The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1904-08-31
SOUTH CAROLINA 'OLiEGli.
Scholarships for Men Teachers.

S''y WV sOuNi'! 'LiiS ipt
men teachers! That is one OF the
fruits of the educational states
mahshlp of the last Lesisla' uro
This Legislature at its first session
In 1908 established in the South
Carolina College fortv-one nor.
NAL scholarships, and at its next
session doubled the number OF
these scholarships, making t~o
from each county. This was To
provide a new class, but IS rot
all the holdovers will return,
there will doubtless be as many
as sixty new scholarships award
ed this summer, one in every
county and two to county in
many instances. Any person
interested should write to Presi
dent Benjamin Sloan or Prof.
Patterson Wardlaw, Columbia,
S. @.
Each of these scholarships pay
$40 in money toward living ex
penses, and eXempts the holder
from fee of SIS, which is exact
ed 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
munificence of the state is design
ed primarily to provide better
teachers for the country schools,
but incidentally it aids poor but
worthy young men to obtain a
college education and fit them
selves for higher things in life.
In order that the scholarships
shall go TO this class of young
men and not be gobbIed 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 10
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
15-year old graduate of "a town
graded school, but whose maturity
and ealnestness are guaranty
that when given an opportunity
to study in college he will pull
through and make man ui him
self. Preference is still furtht r
gwen to young men who have
taught school 1t is often the
case that young man in the
country, although with poor prep
aration, 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 be-
comes settled in 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
prepared for their work to stop
now and go to college while they
can. The scholarship men last
year were of the average age OF
223 years, and the Oldest was SO.
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
profession. If the beneficiaries
of these scholarships were differ
emily selected, a larger proportion
OF them would do as college men
so often do, turn their backs on
the country forever and become
professional men in towns and
cities. But where they have pro
viously committed 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 tor the most part
they will return to country school
teachlng-a result which will
richly repay the state for it's lib
eral policy in providing for their
training as teachers.
Each year better salaries are
being paid in the coutry schools,
and for several years there have