Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-05

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prominent positions, both in the
country schools and in the town
schools. This session 273 students
are enrolled, 95 of whom are board
ers. Almost every county in South
Carolina and also the States of
Georgia, Alabama, and West Vir-
glnia, are represented in the stu
dent body. Parents are informed
daily by written reports of the
conduct and recitatiops of each
pupil.
PRESIDENT BAILEY.
President F. N. K. Bailey has
spent twenty-eight years Of his life
in the schocl-room as student and
teacher. He is an acknowledged
organizer and leader, possessing
that gentle frmness which has
characterized so many OF our brill
liant educators. He has endeared
himself to the people of Edgefeld
by his faithfulness and jealous
anxiety for the mental and spir-
itual welfare of their sons AID
daughters, and for his unselfish
and kindly interest in their recrea-
tions and amusements. He does
net stand aloof in times of festivlty
and enjoyment, but joins in their
mirth with as much enthusiasm as
the gayest of them. One of the stu
denis remarked that Prof. Baiely
believed in working while you
work, and playing when you play"
From early childhood Prof: Bailey
has exhibited great love for teach
ing. When small boy, he always
hailed rainy days with great Joy,
because he with his brothers and
sisters were not permitted to at
tend the college, and he was al
lowed to take them in the nursery
and teach them himself. 1t was
no child's play either, and although
he was but few years older than
the others, his word was law, and
sometimes at close of the days ses-
sion he would announce with great
gravity of expression that some of
the lessons were not very we'll re-
cited and one or more of the Sis
ters or brothers must 5e kept in.
With that frmness which now
characterizes his management of
boys and girls be in that rainy
day school of his childhood COLI
trolled his playmates."
The first three years of Presi-
dent Bailey's school life was spent
at home under private teachers,
the next five in the Judson Insti-
tute OF Alabama, of which our hon
ored DR.. Gwaltney was President.
He then entered the halls of How
ard College, where he spent Eve
years in hard study. After this,
he spent one year III special pre-
paration in Central Institute. Be-
sides the above training. President
Bailey has attended quite num-
Der of summer schools both in the
North and South. His first e1pe-
rience as teacher was in Alaba--
naa,=vhero =3 q lice, e,s ssrgeEof Oak
ridge Academy. At the close Of.
the session, he was unanimously
reelected, but accepted the princi-
palship of a boarding school just.
Instituted in the same State, and
known as the Sumter High School.
Here he remained three years, this
being his first experience in run
ming a boarding school. He then
resigned to accept the Superin-
tendency of another and larger
boarding school in the same State
known as the Cuba Institute.
Soon after accepting this position,
President Bailey married :iss
Hearn, of Alabama. During his
third term as Superintendent Mrs.
Bailey died from the effects of
typhoid fever. After this sad mis-
fortune, Professor Bailey decided
to resign his position in Alabama,
and came with his little daughter
Lilly May, to South Carolina,
where his father, DR.. T. M. Bailey
and family were living.
Prof. Bailey located at Willis
ton, S. c., in 1891, and there laid
the foundation for the S. c. G. I.
He saw thatthere was no large Co.
educational boarding school IN
South Carolina. and determined
that he would establish one that
would do credit to himself, the
town of Williston, and the State
at large. The Institution was q
success from the beginning. Year
by year it's patronage steadily in
creased, more teachers were added
to the faculty, and its course of
study raised and broadened, until
today the South Carolina TO-
Educational Institute ranks rs
one of the best institutions in the
State, and excepting Winthrop and
Clemson is the largest boarding
school in South Carolina. 1t is
| probably as we'll advertised and
patronlzed as a number of lnsti-
tutions twice it's age. Its gradu-
ates may be found all over this
State and the surrounding States,
filing positions of honor and
trust.
In 1896, the large and beautiful
buildings Of the S. G. G. l. at
Williston were burned. While
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