Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-12-12
NORTHERN TRIP
Miss Sue Sloan Gives Graphic
Description of Her Trip
to New York and
Boston.

The readers of the lettersI / have
written for the Southern papers from
various states, north, east, south,
west. realize I am especially interest
ed dsin the institutions in the various
branches of education.
Itseems natural for me to take
delight in observing these, for have
Inherited from both my father and
mother the ambition to cultivate as
m1sh as possible the talents entrust-
ed 10 my keeping, and other relatives
by their positions have impressed me
with the wisdom of this.
Ny uncle Prof. Ben Sloan served
twenty-six successive years in the
South Carolina college, and its
president after it became a Univer.
sity. When his portrait was un-
yelled during the Centennial he
publicly received many compliments,
from many alumni of the college
holding offices in various states.
They gave him credit for their
success, saying he realized the I'M
portance of punishment and his
power in this respect, but be never
exercised it at the sacrifice of the
honor of the student. For example,
some mischievous students blacked
the monument. They deserved to
be punished. but how was he to lind
who did it without one student
betrasing another. They had done
it thonghtlessly, and he would give
them a chance to mediate and per-
haps, repent. He ignored it, passed
to and fro by it several days, when
one morning he found it spotless.
The guilty students went to him and
confessed. saying a guilty. conscience
was the.worst punishment they could
have and this had taught them a
valuable lesson, never tc do any
=s st,,Irses i. <, that Won would a be ashaGea
of. eYen+if the world should ignore
it.
/ had another relative, Prof, Paul
Sloan, connected with the State
Agricultural College at Clemson,
and relative Miss Wickliffe who
for many years has held a high
position in the State College for
Women. She is dearly beloved by
the Winthrop girls, and has several
times accompanied them as a chaper-
one to Europe.
When I attended the Normal
School in Gaffney, she added greatly
to my social pleasures and l was
valuably instructed by her public
lectures.
While was in attendance on the
Athens Georgia Normal School,
Prof. Lawton B. Evans, superin.
tendent of the Board of Education
in that State advised me when visit,
ing any place to always observe the
Institutions.
I have published letters describing
the Texas Colleges and Universities
and the two years l studied in New
York, wrote of the New York
College of Music and Cornell Uni
versity during my sessions at these
institutions. / wrote descriptions
of Vassar, West Point and various
institutions in New York City which
I visited during the National Con
ference on Community Music.
I am often asked the question
where would you advise me to send
my daughter to school? + have
thought if she Was educated in hel
home state, it would be to her future
social interest as she would make
friends in South Carolina. Instead
of answering the question ask an
other, Would she make friends
from distant states?" 1 think
have friends and acquaintances II
almost every place in South Carolina
and most of the Southern states.
I know any girl with ambition
and proper pride of character viii
make friends in her native state
regardless of where she is educated
and l greatly enjoy visiting many
influential friends in various south
ern states. By attending college IL
the North, / have made friends IL
numerous Northern states, who have
not only given me much pleasure
but have proven very beneficial
from an educational point Of view
l had the advantage Of most South
ern girls going to the North, as
had prominent Northern and South
ern relatives and friends living II
New York State, as my father DR.
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