MffKHSj m -msm Class. Book LAWS it. OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE, ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, AT THEIR ANNUAL MEETING IN DECEMBER, 1847, . (TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED THE ACT OF INCOR- PORATION, AND THE SUBSEQUENT ACTS PASSED IN AMENDMENT THEREOF.) VARIOUS RESOLUTIONS OF THE LEGISLATURE, EXTRACTS FROM GOVERNORS' MESSAGES, A^D OTHER IMPORTANT MATTERS RELATING TO THE COLLEGE. " Emollit mores, nee sinit esse feros." — Ovid, A. D. 6. t£ Not words but sacrifices, devotion and service, disinterestedness, courtesy to others, and that true self-respect which is inseparable from modesty of self-estimation." Chancellor Harper. A. D. 184G. COLUMBIA. S. C. I'KINTKI) 1!V A. s. JOHNSTON. 1848. L Uso&o ' ^ TABLE OF CONTENTS. Resolution of the Board of Trustees, appointing Commit- tee to report Laws '. . 1 Report of Committee 1 ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE RELATING TO THE COLLEGE. An Act to establish a College at Columbia 3 An Act authorizing the Commissioners for disposing of the public land in the town of Columbia, to deliver up cer- tain Bonds therein mentioned, and to convey certain squares to the Trustees of the South Carolina College 6 An Act to aid the establishment of the South Carolina Col- lege, and to amend an Act entitled " An Act to estab- lish a College at Columbia" 7 An Act to ratify and confirm the acts and proceedings of per- sons heretofore acting as Trustees of the College of Columbia-; 9 An Act to make appropriation for the support of a Pro- fessor of Chemistry, in the South Carolina College 10 An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the Orphan House of Charleston, to select the number of youths there- in mentioned, from those educated and maintained on the bounty of that institution, who shall be allowed to com- plete their education at the South Carolina College 11 An Act to alter the time of the stated meeting of the Board of Trustees of the South Carolina College, and for other purposes therein mentioned 12 An Act to prohibit the Students of the South Carolina Col- lege from using the State House in Columbia, in future, to hold their Commencement Ball in 13 Prom " An Act to make appropriations for the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes therein mentioned," 14 An Act to alter and amend an Act entitled " An Act to establish a College at Columbia" 14 Extract from an Act passed 17th Debember, 1831, entitled " An Act to incorporate certain societies, and for other purposes" ,. 15 An Act to vest certain squares and lots of woodland in i IV TABLE OF CONTENTS. the town of Columbia, in the Trustees of the South Caro- lina College 15 An Act concerning Vagrants 16 From " An Act to reduce all Acts and clauses of Acts in relation to the Militia of this State, to one Act, and to alter and amend the same" . 18 Extract from " An Act to make appropriations for the year commencing in October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one" ;'_ 99 BY-LAWS. Chap. 1. Of the Board of Trustees and their Secretary. _„ _ 19 Chap. 2. Of the Officers of the College. ____. 20 Chap. 3. Of the admission of Students 22 Chap. 4. Of the Classes, Course of Studies and Instruc- tion 22 Chap. 5. Of Examinations, Exercises and Public Exhibi- tions 23 Chap. 6. Of the Faculty and Government 23 Chap. 7. Of Discipline 26 Chap. 8. Of Sessions and Vacations 29 Chap. 9. Of the Commencement and Degrees ! 29 Chap. 10. Of the College Fees 1 31 Chap. 1 1 . Of the Students' Apartments 31 Chap. 12. Of the College Treasurer 32 Chap. 13. Of the Library and Librarian 33 Chap. 1 4. Of the Bursarship and Commons 35 Chap. 15. Of the Marshall and the College Buildings 38 Chap. 16. Of Offences, Rewards and Punishments 40 Chap. 17. Miscellaneous 43 Chap. 18. Course of Studies, Admission, &c 44 RESOLUTIONS OF LEGISLATURE, AND MESSAGES OF GOVERNORS. Reference to Resolution of 1815, appropriating $6,000 for Chemical apartment 47 Reference to Resolution of 1815, as to two students from City Council 47 Resolution of 1823, concerning Law Professorship 47 Report of Committee on the College, 1823___ 47 Reference to Resolution of 1823, appropriating $5,000 for Library ._. ! 48 Report of Committee on the College, 1824. _ 48 Report of Committee on the College, 1825 50 Resolution of 1825, requiring the Faculty to report a sys- tem for the regulation of the public schools 51 Reference to Report of Comptroller General on College disbursements, 1827 ___ — __-___-__--- -- 52 TABLE OF CONTENTS. V Reference to Report of Committee on the College, 183 1 _ ._. 52 Extract from Gov. Hamilton's Message, 1832 52 Extract from Gov. Hayne's Message, 1833 52 Reference to Report of Committee on the College, 1834 53 Reference to Resolution of 1835, as to new houses for Professors 53 Reference to Resolution of 1835, requiring Trustees to re- port Tuition money 53 Resolution of 1835, as to suppressing bawdy houses, &c 53 Extract from Gov. McDuffie's Message, 1835 54 Reference to Resolution of 1 836, making various appropri- ations 58 Resolution of 1836, as to renewal of charters of incorpo- ration 58 Extract from Gov. McDuffie's Message, 1836 - 58 Extract from Gov. Butler's Message, 1837 62 The same, 1838 -1 63 Reference to Resolution of 1838, establishing annual fund for increase of Library , 63 Reference to Resolution of 1838, concerning Dr. Cooper's Library 63 Thesame, 1839 64 Extract from Gov. Noble's Message, 1839 64 Extract from Gov. Henegan's Message, 1840 64 Reference to Report of Committee on College Commence- ment, 1840 64 Reference to Resolution of 1841, loaning American Ar- chives to College Library 64 Extract from Gov. Richardson's Message, 1841 65 Thesame, 1842 65 Beference to Resolution of 1844, transferring various books to College Library 66 Reference to Resolution of 1843, as to two rooms for Li- brary 66 Extract from Gov. Hammond's Message, 1843 66 Thesame, 1844 68 Report of Committee on Greek Professorship, 1844 68 Reference to Resolution of 1845, as to appropriations 70 Reference to Resolution of 1845, as to committee of Trus- tees to attend examinations. 70 Extract from Gov. Aiken's Message, 1845 70 The same, 1846 71 Report of Committee on the College, 1846 71 Extract from Gov. Johnson's Message, 184Z 72 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE COLLEGE. Order of Procession at College Commencement 73 Report of Committee in 1 836, au to expenses mm 74 VI TABLE OP CONTENTS. Expenses in 1847 75 K;nl\ Legislation as to Education 75 Extracl from Ramsay's Eistorj qf South Carolina 77 Extract from Mills' Statistics of South Carolina. 78 Extract from A A 1785, establishing several colleges 79 Decision Of Couri of Appeals on the Vagranl Act. 1836 79 Extract from Eulogy on II S. Lega?e,by W. C. Preston — 80 Resolution of Board of Trustees, concerning the Manning Scholarship 81 Extract from Memoir of Hon. II. W. DeSanssure 82 Extract from an Address by Col. S. W. Trotti, at the Citadel Academy 82 Resolution of Board of Trustees, appointing Visitors to attend examinations .. 84 President Maxcy's Address to the Baccalaureate, 1816 85 President Preston's inaugural Address, 1 846 90 Extract from an Address by Hon. C. J. Jenkins, at Athens, 1836 94 Extract from an Address delivered before the Euphradian and Clariosophic Societies, by C. G. Memminger, 1842- _ 97 List of Members of the Board of Trustees, and of the Officers of the College, December, 1847 100 Index 101 1. RESOLUTION APPOINTING COMMITTEE. Resolved^ That E. Bellinger, jr. Judge Wardlaw, Hon. W. F. Colcock and Judge Withers, be appointed a Committee to report to the Board, at its next meeting, in such form as they may deem suitable for the press, all Acts, and clauses of Acts, passed, and all Resolutions adopted, by the Legislature, in rela- tion to the South Carolina College ; and also the By-laws es- tablished for the regulation of the College ; together with such matters connected with the said Acts, Resolutions and By-laws, as the Committee may think useful for purposes of explanation or reference. December, 1846. 2. REPORT OF COMMITTEE. The Committee to whom it was referred to " report to' the Board at this meeting, in such form as they may think suitable for the press, all Acts and clauses of Acts passed, and all Reso- lutions adopted, by the Legislature in relation to the South Car- olina College ; also the By-laws established for the regulation of the College, together with such matters connected with the said Acts, Resolutions and By-laws, as the committee may deem use- ful for purposes of reference or explanation," beg leave to pre- sent the following REPORT. Your Committee, soon after their appointment, addressed a circular to each of -the Trustees and each of the Faculty, re- questing their several views, and their assistance, in relation to the subject committed to their charge. They have also examin- South Carolina College. ed, collected and arranged in chronological order, all the Acts and clauses of Acts, and all the Legislative resolutions, and all the by-laws of the College, and all the alterations and amend- ments, and notices of proposed alterations and amendments, made and given since the last edition of the printed by-laws, in 1836. They have also taken the pains to procure copies of the by-laws of the neighboring universities in Alabama, Georgia, Yirginia and Charleston, and of the Citadel Academy, together with much other information in relation to our College. And your committee have given to these matters considerable thought and attention, and now present, as ready for the press, the fol- lowing matters. I. All Acts and clauses of Acts in relation to the College, in order of date, with notes of repeal, alterations, &c. II. The Legislative Resolutions and extracts from journals, in order of date — the important resolutions and extracts in full, and references to others. III. The By-laws now of force, with some amendments, alte- rations and additions, (not very numerous, however,) and in form of a code more condensed and convenient for reference. IV. Some extracts and references to sources of information connected with the College. And V. A copious and minute index to the whole book, which will not (when printed) be much larger than the present printed book of laws. Hoping that their labors, although interrupted and somewhat procrastinated, will be satisfactory to the Board, and of some benefit to their Alma Mate?; They remain, Very respectfully, &c. E. BELLINGER, Jr. Chairman. Dec. 10, 1847. ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE, RELATIVE TO THE SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE. AN ACT to Establish a College at Columbia. A. A. 1801. 5 Statutes, 403. 3. Whereas, the proper education of youth contributes greatly to the prosperity of society, and ought always to p ream bi e be an object of legislative attention. And whereas, the es- tablishment of a College in a central part of the State, where all its youth may Be educated, will highly promote the instruction, the good order, and the harmony of the whole community : 4. Be it therefore enacted by the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly \ and by the authority of the same, That his Excellency the Governor, his Honor the Lieu- tenant Governor, the Honorable the President of the Sen- T ate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the ^inted!^" Honorable the Associate Judges, and the Judges of the Court of Equity, shall be, ex-ofhcio, together with General Charles C. Pinckney, H. W. De Saussure, Thomas Taylor, the Rev. D. E. Dunlap, the Rev. John Brown, of Lancas- ter, Wade Hampton, John Chesnut, James B. Richardson, Dr. Isaac Alexander, Henry Dana Ward, the Rev. Samuel W. Yongue, William Falconer, and Bartlee Smyth, be Trustees, to continue in office for the term of four years from the passing of this Act: and at the expiration of the said four years, and every four years thereafter, the Legis- lature to nominate* thirteen Trustees,! to succeed the said * Elect by ballot. See Act of 1805, post. t The number of Trustees has been since increased. See Act of 1825, post. 4 South 8ab.oi.ina College. thirteen persons above named, one body politic and cor- Tr/.s-es rorare. i:: oo e:::l ::; lav. ":;-.- :::: ::-:::: :i "The Trus- ineoiporatec : fS ___ -_ -^ g ______ -.._ _, ;----•-, ; ^ - - the name^tbey and the:: successors shall and may lave per- petually succession., and be able and capable in law have, receive and enjoy, to them and their success lands, tenements and hereditaments, of any kind or vali in fee. or for life : : y e a : s . and personal property oi any kind whatsoever: and alsc all sums :: money. :: any amount whatsoever, which may be granted or bequeathed to them. for the purpose of building, erecting, endowing" and sup- | :_:ing the said College in the town of Coluni" 5. And be it ena Iht . .-' t That there shall be a stated meeting of the said Trustees on .Tr_.s-.ees the nrs: We anesaav ::: I' :-:e::: ::. ::: fa:!: rear. „::::.: :l:e "'----- :: ■■'■-'■ Session :■: ::-.e LegiV.a:v_re:* a:::: :"::?.: the President rfsaid College, and tour of the said Trustees, shall have full power : call occasional meetings :: the Board, when- ever it shall appear to them necessary: and :"__:: at all stated meetings, the Presides: :: the Board jf Trustees aforesaid, and ten :: the Trustees, shall be the number to v.;.-. number constitute a quorum, and to fill up. by ballot, any vacan- aq-:..:. ::es that may occur in the said Trustees, ex:::: those who Eire hereby declared to be Trustees ex-:~::: : and the President and six xfthe cither Trustees shall be the num- ber to cons:::::: :: : : sional meeting : and the said Theirpovers. T:::s:::^. or a quorum ::.:::. being regularly : :: enecL shall be capable of doing or transacting all the business an: xmcems rfthe said College; but more particularly : :ing all the customary and ne : essary ~i : ers of the said institution, :■: :x::: their sevei ! s. h ties, : removing any of the::: for neglect :: misconduct ::: :_rl:-:. )f pre- scribing the course :: studies :: be] ursued by the stu- dents : and. in general, of .training and enacting all such ordinan::- and by-laws as shall appear to themnecess for file gc :1 g venuuent of the said College : Provi the same be not repugnant to the laws of this State noj . _ the T Jnited v :::es. A it further ssotd_ That Ihe head of the said College shall be s: \ ed "The President, 73 :.: id the masters thereof shall be styled "The T _.e F :: ..:;• Professors :" but Professors, while they re::::::: such, shall never be capable of holding the office :: T:::s:re : and the P::s::lent and Professors, :: a majority of them, shall be styled "T::e Faculty :: flie College; 13 which Faculty shall have the pawe: of ::.::: sing the ordinances and by- * TLiie :-:r.:r-run§ altered See Ac: of 1*11 .' South Carolina College. 5 laws adopted by the Trustees for the government of the stu- dents, by rewarding or censuring them ; and finally, by suspending such of them as, after repeated admonitions, ^ shall continue disobedient or refractory, until a "determi- Their powers nat ion of a quorum of Trustees can be had ; but that it shall be only in the power of a quorum of Trustees, at their stated meeting, to expel any student of the said Col- lege. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the Trustees of the said College shall and may have a common seal for the business of themselves and their successors, with liberty to change or alter the same, General pow- from time to time, as they shall think proper ; and that, ers of Trus- by their aforesaid name, they and their successors shall tees - and may be able to implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all courts of law within this State ; and to grant, bargain, sell, or as- sign, any lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods or chat- tels ; and to act and do all things whatsoever, for the be- nefit of the said College, in as ample a manner as any person or body politic or corporate can or may by law. 8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Trustees of the said College are hereby authori- zed and empowered to draw out of the Treasury of this State the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be appropriated Money ap- to the purpose of erecting a building of brick or stone, and Fopnated covered with tile or slate, suitable to the accommodation buildings. 6 of the students of the said College, and suitable for fully carrying on the education of the said students, and for the erection of such other buildings as may be necessary for the use of said College •• and that the Comptroller be au- thorized and empowered, upon application. of the said Trustees, to pay over to said Trustees the sum of six thou- sand dollars yearly and every year, to be appropriated to the purpose of paying the salaries of the Faculty of the said College, and for the further support of the same ;* and that the Trustees of the said College shall be accoun- table for the proper appropriation of the said monies, to the Comptroller, who shall report thereon annually to the Le- gislature. 9. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That this Act shall be deemed a public Act, and, as such, This a public shall be judicially taken notice of, without special plead- Aet. ing, iri all the courts of Law and Equity within this State. * Since the reorganization of the College, the number of professors has been increased, and they are paid by mutual appropriations of the Legisla- ture. See A. A. 1846, page 354, Section 5. Land in Co- lumbia, con- veyed to Trustees. South Carolina College. 10. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the said Trustees, with the concurrence of the Com- missioners of Columbia, shall be empowered to make choice of any square or squares, yet unsold, in the town of* Co- lumbia, for the purpose of erecting said college, and the buildings attached thereto, having strict reference to every advantage and convenience necessary for such institu- tion. In the Senate. House, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, and in the tiuenty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America. JOHN WARD, President of the Senate. THEODORE GAILLARD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. A. 1802. 5 Statutes, 437. AN ACT authorizing the Commissioners for disposing of the Public Land in the Town of Columbia, to deliv- er up certain Bonds therein mentioned, a?id to convey certain Squares to the Trustees of the South Carolina College. Preamble. 11. Whereas, the Board of Trustees of the College of South Carolina, in locating the spot which appeared to them the most proper for the site of the above mentioned College, have discovered that parts of the squares comprised there- in have been sold to private persons, who are willing to relinquish their purchases : 12. Be it therefore enacted by the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That upon the several persons hereinafter mentioned, who have purchased lots or squares in the town of Columbia, to be canceil- or their legal representatives, producing to the commis- ed - sioners for disposing of the public land in the town afore- said, certificates from the Board of Trustees of the Col- lege aforesaid, that they have executed to them full and sufficient conveyances, in fee simple, of the squares and lots hereinafter particularly described, the commissioners aforesaid are hereby authorized and directed to cancel the following bonds, to wit ; the bond of George Wade, for the purchase of two acres, making part of the square bound- ed by Richardson, Divine, Sumter and Greene streets ; also the bond of William Cunnington, for the purchase of Certain bonds South Carolina College. the square bounded by Sumter, Greene, Marion and Me- dium streets ; also the bond of Thomas Rhett Smith, for the purchase of the square bounded by Sumter, Blossom, Marion and Divine streets ; also the bond of Ezekiel Pick- ens, for the purchase of the square bounded by Marion, Divine, Bull and Greene streets ; and also the bond of Bart- lee Smyth, for the purchase of the square bounded by Marion, Greene, Bull and Medium streets. 13. