The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-11-18
S. c. COLLEGE CENTENNIAL
Will Be Great Event in His of
Institution.

Carolina college will be the greatest
event in South Carolina for many q
year. The occasion is Of state impor-
tance and Of national interest. The
presence of representatives of the
universities Of all the southern states
and Of some of the older northern in
stitutions, such as Union, Brown and
Princeton, will attract the attention
Of the entire academic world. South
Carolina college, the city of Colum-
bia, and the state of South Carolina,
will be in the public eye as not before
in decades. Considered from the low-
est plane of self-interest, the celebra~
ton will be invaluable in it's adver-
tisement Of the state, the Capital City,
and the college-soon to be the uni
versity
All of the colleges, academies and
graded schools within the state will
be invited to send representatives as
guests of the South Carolina college
and the city OF Columbia. Each of
the forty-one counties will thus at
tend in the persons of school men in
charge of the more important educa-
tional interests of the county, as well
as in the persons Of the alumni of the
college. who are useful men in every
walk of life. The gathering will be
unique in its representation Of the
great forces for progress in the state
now thoroughly recuperated from the
ruin of war and reconstruction, and
I entering Upon an era promising tn
precedented prosperity. Alumni,
occupying leading positions in nearly
every state in the union. will revisit
their alma mater and the capital
city. some for the first time since the
Sos and 'oos when Columbia was
comparatively small and devoid of
enterprises-some for the first time
since the proud days before the war
of the sad days of Sherman's raid.
Though for some there will be melan-
choly memories, the occasion for all
will be most glad Foremost in
every mind will be the sentiment, "a
great college for a great state"
Following fitting usage, the South
Carolina college will signalize its CEN
tennial celebration by conferring
honorary degrees upon a number of
men (chiehy residents Of the state)
whose achievements in the worlds
work deserve some marked recogni-
ton on the part of organized society
the state, through its leading acad-
emic institution. At comparatively
recent commandments, the South
Carolina college has conferred,
though sparingly and with proper
discrimination, the degree of Doctor
of Laws upon such men as Edward
McCrady, Hugh S. Thompson, AS
bury Coward, Henry McIver, Joshua
H. Hudson William A. Courtenay;
the degree of Doctor of Letters upon
President Henry N. Synder; the de-
gree of Doctor Of Divinity upon such
men as Bishop Capers and the Revs.
Lucius Cuthbert and John A. Rice.
On this, her one hundredth birthday
festivity, the college will endeavor to
bestow with liberality, tempered by
due discrimination the marks Of her
"well done" upon many friends and
guests in all walks of life who have
by notable achievement deserved
we'll of the state. The program TO,
Monday, the 9th of January, provides
for the "conferring of honorary de-
grees," after the addresses by the
president of the college, the governor
of the state and the mayor of the city,
and the responses by designated in
vited guests.
AS to the propriety of the policy
of conferring honorary degrees or de-
grees for other considerations than
pure scholarship (Which is not uni
versally approved by university
men) the following quotation from
The Saturday Evening Post of June
18th is to the point: