The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-06-22

These subjects were taught until the
school was closed by the exigencies
OF the War between the Sections.
He then entered the Confederate ;
States war department at Richmond
and labord industriOusly through the
years OF 1861 to 1864 for the cause
he loved. In 1866 he was elected to
the chair Of modern languages OF
Washington college, now Washington
and Lee university, where ne served
under the administration OF Gen. ROD
| ert E. Lee. On the Lee centennial an
F. niversary in 1907 he said:
"Near the end OF long service IN
more than one Southern college OF
! high rank look back upon the years
spent in Lexington with Gen. Lee as
my golden age the privileges OF
which l now, alas too late, most keen
ly feel that I did not then sufficiently
appreciate.
! Upon leaving Washington and Lee
/; university DR.. Jovnes was associated
With Vanderbilt university, where ne
! helped to organize and became a
j member of the first laculty. Here
he taught English and modern Ian
guages three years. The next four
years were given to this chair in the
+, University of East Tennessee, later to
be recognized as the University OF
j.; Tennessee; and in this transfornla-
ton DR.. Joynes performed a distin-
guished service When the question
of Transforming the school into a
), State institution was being strenu-
= ously agitated and bitterly contended,
I, DR.. Joynes was selected to represent
the institution before the Tennessee
general assembly and was potent
) factor in getting favor BILE consider
= alton by the assemblymen.
Comes to Carolina.
!, 1t was direct sequence OF his WORK
in Tennessee that DR.. Joynes was Ia"
ter enlisted for the South Carolina
field. While In Tennessee DR.. Joynes
, was intimately associated with DR..
Thomas Sears, the first agent OF the
l Peabody board. In 1880 the first teacs
4 ers' Institute to be held in South
{ Carolina under the reconstructed State
government was held in Spartan
: burg, and upon recommendation OF
=: DR.. Sears, DR.. Joynes was invited to
! direct this institute. The following
year a similar institute was given in
Greenville. Hugh S. Thompson, who
4 was afterward elected governor OF
South Carolina, was State superin-
- sendent of education at that time and
:, a member of the board of trustees OF
o: the University of South Carolina, and
: it Was upon Gov. Thompson's Decom-
y hendation that DR.. Joynes was ir
: viteG to the chair of English and mod
ern langus ges. The department was
later divided. DR.. Jsynes restricting
his lectures to the department of mod
E ern languages. He continued in this
position until 1908, when he was re-
: tired with liberal allowance, Dy the
Carnegie foundation. He was 1mme.
/ diately thereafter elected professor
emeritus of modern languages ano
r continued to live on the university
e campus several years. One of t..
: acts in relation to the university was
: the donation of his modern language
e library of more than 1900 voiumes to
: the university library. He was mem
: Der of the first board of school trus,
tees of Columbia and was active IN
I founding and organizing the city
:! schools in 1888. Today beautiful
s oil portrait of Dr.. Joynes hangs on
Z the walls Of the McMaster school.
s Friend to Teachers.
), DR.. Joynes was no less interested
.. .. in the teacher than the pupil. When,
: ever possible he appeared at teachers
:. institutes and he was one among
=. the first members of the State Teach
> ers' association. He was most en-
;. thusiastic in his efforts to assist In
:. the organization of the State Normal
; and Industrial College for Women in
: Rock Hill, which institution had its
= infant years in Columbia and on the
y board of trustees of which DR.. Joynes
served a number of years. Many Of
the pamphlets which flowed from his
Il generous pen dealt with principles Of
n teaching, particularly those related
: to the teaching of the mother tongue
r He made an exhaustive study Of the
e industrial education Of women in
e Germany. This report attracted ma
s tionwide attention and was embodied
: by the United States government in
1 educational reports. His books were
e known throughout the country, haV-