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners aforesaid shall be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to convey to the Trustees aforesaid, in fee simple, the square bounded by Sumter, Di- vine, Marion and Greene streets, in the town aforesaid ; also the square bounded by Marion, Blossom, Bull and Divine streets ; and the half square, adjoining Wade's pur- chase, bounded by Richardson, Divine, Sumter and Greene streets, as aforesaid. 14. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the Trustees aforesaid shall be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to stop up or inclose all or any part of Greene, Marion or Divine streets, which are includ- ed within and bounded by Bull, Blossom, Sumter and Medium streets. 15. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That until the salaries of the Faculty of the said College shall commence, the Comptroller be authorized and em- powered, upon application of the said Trustees, to pay to them or their order, towards purchasing a philosophical and mathematical apparatus and library for the said College, the annual sum appropriated by law for such College. In the Senate House, the eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two, and of the Independence of the United States of America, tloe twenty-seventh. JOHN WARD, President of the Senate. ROBERT STARK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Lots convey- ed to Trus- tees, who may- enclose streets. Library and Philosopical Apparatus provided for. An ACT to aid the establishment of the South Carolina College, and to amend an Act entitled "An Act to estab- lish a College at Columbia." A. A. 1803. 5 Statutes, 4G4. 16. Be it enacted by the Honorable the Senate and House oj Representative, noio met and silting in General Assem- bly, and by the authority of the same, That if at any sta- 8 South Carolina College. ted or other meeting to be held by the Trustees of the When no quo- South Carolina College, any less number than a quorum, mswadjoum eSas esta blished by the said Act, shall attend, the members so attending shall have power to appoint a chairman, and to meet and adjourn from time to time, as the majori- ty shall think fit. 17. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, What number That if at any stated or other meeting of the said board, a quorum, the President shall not attend, it shall and may be lawful for the number of eleven at a stated meeting, or the num- ber of seven at an occasional meeting, to elect a president 'pro tempore ; and the meeting so constituted shall be vested with all the powers which an occasional or stated meeting may respectively exercise ; any thing in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding.* 18. And ivhereas, sundry persons, proprietors of those two squares of land situate upon and circumscribed by Two squares Medium and Pendleton, Sumter and Bull streets, have oflandtobe signified their assent to relinquish to the said Trustees Trustees t0 tn eir right and interest in the said two squares, upon being compensated by an exchange of other lands, or otherwise: Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners of the town of Columbia shall convey and assure to the said Trustees, the said two squares of land, or so much thereof as the purchasers shall voluntarily relinquish ; and shall make such compensation who may t0 tne said purchasers, by exchange or otherwise, as enclose streets, shall be agreed upon by and between them and the said purchasers ; and that it shall be lawful for the said Trus- tees to enclose the said two squares, with the squares lying next to the southward thereof, in one enclosure, notwithstanding the intervening streets. In the Senate House, the seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the twenty- eighth. JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate. ROBERT STARK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. * Altered by Act of 1825. See post. South Carolina College. An ACT to ratify and confirm the acts and proceedings a. A. 1805. of "persons he, of Columbia. II J±\y ± CO lUMjy UjIVUj VVKJVI UV IIIV LCOfrO UjIVUj JJI V^kujvivq* jx. JX. 1OU0 of persons heretofore acting as Trustees of the College 5 Statutes, 19. Whereas, it has been recently discovered, that there exists a variance between the enrolledAct, entitled, "An Act Preamble. to establish a College at Columbia," of record in the office of the Secretary of State, and the printed copy thereof, promulgated by authority of the State, for the information of the public, by reason whereof divers persons named in said printed copy, but who are not mentioned in the origi- nal Act, were required to act as Trustees of said College, and did accordingly interfere and act as such : 20. Be it therefore enacted by the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in Gene- ^™ e s r pr0 "_ rat Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That all fi rme d. and every act heretofore done, assented to or concurred in, by each and every person named as Trustees in the printed copy of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a College at Columbia," passed the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, from the promulgation thereof until the passing of this Act, which would have been legal and valid had the said persons been named or appointed Trustees in and by the enrolled Act aforesaid, shall be, and the same are hereby declared to be, ratified and confirmed, and held to be as firm and effectual in law, in as full and ample a manner as if their several and respective names had been inserted in said Act. 21. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, Associate for the time being, shall be, and they are hereby declared, x^, e s s te ™ s a e ex-omcio, to be, Trustees of the said College. 22. And be it [further enacted by the authority aforesaid, -pi me of meet- That the stated meetings of the Trustees of the said col- ing changed, lege shall, and the same is hereby declared to be, changed from the first Wednesday in December, to the fourth Monday of November in each year. 23. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, College may - That the said College shall have full and ample power confer degrees. to confer degrees on students or such other persons as may be deemed qualified to receive the same. 24. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Trustees to be That such part of the said Act as directs a nomination . f elected byjoint Trustees by the Legislature, be, and the same is hereby, a ot ' repealed; and that incases in which heretofore the Le- gislature might have nominated Trustees, thai the same shall be elected by a joint ballot of both branches of the 10 South Carolina College. Legislature, and. that the peisons having the highest num- ber of votes on such ballot, shall be. and are hereby de- clared to be. Trustees of the said College. Lithe Senate House, the fourteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, and in the thirtieth year oft/ie Sovereignty and Independence of the Uni- ted States of America. ROBERT BARNWELL, President of the Senate. JOSEPH ALSTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. A. 1811. 5 Statutes, 643. An ACT to 'make appropriation for the support of a Pro- fessor of Chemistry, in the South Carolina College. 25. Whereas, the Trustees of the South Carolina College- have, by their memorial, represented to the Legislature Preamble. tnaT tne establishment of a Professorship of Chemistry in said College would be of great utility to the State, by wi- dening the circle of knowledge, and diffusing useful infor- mation throughout the same, and have solicited the Le- gislature in aid thereof: 26. Be it enacted by the Honorable the Senate and House f- vv p°^lf™ of Representative, now met and sitting in General As- of Chemistry, sembly, and by the authority oj Ihe same. That hi addition to the sums already appropriated by law for the support of the faculty of the said College, the Comptroller be, and hereby is. authorized and empowered, upon application of the said Trustees, to pay over to them the sum of sixteen hundred dollars yearly, and every year, to be applied to the purpose of paying the salary of a Professor of Chemistry in the said College. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and in the thirty-sixth year of the Independence of tlie United States of America. SAMUEL WARREN. President of the Seriate. JOHN GEDDES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. South Carolina College. 11 An ACT to authorize the Commissioners of the Orphan A. A. 1811. House of Charleston, to select the number of youths ' 132 teS ' therein mentioned, from those educated and maintained on the bounty of that institution, who shall be allowed to complete their education at the South Carolina College. 27. Whereas, from the number of Orphan Children, from every part of this State, educated and supported by Preamble, the munificence of the citizens of Charleston, in the Or- phan House of that city, an ample opportunity is offered of making a judicious selection of talents and genius ; in order, therefore, to further the patriotic and liberal views of the patrons of that institution : 28. Be it enacted by the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General As- fr0 ^ Orphan. sembly, and by the authority of the same, That from and House to be immediately after the passing of this Act, the Commissioners educated at of the Orphan House, in the city of Charleston, shall be, ° e§e " and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to select, annually, one youth from the number educated and main- tained on the bounty of that institution, for the purpose of completing his education at the South Carolina College, gra- duate and receive the degrees conferred at the saidCollege. 29. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Trustees, the President and Professors, shall be, and they are hereby, directed to receive, and cause to be educated, and allowed to graduate, at the South Carolina College, the boys to be selected as aforesaid, subject, nevertheless, to all the rules, orders and regulations of the said South Carolina College. 30. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all expense incident to the education and mainte- nance of the said boys, so to be selected, (clothing excep- howpafd. 68 ' ted,) shall be defrayed from the amount annually appro- priated by the Legislature to the South Carolina College.* 31. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That as the youths so chosen shall graduate, or in case of the death, expulsion or removal of them, or any of In c c a a s n e C y * them, the commissioners aforesaid are hereby authorized and empowered to fill up any vacancy occasioned there- by. 32. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of one hundred and forty dollars be, and is hereby, annually appropriated for the clothing of each of the said boys, while they remain at the said College : Approprh-tion Provided, nevertheless, That they shall not continue be- for clothin s * See A. A. 1841, post, allowing $400 00. 12 South Carolina College. yond the term usually allowed to candidates for the first degree. 33. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all Acts and parts of Acts repugnant hereto, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. hi the Senate House, tlie twenty-first day of December, in tlie year of our Lord o?ie thousand eight hundred and eleven, and in the thirty-sixth year of tlie Independence of the United States of America. SAMUEL WARREN, President of the Senate. JOHN GEDDES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. An ACT to alter the time of the stated meeting of the A. A. 1811. Board, of Trustees of the South Carolina College, and 5 s ^ tutes ' for other purposes therein mentioned. 34. Be it enacted by the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General ^n^of Tras-" Assembly, and by the ^authority of the same, That in fu- tees° changed, ture the stated meeting of the Board of Trustees of the South Carolina College shall be held and meet on the Wednesday next after the fourth Monday in November in each year, instead of the time heretofore established by law for the stated meeting of the said Board. 35. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, \ow n filled That no vacancy in the officers of the College shall be filled, unless at the stated meeting of the Board of Trus- tees : Provided, nevertheless, That such vacancy may be filled at any occasional meeting, until the stated meeting of the Board of Trustees, and no longer. 36. And be it further enacted by tlie authority aforesaid, Suspension of That from and after the passing of this Act, the Faculty Students. s i ia j]_ l,^ aDC [ they are hereby, required to report the whole of their proceedings against any student who shall be sus- pended, together with the cause of such suspension, to the Board of Trustees, at their next stated meeting after such suspension ; and the said Board of Trustees are hereby authorized and empowered, upon a review of the sentence of any student, to restore such student to his standing in South Carolina College, 13 the College, if it shall appear to the said Board of Trustees proper to do so. In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and in tlw thirty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America. SAMUEL WARREN, President of the Senate. JOHN GEDDES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. An ACT to prohibit the Students of the South Carolina a. A. 1814. College from using the State House in Columbia, infu- 5 Statutes, ture, to hold their Commencement Ball in. 724. 37. Whereas, the State House, in the town of Colum- bia, is intended for State purposes only, and the Legisla- Preamble, ture has heretofore, on the application of the Students of the South Carolina College, permitted it to be used for their commencement ball ; and whereas, such use has been found incompatible with the safety of the house, and the records of the offices of Secretary of State, and Survey- or General, and the papers and funds of the Treasury, and of the Branch Bank of the State of South Carolina, deposited therein : Be it therefore enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met Com T^ ce ", •V . . -A, ti in i i' ^ merit ball not and sitting m General Assembly, and by the authority oi t0 be held in the same, That hereafter the Students of the South Caro- State House, lina College shall be, and they are hereby, forever prohib- itep from holding their commencement ball in the State House, in the town of Columbia, and from dancing therein. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thoitsand eight hundred and fourteen, and in the thirty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America. JAMES R. PRINGLE, President of the Senate. THOMAS BENNETT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. 14 South Carolina College. A. A. 1819. From u An Act to make appropriations for the year of our 6 Statutes, Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes therein mentioned" Insurance. Philosophical apparatus. 38. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Comptroller General shall be, and he is hereby, authorized and required annually to insure against fire the College buildings at Columbia.* 39. For the purchase of the chemical, philosophical and mineralogical apparatus of Mr. L'Herminier, for the use of the South Carolina College, one thousand dollars. A. A. 1825. 6 Statutes, 266. Who shall constitute the Board of Trustees. Quorum. An ACT to alter and amend an Act entitled " An Act to establish a College at Columbia" 40. Be it enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General As- sembly, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act, the Board of Trustees of the South Carolina College shall consist of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the State, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Judges of the Court of Appeals, the Circuit Judges of the Court of Law, and the Chancellors, ex officio, together with twenty other persons to be elected by joint ballot of the Senate and House of Representatives, to continue in office four years, and until others shall be elected. 41. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this Act, nine members shall constitute a quorum of the Board of Trustees, suffi- cient for the transaction of any business relative to the said College — except it be the appointment of an officer in * Buildings no longer insured. South Carolina College. 15 the same, which shall be done only at the annual meeting, and when a majority of the said board are present. In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and tiventy-five, and in tlie fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America. JACOB BOND PON, President of the Senate. JOHN B. O'NEALL, Speaker of the House of .Representatives. Extract from an Act passed 17th December, 1831, entitled ^ &. 1831. " An Act to incorporate certain societies, and far other 8 Statutes, purposes." 373 - 42. The Board of Trustees of the South Carolina Trustees may College are hereby invested with full power and au- compel attend- thority, in all investigations where they deem it necessa- an n e s ° S e Wlt ~ ry to the interest of the College, by subpoena, rule and at- tachment, to compel witnesses to appear and testify, and papers to be produced and read before the Board. 43. The Board of Trustees are also invested with full power and authority, whenever they may deem M ^!g S ™ lss it essential to the interest of the College, to dismiss from office any officer of said institution. An ACT to vest certain squares and lots of woodland in a. a 1833. the town of Columbia, in the Trustees of the South 6 Statutes, Carolina College. 485> 44. Whereas, it is deemed important to the health of the officers and students of the South Carolina College, that certain squares and lots of woodland in the town of Columbia, which belong to the State, and lie between the said College and the swamp of Rocky Branch, should re- main uncleared, and that the control of the same should be given to the Trustees of said College for that purpose. 45. Be it therefore enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, noto met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, Preamble. 16 South Carolina College. Trustees. That the following squares and lots of woodland, belong- Certain lots ing to the State, in the town of Columbia, to wit : lots vested in numbered on the town plat as 53 and 54, on Medium street, lots numbered as 43 and 44 on Greene . street, one square between Pickens, Bull, Greene and Divine streets, and one square between Bull, Pickens, Pendleton and Medium streets, be, and the same are hereby, granted to, and vested in, the Board of Trustees of the South Caro- lina College, for the purposes herein above mentioned. In the Senate House, the nineteeth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and fifty-eighth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. H. DEAS, President of tlie Senate. PATRICK NOBLE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. An ACT concerning Vagrants* A. A. 1836. 46. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- 6 S Su tes ' sentatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and K . ' by the authority of the same, That from and after the bawd^of ga- passing of this Act, if any person shall, within ten miles ming house, of the South Carolina College, keep any house as a baw- how punish- dy-house, or house of common prostitution, or shall reside in, or be an inmate of, such house, or shall be supported or gain a maintenance by common prostitution, or shall keep or use any house as a house for gaming, or shall aid or assist in keeping such house, or shall keep any faro- bank, or other device for gaming, every such person as aforesaid shall be proceeded against as a vagrant ; and upon conviction of any of the offences above enumerated, shall be deemed a vagrant, and either enter into recogni- • zance to the State in the sum of two thousand dollars, with two good and sufficient sureties (who shall be free- holders) in the sum of one thousand dollars each, to be taken and approved before the Clerk of the Court of Rich- land district, conditioned not to offend against the provi- sions of this Act for the space of three years, or in default * See 1 Ed. 6, ch. 3. As to who were Vagrants before the Constitution, see vol. 5, 41. 2 Brevard, 319. Grimke, P. Laws, 31. In the case of the State Ex Relatione Coleman vs. Maxcy & Arthur, Justices, the Court of Appeals, on the question being made, held this Act to be constitutional. See Record book, 1 vol. State Cases, 104, May, 1838, Columbia. South Carolina College. 17 may oe pros- ecuted. thereof shall be forthwith committed to the gaol of the district, to be dealt with as a vagrant. If any person, after having given bond as aforesaid, shall again, within the limits before prescribed, keep any For secon( j bawdy-house, house of common prostitution, or house for offence, gaming, either with cards or by any other game or device, such person shall be subject to indictment therefor, and on conviction, shall be fined for every day such offence is proved to have been committed, not exceeding one thous- and dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding twelve months. That any justice of the peace or quorum is hereby au- thorized and required, upon the written requisition of the How offenders Faculty of the South Carolina College, through their pre- siding officer, or of the Solicitor of the Circuit wherein the same is situated, suggesting the name of any offender against the provisions of this Act, and any witnesses nec- essary to the investigation, forthwith to issue warrants to bring before him such offender and witnesses ; and if, upon investigation before such justice, sufficient evi- dence shall appear to satisfy him that further proceedings are warranted, a court shall be organized as in other cases for the trial of vagrants, before which such offender shall be tried and dealt with, as hereinbefore directed ; and it shall be the duty of every sheriff and constable to frhom any process for the enforcement of this Act may be di- rected, to execute the same with all practicable despatch according to its mandate ; and he shall, when required, re- turn on oath his proceedings thereon. That upon conviction in case of indictment for any of- fence specified in this Act, the tax costs of the Solicitor, recoverable from the defendant, shall be three hundred dollars, to be used by him as a fund for defraying the ex- penses incurred in enforcing the provisions of this Act. Tax costs. In the Senate House, the twenty-Jlrst day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and in the sixty-first year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. PATRICK NOBLE, President of the Senate D. L. WARDLAW, Speaker of the House of Representatives, 13 South Carolina College. From " An Act to reduce all Acts and clauses of Acts in relation to the Militia of this State, to one Act, and to alter and amend the same? 47. Sec. CXXXV. The following persons shall be ex- 11 Statutes' em P te d from ordinary militia duty, but shall be liable to 203. perform duty in times of alarm, insurrection, invasion, (or as one of the posse comitatus, when required,) and shall not be exempted from draft for actual service ; but no per- son under the age of eighteen, or above the age of forty- five years, shall be liable to draft, for any service beyond the limits of their respective brigades, to wit : The Mem- bers of both branches of the General Assembly, and their respective officers, for fifteen days before the sitting, during the session, and fifteen days after the adjournment there- of ; all regularly officiating Clergymen ; all regular licens- ed practising Physicians ; the Faculty and Officers in the South Carolina College ; Professors in Theological Schools ; School masters having under their tuition not less than fifteen scholars ; and all students at schools, academies an d colleges. BY-LAWS. CHAPTER I Of the Board of Trustees and their Secretary. 48. The Governor, for the time being, shall be Presi- w , p . dent of the Board of Trustees ; in his absence, the Lieu- dent of Board tenant Governor. In their absence, the President of the of Trustees. Senate shall preside ; and in the absence of all these, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. If all these are absent, a President pro tern, shall be appointed. 49. The Chair shall be addressed by the members standing and uncovered, and all motions, propositions and resolutions shall be submitted in writing, if any member shall require it. 50. In addition to the annual meeting prescribed by law, the Board shall have one other regular meeting, which Regular meet- shall be holden on the Wednesday after the first Monday m S s - in May, in every year ; and the President of the Board, with the advice and consent of any five members, may Spec^meet- call a special meeting at any other time, when, in their opinion, the affairs of the College shall require it. 51. There shall be a Secretaiy of the Board of Trus- tees, who shall be elected by ballot, and shall hold his office during the pleasure of the Board, and no longer. Secretar y> Before entering on the duties of the office, he shall give . . , . bond and security for their faithful discharge, in the pen- alty of five hundred dollars ; and as a compensation for his services, shall receive a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid quarterly, in advance. 52. He shall keep a minute of all the proceedings of the Board, which he shall transcribe in a fair hand into well bound books, to be by him provided for that purpose, wherein also he shall record all communications from the President or any Professor relative to the general state of 20 South Carolina College. the College, or on subjects connected with its government, to which shall be annexed a general index of the contents. 53. He shall carefully nldjmd preserve all original com- munications to the Board, to whatever subject they may relate, or from whomsoever they may have been received, and at every meeting of the Board he shall read over the journals of the meeting next preceding. CHAPTER II. Officers. Of the Officers of the College. 54. The officers of the College shall consist of a Pres- ident, as provided for by law, and such Professors and other officers as the Board of Trustees shall think proper to appoint. The following Professorships are established in the Col- lege: Professorships q a 4. 5. 6. 7. Duties, how assigned. Chaplain. Officers elect- ed by ballot. Tenure of office: Of Belles Lettres and Elocution. " History j Political Philosophy and Economy. " Chemistry. Mineralogy and Geology. " Moral Philosophy. Sacred Uderature and Evi- dences of Christianity. " Logic, Rhetoric. Mental Philosophy and Physi- ology. " Greek Literature. " Roman Literature. 8. " Mathematics. Mechanical Philosophy, Astronomy, and Civil Engineering. 55. Of these, the President shall perform the duties of one, and the Board may, hi its discretion, assign a part of the duties of any one or more of these professorships to another or other members of the Faculty, so as to equalize their labors as nearly as maybe. 56. The Professor of Moral Philosophy, Sacred Litera- ture and Evidences of Christianity shall officiate as Chap- lam of the College. 57. All officers shall be elected by ballot, and a majority of the votes of the Trustees present shall be necessary to make an election. 58. The President, Professors and other officers, whose term of office is not herein expressly limited, shall hold then offices during the pleasure of the Board, and no longer, South Carolina College. 21 59. Without the consent of the Board, no officer shall resign his office without having given one year's previous notice of his intention to resign. 60. The President, Professors and Tutors shall have officers where apartments assigned them in the College buildings, and to reside, shall reside permanently therein, unless permitted by the Board to reside elsewhere in the town of Columbia or its vicinity ; and the said President, Professors, Tutors and all other officers who may reside in the College buildings, shall, at their own expense, make all the ordinary repairs, and at the proper time, which may be necessary to the buildings which they occupy, and to all out houses and fences appurtenant thereto. 61. Neither the President nor any other member of the To pursue no Faculty shall, during the Session of the College, pursue, other profes- for reward, any other profession, but they shall devote- S10n - themselves exclusively to the duties of their offices. 62. Every Professor hereafter to be elected shall, at a time to be prescribed by the Board, deliver a public ad- Todeliver ad- dress on some subject connected with his professorship. 63. In all cases where, according to the provisions con- tained in this code, an officer is bound to give bond and security for the faithful discharge of the duties of his of- Their bonds - nee, the bond shall be made payable to the Trustees of the South Carolina College, and a condition shall be an- nexed, that the said bond shall be valid and binding on the said officer and his sureties for the whole time which he shall remain in the said office, although it may exceed the term for which he was elected, whether he holds over in virtue of a new election or on account of the omission of the Board to elect another, or from any other cause. 64. If the sureties to the bond of any officer shall die or remove without the State, or if the Board shall have When insuffi- reason to believe that they have become insolvent, or shall, cient * for other cause, become dissatisfied with such security, the said officer shall, on notice, be removed from office, unless he give other sufficient security, to be approved of by a committee of the Board. 65. The officers of the College are particularly charged with enforcing amongst the students the observance of every moral and religious duty. 22 South Carolina College. CHAPTER III. Of the Admission of Students. 66. The Faculty shall examine all applicants for ad- Applicants to mission, and judge of their qualifications : nor shaU any be examined. } De admitted without being well acquainted with the pre- paratory studies necessary for admission into the class to which the}' aspire. 67. No student shall he admitted into the Freshman Age. Class until he is fourteen, nor into an)' other class until he is fifteen, years of age. 68. No student shall be permitted to enter College with- To pay quar- out having deposited with the Treasurer the amount of terly in ad- one quarter's board in commons, or at least an amount vance. sufficient to pay his board to the end of the quarter in which he ma}* enter, one-half of the amount of the tui- tion fee for the term, and whatever simi may be assessed for fuel. 69. At the commencement of the second quarter, he shall deposite with the Treasurer the amount of one quar- ter's board in commons, and at the commencement of the third quarter he shall deposite. in like maimer, the amount of one quarter's board, and the remaining half of the tuition fee. 70. No student shall be permitted to recite or attend any lee true until he shall have produced to the Professor a receipt from the Treasurer, for all sums required to be deposited, according to the laws of the College, either on his admission or the commencement of any quarter. 71. On the admission of any student he shall be fur- To be furnish- nished with a copy of the laws of the College, on which ed „T 1 1 th „ copy shall be endorsed by the President, a memorandum of the following tenor : A. B. is admitted into the Class of this Col- * e °:e. on the dav of A. D. C. D. President. of laws. CHAPTER IT. Of the Classes. Course of Studies and Instruction. 72. There shah be established hi the College four Classes, classes of students, which shall, hi their succession, bear the usual names of, Freshman. Sophomore. Junior and Senior. South Carolina College. 23 73. The qualifications for admission into the several classes, and the course cf studies and instruction, shall be Qualifications, such as the board shall, from time to time, prescribe and direct. CHAPTER Y. Of Examinations, Exercises and Public Exhibitions. 74. There shall be two public examinations of the Senior Class in each year, one within ten days preceding Examinations. the first of July, and another commencing three weeks before the Commencement ; and also two examinations of all the other classes, the first immediately following the examination of the Senior Class in June, and the second beginning one week before Commencement. 75. All recitations shall be at the regular hours pre- scribed. Recitations. 76. Once in each month, at least, and oftener if the Faculty shall deem it necessary, the Freshman and Sophomore Classes shall be exercised in delivering select pieces of English composition or recitations from approved authors. 77. There shall be two exhibitions of the Senior Class in each year, one at the commencement, and the other at such time as the Faculty shall appoint, in which shall be delivered at least one Latin oration ; and there shall also be such other exhibitions of all classes as the Faculty shall direct ; and no student shall be at liberty to decline to perform the exercises assigned him by the Faculty. 78. The Faculty shall furnish Diplomas for the use of Diplomas, the graduating class. Exhibitions. CHAPTER VI. Of the Faculty and Government. 79. The President shall be the chief executive officer of the College, and, as such, charged with superintending Duties ofpre- the execution of all laws made lor its government When sident. present, he shall preside at all meetings of the Faculty, 24 South Carolina College. open the business of the meeting, and require the opinion of each member on the subject brought before them, and give his own opinion last. 80. If in any case the Faculty, including himself, shall In case of ab- be equally divided, he shall, notwithstanding, have the sence. casting voice. It shall be his duty to deliver the result of their opinions and pronounce all sentences and censures against the students. 81. In the absence, sickness or death of the President of the College, the Professors shall from amongst them- selves appoint one to discharge the executive duties of his office until the next meeting of the Board, unless, in case of sickness or absence, the President shall sooner re- turn to his duties. 82. The Faculty shall have a stated weekly meeting Faculty to to review the events of the preceding week, and on any Softener Y su dden emergency the President, or any other member of the Faculty, may call a meeting at any other time. 83. At the request of the Faculty all other officers May call in shall be bound to attend their meetings, to aid them with other officers, their advice if required, or to execute such orders as they may give consistently with the laws of the College. 84. No question whatever, connected with the govern- Proceedings of ment or discipline of the College, shall be debated by the Faculty secret. p acu ity i n the presence of any student ; nor the individual opinion of any member of the Faculty, or the result of their deliberations, be made known without the order of the Faculty. 85. The Faculty shall assign to the Tutors, if any shall Tutors, hereafter be appointed, rooms in such situations as will best enable them to assist in the government of the College, and it shall be their especial duty to keep peace and' order, and to prevent and suppress all riotous and disorderly conduct, and to report to the Faculty any improper con- duct on the part of the students that may fall under their observation. 86. In case of riot or other disturbance, all the officers Riot. of the College shall instantly repair to the spot, sup- press the irregularity, and order the students to. their rooms. 87. The Faculty shall take care that devotional exer- Devotional cises shall be performed in the College chapel every morn- exercises. j n g anc [ evening, at which the students shall be bound to attend, under pain of censure and suspension for habitual neglect. 88. The Faculty shall assign to each of the Professors Professors to and Tutors a portion of the tenements occupied by the visit tene- students, and each shall visit the portion so assigned him merits. ' r ° South Carolina College. 25 at least once in each day or night, and oftener if the Fa- culty shall deem it necessary, and report to the Faculty, at their weekly meeting, the condition of the rooms, en- tries and staircases, noting particularly any want of clean- liness. 89. The Faculty shall keep a book strongly bound, in R o> . which each student admitted into the College shall regis- b ter his name, date of admission, residence, and the Post Office of his parent or guardian. In this book shall also be entered the time of dismission or graduation, and the degree to which they are admitted ; to which shall be an- nexed an alphabetical index. 90. The Faculty are hereby authorized to appoint, from amongst themselves, or otherwise, if they shall deem it Secretary of necessary, a Secretary, whose duty it shall be to enter, in a th ^ Faculty, book to be provided for that purpose, a journal of all the transactions of the Faculty, which shall be laid before the Board of Trustees at their annual meeting, and be at ail times subject to the inspection of any member of the Board. 91. When any officer charged with the visitation of the rooms shall desire admittance into any room in which., . there may be a student or students, he shall signify the rooms: same by rapping at the door, and if admittance is then denied him, or the door is not opened, he shall be autho- rized to break the door and charge the repairs to the stu- dents found within. 92. At every half yearly meeting of the Board of Trus- tees, the President of the College shall, and he is hereby ^^^ required to, report to the Board of Trustees the course Of p r tees/" studies which have been pursued by the several classes, under what Professors or Tutors they have studied, what text or other books have been used, and the manner in which each officer shall have discharged his duties. 93. On the admission of any student, the Secretary of c - , , the Faculty shall transmit to the parent, guardian or sent to parents, other person having the superintendance of his education, on admission a circular according to a formula to be prescribed by the of student . Faculty, in which shall be stated the qualifications for the admission of students, in all of the classes, the course of studies, with the names of the Professors and the subjects on which they severally instruct ; the regulations made with regard to the expenses of the students, and the time when deposites are required to be made. 94. The Secretary of the Faculty shall also, on the first , day of every month, transmit to the parent or guardian of rnonthfy, each student of the College, an account, according to a formula to be prescribed by the Faculty, of all deiinquen- 4 26 South Carolina College. cies of their child or ward in attending recitations, prayers or public worship , or any other violation of the laws ; and if any student shall be suspended by the Faculty, the said Secretary shall forthwith transmit notice thereof to his parent or guardian, in which the cause of suspen- sion shall be expressed. 95. As a compensation for his services, the Secretary Salary of Sec. of the Faculty shall receive an annual salary of two hun- of Faculty. dred dollars. * 96. An Executive Committee of five, of whom the Pre- Executive s j dent f the College shall be one. and. ex officio, chair- Committee. ni1n » n ' _ ' JJ » _ man, shall be appointed to serve for lour years, and they shall meet in the College Library on the first Saturday in each month, and oftener at the call of the Chairman. To them shall be submitted all proposed expenditures from the College Treasury, and no money shall be drawn from the same unless authorized by their draft signed by their chairman. They shall audit, once a month, the Treasu- rers accounts, and report upon the same semi-annually. They shall attend the examinations of the College, and shall also act as Library Committee. CHAPTER V1L Of Discipline. 97. At the commencement of every quarter, the Faculty Monitor, his shall appoint a Monitor for each class, whom they may duty, &c. remove and substitute another in his place at pleasure. The Monitor shall keep exact accounts of all absences from and tardiness at prayers, recitations, lectures and public worship. And the bills of the Monitor shall be presented, on every Monday morning, to the Faculty, who shall examine them, and call the delinquents to account. If any student shall be frequently noted on the monitor's bills, and shall not give satisfactory reasons for his defal- cations, he shall be admonished, and if he does not re- form his conduct, he shall be suspended and reported for expulsion. The Faculty shall cause the Monitors bills to be transcribed into a book to be kept for that purpose, which shall always be subject to the inspection of any member of the Board of Trustees, or of the parents or guardians of any student. South Carolina College. 27 98. During the session of the College, the students shall convene in the College chapel at sunrise in the morning Times of stu- to attend prayers ; from thence they shall retire either to Q y- attend recitations or lectures, or to pursue their studies, until they are summoned to breakfast ; at 9 o'clock, A. M. they shall return to their studies, and continue in their rooms until twelve, unless summoned to recitations or lectures ; between twelve and two they shall repair to dinner when summoned, and at two return to their rooms and continue at study until five ; and at five they shall attend prayers at the chapel, and be dismissed. From the beginning of the session until the first of May in each year, the students shall all return to their rooms at the ringing of the bell at seven o'clock in the evening, and continue at study until half past nine, and remain in their rooms during the remainder of the night. From the first of May until the end of the session, the students shall be dismissed from evening prayers until nine oclock at night, at which time they shall return to their rooms and remain in for the night. On Saturdays, they shall be dismissed after morning recitations, until nine o'clock at night. 99. The strictest attention to study and all other duties punishment is required of every student. If, therefore, any one shall for neglect of absent himself from exercises of any kind, and fail to study, render satisfactory excuse for such absence, he shall be admonished ; and any student who shall habitually neg- lect his studies or other duties, may be admonished or suspended, and reported for expulsion, at the discretion of the Faculty. 100. Students are strictly forbidden to visit Taverns, Students not Hotels, or places of public amusement, without special tovlslttaverns > permission first obtained from the President. 101. Students are strictly forbidden to visit Eating- Nor eating Houses, or Grog Shops, on pain of suspension or expul- houses, sion, as the nature of the case may require. 102. Students are strictly forbidden to smoke in any of Nor to smoke the public rooms or halls of the College, in the Campus, in public or in the streets of Columbia. 103. Students are not only required to abstain from all Th . , vicious, immoral or irregular conduct, but they are, on tobegemle- every occasion, to conduct themselves with propriety and manly, decorum, and in all their intercourse with the officers of the College, with each other, and the public generally, it is expected of them to preserve that high toned feeling and courtesy which ever distinguish the gentleman. 104. Every student on entering the chapel, a lecture room, or the dining rooms, shall be uncovered, and remain so as long as he continues there. 28 South Carolina College. 105. No class or other meetings of the students shall he Meetings hot held without the special permission of the President, and to be held f or suc j 1 purposes as shall be specified. All such meet- wi out earc. ^^ j^i^ without licence, shall be considered as unlawful combinations, and punished accordingly. 106. No undergraduate shall attend the instruction Students not to a ny person who may undertake to teach any language. teachers. art or sc 'i ence - without permission from the Faculty. 107. If any student shall be dene lent in cleanliness in Cleanliness. ^ ns apartment, the Faculty may order all necessary clean- ing to be done at the expense :: the student. 108. The students are required, implicitly, to obey all Demeanor of T ^ e l aTrtlu! commands oi their instructors, and to demean students, themselves towards them with deference and respect. They shall observe nearness and cleanliness in their per- sons and dress, and be courteous in their conduct towards each other. No student shall presume to some into the chapel, or an}" apartment for recitation, without being folly dressed, nor shall they loung ye : - sit in an indecorous position, nor talk, nor in any manner offend against the inles of propriety common among gentlemen assembled for grave purpose-. 109. The students are required to take their seats in To be seated the chapel and other public rooms, and to go from them in chapeL &c ^ suc } 1 or( j er as foe Faculty shall direct. 110. The sftidents are strictly forbidden to make use :: tobacco in any of the public rooms, or any of the rooms in Tobacco. w } 1 j c i 1 x \ le y are convened for recitation or lectures, or to soil or deface them by any other means. 111. The students shall particularly observe the hours To observe of study and retirement, during which they shall not hours c:s:.iv leave then rooms under any pretence, unless to obey the officers or from necessity. 11*2. All the students are required to make themselves To know the thoroughly acquainted with the laws of the College, as lavs. ignorance of them will not be admitted as an excuse for their transgression. 113. Every student shall provide himself with such Tex- books, text books as the Faculty shall, from time to time. prescribe. 114. "When there is public worship at the College Worship in cna P e l on Sunday, every student shall attend the same. chapel. and deport himself with becoming solemnity : unless he be excused upon some one of the following grounds. — 1st. That he is a communicant with some religious de- nomination having regular worship in the town of Colum- bia, and differing from that to which the Chaplain belongs, of which written notice shall be given to the President. South Carolina College. 29 2d. That the parent or guardian of the student shall inform the President, in writing, that he cannot, in con- science, consent that his son or ward should engage in the religious worship conducted by the Chaplain. 115. The Faculty shall cause prayers to be said in the College Chapel on Sunday morning, (as well as morning and evening during the week) and the students shall attend at such hours of prayer as the Faculty may appoint. Prayers. CHAPTER VIII. Of Sessions and Vacations. 116. The session of the College shall commence on the first Monday in October in every year, at which time Sessions. all the students shall attend, and shall terminate on the first day of July in every year, and there shall be a vaca- tion from thence until the first Monday of October ensu- ing, so that there be only one vacation in the year. 117. The session shall be divided into three quarters — the first to commence on the first Monday of October — the second, on the first day of Januaiy — and the third, on the first day of April, in every year. 118. The students shall have three days holyday at Holidays. Christmas, and no more. CHAPTER IX. Of the Commencement and Degrees. 119. The Commencement shall be held on the first Monday of December, in every year. 120. Immediately after the examination of the Senior Class in November of every year, the Faculty shall con- fer the honors, and recommend for degrees. In conferring the honors, the Faculty shall, have regard to the orderly deportment of the students, and their diligence and profi- ciency in their studies. 121. The degrees shall be publicly conferred by the President of the College, at the Commencement, in the usual form. Commence- ment. 30 South Carolina College. 122. The first honor at each commencement shall he Honors, given to the student appointed to deliver the salutatory addresses, which shall be in Latin or Greek, and the sec- ond honor to the student appointed to deliver the valedic- tory addresses. 123. No student shall be admitted to a degree, or to a Students not higher class, who shall have omitted the opportunity of allowed to being publicly examined, at the times required by the laws graduate un- f t i College, unless prevented by inevitable necessity, of less examined. , . ; , J":• person sire_i :e : : :::ry rny be- longing to the Library out of the town of Columbia and in "riemity. 158. The Librarian is strictly enjoined never to carry, or suffer to be carried, into the Library. : lighted lamp or candle, except in cases of ire: issity 159. The cere of enforcing these inns devolves upon the Faculty, even in the :ase :: Trustees. 160. Tire Librarian shah have the discretion of with- holding from circulation books precious from then rarity, or of which the character fits them for consultation rather than reading. 161. Tire" Librarian shall keep a blank book properly ruled, in which every person entitled to the use of the books of the College Library, end all literary visiters, may write the title, anthoi and publisher, size and price, of such books »r book as, according to their opinion, ought to be purchased for the Library. Each person recommending South Carolina College. 35 a book in this way shall also add his own name to the title, &c. of the recommended book. And the Librarian shall lay the said book before the Trustees at their several meetings. 162. The Librarian shall hold his office for one year, Salary of Li- and as a compensation for his services shall receive a sal- brarian. ary of six hundred dollars. CHAPTER XIV. Of the Bursar ship and Commons. 163. The Bursar shall be appointed annually by the Bursar, how Board of Trustees, and be removable for cause at any appointed, time by this Board, or a Board of supervision composed of the Faculty and a committee of Trustees, and also be subject to such rules and regulations as a majority of the Board of Trustees shall from time to time adopt and ap- point. 164. He shall receive a salary at the rate of one thou- H . , sand dollars per annum, payable at the end of each quarter. 165. He shall be entitled to provisions from the co-m- Entitledt mons hall for himself and family, during the sessions of visions College only. 166. Before entering upon the duties of his employment, he shall give a bond in the penalty of five thousand dol- His bond - lars, with good surety, for the faithful performance of his duties, and proper use of the funds placed in his hands, which bond shall be approved by the Executive Commit- tee, and placed in charge of the Treasurer, who shall re- port annually in relation to said bond. 167. The Bursar shall be furnished by the College Treasurer, at the commencement of every session, with a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, at the discretion Hlsdut y- of the Board of supervision, for the purpose of laying in his supplies, and shall thereafter receive from the Treasu- rer, weekly in advance, a sum sufficient to defray the current expenses of the commons. With this money he shall purchase, in an economical manner, an ample sup- ply of good and wholesome provisions for the Commons Hall, and for no other purpose whatsoever, and take care that it is well prepared and served, in a neat and cleanly manner. He shall keep a strict account of all his expen- 36 South Carolina College. ditures, and preserve his vouchers ; and at the end of every month shall have his ledger and vouchers properly arranged, and present them to the Board of Supervision for examination and verification ; nor shall any provisions bought for the Commons be sold, except by order of the Board of Supervision, or the Faculty acting in their stead. 168. The Faculty of the College, and five Trustees to Feculty to su- be nominated annually, shall constitute a Board of super- pervise Bursar vision, who shall have entire control over the Bursarship during the recess of the Board of Trustees, and shall have power to remove the Bursar for good cause, and fill his place until the next meeting of the Board, and make any other regulations not conflicting with the fundamental laws of the College or the resolutions of the Board of Trustees. 169. It shall be the duty of the Board of supervision to see that the Bursar faithfully fulfills the obligations of his contract. 170. The Faculty may examine his accounts and decide on their correctness. They may also issue the requisition on the College Treasurer for the weekly allowance to the Bursar, and for the contingent fund to be advanced at the commencement of the session. And they snail, during the week preceding the June examination in every year, make a final settlement with him for the expenditures of the session, salary, &c. But on all questions affecting the re- moval of the Bursar or 1 the appointment of a temporary successor, a concurrence of a majority of the Faculty and a majority of the committee of trustees shall be necessary. 171. Each student shall pay to the College Treasurer, Price of board °L Uarteri y5 m advance, at the rate of two dollars and fifty ' cents per week, for his board in the Commons. And should any Student die, or leave College by permission, the sum advanced shall be accounted for, and the balance due him be refunded, if it exceed the amount of two weeks board. Who to board 172. The board of the Bell ringer, and two servants, free. shall also be defrayed out of the Commons fund, and covers shall be reserved daily for one member of the Fa- culty and one Trustee. Bill of fare. 173. The following shall be observed as the bill of fare. Breakfast. Breakfast. Good Coffee and Tea, Wheat Bread, Butter, Hominy, and Eggs or cold Meat. South Carolina College. 37 Dinner. There shall be, for every day, Wheat and Corn Bread, Dinner. and Rice, and one or more vegetable dishes. On Sunday. — Poultry or Roast Beef, Ham and dessert. " Monday. — Soup, Roast Beef or Yeal and Ham. " Tuesday. — Corned Beef, Pork or Steak. " Wednesday. — Poultry, or Roast Beef and Ham. " Thursday. — Bacon, Mutton or Steak and dessert. " Friday. — Fish, Corned Beef or Pork. " Saturday. — Soup, Roast Beef or Yeal or Mutton and Ham. With such other varieties as the market will afford. Tea. Tea Coffee and Tea, Bread, Butter, and occasionally cold meats. 174. The Bursar shall cultivate the garden of the Com- Bursar to cul- mons Hall, for the use of the Commons. tivate garden. 175. The professors shall attend the meals of the stu- dents at Commons, in monthly rotation, and the students Professors to shall submit to such regulations as the attending Profes- sor shall prescribe for their good order. 176. The attending Professor shall ask a blessing before every meal. Gracc ' 177. Students are required to enter the dining hall in a decent and orderly manner, and to conduct themselves Students to be with propriety while they remain, and if any one shall °JJ£J® m violate this rule, or shall be guilty of talking loud, or striking or treating the servants ill, or otherwise misbe- have, he shall be liable to admonition or suspension. 178. The students are strictly forbidden to make any waste of provisions or of the furniture of the table or Not !° f u 1 e dining room. All who shall violate this law shall make such reparation as the Faculty shall deem adequate, and shall be liable to such further punishment as the Faculty may think fit. 179. The students shall all board in Commons, and lodge in the College, except those whose parents or guar- Students all to dians reside in Columbia or its immediate vicinity, and board ln Com " i -li- ill i mons. who may wish their sons to board at home ; and except also in cases of sickness, when it shall appear, from the certificate of a practising physician, that the state of the ^ student's health requires him to lake, lodging out of the p College. In these cases, the President may permit the 38 South Carolina College. Deductions. student to board or lodge out of the College until his health shall be sufficiently restored. ISO. Xo deduction shall be made from the bills for board in Commons, except when any student shall obtain leave of absence for more than fourteen days, and shall be actually absent from the town of Columbia, in pursu- ance of such leave, of which the student shall give im- mediate notice to the President, and if he neglect to do so, he shall pay the full price during his absence. Every student who shall be unavoidably detained after the com- mencement of the first or any other quarter of the session, shall give immediate notice to the President of his return to the Commons, or be liable to pay board from the first day of the quarter hi which he shall return. 181. The Faculty shall also have power to make such rules and regulations for the government of the Bursar, not inconsistent with the laws of the College, as they shall deem necessary to secure the faithful discharge of his duties, and to secure cleanliness in the buildings which he occupies. 152. If any student who does not board in Commons Students ma y shall, from inclemency of the weather, or other cause, siemlv. irTcer-fi 110 ^ ft necessary to resort to Commons for his meals, or to tain' cases, board there for a short period, the student shall pay the Treasurer at such rate as the Faculty shall prescribe. Faculty may make rules. CHAPTER XT Of the Marshall and the College Buildings. 1S3. There shall be a College Marshall, who shall be Marshall, how appointed by the Faculty, and removed by them at plea- to be appoint- sure : anc [ as a compensation for his services, he shall 6 * receive an annual salary of four hundred dollars, payable quarterly in advance. 184. He shall have the general superintendance and His duty, inspection of all the College buildings, out buildings and other fixtures, except those occupied by the other officers, and over the grounds within the College enclosure, and shall especially take care that none of them are injured or destroyed, and shall forthwith report to the Faculty any injury they may have sustained, and the author of it, if he be known. 1S5. He shall report to the Faculty weekly, at their South Carolina College. 39 stated meetings, the condition of the buildings, especially as to their want of cleanliness and repairs, and shall Duties of Mar- superintend all repairs and cleaning which the Faculty sha11 - shall direct. 186. It shall be the duty of the Marshall to inform the members of the Faculty of bonfires, or any other disturb- ance caused by the students, and he shall aid and assist the Faculty in detecting the offenders, if required to do so by the former. 187. He shall remove, or cause to be removed, from within the College enclosure, all such persons (not belong- ing to the College) horses, cattle, or other objects, which are calculated to disturb the quiet and order of the insti- tution. 188. The Marshall sh,all also have the superintendance of the servants employed in or about the College, and see that they discharge the duties assigned them. 189. No servant, other than the servants of the officers, and College servants, shall be employed in or about, the College, under any pretence whatever, without the express permission of the Marshall. 190. To distinguish those servants who may have the permission of the Marshall so to work and be employed about the College, he shall furnish them with a badge, which they shall wear conspicuously. 191. It shall be the duty of the Marshall to purchase, at the most convenient seasons, and on the best terms, a sufficient stock of fire wood, and he shall, from time to time, deliver to the students at their rooms what they may want, provided the amount thereof shall not exceed the amount deposited by each student in the hands of the Treasurer for that purpose ; the wood to be cut of length suited to their fire-places. 192. In all things not herein provided for, he shall be under the direction and control of the Faculty. 193. The better to enable the Marshall to discharge the duties assigned him, wood yards or sheds shall be erected, under the direction of the Committee of the Board, at the expense of the College and within the College enclosure. 194. Until a suitable building is provided, the Faculty shall assign the Marshall a residence in the College build- ings. 195. At the end of the session, the students shall leave the keys of their apartments with the Marshall, with a label attached, designating the room and inscribed with their names. 196. One of the servants of the College shall reside ill a lodge, to be erected at or near the principal entrance to 40 South Carolina College. the College, and it shall be the duty of the Marshall to see Duties of Mar- that he 'executes all orders that the Faculty may give in shall. relation to opening and shutting the gate. 197. The Marshall shall give bond and security for the faithful discharge of his duties, in the penalty of five hun- dred dollars. CHAPTER XVI. Of Offences, Rewards at\d Punishments. 198. The rewards and punishments of this institution Principle of shall be addressed to the sense of duty, and to the princi- punishment. pies of honor and shame. 199. The punishments of the College shall be private admonition by an officer of the College, or by order of the Degrees of Faculty — admonition before the Faculty— admonition punishment, before the class of the offender, or in the presence of a se- lect number of persons ; information communicated by order of the Faculty to the parent or guardian of the of- fender ; suspension from the privileges of the College ; formal and public expulsion. Besides which, the Faculty may, in all cases of gross deficiency, degrade a student to an inferior class, or refuse him promotion at the com- mencement. 200. For violation of any of the laws of the College, for which no particular punishment is designated, the punishment shall be admonition or suspension, at the dis- cretion of the Faculty. 201. The President, with the assent of the Faculty, may request any parent or guardian to remove any stu- dent from College, whose general deportment and conduct is irregular, improper or offensive, or likely to be of bad example to the students, and send him away accordingly. 202. Any student who shall be guilty of any infamous Duelling. or atrocious offence, or shall fight a duel, or give or accept a challenge to fight a duel, or shall carry any challenge to fight a duel, or act as a second to those who shall give or accept a challenge, shall be forthwith suspended from the College and reported for expulsion. 203. All students are strictly forbidden to game, to use profane or obscene language, to lie, steal, or get drunk, or Gaming, &c. be guilty of riotous, disorderly or immoral conduct ; and South Carolina College. • 41 if any of them shall transgress in these respects, he shall be admonished, suspended or expelled, as the case may require. 204. If any student shall wilfully insult, assault or In , ._ ffi strike any of the officers of the College, he shall be sus- cer f. pended or expelled, as the case may require. 205. If any student shall keep in his room, or within Keeping dead- the College, or in the town of Columbia, or its vicinity, ty weapons, any pistol, dirk, sword-cane, bowie knife, or other deadly weapon, he shall be forthwith suspended and reported for expulsion. 206. No student shall use or keep within the precincts Liquors, &c. of the College, or bring within the same, any spirituous liquors, dogs, or arms or ammunition ; nor shall any one keep or hire any horse or mule, servant or servants, with- Hiring horses, out permission of the President ; and any student who shall violate this rule shall be liable to admonition, sus- pension or expulsion. 207. No student shall play on any instrument of music Musical in- on Sunday, or during the hours assigned for study ; and struments. the students are strictly enjoined to abstain from their usual diversions and exercises on the Sabbath day. 208. No student shall be permitted to entertain compa- Com an . ny in his room, and if any student shall refuse to open rooms, the door of his room, when required by any one of the Faculty or a Tutor, he shall be liable to admonition, sus- pension or expulsion. 209. No student, or students, shall be permitted to make B ,, any ball or festive entertainment, except a ball at Com- mencement ; nor shall any student attend or take part in any thing of the kind without the special permission of the President. 210. All combinations amongst the students to oppose the authority of the Faculty, or impede the operation of Combinations, the laws, are strictly forbidden ; particularly combinations not to attend prayers, recitations or public worship, indi- cated by the cry of "hold back," "no recitation," or other signal ; and all who offend against this law shall be liable to admonition, suspension or expulsion, at the discretion of the Faculty. 211. No student shall leave the town of Columbia, Leaving Co- without the permission of the President. lumbia. 212. No student, or students, shall make any bonfire, or other like fire, within or near the College enclosure, nor Bonfires » &c - shall they throw or use any fire-ball or lighted torch with- in the same, on pain of admonition, suspension or expul- sion, at the discretion of the Faculty. 6 42 South Carolina College. d nts as nesses 213. The Faculty shall not, for mere College misde- Calling on stu- meanors, call on one student to give information against wit ~ another, unless when riotous or disorderly conduct shall take place in the room of any student, in which case he shall be bound to designate the true offender, if he was present at the time, or be considered as taking the guilt of the offence on himself, and shall be punished accord- ingly. 214. If, on subsequent and satisfactory information, it shall appear that any student has permitted another to be punished for an offence of which the former, and not the latter, was guilty, the student thus dishonorably conceal- ing his own guilt, shall be expelled. 215. If any riot, disturbance, or other misdemeanor shall take place in the actual view of the Faculty or Tu- tors, or any of them, in any particular tenement, the Faculty shall be at liberty to call upon the students, or any of them, inhabiting that tenement, or present at the time, to exculpate himself or themselves from having had any participation therein or to confess the same. 216. If the Faculty or Tutors, or any of them, shall observe several students in company together at the time and place of an offence committed, and shall not be able to designate the actual offender, the Faculty may call on all or any of the students seen together, and require each or any of them to exculpate himself, or themselves, from any participation or concurrence therein ; and upon his or their refusal to do so, he or they shall be regarded as the offenders, and be proceeded against accordingly. 217. Whenever the Faculty shall receive information, from any credible source, furnishing them sufficient ground of reasonable suspicion, that any student has been guilty of misconduct, proper to be noticed, they shall call up the student accused, and put him on his denial or exculpa- tion, and if he shall refuse to answer, he shall be deemed guilty of the offence, and proceeded against accordingly. If he shall deny that he is guilty of the offence with which he is charged, that shall be considered prima facie proof of his innocence. But if it shall afterwards appear, from satisfactory competent evidence, that he was really guilty, he shall be suspended and reported for expulsion, for hav- ing been guilty of falsehood. 218. In all cases where any student shall be convicted before the Faculty, of any offence which shall, in their judgment, authorize expulsion as the punishment, they shall forthwith suspend and order him from the College, Expulsion. South Carolina College. 43 and make a minute and particular report thereof to the Board of Trustees at their next meeting. 219. If any student shall be convicted of having or blowing any horn or trumpet, or beating any drum, or of Blowingtrum _ disturbing the quiet of the institution by riding any horse pets, &c. or mule within or near the College enclosure, or of ma- king any loud or unusual noise by any other means, with- in or about the same, he shall be punished by admonition or suspension, at the discretion of the Faculty. 220. If any student shall, knowingly, receive, harbor „ . or entertain in his room, any other student who has been suspendeiisfu- suspended and ordered to leave the College by the Fac- dents, ulty, he shall be liable to admonition or suspension, at the discretion of the Faculty. CHAPTER XVII. Miscellaneous. 221. The Professors may, in their discretion, permit Fe J sons not persons not students of the College to attend their lectures, at tend lee- on such terms as they may prescribe. tures. 222. The Faculty are authorized to employ two addi- tional servants, if they shall deem that number necessary, Servants. one for the Laboratory, and one to sweep the rooms and make the beds of the Students. 223. The Faculty may, in their discretion, employ a Bellman, bellman, who shall be allowed his board in commons as a compensation for his services. 224. The Faculty shall make all such rules and regu- Faculty may lations, not inconsistent with the laws of the College, as make rules, may be necessary to carry them into effect according to their true intent and meaning. 225. During vacation, the President of the Faculty (or Disorderly any one of the Faculty to whom he may delegate the au-P ei ^ ons t0 be thority,) is authorized to exclude from the Campus and 6X Sp U ^ College buildings any student who may disturb the quiet and peace of the premises. 226. No new laws shall be made, or any of the forego- New * ing altered or amended, unless a resolution to that effect shall have been submitted to the Board at least six days before the final vote shall be taken, nor then without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present, 41 South Carolina College. Course :~ S :"'e\ J.^/7?/.y.y/G>;. ^c '227. A candidate for adr::: i fythe Facul- ftttMatiftm : i r - t»y written testimonials, that he sustains : good moral foi admisskm. character. In ordinary ::.ses. the certificate must be smil- ed by his last instructor. I:" 'from another college, his standing in that college mns: be shown tc have been good at the time :: his Leaving ::. The stated :::::e^ ::: exam- ination are. the first \reek in October, and the week be- fore commencement; but in case of urge::: necessity, ap- plicants may be exa min ed at any other time during the sess:::: 225. Students admitted to advanced standing, in addi- tion to the requisites for admission to the Freshman Glass, must be prepared for an examine::::: in the studies which have been pursued by the class that they lesire to enter. and by the preceding classes. :: ::: :::::: s:e::i:e5 equiva- lent to them. For Admission to the Freshman Class. A candidate is required to have an accurate knowledge of the English. Latin and Greek Grammars, including Prose ly. Morse's, Worcester's m Woodbrklge's Geography. Ancient Geography. Arithmetic, including Fractions, and the Extraction of R jots. Algebra, as fai as Equations ifihe First Degree, Sallust Virgil. GeorgicSj Bucolics* and ?:x be :ks ::" the fE::eid.) Cicero's ^eie:: Orations consisting of the four against Cat- aline. Pro Lege Manilla. Fro Archia Poeta. Pro Mi- lone, and the hist Phihpic. Arnold's Latin P: : se C : m| : sition. Ja job's Greek Reefer. Xenophon's Cyropedia. four Books. Homer's Iliad, the first Book. >~ i - of the Freshman Year. Grecian and Roman Antiquities. - : - ;f :: * Lfvv. Horace, except the art of Poetry. Xenophon's Anabasis. s:x Peeks. Homer's Iliad, continued to the sixth Book Latin Composition. Bourdon's Algebra. [Davies st": South Carolina College. 45 Geometry, (Davies' Legendre.) Ancient History. Course of English Language. studies - Sophomore Year. Tacitus, (his Germany and Life of Agricola.) Livy. Exercises in Latin Composition. Graeca Majora, (the Historians and Orators.) Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. Conic Sections, (Loomis'.) Davies' Mensuration and Surveying. Lectures on Descriptive Geometry. History of the Middle Ages. Whately's Logic ; Whately's Rhetoric. Heat, Light, and Electricity. Elocution. History of the Bible. Junior Year. Select parts of Cicero's Rhetorical Work. Horace's Art of Poetry. Select satires of Juvenal and Persius. Graeca Majora, (the Orators, Philosophers and Critics.) Exercises in Latin Composition. Lectures on Differential and Integral Calculus. Mechanical Philosophy, (Olmsted's.) Galvanism, Magnetism and Electro Magnetism. Modern History. Elements of Criticism and Elocution. Moral Philosophy. Political Philosophy. Physiology. Sacred Literature and Evidences of Christianity. Senior Year. Select parts of Cicero's Ethical Works, Select Plays of the Greek Dramatists. Exercises in Latin and Greek Composition. Astronomy. Civil Engineering, (Mahan's.) Political Economy. Political Ethics. Philosophy of the Mind. 46 South Carolina College. Criticism and Elocution. Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy and Agricultural Chem- istry. Sacred Literature and Evidences of Christianity. 229. There are three recitations of each class, daily : one after morning prayers; one at 11 o'clock, A. M. ; one at Recitations. 4 o'clock, P. M. On Saturday morning there is one reci- tation. There are lectures, rhetorical exercises and com- positions, English and Latin, at such times as the Faculty may appoint. P d H' 230. The Faculty specially call the attention of parents and tory and Ge- guardians to the requisitions on Prosody, History and Ge- ography, ography. On these subjects, so necessary for a profitable course through college, applicants are generally very de- ficient, and hereafter they will be insisted on. The short- est and most effectual way to impart much of the neces- sary knowledge of ancient geography, is always to use an Atlas in the reading of Greek and Latin authors. RESOLUTIONS OF LEGISLATURE, AND MESSAGES OF GOVERNORS. Reps, and Res. of 1815, p. 91. 231. $6,000 appropriated for Chemical apartment. Reps, and Res. of 1815, p. 110. 232. Two Students from City Council directed. Reps, and Res. of 1823, .p. 91. 233. Resolved, That the Trustees of the South Carolina Col- lege be requested to consider the propriety and advantage of es- tablishing a Professorship of Law in that institution, and to re- port to this House, at the next session, the manner in which such Professorship may be established, so as to be most advantageous to the community, and least expensive to the State. Reps, and Res. of 1 823, p. 111. 234. The committee on the College, to whom was referred so much of the Governor's Message as relates to the " South Caro- lina College," beg leave to report, that they have considered the same, and are of opinion that the view which his Excellency has taken of the improvement in public education throughout the State, is correct, and is worthy of the great and interesting sub- 48 South Carolina College. ject which, it is intended to embrace ; and they believe that the College of Columbia, created by the patriotism and wisdom of a former legislature, and supported by the bounty and liberality of their successors, has already given back to the State the most ample compensation for its endowment, and affords the most abundant cause of congratulation to every lover of letters, and to every lover of his country. The triumph of learning is pro- claimed throughout the State, and the voice of improvement is heard in every parish and in every village, from the seaboard to the mountains. A taste for knowledge is excited only to be gratified, and the power of intellect is felt and acknowledged in every corner of the State ; the dormant genius of many a youtk is roused from its slumber, and devoted to usefulness and the glory of his country. The distinction which is so frequently attained by the alumni of this institution, not only in the learned professions, and in the legislature of Carolina, but in the deliberative assemblies of the general government, cannot be contemplated without pride and exultation. Your committee are unwilling to dismiss the subject referred to their consideration, without expressing their approbation of a particular portion of his Excellency's message. They believe that the wisdom and the learning of Dr. Cooper, which it has taken a long life to amass, now redound to the honor of the College over which he presides, contribute in an eminent degree to the best interests of the State, and to that species of happiness which is the result of civilization, and the reward of a virtuous and enlightened community. Your committee believe that under the influence of science and learning, the gloom of ignorance and the intolerance of fanaticism will be dissipated, and that true religion and political happiness must advance, un- der the liberal and enlightened system of instruction now adopt- ed in the College ; and they pray most fervently to the Griver of all good, to continue to our country the mercies and favors she enjoys, and to increase in our hearts, not only a willingness to acknowledge Him, but the sincerest gratitude and love for his fatherly protection and support. Reps, and Res. of 1823, p. 121. 235. $5,000 appropriated for purchase of Library. Reps, and Res. of 1824, jo. 80 236. The committee on the College, to whom was referred certain papers relating to this institution, beg leave to report, that they have examined the same, and ask leave to call the at- South Carolina College. 49 tention of the Senate to Message No. 1, of his late Excellency Governor Wilson. Your committee are assured, that they are not only authorized to express their feelings on this subject, so interesting to the sons of South Carolina — so important in its operations to the aspiring youth whose journey through life is yet to be accomplished — so joyous in its aspect to the venerable patriot, whose silvered locks proclaim that his service is .done, and who now reclines under the shade of the Palmetto, silently to contemplate the prosperity of his country — but they believe it to be their duty to congratulate their fellow citizens on the very promising and happy state in which the College of Colum- bia is now known to be. , They recommend most earnestly to the Legislature, to con- tinue the liberal and enlightened patronage which they have hitherto extended to the advancement of learning, and the acqui- sition of all useful knowledge, so completely identified with this favorite object. In a republic like ours, where the preservation of liberty, political and civil, has no other arm to rest on but the virtue of the people, it requires no argument to prove, that to enlighten the people, is to give the best security for the continu- ance of their freedom. They hold it to be indisputable in politics as in morals, that the very worst kind of slavery, is that dull submission to dark- ness and to vice, too often incidental to untutored ignorance — that the tyrant whose sway is most cruel and unrelenting, is de- pendent for his power upon the unkindly extinction of letters and of light. Your committee feel confident that the best economy which can be pursued, is to encourage those virtuous feelings of the human heart, which go hand in hand with the enlargement and improvement of the human understanding; and they look with certainty for these happy results, as the reward of your munifi- cent appropriations, and introduction into life of that native talent whose influence is felt throughout the State, and for your foster- ing care of that retiring genius whose rays are now given to il- lumine the councils of your country. The gratifying sensations which are necessarily produced by these reflections, are much enhanced by perusing the lumin- ous and classical report accompanying the catalogue of books lately purchased for the College Library. The efforts of patriotism cannot but succeed, when thus aided by the refinement and elegance of the most accomplished schol- ar. How can the student, whose lamp is trimmed for academic research, fail to be distinguished, when the brightest ornament of society, when the champion of true philosophy, the devoted friend and lover of the arts, forms an example in a single indi- vidual for the youthful American to admire and to imitate 1 Need we say that this valuable man, who, now, and on many other occasions, claims for himself this feeble tribute to his worth, is one whose name, both at home and abroad, is nearly 7 50 South Carolina College. allied to every thing connected with the beauties of literature, and the finest specimens of rhetoric and of taste, your conspicu- ous fellow-citizen, Stephen Elliott. Your committee would do an injustice to themselves, and a still greater injustice to one branch of your government, if they hesitated to express their entire belief that the Judges of the Courts of Law and Equity, in presiding at the Board as ex-offi- cio Trustees, have contributed largely, by their acknowledged learning, as well as by their individual and distinguished respec- tability, to the promotion of that prosperity which the friends of this institution now regard as a subject of self-congratulation ; they cannot do other than determine, that it would be highly inexpedient to dispense with the services of those to whose wis- dom and integrity are entrusted the lives and property of their countrymen. Reps, and Res. of 1825, £>. 