Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-06-14
NORMAL COLLEGE REPORT

The State Industrial and Normal Col.
,Iege For Girls is Expanding Its Use.
fulness.
The following leading facts are
cleaned from President Johnson's an
nual report of the work of Winthrop
College:
Winthrop College closes its 10TH
year in'sRock Hill with these conf
mencement exercises tonight. 1t will
be interesting to this large and repre-
sentative audience. I know, to have
some account at this time Of the work
and growth of the college.
up to 1895 the institution was con-
Quoted in Columbia, from 1886 to 1892,
as the Winthrop Training School for
Teachers. and from 1892 to 1895 as
Winthroa: Normal College, Under the
act creating the institution as now
cat the time of the establishment
OF the Winthrop Training School for
the training of women as teachers in
1886 nothing was being done by South
Carolina for the higher education and
training Of her daughters, although
annual appropriations had been made
by the Legislature for some 80 years
for the higher education Of her sons,
nor Was there an institution for the
training Of white teachers in North
Carolina, Georgia or Florida. The
founding Of the school at that time
was made possible by an appropriation
from the Peabody board, made through
the interest and sympathy Of it's chair
man, the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop,
the orator and statesman, after whom
the school was named in grateful rec
ognition of the great services of him.
self and the Peabody board rendered
to education in the South, sympatheti-
cally, unselfishly and unremittlngly
during all the dark years after the
Civil war, when the needs of Our desc
lated, Impoverished, PROSTATE South
land were great and urgent.
"The school had a srall beginning
in 1885. 1t opened witt two teachers
and 10 students in one room, and that
was borrowed room. Today 1t has
46 officers, teachers and assistants,
4S1 students. not including the pupils
in the practice school, and a plant
costing over 100000.
"The college closes this 10 years OF
its life at Rock Hill with much pro-
gress made and with bright outlook
for the future It's material equip
ment, incslding buildings, grounds,
furniture, machinery and apparatus,
has been added to and greatly i'm
proved; the courses Of study have
been developed and enri ched; the
scholarship standards raised; the fac
ulty increased from % officers and
teachers to 46; the number of students
increased from 325 to 4S1, the utmost
capacity OF the dormitory accommoda-
tions; very many communities in this
State have been reached and benefited
in their schools aud homes; and the
whole organization better adjusted to
the work to be done and greatly I'M
proved in many particulars. Few in
stitutions have enjoyed greater pros
perity and growth in the same time.
..Ts;s number Of students applying
for admission to the college has stead
lily increased each year. This last
year the total number applying was
937-the greatest in the history OF the
college. The enrolment in the school
has been thoroughly representative OF
the people of South Carolina. A num-
Der of the students have always paid
their own expenses. Over half OF
the students each year have stated
that they would not have attended any
other college than Winthrop.
1.-THE total number of matrlculates
in the college from the beginning,
including. the new students of Shis
year, is about $500. The total en-
rollment, including the full enrolment
each year, is 4,437.
1.-The college has emphasized more
strongly each year teacher training
and industrial work in accordance
with it's charter. There are 1886 in
the normal department this session
an increase of Is over last session.
"The total enrolment in the differ
ent departments from the beginning,
including this session, is;
Normal NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 2,oSl
T iterarv 581
Stenography and typewriting 5S9
Dressmaking, millinery and sew
ing .....s'#'z'5' A' 49,
COOKING - -
Horticulture
Bookkeeping aes iee
Drawing and designing 1850
"Nlany of these young women,
though not completing the course here
are yet doing acceptable work IN
teaching and in other lines OF employ
1nent open to women in this state.
We estimate that over 1900 or 2'poo
Young women have been heiped py
the college to become better teachers,
and that they are teaching large per
centage Of the white children in the
common schools of the State. 1t IS
gratifying to note that the demand TOT
teachers trained here increases every