The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-11-27
MANUAL LABOR FOR STUDENTS,

The Experiment Proves Successful at
Clemson llege--Suggestions from
tho President.
The following extract from the an
nual report of President Craighead of
Clemson College, bearing on the prob
lem OF Student Labor" which seems
to have been solved at this institution,
will be found of great interest:
The student labor problem is,
think, gradually solving itself. The
professors in the academic department
have cheerfully consented, whenever
called upon, to superintend squads.
ment and direction of student labor
was left largely in the hands of the
president, Subsequent experience
will no doubt modify and perfect our
plan, but am more firmly convinced,
as the way opens up, that all students
|ehpuld be required to perform a GER
tain amount of purely educational
labor forawhich theysshould receive no
pay whatever Practical work in the
chemical. physical, botanical, biologi-
Gal and chronological laboratories is
educational labor, required of all
students taking these courses, and
should evidently receive no compensa-
tion whatever. In like manner,
oouoOhUo UtthtuR COuT6GS III
| and horticulture should be required to
do certain amount of work, such as
professors may deem necessary to q
completion of their courses on the
farm and gardens, natures own labora-
tories. So also should mechanical
| students be. required to do certain
amount of purely educational work in
| the foundry, the wood shops, and the
machine shops, for which 1t would be
folly to expect any remuneration. 1t
| Is clear also that students
should be required to do much practi-
cal work In surveying, leveling and
the like, All work of this kind Is not npptt
only practical, but educationsi, In the
highest sense, To abaSrdon this in
our scheme Of stadisg is to turn out
tneorlsts ne'1 ana day-I Gamers, whose
neaas are crammed With useless stuff
practical use. A,6ertain amount then
OF real practical work, such as the
board and professors in charge con-
slider necessary, SHOULD, think, be ex-
acted of oil our students, and for
which they should receive no money.
Here compulsory labor should end.
In addition to this, there will al
ways be an indefinite amount of really
| productive labor, not necessarily edu-
oatiohal, which students who need the
money can and should do, and for
which they should be paid. In no
other possible way can O liberal and
practical education be put within the
reach OF the masses. have received
during the year hundreds of letters
from parents writing me that but for
our labor feature they would be com.
PEELED, because of the pressure ir
Il mn frno a 10. xYfI "A ~
sons. 1t is safe to say that only by
| making use of opportunities here
afforded for remunerative labor have
at least one-half of our students beer
able TO continue at college. To un
dertake to furnish free to all young
men seeking 1t such an education as
Is offered here would impoverish the
State and send out horde of young
men taught to rely upon the bounty
and generosity of the Commonwealth
i Against the insidious approach of this
form Of paternalism, which strikes
at the very foundation of strong
sturdy, manly independence, our col
lege is pledged by the very charter o
1 its existence, to perpetual warfare
1t Is the duty OF the State to put the
Opportunities OF an education within
the reach OF all her children. Tt /,
the dutyof the Individual, In obedienc,
to God Almighty's first great law, I,
seize those opportunities by hard, un
a remitting toll.
After studying the question In al
j Its phases, would recommend to til,
board that all agricultural students b,
! permitted to work forty hours, ant
only forty hours, per month, at no
more than cents an hour for good
honest labor. Exceptions should b.
made In cases where the nature of tn,
work, such as milking, may require
some deviation from this rule, but TO
all such additional labor 1 would re
commend that only A cents per hou
be paid. AT the Mississippi College
mechanical students are not paid q
E6l. Herei recommend that they b
paid according to the monetary valu
of their work We have paid out 70
student laboring the last stseyen mouth
\ 81, ,4e3. .0f.
have dwelt at length upon tn
j )tDfoblefn Of student lebof. f0rnnon it