72, 237. The committee on the College, to whom was referred so much of the Governor's Message as relates to the South Carolina Col- lege, beg leave to report, that they have attentively considered the same, and recommend that five thousand dollars be appro- priated for the purchase of Books for the College Library. Your committee, in suggesting to your honorable body the ex- pediency of making this appropriation, are influenced by those considerations which they believe are strongly impressed upon the minds of their fellow-citizens at large. They are directed by those views which a succession of enlightened Legislatures have invariably taken of this invaluable institution. They are prone to indulge in those feelings which they believe are promi- nent in the bosom of every lover of letters, and every lover of his country. They believe that the best system of economy which can be adopted, is to protect and encourage the dissemi- nation of all useful knowledge. In contemplating the advantages which are daily accruing to the State from the establishment of this institution, your com- mittee cannot refrain from repeating what they have often ex- pressed, their unbounded respect for the wisdom and patriotism of those men whose names are recorded as the founders of this monument of their intelligence and virtue. 'Tis the policy of tyrants to entrammel the human understanding, and the privi- lege of despotism to darken the intellect of slaves. 'Tis the se- curity of freedom that her sons are enlightened, and the boast of republicans that theirs is the doctrine of equal rights, which can alone be maintained by the diffusion of general and correct in- formation. 'Tis for them to remember, that -'knowledge is pow- er," and their liberty is safe : but should they ever forget that political strength is but another name for learning and for sci- South Carolina College. 51 enee, and that liberty is endangered. Your committee feel no disposition to dwell upon a subject which is already so well un- derstood, or unnecessarily to urge a continuance of your patron- age, when they believe that its influence is so universally ac- knowledged in every corner of your State, and in every depart- ment of your government the living evidences that your liberal- ity has been rewarded, are pre-eminently conspicuous. The flowers of literature are blooming in every valley, and the tree which " puts forth good fruit," is dispensing its blessings from the tops of your mountains to the shoals of the Atlantic. J Tis for you to admire this beautiful picture, to cultivate this garden which has been seeded by yourself, and to leave to your posteri- ty the abundant harvest which its fertility will ensure them. The catalogue of Mineralogical specimens, collected by a distin- guished member of the Faculty, under the direction of this Le- gislature, furnishes the strongest assurance of his industry and science, and the richness of the country he has been directed to explore. Your committee are under the most sanguine expecta- tions that the day is not distant, when the bowels of the earth will be found to contain the means of increasing the fertility of its surface in every section of our country ; and they recom- mend most earnestly, a continuance of these examinations, not only for the benefit of those who are to be instructed in academ- ic pursuits, but also for the promotion of agricultural prosperity — let the farmer and the scholar be equally the objects of your mu- nificence and wisdom. In closing the discharge of their annual duties, your committee feel more than ordinary gratification in expressing their entire coincidence of opinion and of feeling with his Excellency, when he calls to your notice those gentle- men whose studies are but just completed, and who are now be- yond the reach of your solicitude and control. It is but fair to give them your unmingled approbation. They are gone forth to the world, to do honor to themselves, and honor to their instructors. They have left an example to be admired and be imitated by those who have succeeded to their places. Reps, and Res. of 1825, p. 113. 238. Resolved, That the Faculty of the South Carolina College be requested to prepare a detailed system for the better regulation of the public schools, and other seminaries of learning in this State, and that they report the same at an early period of the next session of the Legislature. 52 South Carolina College. Reps, and Res. of 1827, p. 3. 239. Comptroller General reports as to College disbursinents. Reps, ami Res. of 1831, 7?. 57. 240. Committee report prosperity of College, and against re- duction of tuition fees. From Gov. Hamilton s Message, 1832. fe^j 241. No circumstance has occurred to diminish our well foun- ded confidence in the usefulness of the South Carolina College, which is going on with regularity and success in the process of qualifying those who are to come after us to fulfil the high func- tions and offices appertaining to the public weal. — That this fountain of light may diffuse its beams over our whole State, and be felt in the wide extention of literature, science, and all useful knowledge, must depend on your parental care and unre- laxed vigilance. To discharge this duty is a debt which you must pay, under a sacred obligation., to posterity. From Gov. Haynds Message, 1833. 242. I feel that it is scarcely necessary for me to advert to the necessity of bestowing continued and increasing attention to Education, the only sure basis of free government. The establish- ment and support, at an annual expense to the State of upwards of $50,000, of the South Carolina College, and the Free Schools, bear ample testimony of the deep interest which continues to be felt in this subject. The College has unquestionably contributed largely to the extension of knowledge ; and in the distribution throughout the State of well educated and influential men. has amply repaid all the care and attention of the State. The Free Schools, if they have been less successful, have, I am persuaded, done much for the poor, and have contributed to the extension of intelligence, virtue and religion. Both institutions are believed, however, to be capable of great improvement, and demand the paternal supervision of the Legislature. With regard to the Free Schools, the best information of their present condition, as well as the improvements of which they are susceptible, is to be South Carolina College. 53 obtained from the Representatives of the several Districts and Par- ishes of the State. My duty therefore is performed in pressing the subject upon your consideration. With respect to the Col- lege, I shall forbear to make any specific recommendations, un- til I can avail myself of the counsel and advice of the Board of Trustees, who are to be assembled here in the course of a few days. Their proceedings, together with a Report of the Faculty as to the present condition of this highly valuable and interest- ing institution, and the measures proper to be adopted for its improvement, will then be laid before you. Reps, and Res. o/1834,_p. 9. 243. Committee think the Trustees did right in requesting Professors to resign — approve uniform dress — discountenance extravagance, and recommend appropriation to put College in. repair. Res and Reps, of 1835,^>. 31. 244. New house for professors erected. Res. and Rep>s. of 1835, £>. 53. 245. Trustees to report tuition money, &c. annually, Res. and Reps, of 1835, p. 55. 246. Be it therefore resolved by the Senate and House of Represen- tatives, in Genercd Assembly met, That the Trustees of the South Carolina College, together with the Solicitor of the Southern Cir- cuit, are hereby requested and enjoined to put into immediate and vigilant exercise, all means provided by the existing laws, to exterminate from the town of Columbia and its vicinity, bawdy houses, gambling houses, and other similar nuisances, calculated to vitiate the morals, pervert the minds, and destroy the health of the young men committed to their charge ; and should exist- ing remedies be found, on full experiment, inefficacious, then that fchey consider of and report fco the Legislature at its next session, such changes or amendments in fche law as to them may seem expedient and necessary fco accomplish fcheobjecl 54 South Carolina College. Be it also resolved, That the Intendant and Wardens, and the oitizena generally, of Columbia, are earnestly entreated, as they value the great interests of morality and religion, the deeencies of life, the health ami general welfare of their community, and the character especially of the important institution established in their bosom, to co-operate, by their example, and by such local Legislation as they may deem practicable, to suppress these most disgraceful and corrupting nuisances. From Gov. McDujJiJs Message, 1835. 247. It gives me very great pleasure to inform you that our College has resumed its labors under the most flattering auspi- ces, and promises to be every way worthy of the liberal and en- lightened patronage by which it has been heretofore sustained. Under the strong impulse it has received from the zealous ex- ertions of the Board of Trustees, sustained by the patriotism of the whole State, it has already risen from its ruinous condition, and is pressing on, with renovated ardor, in the career of literary and scientific distinction. Under the guidance of a faculty equally distinguished for high qualifications and devotion to their very important duties, it offers to the rising generation of our State as many advantages as any similar institution in the United States. I cannot too strongly recommend it to the patronage of an enlightened Legislature, and to the countenance and support of every patriotic citizen. It is scarcely possible to place too high an estimate on its importance. Upon its successful admin- istration will depend, in no small degree, the character and des- tiny of the State. The very great and salutary change which it has produced in the character of our community, within the last thirty years, is an evidence of the high purposes to which it can be made subservient. Our experience, however, but too conclusively proves that a munificent endowment by the Legis- lature, and a faithful performance of their respective trusts, by the 'Trustees and Faculty, are not of themselves sufficient to en- sure the success of this institution. The community at large must give it their countenance and support, and in some sort, their superintendence. From all parts of the State, there should be a general attendance of our prominent and educated citizens, at the annual commencements, who, with all the public func- tionaries, should be present to witness the performances of the youthful competitors for literary fame. Nothing could have a more salutary influence, in stimulating the exertions of the young men during the whole course of their college studies, than the prospect of this annual contest for distinction before the assem- bled intelligence of the State. The parents, also, who place South Carqlina College. 55 their sons in the institution, must give the Trustees their cordial co-operation, in effecting a reform in the extravagant ha- bits of expenditure, which have heretofore prevailed, but too generally, amongst the students. Nothing is more unbecoming the character of a student, or more adverse to his proficiency in literary and scientific attainments, than these habits of extrava- gance. Every citizen is under obligations of patriotism, not less than of parental duty, to discountenance and repress such per- nicious habits, by withholding from his son the means of indul- ging them. Citizens of great wealth, in particular, owe it to the State, to set a public spirited example, in regulating the expenses of their sons, by reducing them to such a standard of economy, that the sons of citizens of moderate fortunes may not be temp- ted to go beyond their means, to avoid disparaging imputations and invidious comparisons. With a view to this important re- form, the trustees propose to adopt certain regulations, fixing a uniform dress, which every student will be required to wear, while under the authority of the College government, and a uni- form limitation upon the different branches of expenditure, which no student will be permitted to exceed. I confidently hope that no parent will give the least counte- nance to any attempt on the part of his son, to evade these salu- tary regulations. Small and unimportant as they may seem, the prosperity and usefulness of the College, as a public institution, will materially depend upon their rigid enforcement. The appropriation made at your last session, for repairing the College edifices, has been applied with judgment and economy, by the committee of the Board of Trustees, to whom that duty was confided. The College edifices are now in a complete state of repair, and the fund appropriated will be sufficient to enclose the College campus, and all the buildings pertaining to the in- stitution, with a substantial brick wall, which is now in progress and will soon be completed. The number of students now in the College is 85, of whom have entered since the 1st October last, and it is believed that by the first of January, the number will be not less than 120 ; exceeding the most sanguine expectations indulged by the friends of the institution. But while the Legislature, by the liberal endowment of this classical seminary, have provided for the higher branches of education, it is to be regretted that the pri- mary schools, where the elementary branches of education are taught, have been almost entirely neglected. In these schools, the rising generation of all classes receive their first impres- sions in the way of instruction ; and here a great part of the community obtain all the instruction they ever receive at schools. How vitally important, then, arc these humble institutions, in a community where the sovereign power of the State is not only recognized as residing in the body of the people, but is habitu- ally exercised by them in the periodical election of the public 56 South Carolina College. functionaries. The dee]) importance of popular education to such a community, is universally admitted: but we are unfor- tunately too prone, in conformity with our American habits, to ELtisned with proclaiming the maxims of speculative truth, without taking steps to have them exemplified by measures of practical wisdom. In no country is the necessity of popular education so often proclaimed, and in none are the schools of el- ementary instruction more deplorably neglected. They are en- tirely without organization, superintendance or inspection of any kind, general or local, public or private. To the reproach of our republican institutions, it must be admitted that some of the monarchies of Europe have manifested a more enlightened zeal in the cause of popular education, than has been exhibited in South Carolina. In Prussia, the primary schools are special objects of the care, superintendance and patronage of the gov- ernment, and to provide competent instructors for these elemen- tary seminaries, normal schools are established and supported by the government, for the exclusive purpose of qualifying school- masters for their vocatton. So important is it there regarded, that the masters of the primary schools should be thoroughly qualified, that they are required to remain three years in these preparatory schools, after they have learned reading, writing, and the rudiments of arithmetic : and are even then not eligible to a mastership in the primary schools, until they have under- gone a thorough examination, and obtained a certificate of quali- fication from a competent board of examiners. It is mortifying to reflect, that not one in twenty of those instructors who have charge of our primary schools, and are thus invested with the sa- cred office of forming the minds of our children, could stand the scrutiny through which every school-master in Prussia must pass, before he is permitted to perform the very lowest functions of elementary instruction. A radical reform in this department of popular instruction is imperiously demanded by every conside- ration of patriotism, and although this salutary work must princi- pally depend upon the exertions of individuals and local associa- tions, the legislature might give aid and direction to the popular effort, by uniting the poor schools with the common primary schools of the country, and increasing, to a small extent, the ap- propriation for the education of the poor. It seems to be generally admitted, that this charitable fund has been productive of very little public benefit, and has in fact been perverted, in many instances, into a provision for the sup- port of indigent and incompetent schoolmasters. If all the Ju- dicial districts were divided into school districts of suitable di- mensions for primary schools, each of these selecting an intelli- gent school committee to superintend the business of primary edu- cation within its limits, the Commissioners of the poor schools might be directed to apply a certain portion of the fund entrust- ed to their management, to the support of those schools, in such a way, and upon such conditions, as would increase the compen- South Carolina College. 