The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-08-18


of animal aud vegetable life In all their
forms, the broad field of biology.
In the vegetable world we have the plants
both useful and noxious and the ways of
nursing the one into thrifty life and stiff
ling the other to au untimely end. Then
come the various methods of propaga-
tion of plants, where their life and rapid
multiplication are to be desired, by seed,
by budding, by grating, etc. In these
practical arts OF the fields the farmer
boys will indeed feel at home. Their
growth in scientific thought will go hand
In hand with the applications ia the field
itself. If they learn to bud and graft,
for instance. they will learn it in way
that viii! enable them to use it practically
aud to transfer their knowledge from the
College fields to the home orchards.
Thus they will be the mediums for the
transfer of the sciences and arts taught
at the College to the people ia heir dis :
tant homes.
MISSIONARIES OF PROGRESS.
Ilsix hundred boys return from COL
lcge to their homes each year, think
what missionaries of progress will be
spread over the State to brighten all
the ideas of these homes. These farm
er boys will have heard with quickened
pulse the lectures on agricultural science
That will brighten as on background
all the dark ages of their pact life.
THE MAKING OF A MAN.
Let us follow one typical farmer boy
from field to college aud through its
courses. He loves the dear old home,
with its tender-iaced mother and gran
ite-souled father. He passes along the
countryside where war has perhaps left
its cruel stains, and by the cities where
silent streams proclaim the absence Of
the genius of progress. He secs In the
distance the blue hills that mark Caro-
lina's western boundary. He reaches
Fort Hill and is on The ground once hall
lowed by the tread of the great Calhoun.
lie joins his cadet com rades, already q
noble six hundred. In all the stir
around him he notes ealnestness in the
features and bearing of those who adj
dress him. There are echoes of the
Psalm of Life" in the air he breathes.
Other hi mes IN Carolina, as sacred as
his, have sent their jewels most precious
to the States shrine of the new educa-
tion. lie feels the quickened pulse of 4
new life. He begius to grow with q
new growth. His letters home tell the
dear ones that the separation which
brings such opportunities is robbed of its
pangs. Noble buildings buoy up his
aspirations. Ardent, thoughtful, re-
sponsive natures in teachers aud COM
rades bear up the burden of home sick
ness. lie enters his classes and begins
Lhe great work of his life, the changing
of an unthinking man into machine Of
intellectual power. He loves with a
new love the unselfish hearts at home
which may have planned through great
privations for the hope of the house.
From year to year the same home sacri-
iices keep the boy, of whom they grow
but prouder, amid the scenes that nur-
ture high intellectual and moral growth.
Finally the man, no longer u boy, re-
turns to the old homestead. If he is
still farmer, what a power for good to
the old people at home. If he has bud
ded into splendid development along
some OF the high lines Of archaeological
education, who will regret the money in
Shaping the rude country miud into such
new powers Tor usefulness?
THE NEW EDUCATION.
The new education will be scholarly
in its own line, and will breathe with
new hope and endeavor. The man is
made scientific farmer, but learns to
use his BRAIN according to the methods
of reason. We will not search the pages
of Virgil for farming directions of today,
or turn back to even more recent times
In the South for experience that Is to
direct us in the future. When we turn
to the pathetic past, with its recent pic
lures of aifectlonate loyalty on the part
OF our late slaves, we are touched with
Il feeling ofsympathy for the weaknesses
of these our old helpers In the old way.
Necessity is upon us with harsh changes,
and we must find new substitutes for the
old dull seridOm that encumbcred the
cultivation of The soil in turning to the
new agents which are claiming tie mas
terry OF the world and opening new
realms Of enchautment. Slavery is gone,
and, whilst there still remains as its
product that master race which has won
the admiration of the world and forced
the respect OF its enemies, we know that
the South must look to its youth, filled
with the inspiration and ambitions of
the new education, to sustain the old
name.
A FORTUNATE LOCATION.
Fortunate was it for the youth of the
State that it came into the mind OF the
owner of The old home of John G.. Call
houn to dedicate that spot of all others
to the use that would IN Ike IL forever
the most affective agency in marking
the character of the States noblcst son
on those who were to bear the burden
o sustaining her name In the world of
thought and action. His was the life of
the farmer of that day with all the dis
advantages Of slavery upon it. While
ii ruined the soil we see that it might
make the nOblest of men.
THE MECHANICAL ARTS.
With the agricultural trust as its first
and highest the board has properly
placed Its emphatic impress also upon
the second department of the College.
which calls up in tho resources of the
mechanical arts for that mental disci-
pline and training which are to make II
race of most useful men to cooperate
with those of the field to press the State
to the foremost ranks of success. Agri-
culture and manufacturing should always
90 hand in hand. The field and factory
muse co operate where the best condi-
Lions for prosperity are sought. The
tendencies of purely agricultural peo-
pie to concentrate on the trade connected
with the raw products of the fields. are
to be striven against by educating the
whole people into two great industrial.
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