r. Frank Anderson, Of Abbeville
Connty. is working gold mine on his
place that is paying very we'll.
President CleYeland's present to