The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-06-03
THE wAroHMAN AND souTHRon, JUNE 8. 1915.

the old farm of 144 acres. Extensive
additions to the dairy and poultry
plants on the farm have been made.
"A large new gymnasium, the best
appointed and handsomest in the
South, has been built. enabling us to
look still more carefully after the
physical development Of our students
This gymnasium has been built at a
cost of $4,000. but tho State ap-
propriated only $4,000 of that
amount. The remaining $4,000 was
supplied by the college authorities
from other sources. The whole col
lege plant is now worth considerably
over $1,000,000, and of this amount
the State has appropriated $4S2.-
7O2.
''The improvements at the training
school in the way cf connecting the
old building with tho new and the
grading and equipping Of the play
ground have added very much to the
attractiveness and usefulness o. that
department.
''The service Of the college to the
schools Of the State is increasing with
each year. The demand for our
graduates as teachers is constantly in
creasing. Most, If not all, Of our 5000
Winthrop daughters have taught or
are teaching in this State or else
where. You can find Winthrop girls
teaching in nearly every State in the
Union and also in South America,
Africa, China and Japan, to which
foreign lands they have gone as mis-
sionaries. Wherever they are you
will find them, married or still un-
married, taking an active and effec-
tive part IN school Improvement work,
in social betterment efforts. in civic
tuplift and helpful undertakings of all
kinds. believe that the Winthrop
girl has contributed no little by her
work and example to the marked i'm
provement during the past 80 years
in the teaching profession. If we may
SO refer to it yet awhile.
/ "The extension work of the college
has been enlarged and broadened and
the college has been brought into
closer touch through 1t with the life Of
the State and has been enabled to rem
der still greater service to the State
in it's work for the betterment of the
schools and homes and community
life of the State.' This extension work
consists of helpful bulletins. the Win
throp Weekly News, the Oak Ridge
farm school, addresses Of members Of
the faculty at educational gather
1ings the mill village betterment work
under Miss Frayser and her agents
and the home demonstration work
for the women and, girls of the rural
districts in the interest of the coun-
try home. carried on by Miss Parrott
In home economics for the benefit Of
the mill and rural homes is carried
on by Winthrop in cooperation with
the United States department Of agri-
culture and Clemson college under the
Smith-Lever act. There is only one
other normal college in the country,
besides Winthrop college, that has the
advantage of carrying on ''home
economies" extension work under
the smith-Lever act. For the work
carried on under the direction of Miss
Parrot s.476 women and girls are
enrolled.
The enrolment of students for
the past session was the greatest in
the history Of the college, reaching
s74. There We're 1895 applications
Tor admission to the college. Most
OF the $50 who did not gain admis-
sion were not prepared for college
work, but 21o were eligible for aa-
mission on entrance requirements. Our
board Of trustees asked the last leeis-
lature to provide for another dormi-
tory to accommodate more of the
young women applying for az ,ission
to winthrop and now turned Ay for
lack of accommodations, but it failed
to make the appropriations. It was
freely said in the legislature, how
ever. that the new dormitory asked
for by our board would probably be
provided for at the next session.
Il wish to warn the friends Of Win
throp against the insidious suggestion
that winthrop Is in great danger of
becoming too large for good work.
She Is long ways from such danger.
The IL strongest and best institutions
OF the United States have an enroll
ment of 1000 and over, and those in
stitutions Of smaller enrolment are