The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-06-15

most assurance that $4,000 will be
added to the same in not a very dis
tant day--also, a sufficient corps of
complete professors, happy and con-,
tented, with salaries paid promptly
not with few students in1sattsn9-
ance. and small classes, but with an
enrolment the largest In her|history
,and,twith all the Glasses full almost
to overflowing. * 8NN ttf 8sS,
- 'tIn all$ $these 80 years Of her ex-I
istence, the present, the fiftieth year!
is greater in results, in improye yements
and in any and every respect than IN IN
any other single year. The$oatlook
for the future is simply glorius. ..,s,,,..r
cit has ben about 80 years since
the college was moved from Walhalla
to it's present location, DR.. Geo. w.
Holland Of blessed memory, was its
president for about 18 Of those years,
DR.. Cromer for eight years and DR..
Scherer has entered upon his third
year. .,
"All Of these gentlemen deserve
great credit and the we'll done Of the
church for the wise, prudent and
skillful management Of the institn-
ton. DR.. Holland was professor
in the college for three years before
his election to its presidency and was
one Of those who made many sacrl-
fees in money and otherwise to keep
the college open during the hard
times of the Reconstruction Of the
State. His knowledge Of the wants
and condition Of the college admir-
ably fitted him for the position he
so gracefully and acceptable felled.
Under his administrator the college
took on new life and the grand and
good work accomplished by him was
regarded by all as an achievement
that scarcely no man but him could
have brought out Of such ruin and
desolation-the results of which are
greater a ndmore for-reaching than
the most ardent friend of the college
could have hoped for or expected at
the time his ideas and plans were in
augurated. DR.. Holland was a true
and noble man-one of nature IS
models.
CDR. Cromer was also professor
in the college before his election to
it's presidency, and on this account
with the tact and skill with which
nature has endowed him, was well
fitted in every respect, and the very
man to carry forward the great and
good work begun by DR.. Hollandt
How we'll he succeeded in doing this
is we'll known to every friend Of the
college and if he should die soon or
never accomplish anything more in
life his work 80 we'll and faithfully
performed for Newberry college will
live and live on and on long after we
who speak of it today shall have
passed to the great beyond.
"Dr. Scherer has proven himself a
worthy and fit successor fo Drs. Hol-
land and Cromer. In the brief per-
iod of his administration he has
shown himself to be workman that
needeth not to be ashamed of his
labor. Quick, talented, energetic,
intelligent and Industrious, he goes
forth to overcome-to conquer. He
could without embarrassment ap-
proach a king crowned and robed
and seated on his throne and impress
that king favorably with his own in
dividuality and of the important
work being done by Newberry col
lege, and if he did not succeed in OBJ
tanning the kings crown as gift
to the college, he certainly would sue
ceed in putting that king in a posi-
tion never to speak a word against
the institution.
."But, my friends, I have omitted
one thing from this address that
should find place in it. In army
parlance, I am friend and admirer
Of the subofficers, and high privates
the men who stand behind the guns
and do the shooting-who stand and
guard and watch for the enemy
who drill the men and inspire them
with courage. -
that Drs. Stork, Smeltzer, Holland
Cromer and Scherer standing alone
could have never reacher the great
heights to which'they have ascend
cd and accomplished the grand work
Justly attributed to them without 9
loyal and trained band Of professort