Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-11
What WINTHROP IS Doing
Trustees Make Fine Report to the
Legislature.
COLLEGE NOW HAS $500 DAUGHTERS
Great Plant That is Now Worth ST.
255,842.35 Has Cost the Taxpayers OF
South Carolina From the Beginning

South Carolina From the Beginning
Only S631,117.62.
The annual report of the Board OF
Trustees Of Winthrop College to the
general assembly of South Carolina
has been made up. 1t covers the work
of the past year and presents the
needs of the coming year.
The total enrolment in all depart
ments including the summer school,
the training school together with the
regular college classes is 2,915. Of the
1863 new students admitted this year
200 are from secondary schools and
colleges, 90 have been admitted upon
examination and upnn teachers certi-
ficatcs and 4S upon certificates and eX-
animation. or the total number of
students enrolled in the college classes
341 or 80 per cent. are the daughters
Of farmers. There are three students
pursuing post graduate courses at the
college, this year working for the A. NJ.
degree.
Of the twelve South Carolina women
pursuing postgraduate courses at
higher institutions Of learning outside
Of South Carolina, six arc Winthrop
graduates.
With the completion Of the new dor
ritory at Winthrop, now rooted in, the
college will be in position TO accommo-
date $50 more students and will thus
be able TO admit all of the high school
graduates prepared for college who
have heretofore been turned away for
! lack Of room.
There arc now $500 Winthrop
Daughters.
Winthrop College renders a great
service in its extension work TO the
people of the state outside of the COL
lege class rooms and campus. 1t gives
correspondence courses; reading
courses; consultation service relative
to school grounds and civic improve
mcnt; supplies speakers for addresses
and lectures; it makes educational sur
yevs; conducts county study center
work for country teachers; publishes
n weekly newspaper; issues many I'M
portant and helpful bulletins; helps
schuols to secure teachers best suited
| to their work, (thiS department re-
spondcl to 1.14I calls for service IN
! this particular last year coming from
collcrcs, high schools. graded Schools
and rural schuos) The home demon
| str.,,inn work of the college is carried
! on in Al counties of the state for the
| jr,r.ruyament OF the homes and living
/ conditions of the people. During the
; vear .3al, 5,6lG meetings of the
womcns' and girls home demonstra-
lion clubs were held with IN attend
ance Of 99,Sll.
| Winthrop Colleges charter granted
! in 1891, when no other South Ca"olina
! state College was open to women
provides for the practical and hishcf
cd,,cotion OF women, literary, scientific
and professional. and Winthrop College
! has been conducting courses through
.,D thcsn years in accordance with ms
! charter.
There has been very little sickness
at The college this session, and as
: .c,r:eGucnce the students nave oeeh
/ vary regular in their attendance ana
! b.,,.c made unusual progress in their
studies.
III, students are strong and well as
, ru;c. OF a45 now students weighed
/ ,unn entering college this session ana
! wciphcd again before leaving for nome
fo, the Christmas holidays 3-S saIicu
! 4, average of nine pounds each. only
seventeen students had lost weight, the
! average iuss being two pounds ana Il
fraction.
I Tho committee of teachers ana OIL
fncrs aupnintcd to investigate ana re-
mort upon the college fare reports
,brourh its chairman. the head ol me
d,,,ortmcnt uf Domestic Science, that
the food Is palatablr. well served ana
inm,,.e quantity, and that good wh"ic-
some, properly balanced meals OF Hore
,h,r sufficient c;,luric and protein
,.,Iur arc being served to the Winthrop
students.
,rh. hi,iIdlng operations at Winthrop
arc progressing. The new dofml'"rs ~
runred in, the libalury enlargement i"
going forward and the teachcfS ho''e
has been begun with practically all the
m.tnrial for the building on INC
ground.
Tbc Board Of Trustees of Winthrop
Cnllcge wish to avail themselves OF inc
Carnegie plan for the pension ol 'he
tenchcrs of Winthrop College ana arc
arranging to put that plan IN operation
for another year.
The enrolment in the summer sch""i
last summer WAS 1.44S. The prospects
rrr as wnud an attrndanc" as 'hi"' II
no, Il better attendance. for the hcA'
summer school are excellent.
It is due Winthrop College 10 can
InIirutiun to the fact that. although Tie
inventory Of the college plant SUD-
mit,r,l tu the budget commission E'S'
: summer shows the value "l the piah'
TO l,, on June 30. 1870. $2.25a.St-.''"' 'he
state of South Carolina has pad from