The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-12
MUCH MIjiIOll RED TAPE
aklug Awards Of Scholar
ships in Colleges,
IANGE SUGGESTED

atAESQs SOSaSA@S
iFop Makes Great Record.
te Were Thirteen Hundred
Fwenty-sour Scholarships.
~ sThousand Dollars Paid for
scholarships in the Schools.
hal3 the. entire method Of allot-
.9nehciary scholarships in the
State, colleges is wrong. is
view OF the State superinee /
"a education Mr. ]. E. Swear
The cost is several hundred
annually, the exact amount
s.rssns. Unknown because the county
lasardsi of education are paid out
81 fBssr respective county funds and
ant cut of the State treasury.
MIR Swearingen' says that all OF
az 4 limitations should be held the
ss3oe aav and that the papers should
is aramined for award by the fac.
:fIs3ss bf the respeetiv institutions.
EI.jyj4 Il tho law with reference to
I'd scholarships at the University
4 ~. reference to Clemson
sshs county boards of edu-
6n are the arbitors, even after
u nsSers have been graded by the
|(5ie1n sen faculty. This means pos
stsS,v IN additional meeting of the
1ecif:.i board, for which each mem
sssyer els SO per day. There are two
sr,n an tive members of the board in
saed county and this would aggre-
Bste S256 for the boards to meet
|Fa sify what the faculty had al
seaay decided de facto.
eTis scholarship appropriation OF
Ifhe state are as follows: Clemson
IS. 6 zoo, Winthrop S12,400, univer-
ssas s4,2Oo,, Citadel $4,000. To-
Isl z5s, 200.
sar the vacant scholarships at
IS ant hrop this year there were 1900
4, elicants. 1t has been an immense
81 rtaking to grade the papers.
Every applicant must make an av-
.t$raee of so points on each branch
5as study. Some have excellent
y; sniing in some studies and fail
II Others. Furthermore the county
Ssafds of education must ascertain
81 lie applicant comes within the
sez .ctions Of law as to property
In ;fications. The legislature in
zeY}l; that these scholarships shall
be given to worthy and needy girls.
The Winthrop faculty is now grad
ing the papers, some 5000 of them,
and the report will be in the hands
of the State board of education ear
ly in September.
The recommendations from the
South Carolina university faculty are
already completed.
Daily the State superintendent is
geNaing reuorts from Hhe county
supe1intenGents with reference to
the Clemson Scholarships, but the
entire list is far from being COM
plete. Mr.. Swearingen would like
for the county superintendent to re-.
port at once as he can not require
this information from the Clemson
faculty or trustees.
The county boards are required
to give preference to those applicants
for Clemson scholarships who state
that they wish to take the agricul-
tural or textile courses, and the
spirit of the law is to encourage the
study Of agriculture, but the law
does not make this mandatory in
giving the scholarships.
The board of visitors of the Ci.a-
del met on the 29th of July and
granted permits for 50 young men to
stand the examination for Citadel
scholarships. These examinations
will be held on the 18th of Au-
gust. making an additional expense
upon the counties of So per day for
each examiner. Mr. Swearingen has
found what he considers another in
iustice-a youth will be successful
in standing an examination for
Clemson and will then in August
try for the Citadel vacancy.
And yet one other condition which
Mr.. Swearingen seeks to correct is
the inequality in the amounts ap-
propriated. He thinks that Win
throp and the university should be
on the same plane as Clemson.
Winthrop has 124 scholarships at
500 each; Clemson 166 at $1OO
each; the Citadel 6S at $3.50 each
and the university ~ at S1OO each.
There is frequently vacancy
from a county. In such case Mr..
Swearingen suggests tha. there
should be authority given to the
faculty of each institution to low
some worthy, deserving and needy
young man from another county to
become the beneficiary-for the year
year at least. Such an arrangement
could be designed scholarships at
large"
In hrief Mr.. STearingen suggests