The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-10-11
THE COLLEGE COMMITTEE.
A University High School Recon-.
mended for Sumter.

lowing paper was adopted. 1t speaks
for itself.
Judge Purdy and Mayor Dick were
not in the city today and hence they
could not be seen by those who Sc
cured the signatures of the members
of the committee not at the meeting:
We, the members Of the commit
tee appointed by the Chamber Of
Commerce, to secure for Sumter the
Presbyterian College of South Caro-.
lima, regret exceedingly the turn that
those affairs have taken; but our ar
that have been sown more than a
harvest Of barren regrets" To that
cational conscience has been quicken
ed, now is the time to make plans for
the future whose fulfllment' will re-
suit in permanent benefit TO Sumter
the city that we love so we'll. We have
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gestions that have been offered and
have selected the one outlined below
as our own. This plan is offered for
the consideration Of the public.
Our system Of city schools now en-
braces eleven years work including
ten grades. A certificate from our
schools entities the holder to entrance
to the Freshman class. With two
years added certificate would enr&-
tie the holder to entrance into the
Junior class. This would give Sum
ter systera embracing twelve grades
and the 9th, 10, 18th and 18th grades
would form a university high school.
It is better to have first class uni
versity high school than second class
college. Many places have what are
called collegiate Institutes; Sumter
would be the only place in South Car
Dina whose graduates would
be prepared for the Junior
class. This would give our boys
and girls two years longer at
home at the most formative period OF
their lives and would furnish them
with more individual instruction than
they could procure at college. 1t
would place within the reach Of all
two more years of college work and
would give to our community many
more college graduates; for after a
student had gone that far he would
almost certainly take two years more
at some good college to obtain his GER
tifcate of graduation.
The curriculum OF a school Of this
sort should include three depart
ments:
l. misunderstanding
.. English-Scientific.
8. English-Commercia
The Classical-Scientifc would pre-
pare for classical colleges those stu
dents desiring to take the degree of
A. B.
The English Scientific, for the de-
gree of p. S.
The English-Commercial, fof busi-
ness.
The difficulty after establishing a
college would be to maintain it. No
college is self-supporting. Every col
lege requires either an endowment or
an appropriation.
The objection to having feeder
for Clemson would be that the educa-
ton of all of our boys would be di-
rected towards agriculture or me-
chanics. The State OF South Carolina
would hardly feel justified IN estab-
fishing in Sumter feeder for Carolf-
ma and Clemson.
Our best opportunity therefore is to
have G University High School of our
own.
An extra levey Of two mills would
enable us to furnish and equip and
maintain physical and chemical lab
oratory, and provide a department Of
fering courses in stenography, type
writing, Bookkeeping. commercial
law and telegraphy.
a thorough course in English Lan-
guage and Literature would be offer
ed in all OF the departments
In the classical department Latin.
Greek, French and German would be
taught
Each course would be an elective
one and it could be arranged SO that
students from the city who might not
desire to be regularly enrolled could
take certain branches OF any depart
ment.
\ building that wouId meet any
requirements could be erected at a
cost of $4,000 ana this building
would be occupied by members Of
grades 9 to y inclusive.