The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-09-24
A HIGH SCHOOL.

one Oh Cne SIuueh1o AiA
lege. Numbers of students came from
Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas
GEORGIA and other states. A large
number were from South Carolina
especially from Due West.
But there was a greater number
Of students in the college from North
Carolina than from any other state
excent South Carolina. And there
was a reason why this was true.
And this is the reason. At that
time DIR. w. W. Orr had charge OF
the Hunterville High School. Ih>
school was being conducted for the
purpose of preparing boys for COL
lepe. and especially from Erskine
College. And great numbers of them
came from that High School to Ers-
kline College. It would be hard to give
the figures now, but we believe that
one-fourth of the students then at
tending Erskine College had been
prepared at DR.. Orr's school.
And the boys who came from that
High School were we'll prepared
They were not we'll advanced IN some
subjects and deficient in Others
Their preparatory training had been
done with a view to their admlttance
into the college classes and the WORK
was balanced. As a consequence when
thew arrived at Due West they were
admitted to the proper classes WITH
out the otherwise necessary examl-
nations, They saved trouble for
themselves and much trouble for the
facnltv on account of irregular train
ing. ,
And that is what good high school
will do for town and a community
There will be more boys prepared Tor
college by one hundred per cent
with a high school in town thah
without one. The existence OF tne
school with the fact that other par
ents are sending their boys to 1t, ana
Tins preparing them for college, Will
induce still others to take advantage
of the opportunity offered with the
result that the boys Of the town, IN
a constantly increasing percentage Oh
their numbers, will prepare them
selves for college, and when prepared
thew will take every opportunity Of
fering itself in order to secure a COL
lepe education. 1t means an educated
citizenship in a very few years, with
all the advantages which that brings
to community.
And it means lot to the boy who
is going to college. The boy who mas
not received the proper preparation
has hard road to travel in college,
especially the first. and second years.
How often he becomes discouraged,
fails, or drops out in disgust because
he has not had the proper training
only the instructors in the schools
could tell. But that this is true in
many cases there can be no doubt.
But if the boy is prepared, if his
preparatory training is balanced, If
he has had training in all the branch
es which admit him into the class to
which he belongs, in nine cases out of
ten he will be successful with his
college work, and will make sue
cessful student.
No person who knows will deny
these statements and the truth Of
these observations, we believe. And
if they are true, how important. it's
that the people of Abbeville and Of
Abbeville County secure while we
may an, institution which will fit the
boys of this town and this COM
munity for college work, and proper
ly fit them for this work.
Viewing the opportunity which
now comes to Abbeville to secure a
first class preparatory school fol
boys, we feel that we would be more
than recreant to duty if we did moi
urge the people of this town to leave
no stone unturned to obtain this
school. 1t is an opportunity which
comes to few towns in a generation
1t is ours now and may not be agair
in a generation. Will we take advant
age of it?