The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-01-30
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to ambitious andsdeser>
il, metS last summel
County a student fromyCL
C., who was canyassing the
a book agent, travelling af.
crutches at that, it being.i
for him towalk withoutIthd 81 uadiy
d drawn up was oneaOf his legstfrofI
rheumatism. He told me that the col
lege authorities had kindly offered Il
his way through, but that: he had de
his own money. He3is lame I'M HIS leg,
but not in his Head, where so many boys
are lame. Lameness in purpose and
resolution Is h e'worst kind of lame,
ness.9 About fifteen years ago two boys
. went fromAthe plow-handles in Barn.
well County to one OF the Oldest and
best academies in New England,
They supported themselves there by
doing farm work during their yaca.
tions andslittle jobs inythe city in the
afternoons and nASaturdays. After
their graduation in the academy one 81
them wentlto Brown University, Provi.
dence, r. T., and worked his way four
years, until his graduation. He is now
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OF great lawyers. / mention these cases
to show that no boy who wantsito go to
college and give himself the best intel
leotual equipment for life need despair.
Where there's a will there's a way,r
But the trouble Is there are more great
opportunities for boys than there ARE
great boys for the great opportunities:
1t Is not opportunities 800 much that
are wanted as, boys. for the opportuni-
ties.T The very lack of opportunities
gives some boys the opportunity TO
make that opportunity. There are
boys and boys.
But here are the colleges and semi
naries for our S0uth Carolina girls. In
age CoopetSI limestone Institute comes
first, having been established away
College, Columbia Female College, Co.
lumbia Presbyterian College iforSWo-
men, Converse Colleges, Spartanburg {;
the State College foG Women to- be
located at Rock Hill, besides exeellent
schools forgirls inS Charleston and the
other cities and towns ofthe State. 1T
Is one Of the most hopefulfsignS of the
times that! there are more schools and
better schools and higher seducatfon.
for women than has been 4he case
heretofore. And this grows. ont 'oEthej
recognized fact that woman's spheteiofs
labor and usefulness, in short, womanis
life, is larger to-day Than ever5 before.
Hence not to provide for women the,
very best schools and culture is not.
only to do them injustice, but to- rob.
would thereby do. ~
The time is near at hand when edus
cation will be as easy and just as'goodl
for women as for men. For one, I see
good in the action of Furman Universi-
ty and the South Carolina University
In admitting women as regular stu
dents, and giving them the same in
struction that they give to young men.
1t will not, as some think, hurt the
female colleges, but it will do them
good. 1t will make them raise their
standard, and do less I" ginger bread"
and more substantial work in real edu-
cation. A college for women ought to
have as high a standard as q college
for men. This is the case at Wellesley
and Vassar.
on two about the first mentioned in the
above list of South Carolina's schools
for the higher education of woman,
Cooper-Limestone institution Spartan
burg County, O-e mile and q half out in
the country from Gaffney City, on the
Ali Line railroad. This is the Oldest
college, Or institute" as it
modestly calls itself, in The State. 1t
was established in 1916 by the Rev. DIR.
Thomas Curtis, and his son, DR.. Will
liam Curtis, both of them liz learning
and high character the very men for
such a school. OF this school under
the Curtises it has been said by one
competent to Judge: For ok
tent and thoroughness of instruction it
has probably never been surpassed and
seldom eQualled in the South"
DR.. Thomas Curtis, who gave the
school its great reputation, but whose
real work in it didn't surpass that of
his son, William Curtis, was an Eng
lishman and an eminent Baptist divine. |
u man OF great and deserved reputation
for learning before he came to the
United States. He was the only editor
Of the London Encyclopaedia, a work OF
twenty-three volumes, mentioned in |
American Cyclopaedia. He
all over the State in the IN.
OF his school at Limestone and
working In the interests OF female edu-
alton, and wherever he went by the
Of evory denomination he was
REGARDED as a great sman, one OF the
ttest of preachers and a great
.er for good,in the state. His SER
Icc to the cause of female education
in the building up of the Limestone
Nar,a m In tIItnh- Gnh..1 .oa H. 1900 |