57 sation, and at the same time insure the competency of the school masters. These suggestions are thrown out rather as indicating what ought to be done, and to draw your attention to the subject of elementary instruction, than with the view of pointing out the specific plan by which it may be best promoted. I am fully aware that any reform in the system of primary schools, to be extensively beneficial, must originate with the people, and be carried into execution by them, in their respective vicinities. There is no field of exertion, public or private, in which the du- ties of a parent and a patriot can be so usefully and honorably blended, as in the improvement, superintendance and inspection of the primary schools ; and it is to be hoped that every enlight- ened citizen will regard himself as a trustee of these elementa- ry seminaries, and a guardian of the children who are educated in them. I am thoroughly convinced that the compensation of the teachers in those institutions should be increased, and their standing in society elevated in the public estimation, to insure the necessary qualifications. No class of the community is cal- culated to exercise a more decisive influence upon the moral and intellectual character of the State, than the instructors general- ly, of the rising generation ; and nothing can be more pernicious than that false economy which would depress their compensa- tion, and that false opinion which would degrade their standing, below the appropriate standard indicated by their importance. Before I dismiss the interesting subject of public instruction, I must call your attention to the consideration of a change, which I regard as highly expedient, in the regulations of our College. Though this is appropriately a classical institution, I am never- theless of the opinion, that a knowledge of the dead languages should not be made an indispensable condition of obtaining all its privileges, its advantages and its honors. I can perceive no adequate reason why ignorance of these languages should be an insuperable bar to the literary honors of the institution, however highly the candidate might be distinguished in all the other de- partments of literature and science. The educatien of every citizen should be adapted to the pur- suits of his future life. To those who are designed for the learn- ed professions, or for employments strictly literary or scientific, a knowledge of the classical languages of antiquity is highly ap- propriate, if not absolutely necessary. But those who are des- tined to follow mercantile or mechanical pursuits, can employ the years devoted to education much more profitably than in ac- quiring a knowledge of the dead languages. The principal consideration which recommends the proposed change to your favorable notice, will be found in the. fact, that under the existing regulations, parents who design their sons for mercantile or mechanical pursuits, will not give them a college education. However anxious to give them a liberal education in all other respects, they are unwilling to expend threv or four 8 58 South Carolina College. years in what they regard as unprofitable studies, to prepare them for obtaining such an education. The consequence is, that these highly important classes of the community usually receive no other education than what they obtain in the primary schools. Reps, and Res. of 1836,^. 127 and 128. 248. Various appropriations. Reps, and Res. of 1836, p. 147. 249. Resolved. That the Legislature will not, in future, grant any new charter or Act of incorporation, or any extension of a char- ter or an Act of incorporation previously granted, unless the ap- plicant or applicants for the same shall have first given three months public notice, in one or more of the newspapers of this State, in such districts or parishes where newspapers are published, and where no newspapers are published, at one or move public place, of his or their intention to make such application, and shall submit with the same such satisfactory evidence that such notice had been given. From Gov. McDuffies Message, 1836. 250. No constitutional charter, however wise its provisions, can give freedom to a people. "We must have free men before we can have a free government ; and we cannot be too deeply im- pressed with the conviction that the essential qualifications of a freeman, are intelligence to comprehend his rights and interests, with the spirit and the military skill which are necessary to de- fend them. The fatal experience of but too many nations and communities around us. conclusively demonstrates, that 'where the great body of the people are destitute of these qualifications, every attempt at self-government must end in some new form of despotism. In my opinion, our systems of school instruction should be made to assume a more practical character, having a more direct reference to the business and the duties of active life. The common reproach against a classical education, that it tends to disqualify our young men from performing these duties, is not without some foundation. It is not uncommon to meet with scholars, well versed in the systems of ancient polytheism, in the fables of the ancient poets, and in the scarcely less fabulous narratives of the ancient historians, who have scarcely a smat- tering of the history and constitutions of their own country. South Carolina College. 59 The effect produced on the minds of young men by a too exclu- sive attention to such a course of reading, in our Schools and Colleges, is similar to that which is produced on the minds of young females, by reading sentimental novels. It introduces them into a world of fancy entirely different, in all respects, from that in which they are destined to act a part, and evidently tends to disqualify them from acting that part, amidst the rugged re- alities of life. To counteract this tendency, a concise popular history of our own country, written in a pure and simple style, and a clear exposition of the great fundamental principles of our system of Government, should be introduced into all our Gram- mar Schools. For the purpose of effecting this desirable result, means should first be adopted for obtaining these works, and to secure their introduction into our Schools, it should be provided in the regulations of the College, that no young man should enter the Sophomore Class, who could not stand an examination on the historical narrative, nor the Senior Class, who could not stand an examination on the political exposition. With the same view of giving a more practical bearing to our system of popular instruction, I suggest the expediency of estab- lishing in our College, a Professorship of Civil and Military Engineering. The works of Internal Improvement which are now in progress, and will probably continue to be projected for many years to come, in South Carolina and the neighboring States, will require the services of a great number of Civil Engi- neers ; and it is in all respects desirable that we should have citizens of our own well qualified in this highly important de- partment, whose services we can at all times command. So great is the demand for this kind of service all over the Union, and the rate of compensation is becoming so extravagantly high, that as a measure of economy alone, the establishment of the proposed Professorship, would be well worthy of consideration. The department of Military Engineering will of course be made to include instruction in the use of Artillery, and to this may be usefully added, the practical instruction of the young men, at certain hours, in the elements of Infantry tactics. My ob- servation and reflection, during the present year, have confirmed the opinion I expressed in my last annual message, as to the ex- pediency of combining in our general system of school instruc- tion, the use of arms, and the elements of military tactics, with the common branches of education. There is^o other mode, in my opinion, by which such important results *an be produced, with so small an expenditure of time and money. Indeed, I have great doubts whether it be not the only practicable mode in which the elementary principles of military movements can be scientifically imparted to the great body of our citizens. It will supply the great desideratum now experienced in effectually training the militia — competent officers to command and instruct the militia companies — and I feel a perfect assurance that if generally pursued in our schools, the very next generation that 60 South Carolina Colli comes upon the stage of active life, will be an army of citizen soldier.-, better qualified bo defend their rights, than any stand- ing army in the world, after a peace of ten years duration. I suggest, therefore, that the young men of the College be organ- ized into one or two corps of Cadets, by Law, or by the regula- tions of the institution, and though permitted to eleel their own officers, that they hi' required to devote certain hours to the ex- ercise of drilling; under the superintendence of the Military Professor, who should be required to act as their instructor. The establishment of sue h a system in the College would, upon very obvious principles, cause it to be extended to the Grammar Schools; as every young man, in preparing for College, would naturally desire to qualify himself, not only for performing his military exercises, hut for aspiring to the honor of a military command. In one of the most distinguished Grammar Schools of the State, a company of Cadets was formed, almost under my own eye. and while their improvement in tact i riking to every observer, the intelligent gentleman at the head of the institution assured me, that he derived great advantage in its government, from the manliness and sen.se of honor imparted to the young men, by the change in their mode of recreation. I also recommend the establishment of a Professorship of Modern Languages, the want of which has been seriously felt ever since the establishment of the College. I believe there are very few graduates of the institution, who have not had occ to deplore the defect in their education, which has resulted from the absence of such a Professorship. In the present state of science, and of social and commercial intercourse, a knowledge of the modern languages is scarcely less important than that of the ancient, A great many of the most scientific and literary works now extant, are written in foreign lai._ i tnd having no English translations, are sealed books to those who are igno- rant of the languages in which they are written. It is an object of the first importance, to have a class of well educated native merchants, capable of conducting our immense and increasing foreign commerce : who will save to the State the large per cent- age which the Northern merchants receive as a commission for exchanging our productions for those of other countries. Cir- cumstances are now highly favorable to the accomplishment of this patriotic purpose. Let us, then, provide for our young men the means of becoming accomplished merchants : and not the least important Hcomplishment, is a knowledge of the Continen- tal languages, and particularly the French. These two additional Professorships will complete the literary organization of our College, and enable our youth to obtain so complete an education at home, that they will no longer have a motive for going to the Northern Colleges. I need not add, that this is an object of the utmost importance, in the present state of public opinion in the United States, relative to our do- mestic institutions. South Carolina College. 61 The state of the college discipline is now excellent, and the conduct of the students for the present year has, with a few ex- ceptions, been highly exemplary. Most of the irregularities that have occurred, have been traced to the shops where wines and ardent spirits are retailed in the town of Columbia — and it has been found impossible to break up entirely, the communica- tion between them and the young men of the college. These wretched haunts of dissipation and intemperance do more to mar the prosperity of the institution, than all the other causes united. They thus become nuisances to the whole State, and ought, in my opinion, to be abated by its authority. The evil is not at all diminished by the system of licensing. The revenue derived from it is but a poor compensation for the privilege of diffusing the elements of moral pestilence amongst those who are to be the future rulers and legislators of the State. The flourishing condition of the College must be eminently gratifying to every patriotic citizen in the State, of every de- nomination, religious or political. And however obvious the truth, we cannot too habitually impress it upon our minds, that the usefulness of this institution, so intimately connected with the character of the State, and the welfare of the generations that are to follow us, will greatly depend upon the degree in which the spirit of party, religious and political, shall be excluded from its government. Let this, at least, be a temple dedicated exclu- sively to science and literature, where all the citizens of the State can mingle their devotions in harmony and peace. The number of students has so greatly increased since the new organization, that they cannot even now be tolerably accom- modated in the rooms provided for them ; and when we look for- ward to the probable increase, at the commencement of the en- suing year, it is evident that the existing means of accommoda- tion will be wholly insufficient. The erection of an additional edifice for this purpose, therefore, has become a measure not only of expediency, but of absolute necessity ; and I recom- mend that the necessary appropriation be made, as soon as the proper estimates shall be obtained. The College Library also requires a very considerable enlarge- ment, to make it correspond with the character of the institution ; and I suggest the propriety of making an appropriation of a few thousand dollars for this purpose. As I propose to visit Europe during the ensuing year, it will give me great pleasure to exe- cute any commission with which I may be charged in accomplish- ing this object. I cannot conclude this interesting topic, without earnestly commending the College to your enlightened patronage and fos- tering care, as the guardians of the rising generation. 62 South Carolina College. D'orn Gov. Butler's Message. 1537. 251. The College is justly an object of pride to the State. If its liberal and enlightened friends and projectors could see its fruits, they would have abundant cause of satisfaction and grati- fication. Every citizen in the State may justly regard it as part of his property. If he has not received any immediate advan- tage himself, his son may. The destiny of the State may be said to depend on this institution. The young men who are in it. should be made to understand and believe that the public take all interest in them. Going from home with their mothers prayers and their father's hopes for them, they should consider it the greatest calamity that they could inflict, to disregard and disappoint them. But. beyond these feelings and relations to their parents, they should regard themselves as the property of the republic, and should cultivate a noble maxim of some dis- tinguished ancient. •■ It is not only necessary that I should live, but it is necessary that I should do my duty." The Legislature should not only give its substantial aid to this institution, but should make every demonstration of respect in its public exhibitions. It is desirable that the Trustees and the public should give more of their time and attention to the examination of the students, than they have hitherto found it convenient to do. Its public spirited and patriotic President. and its learned Professors, are now doing their duty in a way to .give general satisfaction. By the late afflicting dispensation of God, by which so many of the unfortunate were consigned to the abyss of waters, this institution has been deprived of one of its most able and zealous officers. There are now one hundred and fifty-foul- students in the College. It is a favorable augury of our rising fortunes, that notwithstanding the difficulties and embarrassments of the times, this institution is increasing in numbers, reputation and usefulness. Our youth are taught there. Intellectual and 3Ioral Philoso- phy. Logic and Belles Lettres. History and Political Economy, Greek and Koman Literature, Mathematics. Mechanical Philos- ophy and Astronomy. Chemistry. Mineralogy and Geology. Sa- cred Literature and the Evidences of Christianity. I do not profess sufficient knowledge to speak with any degree of confi- dence in regard to the circle of studies which is necessary to complete a course of education in such an institution, but of this my experience has satisfied me. that that knowledge is gen- erally the most useful, which is directly available — and to be so. that it must be adapted to the wants of society, and to the state and condition of the country. In reference to this view, it might be well to consider the propriety of directing the Board of Trustees of the College to establish a Professorship of Mod- ern Languages, and a Professorship of Civil and Military Engi- neering. Holding a school fit for educating Civil Engineers, indispensable, both to the present and probable wants of the State, I think it my duty to recommend it. TTe need it for our im- provement in peace, and defence in war, South Carolina College. 63 From Gov. Butler's Message, 1838. 252. The affairs of the College are in a condition to fulfil the best wishes of its friends. This institution has exercised a vast influence over the character of the State, and I believe is des- tined to be its palladium of safety, amidst the popular commo- tions which too frequently agitate all free States. The knowl- edge acquired, and the friendships contracted here, will be stronger than popular violence. Those who have formed good opinions of each other, when they were associated together in the intimacy of unreserved communication, will retain and cul- tivate a spirit of liberality and forgiveness, even in the heats of political hostility. Our wise and prudent ancestors could not have devised a more noble and effectual means of perpetuating their glorious influence over the destinies of their country, than by the establishment of an institution of literature and science, under the fostering care of the State, in which their precepts would be valued, and their examples appreciated This institu- tion should be a primary object of State policy and popular pride. It is the institution of the people, and for the people. It is there they must acquire the intelligence to govern themselves. The Legislature should not hesitate to make any appropriation which the interests of the College may require. The number of stu- dents is rapidly increasing, and is now far beyond any former precedent. The present number is about 170, and it will proba- bly be necessary, before long, to make a still further addition to the buildings, for their comfortable accommodation. The Libra- ry, though respectable, cannot be compared with several attached to other Universities in the United States. Great scholars and erudite writers must have access to full libraries, to make their labors useful, and their productions accurate. The State should take a pride in affording this facility to them, by having a libra- ry which will give it an interest in the estimation of posterity, and in the eyes of intelligent foreigners. With a view of at- taining this end, I beg leave to recommend to the Legislature, an annual appropriation, for the purchase of books for the Col- lege Library. Reps, and Res. of 1838,^?. 128. 253. $2000, and surplus of tuition fund, annually appropria- ted to increase of Library. Reps, and Res. of 1838, p. 160. 254. Dr. Cooper's Library. 64 South Carolina College. Reps, and Res, >>f 1839,jj 255. Dr. Coopers Library. From Got: Noble?* Message, 1839. It affords me unfeigned pleasure to announce to you. that the College continues to answer the high expectations of the State. It is rapidly advancing in a career of prosperity and usefulness, which must redound to the lasting benefit of the country. It steadily increases in numbers, although the stand- ard of admission is higher than formerly. I ardently recom- mend this noble institution to your paternal and fostering care. The State can only expect to maintain its wonted high character, by an enlightened population, well grounded in solid learning, and a lofty moral elevation. From Gov. Henegarts Message, 1840. •257. The College is in a most prosperous condition, and is fully entitled to your fostering care and protection. The very generous and liberal spirit which the Legislature has always manifested towards it. is highly creditable to our people. It is with pride I say that the reasonable appeals of those to whom is entrusted its immediate control, have never been made in vain. No false notions of economy have prevented those appropria- tions which were calculated to increase its usefulness, but they have always been made with promptitude and liberality. Reps, and Res. of IS 40. p. 97. 258. Keport as to College Commencement. Reps, and Res. of 1841,;?. 126. 259. American Archives loaned to College Library. South Carolina College. 65 From Gov. Richardso)i's Message, 1841. 