The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-09-07

tion in tho Pnst-Its Present Condition
and OrPanIxation-PIans for tho Fu-
ture.
Alta meeting Of the Alumni of the
South Carolina College, held at the
Capital on May 2lst last, the following
resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That committee of five
be appointed by the chairman Of the
meeting TO communicate with the
Alumni of the South Carolina College
In every County Of the State, calling
upon them to organize associations
in each County Of the State to be
known as the "South Carolina College
Alumni Association Of of...........
County, for the purpose of advancing
the best interests of the South Carolina
College.
9. That the committee be also re-
quesJed to prepare and issue an address
to the people of the State, calling upon
them to rally to the support of the
South Carolina College, and to give it
the encouragement and support it 80
richly deserves.
3. That the committee shall formu-
late plan for securing beneficiary
scholarships to the College from every
County in the State, this committee to
report at the June meeting of the AS
sociation.
Agreeably to resolution No. 9. the
committee of five have the honor to ad-
dress themselves to the people of the
whole State in behalf of the South
Carolina College.
The committee deem 1t unnecessary
to rehearse the history of the College
or To make display of its rich fruitage
n h.,t, 4
the manhood it has trained. This ap.
pears in striking colOrs in LaBordeS
pages, as well as in the annals Of the
Commonwealth.
Founded in 1901 by Legislative act,
on the ground that the establishment
OF College in the central part of the
State where all its youth may be edu-
Gated. would highly promote the in
struction, the good order, and the har-
mony of the whole community, it has
nobiy fulfilled its high mission.
Says the historian Of the College:
"Has the College accomplished the
great end for which it was established :?
Has 1T done its work in educating the
people Of Carolina? There can be but
one response to these questions: Ev.
cry part OF the State. and the upcoun-
try particularly, has derived from it an
amount of benefit which cannot he es-
timated by dollars and cents If it be
true, as L think 1T is. that South Coro-
lima has rivaled her most favored sis
terS IN virtue, intelligence, and public
spirit, much of it is due to her College
II her Governors, her Senators and
representatives in Congress, and her
judiciary, have shed a bright lustre
upon her name, the College will point
to the larger number of them as hav.
ing been trained in her walls, and
thereby fitted for their high positions. .
| Assuming, now, as we have every
r1ghtlto assume, that this time-hornored
institution has done its whole duty to
South Carolina in its past of ninety
two years, the committee submit that,
IN the record Of its achievements, the
college furnishes strong argument in
favor of its present support, and sup
plies the grounds Of the appeal.
But, fortunately for the South Caro-
lima College, it need not rest its case
upon its past laurelS-upOn the emo
bling part it has played in the history
Of the State.
While adverting to these memories
and treasuring them as a grand herit-
age, your committee prefer to base the
claims of the College for popular sup
port upon its present advantages as a
school of education and training, and
confront uS in the State.
Your committee point to the thorugh
appointments of the College for its
needs as a State College; to its accom-
plished corps of Professors; Its extern
slve apparatus tor teaching; its ample
library; its commoGiOuS buildings: its
healthy locality; its central position in
the State-the peer in these respects Of
any other College in the country.
Your committee further point to the
special advantage offered by the Col
lege to those students seeking ycNcIul
"tn""tion as distinguished from Spcriul
tlWcttoN-seeklng symmetrical
mental and moral training as distingu-
ished from technical learning.
challenging the claims of no other
institutions of learning in the State
or Denominational-t South Carolina
College addresses itself to the whole
commonwealth as a central institution
-non-polltical, nOn-sectarian, utterly
Invested of all class restrictions, and
adorned by benelicent provisions for
the poor.
But your committee have reserved
for the last what they deem the strong
est argument in behalf of the duty of
the citizenship of South Carolina to raj
" to the support of the State College at
Uilo SbplOdl' Ills argument IL DdSBu
upon the advantages arising from the
unllication OF our people in thought
and in sentiment.
Your committee do not propose to
discuss the philosophy of the present
situation in South Carolina, nor the
causes that have led 20 it. 1t Is enough
to recognize the actual condition
political and social--and to deplore it
as serious bar to the good of South
Carolina. Never before in our history
as Colony or State have our peopl ueen
80 unhappily divided. Never before
has there existed 80 much acrimony of
feeling, 50 much of actual distrust.
The committees feel that to cure, or
even to mitigate, these divisions among
our people would be the highest states
manShip-an act of patriotism to enure
TO our common prosperity.
Now, as means to this end, the
committee G"n aware of no instrumrn.
tality more potent than the State Col
| lege, organized to promote the har
mony of the whole comm Inity," and