The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-13
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The Farmers' Sons win Have Their
College in 1899.

GREENvILLE, s. c., Especial. The
IN session at Pendleton. decided to press
the work In all the departments and pre-
pare to open the College on February I,
1899. The sessions of the College will
be from February 1 to December | of
every year, making ten months for stu
dcuts to study and work. Thcra will he
no Saturday holiday, rs in other schools,
una the school days will he six in every
week No student under l5 years of age
will be admitted unless tho student has
an Older brother in attendance. Every
student will bc required to work two
hours of each working day at manual IL
Dor, and will receive su,h conversation
for his work as the board of trustees can
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The students will be required to live and
board at the institution, except where
they live near enough to attend from their
homes. Board will be furnished Mt nctu-
at cost, which will not be over seven dol
lars month, and books and stationery
VIII bc furnished at actual cost. The
College will be under military discipline,
and every student will be required tn
wear u uniform of cadet gray.
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The board also fixed upon list of
studies, but they will he given to the
press later. There will he two general
departments in the College, tho agricul-
tural and chronological. For entrance
into the College the applicant must have
knowledge of arithmetic, history, gcog-
raphy and grammar. Tho agricultural
course will be thorough, aud the student
will be given complete education in
practical al we'll as scientific farming.
Ths sshnSGa ss ss Or % he
school in tho country. Tho standard will
be high, and every facility will he given
for thorough course.
PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT.
The board has determined to provide
preparatory department on account Of the
present condition of the public schools,
hut the same limitation as to age will ap-
ply in this department..
The College will be able to accommo-
date three hundred students. There arc
already over two hundred applications on
file, and they are being received every
day.
TUITION NOT FIXED.
Tha board has not decided what the
tuition fees will be- Tho committee on
the selection Of professors has been con-
linucd, and the committee will take plcn-
iy of time before making tho selections in
order to get the best possible.
PROGRESS OF THE BUILDINGS.
There are one hundred convicts at work
On the grounds. The experimental sta
sion, the only sll wood building to be put
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finished. These 6i6 6lR oln 0llll(( ~.
and arc covered with slate. The labora- ,
tory, threc-story brick building, one
hundred by fifty feet, is now being COW
cred with slate and will soon he Hccc.
i new stockade for the convicts has been
built, and five dwelling houses, now used
by mechanics, have also been completed.
The historic old Calhoun house, in
which Thomas Clemson lived and died,
has been recovered, repaintsd and repair
cd inside and outside. The trustees are
making their own brick and have 4OO,-
OGO ready for use and four thousand cords
of wood on the ground for burning more.
There is also large quantity of stone on
hand for laying the foundations of the
other buildings. w. w.