Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-17
UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS.
some Misunderstanding as to the Con-
tract Giving Clarksville, Tenn.

tract Giving Clarksville, Tenn.
w. M. Daniel, Jr, who graduated
at the close of last session very
young and with distinction, was
given city scholarship for four
years in the S. w. p. University, he
being the only applicant, and has
entered school. The matter has
caused some kicking on the grounds
that his father, w. M. Daniel, ST.,
lives outside Of the city limits, it
being generally understood that no
one was entitled to the benefits of a
free scholarship except those living
within the city limits. Even some
members OF the school board were
Iaboring under this impression, until
the question came UP and Willie was
elected by the city members of the
school board and his election con-
4irmed by the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen.
The ordinance on the subject gives
the school directors, appointed by
the city board, the authority to say
who shall receive the scholarship.
The proposition submitted by the
University, April 8, 1874, and ac
cepted by the city, making it con,
tract, reads as follows:
"That said bonds of the State Of
Tennessee with all the coupons at.
tached, being about Iorty-One bonds
If 81 600 each, be donated to the 5
w p. u. on condition that said Uni
versity shall be located at GAINESVILLE,
Tenn, and that the city of Clarks
vile shall be entitled TO have ut all
times as many as ten students in
said University, to be educated free
of charge, said students to be sci cted
from the public schools within the
limits, and under the control of the
city OF GAINESVILLE, for merit and
proficiency in their studies"
The city, it seems, holds the receipt
Of the University for fifty bonds
$3.50, 0OO) instead of for'y-one showing
That he contract has been more than
complied with on the pa of the city.
This contract shows clearly that
the city board has right to send ten
proficient scholars from the public
school 10 the University. The city
board may pass whatever ordinance
it thinks proper controlling the mat
ter, but no ordinance can impair the
right Of the city to select ten pupi' s
from the city school for these schol-
arships, qualified TO enter the Uni
versity, and it is not the privilege of
the University, or any one else to in,
quire where such scholars may live.
II this were not the case, there is a
number of such instances AZ the one
in point. While MIR. Daniel lives
just outside Of the city limits, he has
large property in the city, pays school
taxes and is as much identified with
the enterprise and development of the
city and its educational enterprise az
any man in it, and certainly ought to
be entitled to one of these scholarships
if not taken up by those living in the
corporate limits. 1t occurs that the
university ought to have all of these
scholarships taken up, rather than
let them GO. begging. So far there has
never been more than four in use at
the same time. The misfortune is
that hut few boys in the city
are able to spare the time after com
plotting their course in Howell school,
to attend the university.
Few, if any boys can complete
their course under fifteen years Of
age, and most Of them are seventeen
or eighteen when they get through,
and unless they have some means of
support behind them, must go to
work for living.