The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-10-23

At the c:,uclrS'o!. ut MIR. Roddey>s S
speech GCvernor Evans ii reply spoke
In subs'&nc, Us follows:
In bcllalf Of the State of South Car
lima and the board Of trustees It is q
pleasant duty for me to declare this
institution ready sor business. In do
ing SO we have cause for pride in be-
half of our State equal to that OF Rock
Hill, and in behalf Of the State | de-
sire to tnank the citizens OF Rock Hill
for their energy in the upbuildng OF
their city ard OF this institution.
When other cities We're wrangllng
from political motives as to which
should have the honor Of building the
school Rock Hill said: 1T is for South
Carolina's jewels, and we will bulid
the school
To the students OF Zoology it is IN
teresting to note the evolution o. wo-
man from the time she was beast OF
burden til she became helpmeet tor
man and then a beautiful dollhouse
bud for the adornment OF the parlor
But that is not final evolution. That
wa, the old idea that She was hit only
10 grace the parlor, and that educa-
ton OF her in the industrial arts Is
spending money for purposes
for which education was not
intended. This idea is familiar
to your mothers, who are the
greatest mothers that ever lived.
For this greatness, however, they are
not, indebted to your fathers or to
their fathers or to their brothers, but
to their Maker. When at the close Of
the war the father returned home
without having plough or sword to
beat into plough. it was the wife 5
noble spirit that made him q hero IN
adversely as well as IN prosperity. 1t
was her spirit that told him never 10
put his hand to the plow and then
turn back. To our women we owe
this and more They have conteuded
for their rights and nave at last begun
to get them: she is developing into the
new woman-such a one as will 60
forth from the Winthrop Normal col
lege prepared to assume woman's cu-
ties anywhere. That is the object of
this school. Parlor butterflies are not
the mothers OF statesmen, or the wo-
men who exert influence on their coun-
try.
The days when work was a disgrace
to woman are past. We are going
to teach woman TO reason, and eN'
punge froa, her vocabulary her old
reason "because" married men say
that though women can't reason in
work they always reach the right con-
clusion. We hope that graduates OF
Winthrop will be able to give their
mothers the reason why"
Turning to Senator Tillman, Gov.
Evans said: when you die, if no
marble slab covers your grave, or no
shaft is erected in your capital city the
people of the State will always point
with pride to this institution and say
ing behold his monument, will be in
the hearts Of the people. The shaft
may fall, the marble may crumble,
but the heart of the woman is always
true.
Gov. Evans then announced that
the expected orator of the day, DR.. j.
L. NJ. Curry, had been unable to come.
His letter of regret was read by Mr..
J. E. Ellerbe.
Gov. Evans then in half of the trus-
tees turned the college over to
PRESIDENT D. B. JOHNSON
who spoke as follows:
1T is with full heart and a deep
sense OF the responsibility resting
upon me and my colleagues that |
stand here at the threshold of the work
assigned US aud assume the sacred
charge committed to us by the board
of trustees. I feel that the opportuni-
ty for accomplishing good is unbound
ed, that bsre may be originated the
most telling and far-reaching forces in
the society of the State.
The idea, of artificial growth, that
woman was created for ornamental
purposes only that she had not the
acterstrength of mind and purpose and
characte: to grapple successfully with
the highest intellectual problems and
the earnest practical questions of life
is rapidly passing, has passed away.
Such n idea could not Withstand the
many successful demonstrations to
the contrary. Jane Austin, George
Elliott, Mrs. Browning; Miss Mitchell,
the astronomer, Miss Faucet and a
host of others have conclusively
proven in the field of literature, Of
science and in other fields that the as
of intellectual superiority on
the part OF the lords of creation was
and that all that women
needed to show their equal abilities,
to say the least, was a chance.
South Carolina proposes to give
them this chance IN this noble institu.
ton, and I feel confident as 1 look
upon the bright faces Of the young
ladies before me that they will utilize
it worthily.
A civilization can be gagged by the
treatment received by women under it.
In darkest Africa the woman is the
slave. the burden bearer. In Chris
l1du 1duOS, uSIC lLlC iAS IL VI lAAO SOo
pei is brightest ard the civilization
therefore the best, shei liberated from
this serfdom. this suppression, and her
power set free to accomplish the great
results already set down to her credit
in such lands. How appropriate,
then, that she sould have been last at
the cross aud first at the sepulchre;
and how unnatural that any woman
today should not be a follower of the
lowly Nazarene whose life and death
have broughtso much Of life and light
to her. The new social conditions Of
the present and the probable develop
ment of the near future demand, not
more for woman's sake than for the
sake of society, higher technical edu;
cation for women. There have been
great changes in her activities and re-
sponsioilities in the last half century
everywhere, but nowhere have they
been greater than in the south. where
as result of the civil war has occur
red one Of the greatest social revolu-
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