Presbyterian College Presbyterian College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton , South Carolina , USA . Presbyterian College , or PC , is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church USA . PC was founded in 1880 by William Plumer Jacobs , a prominent Presbyterian minister who also founded the nearby Thornwell Home and School for Boys and Girls . The college ' s current President is Dr . Claude Lilly . Presbyterian College has around 1300 students and runs on an endowment of around $ 65 million . PC also has 84 full - time faculty members . Over the years six of its faculty have been selected as South Carolina Professors of the Year , more than any other college or university in the state . The motto of PC is " Dum Vivimus Servimus " or " While We Live We Serve . " Service is a crucial part of PC , and almost all of its students partake in some form of service by the time they graduate . Consequently , students are encouraged to participate in programs like Student Volunteer Services , one of the largest student - run organizations on campus . The PC mascot is the Blue Hose , represented by a Scotsman clad in a kilt with blue stockings . PC athletics are a part of the Big South Conference of NCAA ' s Division I . PC is also home to Cyrus , the largest bronze statue of a Scotsman in the world . History . PC was founded in 1880 by William Plumer Jacobs , a Presbyterian minister who also founded The Thornwell Home and School for Boys and Girls . Rev . Jacobs was born in Yorkville ( now York , South Carolina ) on March 15 , 1842 . He died in Clinton on September 10 , 1917 . For these 75 years , his frail body was driven in unselfish service toward fulfillment of his motto : " I will strive and try not to gain great things for myself but to gain them for God . " In addition to founding and / or supporting the church , college and orphanage , Dr . Jacobs served as author , reporter , publisher and took the lead in Clinton civic affairs . He helped secure the location of two railroads , led in the establishment of the Clinton High School Association and sponsored plans for founding a public library . He was fluent in Latin , Greek , French , German and Hebrew , and was an expert in metaphysics , history and astronomy . He was also proficient in shorthand . Jacobs founded the college to be a community of Christian faith and learning , and the college retains the emphasis of service , for " faith without works is dead . " The school ' s motto is " Dum Vivimus Servimus " , or " While We Live , We Serve " . The mission of the school states : Academics . Presbyterian College has 84 full - time professors and offers 30 majors . The average class size is 13 – 15 students . The college has three Cooperative and Dual - Degree Programs in Engineering ( with Auburn , Clemson , and Vanderbilt Universities ) , Forestry / Environmental Science ( with Duke University ) and Religion ( with Union Theological Seminary ) . PC also has eight pre - professional programs . A Confucius Institute is now an integral part of academic life at PC . Confucius Institutes exist at colleges and universities worldwide to offer educational opportunities in Chinese language and culture . Presbyterian College and the University of South Carolina are the only two venues for Confucius Institutes in South Carolina . PC also maintains active academic partnerships with Guizhou University in China and with Karlsruhe University of Education in Germany . Pharmacy School . Presbyterian College recently announced the creation of its own pharmacy school . The school opened in the fall of 2010 and is currently on candidate accreditation status South Carolina Professor of the Year . Six Presbyterian College faculty members have won the annual Carnegie / CASE South Carolina Professor of the Year awards , more than any other college or university faculty in the state . Three PC professors won that award in the 1990s and three in the 2000s . The historian William Y . Thompson taught at Presbyterian College from 1950 – 1955 , when he joined the faculty of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston , Louisiana . Student body . Admission . Presbyterian college accepts 68 . 6 % of applicants and is regarded as " more selective " by " U . S . News and World Report " . Size and Makeup . Roughly 1300 students representing 27 states and 7 foreign countries are enrolled at Presbyterian College , 48 % of whom are male and 52 % of whom are female . For several years , the student body was maintained at roughly 1200 , but in 2006 , the incoming freshman class was enlarged from 300 to almost 400 . 95 % of the student body lives on campus , and the student body boasts over 70 student - run clubs and organizations . The incoming class of 2009 is reported to be the largest incoming class in the college ' s history . Honor Code . In the academic and social atmosphere of Presbyterian College , the college ' s Honor Code often is mentioned and considered . PC has utilized the honor system since 1915 . The current version includes prohibitions against dishonorable acts such as cheating , lying , vandalism , plagiarism , and theft . At the annual Opening Convocation , each incoming student and new faculty member signs a pledge to adhere to these principles . Many community members recognize several resulting benefits . Some students do not lock their dorm rooms or their bicycles . Professors and students are allowed greater flexibility as all are considered by default to be trustworthy and not to be suspected of cheating . Such liberties are partly maintained by the seriousness with which the Honor Council manages cases of violations . The standard , but by no means required , punishment for violating the honor code is suspension for two semesters . Every year , despite the regularity with which attention is focused on the honor code , a small number of violations are reported to and sometimes tried by the Honor Council . In 2006 , Presbyterian College revised its Honor Code to its current version : Further details can be found at the PC website . Greek life . 43 % of students at PC are involved in Greek Life . PC has 6 national fraternities : PC has 3 national sororities : Each fraternity has a house on campus , located at Fraternity Court . Rankings . Presbyterian College is a member of the Annapolis Group , an association of over 100 liberal arts colleges that has spoken out against rankings systems , particularly the system published annually by the " U . S . News and World Report " . Specifically , Presbyterian College and others of the group do not participate in the highly subjective " reputational survey " portion of the overall survey ( this section accounts for 25 % of the total rank ) . In spite of PC ' s refusal to submit the often subjective peer - assessment portion of the survey , U . S . News ranks the college 105th among liberal arts colleges according to its " Best Colleges 2010 " list . In the days following PC ' s formal denouncement of ranking systems , however , Presbyterian College was ranked no . 