The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-31
South Carolina College.
Scholarships for Men Teachers.

Scholarships for Men Teachers.
Eighty.two scholarships for men
teachers! That is one of the fruits
of the educational statesmanship OF
the last Legislature. This Leglsla-
ture at it's first session in 1903 es-
tablished 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
the holdovers 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 per-
son interested should write to Presi-
dent Benjamin Sloan or Prof. Pat
terson Wardlaw, Columbia, S. G.
Each of these scholarships pays
$40 in money toward living expen-
ses, and exempts the holder from
fee of S1s, which is exacted OF all
other students, and also exempts
from the tuition fee of $40, which,
however, is RENTED to any student
who makes proof of inability to pay
it. It admits man entirely free
and pays about half of his board.
This munifcence of the State is de-
signed primarily to provide better
teachers for the country schools, but
incidentally it aids poor but worthy
young men to obtain q college edu-
cation and fit themselves for higher
things in life. In order that the
scholarships shall 60 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 re-
ference to the marks made or exam
instion, and men nineteen years OF
age 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 fifseen-yesr-old graduate of a
town graded school, but whose ma
turity and earnestness are a guaranty
that when given an opportunity to
study in college he will pull through
and make man of himself. Pre-
ference 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 pre-.
paration, attempts to teach the
neighborhood school. For his own
sake and for the sake of the schools
he ought to be given q better edu-
cation before he becomes settled in q
life of inferior work. Hence the
special effort Of the authorities of the
South Carolina College is to induce
young men teachers who are i'll 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 225 years, and the
oldest was SO. It 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 pro-
fession. If the benefcisries of these
scholarships were differently selected,
q larger proportion of them would do
as college men 80 often do, turn their
backs on the country forever and be-
come professional men in towns and
cities. But where they have pre-
viously committed themselves to
public school work, and then step and
60 to college with the idea of fitting
themselves for better work in that
line, there is strong probability that
for the most part they will return to
country schoolteaching-a result
which will richly repay the State for
it's liberal policy in providing for
their training as teachers.
Each year better salaries are being
paid in the country schools, and for