The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-11-06
OPENING OF ConoRED COLLEGE
Over i3O Students I;nroIIed-Erom
Many Southern states.

Over i:O students Enrolled From
Many Southern states.
The Orangehurg correspondent of
the Columbin State sends tIas journal
the following uccount Of the opening
OF the colotci college Mt that place last
Wednesday,: This has been red let
ter day in the history of tho Colored
Normal, Industrial, Agricultura! and
Mechanical College Of South Carolina,
or the State Colored college. The an
nouncement was made in August that
the college would open in oil it's de
partmeuts on this day, but the most
Bauguine friend OF the institution did
not dream that their efforts would
have been crowned with SO great sue
cess; for on July oath there was not q
single foot of lumber on tho ground
with which TO build aud today 400 and
more are enrolled. Every class in the
collegiate department also those OF
she normal and college preparatory,
with eight claSses in the model school
or English De ,nrtment srs orea aized.
All of the industrial departments, in
Guiding the agricultural, arc equipped
and have been matriculatlng student.
for tho last three months. Hence any
young man or woman coming here eau
got, in addition to literary training,
any OF the following trades
Sewing, dressmaking and millinery,
cooking and domestic economy, car
pentry and woodwork, bricklaying and
plnstering, architectural, mechanical
drawing and pnintinp. iron working
and machinery. housekeeping, farm
ing. upholstering and cabinet ma king,
saddlery, harness making and shoe
making, saw-milling and manu- facture
of hard and soft lumber, typewriting,
printing brass band music, orchest 70
and tailoring.
At 10 o'clock the trustees, faculty
and students convened in tho chapel.
The devotional exercises wore conduct
cd by DR.. Palmer, after which the
president addressed the body, reviow-
ing tho history of the struggle 70, the
school, making assurances for tho flu
ture and pledges for lis support and
continuance the two races of the State
in a united phaianx.
AT the close Of his speech Major J.
Walker Floyd, of kershaw: Hon. Ar
thur nibler. Of Ncwberry; DR.. Low
man and Hon. G. ID. Kortjohu, @:
OranScburG, made iittingand eloquent
addresses. The cccasiou WAS en!iycrrd
with Instrumental music 10y Miss Row
ena T.. Andrews, professor Of instru-
mental and vocal music, and the sing
ing was grand, glorious and soul,
stirring.
Students are hero from nearly every
county in the State; four are from
Georgia, and by tho last of this week
Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Ken
tucky and other Southern States will
he represented. Correspondence OF
the faculty shows that members of the
late Constitutional convention, the
State Legislature, circuit judges, solici-
tors and State officers have all been at
work to secuIe students from their re-
speculative localities. Can any one
wonder ut the large attendance on the
opening day when the best white pco-
pie of the State have been working for
the school? All of the daily and week
ly papers Of tho State, for the last liye
months, have rendered great aid and
support to the institution. The State
canvassor, DIR. W. II. 4. Palmer. left
no stone Unturnsd to arouse and en-
thuse the colorcd people in the inter
est Of the school, ard they have unitel.
ly responded to his call from every
portion of the Sin.c.
At the close of the exercises the 43O
students, with the president and facul-
ty. formed in line and pArnded tho
principl" streets of Or,nscbnrg. It
was an imposing and grand spectacle.