1 in the 2007 version of " Washington Monthly " ' s Top US Liberal Arts Colleges Rankings based on its production of research valuable to society and its commitment to national service . Consequently , the issue of college rankings has become the subject of much debate on PC ' s campus , with students and faculty voicing strong opinions on both sides of the issue . Campus . Six buildings on Presbyterian College ' s campus are part of the Thornwell - Presbyterian College Historic District , a historic district that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places : Doyle Hall , Laurens Hall , Jacobs Hall , the president ' s house , Neville Hall , and the campus bell tower . To house its students , Presbyterian College features 11 residence halls , 9 apartments , and 15 townhouses that together provide lodging for over 90 % of the students at the college . Most of the residence halls are named for friends of the college . Men ' s residence halls include Bailey Hall and Georgia Hall . Women ' s residence halls include Belk Hall , Grotnes Hall , Laurens Hall , and Smyth Hall . Four residence halls , Carol International House , Senior Hall , Barron Hall and Clinton Hall are co - educational , either by suite , room , or floor . Reynolds Hall , once housing the campus ' s infirmary , is either housed by women or men only depending on the year . The college also uses 15 townhouse units to house 72 senior students and 9 Scottish Arms apartments to house an additional 18 students . During the 2008 – 2009 academic year , Presbyterian College acquired a piece of property that will be used as the primary facility for the School of Pharmacy . The School of Pharmacy building will be a , multi - story facility housing classrooms , faculty offices , teaching and research laboratories , assessment areas , and a pharmacy clinic , the Center for Pharmacy Care . The facility is located in Clinton approximately from the Presbyterian College campus . A relationship between the City of Clinton and the college developed so that the city and college jointly acquired the building , the unoccupied former home of Presbyterian Home , an assisted living center . Renovation of the facility is scheduled to begin on April 1 , 2009 , with a completion and move - in date of April 1 , 2010 . Classes are scheduled to begin in August 2010 . Interestingly , Neville Hall is rumored to be haunted . The actual identity of the ghost is disputed , but many believe it to be either the spirit of the building ' s namesake ( Neville ) or the spirit of William Plumer Jacobs himself . However , another story suggests that the building is haunted by a student who allegedly committed suicide in the top floor of the building . The building is also labeled as a nuclear fallout shelter , along with several other academic buildings on campus . Athletics . Presbyterian College competes in NCAA Division I athletics as the PC Blue Hose . The school is a member of the Big South Conference and supports 16 varsity sports teams . Prior to joining Division I , the Blue Hose first appeared in an NCAA tournament in 1993 when coach Beth Couture led the women ' s basketball team to the NCAA Division II National Tournament . PC also has 4 club teams : men ' s swimming , men ' s volleyball , women ' s swimming and women ' s volleyball . Men ' s sports include : Women ' s athletics include : Division I . In 2006 , PC announced that it would move to the Big South Conference of the NCAA ' s Division I . The Presbyterian College football team competed in Division I - AA . The 2007 – 2008 season was the first year of the four - year transition period for Presbyterian . PC football went 6 – 5 in their first season in Division I - AA . The men ' s Basketball team has garnered recognition during the transition phase for their status as " road warriors " , having traveled more than any other team in the 2007 – 2008 season ( 25 away games ) . Their nation - wide criss - cross included match - ups with major programs like Ohio State , Clemson , Wake Forest , N . C . State , and others . The team gained fame by being featured on ESPN . com , as well as articles in The New York Times and The Washington Post . Presbyterian was also featured in The Washington Post for its 2009 – 2010 basketball season . In 2011 , the Bleacherreport selected Presbyterian ' s mascot as one of the worst in collegiate football . From the website : " It refers to fierce Scottish warriors who wore blue socks . Still , maybe " Scotsmen " would be better , and harder to make fun of , than Blue Hose . " The Bronze Derby . Traditionally , one of the athletic highlights on PC ' s campus is the Bronze Derby football game . Played annually against nearby Newberry College , the game is the subject of a long - standing rivalry between the two schools . The rivalry dates back to the a particularly heated game played during 1946 – 47 basketball season . Before the game commenced , a set of PC students unfurled a large banner inscribed with “ Beat H . . . Out of Newberry ! ” on the wall of the gymnasium behind the PC student section . While the crowd was distracted , however , a group of Newberry students climbed the outside of the gym wall , crawled through a window , and ripped the banner off the wall before fleeing into the night . After the game ended ( PC won 51 – 47 ) , PC students demanded that the banner be returned . The Newberry students refused , and a fight ensued . In the midst of the epic struggle , a Newberry student snatched a derby from the head of a PC student . In the days following the derby theft , Frank E . Kinard – a senior at Newberry and editor of the school paper – received a letter from Charles MacDonald , then assistant athletic publicity director at PC . MacDonald suggested that the derby be recovered so that it could be made to be a symbol of athletic rivalry between the two schools , to which Kinard and the Newberry student body agreed . The derby was then unearthed , although the identity of the abductor was kept secret , and the hat was immortalized in bronze , forever a symbol of the rivalry between the two teams . During the early years of the Bronze Derby rivalry , the hat was exchanged between Newberry and PC at every athletic event , the first occurring at a basketball game on February 28 , 1947 , which PC won 44 – 42 . Eventually , however , it was decided that the derby would be awarded only to the winner of the Annual Thanksgiving Turkey Day Bronze Derby Game , rather than at every athletic event . The game was then rescheduled during the 1992 season after the teams and the conference moved to NCAA Division II ( the game date conflicted with the playoff schedule ) . Currently , the annual Bronze Derby game has been temporarily suspended , given PC ' s move out of Division II athletics and into Division I . The game , however , is still intended to be played once PC ' s transitional phase is completed .