The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-09-02
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SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE.
Scholarships For Men Teachers.


teachers! That is one Of the fruits
Of the educational craftsmanship of
the last legislature. The legislature
at its first session in 1908 established
in the South Carolina college forty
one normal scholarships, and at it's
next session doubled the number OF
these scholarships. making two from
each county. This was to provide
new class, but as not all of the hold
overs will return, there will doubtless
be as many as sixty new scholarships
awarded this summer, one in every
county and two to county in many
instances Any person interested
should write President Benjamin
Sloan or Prof. Patterson Wardlaw,
Columbia, S. c.
Each of these scholarships pays $40
in money toward living expenses, and
exempts the holder from fee of S18,
which is exacted OF all other students.
and also exempts from the tuition fee
of $40. which, however, is remitted to
any student who makes proof Of in
ability to pay it. 1t admits man
entirely free and pays about half of
his board. This munihcence OF the
state is designed, primarily to provide
better teachers for the county
schools, but incidentally it aids poor
but worthy young men to obtain a
college education and fit themselves
for higher things in life. In order
that the scholarships shall go to this
class OF young men and not be COB
bled up by young fellows who could
get to college without the scholar
ships, the awards are not made solely
with reference to the marks on the
examination, and men nineteen years
of age and over are given the prefer
ence. This gives an opportunity to
the country young man. whose tech
nlcal preparation may be far less
than that of the hfteen-year-old grad
uate of town graded school. but
whose maturity and earnestness are
guaranty that when given an op-
portunlty to study in college he will
pull through and make man of him
self Preference is still further given
TO young men who have taught
school. 1t is often the case that
young man in the country, although
with poor preparation, attempts to
teach the neighborhood school For
his own sake and for the sake Of the
schools he ought to be given a better
education before he becomes settled
in life of inferior work. Hence the
spcial effort of the authorities Of the
South Carolina college is 70 induce
young men teachers who are III pre-
pared for their work to stop now and
go to college while they can. The
scholarship men last year were Of the
average age Of o2 Is years. and the
oldest was 80. 1t is hoped that such
young men, having already developed
some taste for teaching. and going
to college with definite purpose. will
adhere to teaching as their protes-
sion. If the benehcia7ies OF these
scholarships were differently selected.
larger proportion of them would do
as college men so often do. .cu-n their
backs on the country forever and
become professional men in towns
and cities. But where they have pre-
viously committed themselves 10 pub
lie school work, and then stop and
go to college with the ideal Of fit
ting themselves for better work in
that line, there is strong probability
that for the most part they will re-
turn to country schoolteaching-a re-
suit which will richly repay the state
for its liberal policy in providing for
their training as teachers.
Each year better salaries are being
paid in the country schools, and for
several years there have been in sew
eral counties country schools which