The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-08-24
SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE,
Expansion OF It's Work and Its SpIen.
did Facilities.

For three generations Of men the
South Carolina College has wrought
it's great work for the unification and
prosperity of the State. For three gen.
erations her sons have honored their
alma mater by useful lives and splen-
did citizenship, and to-day, in the
character and strength of the men,
bers of its faculty, and in the variety
and thoroughness of It's literary, sci
entific, and law courses, it stands emf
nent in the quality of its work it IS
the peer of any university of the South
A variety of courses leading to the sew
eral baccalaureate degrees in Arts, Sci
ence, Law, Engineering Civil and
Electrically and Pedagogy, is offered,
with the most liberal choice of studies
and the widest possible elective oppor-
tunity. The faculty has recently en-
larged and increased the facilities for
postgraduate work, and has placed
the opportunity for such advanced
university study within reach of all
who may desire it, and who cannot 60
out of the State to obtain it. Every
year the College has a number of stu
dents working for post graduate de-
yrees.
It's chemical, biological, and physical
laboratories are we'll equipped and have
each master teacher at its head and
the College library, with its $4,000 vol
umes, is the delight of a students
heart.
The College offers special induce
ments to ambitious young men and
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the comforting of scholarships on meri-
torious students at the close of each
session. Five of these scholarships
are conferred upon distinguished men,
bers of the Freshman Class four in
the Sophomore Glass, and three in the
Junior Glass. In addition to these
scholarships, ny an Act of the General
Assembly in 1904, two Special Normal
Scholarships for men teachers are given
20 each county in the State, the value
of each being equivalent to $SS. 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 purpose Tor
men and women whose lives shall be
devoted TO the common veal. The
men who honestly accept these schol-
arships are not accepting charity. but
are simply being partly paid in ad-
vance for the hard work, the self-sacri-
flee, the grind to which they subject
then selves for the good of the State.
The teaching force of the faculty
numbers seventeen professors adjunct
professors, and instructors, each of
whom is specialist in his own de-
partment, and has enjoyed the finest
advantages offered in the great univer-
sites of this country or Europe. The
president, faculty, and students are
working together harmoniously and
rs 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 great teacher,
the big-hearled man, the model citizen
died. His loss to the College and to
the State is incalculable. At it's meet
ing in June the Board of Trustees elect
ed as his successor Frof. Gordon B.
Moore, Virginian by birth and a
South Carolinian by years of service
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scholar, man of high character, of
great mental strength and vigor, and
of long experience in successful teach
ing. He also has worthy reputation
as great Baptist preacher.
The Chair of Adjunct Professor of
English has also been establised, and
Mr.. H. G.. Davis, Sonth Carolinian
and a graduate of the South Carolina
College, and last session a teacher OF
English in the University of Wash
ington. at Seattle, was in June elected
to fill this chair. The College is to be
congratulated upon securing his ser
vices. His success as teacher is as.
sured.
The advantages offered to the young
men of the State by such an institution
are invaluable.
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