The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-11-08
CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY.
A Great Manual Labor School, for
Afro-Americans.
"A Great Institution Under the Control Of
the Methodist Church-Work Ac-
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This Institution of learning is located
at Orangeburg, South Carolina, on the
line of the South Carolina Railroad,
about midway between Charleston and
Columbia. The property consists Of
nearly two hundred acres OF land, thirty
school, farm and industrial buildings,
and very small endowment fund The
campus is beautifully located, we'll shad-
ed with a large variety of oaks and pines,
affords the purest water and is consplcu-
ously pleasant and healthful. s-2 g.t D,
The existance Of the university is due
largely to the generosity Of the Hon.
Lee Claflin and family, of Boston. It
was founded in 1869 and by act of legis-
lature, approved March IL, 1872. The
State College of Agriculture and Me-
chanics' Institute was located at Orange
burg as coordinate department of the
university.
For several years the Clafin side of
the lnstitutian was under the manage
ment of local Board of Trustees; but
increasing responsibilities rendered it
necessary to turn the property and
school over to the management of the
Freedmens' Aid and Southern Educa-
ton Society. f.. -.
The State Department is sustained by
one-halt of the Agricultural Land.script
Fund, donated by the United States
Government to this State, and by annual
appropriations by the Legislature. .s
The relations OF the two departments
during the past eighteen years have been
harmonious, and have been endorsed
recently by special resolutions, prepared
and adopted by the Claf1in Board of
Trustees at their annual meeting.
Aside from the moral and financial
support received from the State, 1t is
believed by the friends of the ColoreI
race that it is wise to have the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical Departments un-
der the shadow Of religious university
The Faculty is composed of sixteen
members. Twenty uperintendents are
employed in the Mechanical and Indus
trial Departments. Nearly one thous-
and students are in annual attendance.
There are three general courses of study:
English, five years; College Prepare
tory and Normal, three years; and Col
lege Classical and Scientific, four years.
Twenty trades and Industries are
taught, some of which are as follows:
Carpentry, cabinet-making, building,
agriculture, steam laundry, printing,
painting and granting, brick making and
laying, blacksmithing, milling, tailoring,
shoemaking, cooking, domestic econo-
my, training, dress cutting, fitting
and making, croche ing, artistic paint
ing and needle-work. The Trade De.
partments do most of the building and
all of the repairing. All furniture need
ed in the dormitories, boarding depart
ment etc., is manufactured by the stu
dents. ,..
There are one hundred and thirty
acres Of land under high cultivation.
The farm produced last year 200 BUSH
els of corn, 900 bushels of sweet pota-
toes, also oats and vegetables. Six horses
and mules and fourteen head of cattle
constitute the live stock. The farm sup
plies the boarding department. with
corn, pototoes, vegetables, meat and
milk, at market prices. ~,s .
A steam laundry has been equipped
with the most improved machi, cry. In
addition to the university laundry work,
there is large patronage from the city.
This department affords an excellent
industry for girls. Is ! 4 4 <EH#
Experience has taught us that it is
practicable to teace trades in connection
with literary studies. In order to do
this the most efectually and efficiently,
we have established Thursday of each
week as industrial day. We thus for
mally recognize the industrial feature
of the university. This plan has many
advantages. 1t enables us to secure the
attendance of all the students. The un.
divided attention of the students is .se-
cured. There is time for real progress
during each lesson. The influence of
the few who do not love work nor need
to work is destroyed.
Specialists can be employed in certain
departments for one Jay in the week,
and thus improve the superintendent
and save money. Over all is the inspir-
alton of the occasion.
The Trade Departments are support
ed in part by the John F. Slater Fund,
and in part by the State of South Caro-
lima. I ~
Students without exception enjoy the
relief from study one day in the week,
and are eager for the advantages afford
ed by the trade schools. A large mum.
Der have made sufficient progress to en-
able them to earn q dollar day where
they have been getting only fifty cents.
While the mental and physical effects
OF the trades and industries have been
beneficial, the moral effect has not been
less pronounced. We cannot commend
too highly manual training in all of the
schools of our great Commonwealth.
L. M. DUNToN.
Among the people injured in the
wreck on the Old Colony Railroad near
Quincy, Mass, last Summer, who will
get ahont S75 OOO nv a com nromiaa rnaCa