The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-10-04
CLINTON RETAINS COLLEGE.
TIFF TRUSTEES SAID TO BE AL
MOST UNANIMOUS FOR THAT
PLACE.
The Board Issues a Statement Justi-
fyins the Action Taken-Clmton
Surrenders Title to College
Property and Gives $2O,-
600 Cash.

terian College remains in Clinton.
The board of trustees was in session
practically all day from o'clock a..
m. until nearly a. m, considering
the bids Of the several towns.
| When the board assembled yester-
day morning it was decided to consld-
er the bids as filed on the 18th of
September and to eliminate all sup
Elementary bids. AS Yorkville ana
Sumter were the only places which
made supplementary bids, they were
the losers thereby, Yorkville having
raised s2,5e0 additional in cash be-
tween September 18th and September
28th.
Rev. Virgil r. CASTOR and Rev. S.
c. Byrd reported to the board in re-
gard to the sites which they had in
spected as a committee OF the board
The committee appointed to report as
to the relative values of the sites con-
sisted of Messrs. W. S. Glenn, Jno.
Mcsween, W. M. O'Bryan, ]. M. Cher
~ and J. Allen Smith and the Rev.
N. N. McPheeters. D. D.
The executive committee was dl-
rected to appoint an investing COM
mittee of three to serve until next an
nual meeting of the board, and me
matter of the publication Of All an
nual organ was referred to the exec
utive committee.
It was decided that the roll should
be called and that each member of
the board should state his preference
in the matter and tha then vote
should be taken.
All of this was done in executive
session and the board did not act def
initely until almost o'clock in the
afternoon. Each member had by that
time expressed his views, and it ap-
reared that Clinton would be select
ed. There is some talk Of having
two Presbyterian colleges in the State,
one at Clinton and the other at Ben
nettsville, and this is limited at in the
statement given out for publication.
After the vote was taken COM
mite was appointed to prepare a
statement to the public. The report
which follows. was issued about Q
o'clock last night:
''The committee appointed to bring
in a paper expressing the sentiments
of the board in relation to the propo-
sitions submitted by the communities
OF Bennettsville, Chester, Clinton,
Sumter and Yorkville, for the locat-
ing of the Presbyterian College Of
South Carolina beg leave to submit
the following as their report, viz:
81. Resolved, That this board has
been profoundly impressed by the in
telligent enthusiasm and enlightened
liberality displayed by the citizens of
these several communities in their ef-
forts to secure for their people the
benefits of an institution Of higher
learning within their respective gates.
To see the most active business of five
of our most progressive cities turn
aside for time from the claims and
duties of their individual callings and
with one heart and one mind seek to
promote the common good; to see
them express by actions and gifts that
ue that they set Upon the blessings
of a Christian education for their
young men is, indeed, most inspir-
ing and a most hopeful sign.
Z" 2. Resolved, That the board would
have felt safe in committing the in
terests of the college, under God, into
the keeping of the people of any one
of these five communities, and wish
that it had beer in their power to re-
ward the efforts and liberality Of each
of them by listening to their desires
so ably voiced by their respective rep
resentatives and locating the college
with each of them.
''3 Resolved, That whatever may
be the natural disappointment that
the worthy people of Bennettsville,
Chester Sumter and Yorkville may
and perhaps must feel at the conclu-
sion reached, the board trusts that
they will believe us when We assure
them that we have endeavored to deal
with their respective positions with
the most scrupulous fairness, and that
we have reached our conclusions only
after the most careful canvassing Of
the whole case from every point Of
view, and under constant sense of
claims that each of these communities
who have competed for the possession
of the college had upon our consid-
Grafton.