The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-01-03
TOO MANY STATE COLLEGES.

.
A portion of his annual report has
been made public. We publish it in
The Herald and News and we espe-
cially desire that every reader of this
paper will read it carefully.
We are printing a portion of it here
and we want you to read it. Listen
to this:
Unfortunately for the cause Of ed
location itself in South Carolina, high
er education has received attention al
most to the neglect of secondary
education. The State, in both the
constitution and the statutes, gave no
recognition. to the high school as a
factor in it's educational system until
February; 1907. For a century the
State, the religious sects and the
phianthropists in it's borders have
devoted $almost all their thought and
means to colleges rather than to high
schools, although, generally speaking,
but few, more than one-tenth Of the
high school pupils ever go to college,"
Just what we have been saying in
The Herald and News and On the
stump. in this county and in the legis-
lature.. In fact we are satisfied Prof.
Hand has been reading The Herald
and News: We took this position
away back, ,yonder when the agitation
first started for the building of Glenn
son. 2~
The State is spending today about
a half a million dollars to furnish
higher education to about two thous-
and boys and girls and about a mil
lion to furnish a common and high
school education to 100000 white
children and more than that number
of negro children and as Prof. Hand
well says not one-tenth Of even the
high school children ever go to COL
1ege. And besides We are spending
about one hundred thousand dollars in
MISUNDERSTANDING board and
tuition and books and clothing for a
pu17tt;;on of the college pupils and not
even a cent to the really poor chill
dren to buy book so as to learn to
read. And as matter of fact it is no
part Of the States duty to furnish
higher education at all and certainly
not absolutely free education in the
shape Of scholarships. We are pleas
ed to see so able an educator as Prof.
Hand take this position. It means
good for the large mass of children
of South Carolina who can never 90 to
college.
The cost to the State OF maintain
ing these State colleges has doubled
in the last ten years.
Further on Prof. Hand makes the
following statement:
"However unpalata(ble and unpopu-
lar the statement, it is but plain truth
to say that the State has blundered
badly in establishing four institutions
# higher learning. There is nothing
to be gained by shutting our eyes to
a truth so evident. With small area
and with far fewer than three-fourths
of a million white people, the State is
maintaining four colleges and four
college plants, whereas other States
of wider area, larger population and
greater wealth have found it wise to
maintain but one or two such 1nsutu-
tons. These four colleges parallel
each other in more than one-half OF
their work, they overlap each others
work in nearly every department, and
at least three Of them are vigorous
rivals for patronage"
He then speaks Of the Is private
and d.enominational colleges and the
institutions calling themselves COL
qeges. The idea is that the State is
' college crazy.
For tra pest several years the State
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