The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-09

not be cousider"g q war on existing in
stitutions OF the s ate which arc doing
a grand work for the youth OF the land
but know OF no agency where our
children can be taught those practical
duties and lessons which will make
them better men and women than the
cOmmon schools. The common schools
we're primarily and specially intended
and established for this class that is
unable to attend our colleges and higher
| institutions. Our colleges have duty
to perform. IL they wish to be patron
iZed they must assist in giving the
ouths a fOretaste Of those richer
'easures which are held in reserve
or the aspiring lover of knowledge.
The cannon schools replenish our col
leges. 1t is monumental piece Of po-
litical fody bordering on idiocy for
State TO endow her college with muui-
fiC"nt appropriations for the benefit of
a lew OF its children, and neglect to
furnish means for rudimentary educa-
ton. The highest scminarics and col
lcges shed their brilliant light upon
favored few, but the common school is
the luminary whose centre is every
where, and whose radiant beams are aS
bOundless as earth: and, it is by multi
plying her centre and increasing lcr
brilliancy that we can make this mighty
Republic as she increases in number
and strength and power, also good in
justice, wisdom and virtue. Mr.. HOll,.-
way also urgently advocated the cstab-
lishmcnt OF graded schools ia the
county: which would substitute the
substantial, well-equipped, well man
aged graded school. for the isolated,
unsupcrvised, poorly equipped country
school. He declared that our only hope
and refuge is in the education of the
entire demOcracy-an education Of toe
hand and heart as we'll as the head-an
education of clean hands, of pure hearts,
OF ripe intellect, Of an upright life, an
education Of righteousness which rem
ders unto Caesar the things which are
CAESARS and unto God the things which
are Gods. Mr.. Holloway made fine
impr", iion. he il a sound logical reaeo-
ner aGd the sincere manner in which
he spoke showed how deeply interested
he was in this subject. Aud no doubt
whit he said will accomplish much
good. He made plain, practical
speech.
Mr.. g.. r.. Black was introduced aud
told us "WEat an Mum nus Can do for
Ncwbcrry College," He said it is our
duty To our alma mater to do ali Nc can
Tor her advancement. In whatever
vocation wc should work for Nrwbcrrv
College. But the ever widening chas m
between Newbcrry College and some
Of its alumni will have to he briLucd
And aitrusm pcrmcatcs their souls and
prcdomlnatcs over self or Till rcOis M
becomes submissive TO and act in o6c-
dicncc TO the dictates Of All enlightened
cUnSciei.cr.
Prot. l.. B. Se,zlrl. was the last
= speaker on The program. He spoke on
the Classics in t.ducation" He said:
This doubtless seems to many OF this
audience Il dry subject for an occasion
like this. Totaik TO you Of The dead
languages when you have come here to
have good time, is almost like the
grucaOne practice Of those balharous
old ancestors OF ours who used 10 cat
their fcaS;S, drink their wine from hu-
man skulls. The first reason WHY we
l,Dt IA, Il, Il
was that II complete knowledge Of our
own language could not bc attained
without them. Few 2 aware Of how
large, indeed, Il proportion nf ti., words
OF the English language are derived
from the Latin and Greek. The recent
Century dictionary contains about 22.J
OOO words. o. these only 23,O00 are Of
; the AnglO.SuxOn derivation. Unless
culture is not thing 10 he desired
unless we question the importance OF
II thorough Knowledge OF English, and
regard AS a matter OF little momer the
Improvement and perfection of our
mother tongue. we cannot DENY the
utility OF Latin and Greek because, they
c"ndncc 90 essentially to s end. We
must admit that they are practical stu
dies.
President Cromcr at the conclusion
OF Mr. Sc.z'er's speech mace strong
plea for Newhcrry College. He sale
the question is no longer whether :
young man can get an education TN
will he take it. He also gave some fig
urcs which he had received from grad
yates. One Of thcac was young ma.
who provided his own meals Ills en-
tire expenses for the session we're SOB
! Another member of the graduutin,
class boarding got through on $I2O 70
session. y recent graduate toli hin
|, he had gone through the collegiate de
pan ;cnt (f"ur years. at II cost OF $50
. and ring two OF these years tultiol
was ! whereas now IL ~ only $40