The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-24
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, August "a. 1904.
South Carolina College.
EXPANSION of Its Work and Its
SPLENDID Facilities.

For three S-~i" = iJIe cA uon WV
South CarolsI.4 T. Il 20 has wrought
it's great work t,s a- publication ana
prosperity Of the State. For three
generations her sons have honored
their alma mater by useful lives and
splendid citizenship, and today, IN
the character and strength OF the
members of it's faculty and in the
variety and thoroughness of its liter
ary, scientific snd law course, 1t
stands eminent; in the quality OF It's
work it is the peer of any university
of the South. A variety OF courses
leading to the several bsccelaureate
degrees in Arts, Science, Law, Engi-
neering (Civil and ElectricaD, and
Pedagogy, is offsred, with the most
liberal choice OF studies and the
widest possible elective opportunity.
The fseulty has recently enlarged
and increased the facilities for post
graduate work, and has placed the
opportunity for such advanced uni
versity study within reach OF all who
may desire it, and who cannot 60
out of the State to obtain it. Every
wear the College has a number OF
students working for postgraduate
degrees.
Its chemical, biological and phyei'
cal laboratories are we'll equipped
and have each q master teacher at
it's head; and the College library,
with it's $4,000 volumes, is the de-
light of students heart.
The College offers special induce
ments to ambitious young men and
women in it's generous provision for
the conferring of scholarships on
merisorious students at the close OF
each session. Five of these scholar
ships are conferred upon distinguish
ed members of the Freshman Class;
four in the Sophomore Clsss, and
three in the Junior Glass. La sd-
dision to these scholarships, by en-
Act of the General Assembly in 1904,
two Special Normal Scholarships for
men teachers are given to each
county in the State, the value OF each
being equivalent to 1913. This gift
cannot be regarded as charity
far from it. The money will be paid
back to the State thousand fold IN
the betterment of the common schools
of the State. which are established
and maintained solely for the pur-
pose ('r should be) of rearing good
cisizens-men aud women-whose
lives shall be devoted to the common
veal. TIE men who honestly accept
these scholarships are not accepting
charity, bat are simply being partly
paid in advance for the hard work,
the self-sacri6ce, the grind to which
they auhjecs themselves for the good
of the State.
The teaching force of the faculty
numbers seventeen professors, sd-
junct professors, and instructors,
each of whom is a specialist in his
own department, and has erjoyed
tie finest advantages offered in the
great universities of this country or
E lrope The president, faculty and
students srs working together har-
mouiously and IS unit for the good
OF the Uollege.
Oa the 18Th day Of last March
Prvf R Means Davis, Professor OF
History and Political Science, the
great teacher, the big hearted man,
the model citizen, died. His loss to
the C,llege and to the State is meal
culsble. At it's meeting in June the
Board of Trustees elected as his
successor Prof. Gordon B Moore, q
Vlrgiuisn by birth and South Car
Gilman by years of service. Profess
sor Moore is a gentleman and
scholar, man of high character, OF
pre- ,t mental strength and vjgor, and
Of long experience in successful teach
iag. He also has a worthy reputa-
ton as great Baptist preacher.
Tho chair of Adm II Professor