Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-08-24
SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE.
Expansion Of the Work Of the College and
Its Splendid Facilities.

For three generations of men the
South Carolina College has wrought
its great work for the unification and
prosperity of the State. For three
generations her sons have honored
their alma mater by useful lives and
splendid citizenship, and to-day, in
the character and strength of the
members of its faculty and in the
variety and thoroughness of its liter
airy, scientific and law courses, it
stands eminent; in the quality of its
work it is the peer of any university
of the South. A variety of courses
leading to the several baccalaureate
degrees in arts, science, law, engi-
neering, (civil and electrically, and
pedagogy, is offered, with the most
liberal choice of studies and the
widest possible elective opportunity.
The faculty 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 90 out
of the State to obtain it. Every
year the college has number of
students working for post. graduate
degrees.
Its chemical, biological and physi-
cal laboratories are well equipped
and have each a master teacher at
its head and the college library,
with its $4,000 volumes, is the de-
light of a students heart.
The college offers special induce
ments to ambitious young men and
women in its generous provision for
the comforting of scholarships on
meritorious students at the close of
each session. Five of these scholar
ships are conferred upon distin-
guished members of the freshman
class four in the sophomore class,
and three in the junior class. In
addition to these scholarships, by an
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 $98. This
gift cannot be regarded as charity
far from it. The money will be
paid back to the State a thousand
fold in the betterment of the com
mon schools of the State, which are
established and maintained solely
for the purpose (or should be) of
rearing good citizens-men and wo-
men whose lives shall be devoted to
the common veal. The men who
honestly accept these scholarships
are not accepting charity, but are
simply being partly paid in advance
for the hard work, the self-sacrifce,
the grind to which, they subject
themselves for the good of the State.
The teaching force of the faculty
numbers seventeen professors, ad-
junct professors, and instructors,
each of whom is specialist in his
own department, and has enjoyed
the finest advantages offered in the
great universities of this country or
Europe. The president, faculty, and
students are working together har-
moniously and as unit for the good
of the college.
On the 18th day of last March
Prof. r. Means Davis, professor of
history and political science, the
big hearted man, the model citizen,
died. His loss to the college and to
the State is incalculable. At its
meeting in June the board of trus-
tees elected as his successor Prof.
Gordon B. Moore, Virginian by
birth aud a South Carolinian by
years of service. Prof. Moore is a
gentleman and a scholar, a man of
high character, of great mental
strength and vigor, and of long ex-
perience in successful teaching. He
also has a worthy reputation as a
great Baptist preacher.
The chair of adjunct professor of
English has also been established,
and II. G. Davis, South Carolinian