The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-09
The Clemson College and the State.
Columbia Register.

Public announcement is made that the
trustees named by Mr.. Clemson have met anq
Simpson of Anderson as Chairman and Mr.. j.
T. Wannamaker OF Orangeburg as Secretary
Of the Board OF Trustees Of the Clemson AZ.
riculturalCollege. These gentlemen are T teaGs ths
will We wish them much success.
It will be observed that this Is private In
stitution, just like the Adger College OF Wal
halla, except that one Is designed to teach
agriculture and the other the arts and sciences
The corporators OF the Adger College may, by
q vote, turn that institution over to The state,
and ask that the apploPriaho1s nn nSTe,o(SIe Eo1,
Iege be turned over to II. This offer would
hardly be excepted. But If the corporators
should turn all the property over TO seven
gentlemen, who shall have absolute discre-
tion in its management and In the choice or
their successors, and should then resolve that
the State may 'accept" to pass over all It's APP
ibs g1hSen gIhese Seven 20 gentle
men and their successors, the Register is CON
fident that O general smile would be raised az
State would do any such thing. or course
Adger College Is taken merely as type OF
private schools and colleges In the State.
Yet this Is what the trustees Of the Clemson
College ask the State and the united States
The State cannot accept q trust without
controlling 1t. 1t is doubtful whether any
State has taken 81 any hn rSb
saying how that enterprise Is TO be manageo.
The United States government cannot appro-
pirate money to private purposes. The State
Is accountable to the United States, and the
Clemson trustees are not responsible to the
State,
The advisers of Mr.. Clemson, In their
earnestness that this bequest should be placed
entirely in their hands, have gone SO for as to
prevent the State from accepting the be-
quest" Indeed. the State is not asked TO
take charge. 1t is requested to give money
without taking charge-to give money 10
Our agricultural contemporaries will please
observe carefully that the Register makes no
opposition to the Clemson College any more
than It opposes Wottord College, or NeT6erry
College, OF Furman University. or the Med
ical College. These have done and are doing
noble work, and any friend Of education ana
the Register holds that there is q field Of great
usefulness and promise for the Clemson
College, If properly managed. This College
has an endowment OF no small amount. II
W ork outside of the Stale College, this Glenn
son College can provide 1t, and will flourish
In so doing. Some OF the sponsors OF the COL
lege indicate that Its object will be the prac-
tical instruction Of farmers boys. The Regis
ary schools between the free public echool
and the college. The Clemson College can fill
this gap very acceptably and advantageousiy,
thus gyg dGT a or
and for higher scientific training and culture
at the State University. All this Is within
the scope Of the Clemson bequsst and would
make It great benefaction. Thus far no one
can do anything but approve.
But for a college avowedly, premeditatedly
and guardedly private to demand State ana
national funds already devoted to State and
accede to the demand would be remarka-
BILE.