Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-06-09
acres OF land upon which said build
ing Is located and In addition $4,000. In
subscription scholarships, the total es-
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timated value Of same being $4,000.
First. Resolved, That this PROPOSE
tion be referred to a committee Of five
to report some suitable action to the
board at a meeting to be held not later
than September 18th.
Second. Resolved, That this ques-
ton being raised and the Presbyterian
College of South Carolina being COM
mon interest, should other places In
the synod feel that they are entitled
to submit propositions for the location
of the college before the question Is
closed, that the committee shall be au-
thorized to receive and consider such
propositions along with that from
Yorkville.
Third. Resolved, That for their bet
ter information this committee shall
be authorized to visit Yorkville or
those places that may submit PROPOSE
tions to them.
Fourth. Resolved. That after the
date named above the board will re-
gard the question Of location as closed
not to be opened under any ordinary
circumstances.
when the above paper was adopted
the undersigned were appointed COM
mittee to add a word of comment In
order II possible to prevent any mis-
conception OF their action. We desire,
then, to say:
First That the question Of provid-
ing a more eligible location for the
college did not originate with the
board nor with any member Of 1t.
Second. When the question was
brought before the board by the COM
mittee from Yorkville the board felt
that two things were demanded by the
interest of the college, one was to take
care that the Presbyterians Of the
state, to whom the college must look
for patronage and endowment, should
not feel that a question In which they
were all 80 vitality interested was clos
ed without giving them an opportunity
to consider 1t and II any Of them 80
desired to have a hearing upon It; the
other point, equally important to be
guarded, was that this question should
not be kept open indefinitely. They
decided. therefore, to fix a fair time
limit within which they would hold
this question open for consideration
during which the Presbyterians Of any
community who believed that they had
- that
advance this common interest could
get fair hearing but after which the
board would be obliged to regard the
question of removal as closed.
Third. The board desire 1t to be
distinctly understood that while they
have felt that they ought to give a
courteous consideration to the propo-
sition that has come to them from
Yorkville, their clear judgment Is that
they would not be justified from any
point Of view In accepting any prop
osition for a change Of location that
did not offer the clearest and most
manifest advantages to the college that
the Presbyterians have entrusted to
their care. WIN. McPHEETERs,
ROBERT ADAMS,
8. c. BYRD"
What Clinton Has Done.
At the afternoon session OF the
board. DR.. McFheeters explained that
Clinton has done and Is doing some
thing to sustain the college. The
amount paid out last year represents
per cent on an endowment Of $4,000.
He intimated that Yorkville must do
something better than to offer mere
physical accommodations, for 1t would
be necessary to have permanent fund
from which to derive interest suffi-
cient to keep the institution moving
along.
The Yorkville delegation returned
this afternoon and the board Is In ex-
ecutive session discussing the merits
of Yorkville and Of Clinton. York
vile urges that the college will never
flourish here, for 1t Is overshadowed
by the Thornwell orphanage. On the
other hand those who favor keeping
the college here maintain that the
orphanage aids the college, that the
latter would not exist but for the Won
derful creative force Of Rev w. p.
Jacobs, D. D., who has built a great or
phanage out of a half dollar, has star
ted O college which Is growing, devel-
oping and getting settled In its moor
ings.
The agitation. 1t Is hoped. Will
awaken the Presbyterians of South
Carolina to the fact that this Is their
institution, that the denomination Is
not supporting 1t as 1t should be sup
ported, for many young men are sent
out of the state-to Davidson. to
Washington and Lee, to Princeton
and II Is a claim often made that the
Presbyterians have furnished more
students to the South Carolina college
than any other denomination, and
some years nearly majority or the
student body Of that institution Is taxi
en- from Presbyterian and Episcopalian
families. The Presbyterians will con-
tinue to support the state college. but
the leaders In the denomination are at
last in earnest, in regard to the insti-
tuition at Clinton which In its incipien-
cy was little more than preparatory
school and-now that 1t has broad
and ever broadening curriculum-the
friends Of the institution want 1t to be
known as it Is, a college in which care
full work Is done on a college curri-
culum. where young men are taught
in the faiths of the denomination.
DR.. w. P. Jacobs stated today that
college will be conducted here even
II the board decides to locate the Pres
bvterian college elsewhere. He made