Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-08-31
SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE.
Eighiy.Two Scholarships for Men Teachers
The Course Of Study improved.

ture at it's first session in 1908 estab-
lished in the South Carolina College
forty-one normal scholarships, and at
its next session doubled the number
of the scholarships, making two from
each county. This was to provide
new class, but as not all 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. Amy person interested
should write to President Benjamin
Sloan or Prof. Patterson Wardlaw,
Columbia, S. @.
Each of these scholarships pays
$40 in money toward living expenses,
and exempts the holder from a fee of
$lS, 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 inability to pay it. 1t
admits a man entirely free and pays
about half of his board. This mu-
nificence of the State is designed
primarily to provide better teachers
for the schools, but incidentally it
aids poor but worthy young men to
obtain 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 gobbled up by young fellows
who could get to college without the
scholarships, the awards are not
made solely with reference to the
marks made on the examination, and
men nineteen years and over are
given the preference. This gives an
opportunity to the country young
man, whose technical preparation
may be far less than that of the fif-
teen year old graduate of town
graded school, but whose maturity
and earnestness are guaranty that
when given an opportunity to study
in college he will pull through and
make a man of himself. Preference
is still further given to men who
have taught school. 1t is often the
case that young man in the coun-
try, 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 better education before he be-
comes settled in life of inferior
work. Hence the special effort of
the authorities of the South Caro-
lima College is to induce young men
teachers who are ill prepared for
their work to stop now and go to COL
lege while they can. The scholar
ship men last year were of the aver
age age of 228 years, and the Oldest
was 33. 1t is hoped that such men,
having already developed some taste
for teaching, and going to college
%ith a definite purpose, will adhere
10 teaching as their profession. If
'beneficiaries of these scholarships
were differently selected, large pro-
portion of them would do as college
men so often do, turn their backs on
the country forever and become pro-
fessional men in towns and cities.
But where they have previously com.
tnitted themselves to public school
work, and then stop and go to college
with the ideal of fitting themselves
for better work in that line, there is
strong probability that for the most
part they will return to country
school teaching-a result 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 seve-
ral counties country schools which
college bred men of high reputation
are proud to teach. The simplicity,
freedom and beauty of country life,
and the growing advantages, with
telephones, mail deliveries, and libra