260. I regret to communicate to you the resignation of the late President of our College, whose sphere of usefulness, in that high and dignified station, has been occupied with such de- cided and distinguished benefit to the institution, and to the State. Under his wise and judicious control, its literary char- acter has not only been more than fully sustained, both in the acquirements of the students and the ability of the Professors, but its morals have at the same time advanced to a state of pu- rity and improvement, which it is believed has never been sur- passed, in the experience of this or any other seminary. Deep- ly regretting the loss, as well as the circumstances which have deprived us of his services, we may still confidently hope that his character and example are so indelibly impressed upon the institution, and its successive generations of youth, that its lin- gering influences will continue to guide and to actuate it, in the same honorable course of virtue and success. I need not, I trust, recommend to your continued favor and patronage, an institu- tion, whose enlightened contributions have extended to every pursuit and avocation — every art and science, as cultivated in our State — and whose influences have been diffused through all the walks and vocations of life, occupying every station in soci- ety, pervading every profession, and adorning the Bench, the Bar, the Pulpit, and our Legislative councils. The moral weight and influence which South Carolina has so long exercised, through the talents and usefulness of her statesmen, on the af- fairs of this Union, and which this institution has so largely con- tributed to preserve, is of itself an overruling inducement to foster and improve it. From Gov. Richardson 's Message, 1842. 261. Contrasted with these just causes of dissatisfaction, as to the benefits and application of the Free School fund, we may contemplate with a pride and gratification proportionate to its eminent usefulness and success, the continued results of the lib- eral and enlightened patronage bestowed upon our College. The most munificent of all our State endowments — the most honora- ble of all its benefactions — the most useful of all its institu- tions — the most imperishable monument of its wisdom and lib- erality — its continued and uninterrupted career of success and prosperity, even amidst the unusual disadvantages of the pres- ent year, cannot but be a source of the most heartfelt gratifica- tion to its official patrons. Adding its annual tribute of learn- ing to the general intelligence of the State — the perennial source of its literature, its erudition and its eloquence — contributing its successive generations of enlightened youth, to commence 9 66 SorfTH Carolina College their ardent career of usefulness and of honor, and to occupy their dis:izg~iisiiri -.:'. :- in ; ::ir.~ — — t '_:~- v.-: irisn. :■: i-zv... Ln the unabated prosperity which it manifests, in the number, the morals and the acquirements of its students, and in the zeaL erudition and judicious management of its faculty. Receiving an amount less than half of the annual endowment bestowed on Free Schools, the benefits of a situ -7 - eai the attainments ■::' single class, the acquirements of one only ::" its ripe schol- ar? the fruit of a single one of those great minds, whose ener- gies it has developed, would not only compensate for all the pat- ronage which has hitherto been extended to it. but is immeasu- rably more valuable to the State than the results of all her other benefactions to advance the progress of education. Un^ der the recent bereavement of a venerated head, contending with all the embarrassments of a pro tempore appointment of its i ing officer — an appointment most heavily imposing the ar- 1^:15 rrsr :n5i:ili::T/5 ;£ :lf \-L.~ —r.'ir. :: ; ::rrrsi i^iing dignity and authority : it is a subject of joyful surprise and congratulation, :'_:-.: its riairs have been so ably and satisfacto- 262. Various books transferred to College Library. Rips r. ::. Rn :-" IS^S. p U> 263. #400 to furnish two rooms for College Library. py-. Go: H. "i Mi.ssr^-i. l ; ^i - 264 I '_ - fh st duty of a government, after providing for the security of ite Mmstatoents. istc :ike proper measures for their eiijarliz Tie :~^ri:s :ley ieri^e fri— faoili:arl^g z-onmerce. by dicing canals, clearing out rivers, constructing roads and opening new channels of intercourse, are great, but they sink into insignificance, in comparison with the vast importance of pour- ing out upon them in every direction, copious streams of knowl- edge : expanding their intellects, elevating and pnrifving their morals, and training them up to a high and noble east of thought Under a government like ours, where no aristocracy of birth or wealth is tolerated, or can ever take root, the only hope we can have of the harmonious action or lasting duration of our insti- tutions, is by resting them on the solid foundation of a people South Carolina College. 67 imbued with lofty sentiments, and deeply versed in all the lore of learning ; who will be capable of comprehending all the bles- sings they confer, watchful of distant danger, and prepared to meet and overcome it, not less by power of intellect, than by force of arms. Every dollar which can be spared from the ab- solute wants of the State, should be first offered to this great cause. Here indeed a liberal expenditure enriches and adorns, while a narrow economy impoverishes and degrades. It is to be feared that education has been stationary in this State, if it has not retrogaded, during the last quarter of a century. The College, founded and sustained by the wise munificence of the State, has done, and continues to do, more than was expected of it. But the academies have not kept pace. There are compara- tively few in the country, where young men can be well prepared to enter the higher classes. The consequence is, that many are yet sent abroad to inferior institutions, and return home with educations less complete, and without the advantage of that in- timate association with the youth of every section of the State, which can only be formed here, and which is of such lasting ad- vantage to themselves and to the country. I recommend to your serious consideration, the propriety of establishing, at some healthy and central spot in each district, an academy, endowed in the same manner as the College. The sparseness of our pop- ulation, and the want of concentrated wealth in the country, will postpone for an indefinite period, such establishments by the peo- ple themselves. And in such a matter, the loss of time is abso- lutely fatal. If the means of the State will not permit such an expenditure, in addition to that already incurred for purposes of education, I submit to you the expediency, of diverting the present Free School fund to that object. The Free School Sys- tem has failed. This fact has been announced by several of my predecessors, and there is carcely an intelligent person in the State, who doubts that its benefits are perfectly insignificant, in comparison with the expenditure. Its failure is owing to the fact, that it does not suit our people or our government, and it can never be remedied. The paupers, for whose children it is intended, but slightly appreciate the advantages of education ; their pride revolts at the idea of sending their children to school as "poor scholars" and besides, they need them at home to work. These sentiments and wants can, in the main, only be counter- vailed by force. In other countries where similar systems ex- ist, force is liberally applied. It is contrary to the principles of our institutions to apply it here, and the Free School System is a failure. The sum which is annually appropriated for the sup- port of Free Schools, if equally divided for one year among the twenty-eight districts of tl* State, giving two portions to Charles- ton district, will be sufficient to build in each a good academy. If, thereafter, one thousand dollars a year was appropriated to each academy, a teacher of the highest qualifications might be secured for every one, and a saving of about eight thousand dol- 68 South Carolina College. lars per annum effected by the State. If, in addition to this salary, the profits of his school were also given to the teacher, the rates of tuition could be reduced, to the advantage of the tax-payers, and he might be required to instruct, free of charge, such poor scholars as should be sent to him. The details of such a system cannot be dwelt on here. The immense advanta- ges of it over the present one, are obvious, at a glance. The op- portunity of giving a thorough academical education to his children, would be placed in the hands of every parent of ordi- nary means, while such of the poor as really desired to educate theirs, might still have it in their power. The common schools would be vastly improved, under the superintendence of those who had passed through these academies, while the standard of education would be immensely elevated throughout the State, and the College receive a new impulse in the dispensation of its incalculable blessings. Its professorships could always be read- ily and ably supplied from among the accomplished teachers the academies would develope, and its graduates of high attainments but slender means, would, in turn, find useful and profitable em- ployment in taking charge of the academies, instead of crowd- ing, as they now usually do, the other professions. In short, under such a system, it would be scarcely possible for any young man to grow up in our State in ignorance and idleness, or fail in obtaining a respectable settlement at home, if he possessed energy and worth. Should it not meet your approbation, and the Free School System be continued, I renew the recommenda- tion of my immediate predecessor, for the appointment of a su- perintendent of these schools. From Gov. Hammond's Message, 1844. 265. You have liberally and wisely provided for the education of the more wealthy, by establishing a College, which has done, and continues to do, more for the State, than every other corpo- ration put together, within her limits ; and you bestow annually a large sum for the mental improvement of the poor, which I wish I could say produced corresponding benefits. Reps, and Res. of 1844,^. 165. 266. The Committee on education, to whom was referred so much of the Governor's Message No. 2, as relates to the estab- lishment of a Professorship of Greek Literature in the College, respectfully report : That they have considered the same. It would be a work of supererogation for your committee, at this time, to enlarge upon South Carolina College. 69 • the numerous advantages attendant on a liberal and complete classical education, or to urge upon the Legislature of South Carolina such a patronage of her College, as to place that insti- tutios on terms of honorable competition with similar ones throughout the Union. The learned languages are mingled with the literature of every civilized people ; their construction and graces have imparted strength and elegance to modern tongues of the rudest original. The principles of science, of philosophy and government, have been generalized and expand- ed over many nations, by the potent influence of those langua- ges, which, having no living speech or separate existence, are the common inheritance of all the learned, and the channels of uni- versal truth. No human system of education can so elevate the character, inspire correct sentiments of honor and patriotism, or refine the taste of youth, as that which is based upon profound and critical classical attainments. As exercises of the mind, they give heal- thy vigor, and enrich it with graceful accomplishment. In our country, it is to be regretted that these studies have been, per- haps, too much sacrificed to the sterner duties and more exact- ing necessities of life. For a long time past, it has been a sub- ject of anxious solicitude with the dignified and enlightened gentlemen who compose the Board of Trustees of the South Car- olina College, to supply the want of higher instruction than has hitherto been furnished, and to elevate the standard of classical education. At present, there is but one Professor engaged in this department, and while he is overtasked, the pupils are insuf- ficiently taught. The assistance which was formerly derived from tutors was found inadequate, while the low rate of their compensation, and the absence of the dignity of Professorship, were calculated to degrade the importance of their instructions. It was therefore deemed judicious to abolish the tutorships, and the eminent gentlemen who compose the faculty, have most assiduously endeavored to supply the want of the requisite tui- tion. They merit much commendation for their laudable efforts, yet the necessity of some permanent provision for supplying adequate means of instruction to the College classes, has been evinced by the improper exactions thereby imposed on their time and attention, without corresponding success. The Trus- tees have, therefore, proposed, that instead of the two tutorships they constitute one additional Professorship, and divide the chair of Greek and Roman literature into two distinct depart- ments. In adopting this measure, they have the example of most of the distinguished institutions in Europe and America. They have the satisfaction of calling on the generosity of the Legislature for comparatively a small appropriation. The sala- ry of the Professor would require the sum of $2,500, which is quite an inconsiderable amount to secure the advantages which would doubtless accrue to the State at large. It has been sug- gested to your committee, that the sum of $2,000, which has heretofore been expended in the support of the tutors, but 70 South Carolina College. which it is desirable should be used for sustaining and enlarg- ing the Library, might be applied to the support of the pro- posed Professorship. Should this be done, the only further ex- pense to the State would be $500 annually, and this important measure would be secured. Your committee, however, are of opinion, that this diversion of the Library fund would not be necessary, and therefore recommend that the annual sum of $2,500 be appropriated for the support of the Professor of Greek Literature in the South Carolina College. Heps, and Res. of 1845,^. 79. 267. Appropriations since 1801. Reps, and Res. of 1845, p. 147. 268. Trustees to appoint a committee to attend the regular examinations of all the classes. From Gov. Aiken 1 s Message, 1845. 269. The condition of the South Carolina College must at all times engage the most earnest consideration of the Legislature. In it are centered, more than any other branch or department of her institutions, the hopes and destinies of South Carolina ; there, are being raised up, the future Legislators, high Officers and Statesmen, who are to guide her career to honor or to ruin. The rightful education of the minds and hearts of these future rulers of the land, is a trust of high responsibility. You have assumed its direction. It demands in the instructors the high- est moral and mental capacities, and the most extensive erudi- tion. It not less requires from them a proper training of the pupils — a discipline to regular habits of morals and study — a > thirst of knowledge, a love of public virtue, and conformity in habits and manners to the highest standards. Complaints ex- ist of negligence of duties, and of other causes, which are im- pairing the usefulness of the institution. I am not prepared to say that there is any just reason for them, but it is sufficient that the public anxiety is awakened, upon a subject of vital impor- tance to individual happiness and public welfare, to make it my duty to invite your special attention to the institution. If all is right, justice will be done to the faculty, by dispersing the fears and misgivings of the friends of the institution. If any thing is wrong, the great interests of the State require that a South Carolina College. 71 remedy be speedily and effectually applied. The liberal support which has been wisely, and with unwavering constancy, extend- ed by the State to this institution, has redounded in a thousand ways, to her honor and advantage. The intelligence of her peo- ple has been vastly increased, their condition improved, and her own character elevated, by the eloquence, wisdom and ability of her citizens educated here, and filling the high stations of the country. She cannot cherish and sustain it with a too vigilant and affectionate interest. From Gov. Aiken' ] s Message, 1846. 270.* I am rejoiced to have it in my power to state, that one of the favorite and cherished objects of the Legislature, the South Carolina College, which has sent forth into every portion of the State so many well instructed citizens, to add to her renown and sustain her high reputation, is in as flourishing a condition as its warmest friends could desire. The administration of its ac- complished President, aided and sustained by the combined ef- forts of the very learned faculty with which he is associated, has been distinguished by the most gratifying results, and we may well entertain the hope, that a few years only will be necessary, with a wise and judicious expenditure on your part, to place it among the first class, in the rank of those literary institutions which enrich and adorn our country. The munificent liberality of a distinguished citizen of our State, has recently done much for this institution, by the establishment of a scholarship for the benefit of a class of young men who might otherwise never be able to obtain the advantages of a collegiate education ; and were any thing but the consciousness of a noble act necessary, his reward will be found in the gratitude of those to be benefit- ted by his generosity, and the thanks of the whole State. While upon the subject of the College, I would respectfully suggest that a new Professorship, of Geology and Agriculture, be crea- ted, as a most desirable and important addition to those already established, thereby affording information on subjects closely connected with the industry and pursuits of a large portion of our people. Reps, and Res. of 1846,^?. 120. 27 1 . The committee on the College, Education and Religion, to whom was referred so much of the Governor's Message as re- lates to the South Carolina College, beg leave to report, that the condition of the College is highly prosperous and satisfactory. The number of students is one hundred and sixty tour, inde- pendent of the graduating class, which numbered 31, to wit : 72 South Carolina College. The Senior class 41 " Junior class 43 " Sophomore class- _. 66 " Freshman class 14 It is highly gratifying to perceive the lively affection for this institution, which is retained by its worthy alumni, in all sec- tions of the State, and has been indicated in a variety of ways. Recently, additions have been made to the Library, by dona- tions from Gen. James H. Adams and Col. J. L. Manning. The last named gentlemen has also been munificent in endowing a Scholarship in the College; the details of his plan to be arrang- ed hereafter, by himself, in conference with the President of the College. For this purpose, the sum of five thousand dollars, ($5,000) at present invested in a bond, with one year's interest ($350) paid in advance, has been placed subject to the order of the Board of Trustees. From Gov. Johnson 1 s Message, 1847. 272. In the increasing usefulness and growing prosperity of the South Carolina College, the State is reaping the full fruits of the liberal patronage which she has heretofore bestowed upon that institution. It ranks, now, amongst the most useful asylums of learning in the Southern portion of the Union, and under its present wise and prudent and energetic government, it bids fair to take the lead of all. It is only the few who have lived like myself in times preceding the organization of this institu- tion, who can realize the full benefits which have resulted from it. Before, the only organs of imparting science and learning within the State, were a few grammar schools, widely dispersed, in which the ancient classics were principally taught, with which were occasionally united a few of the elementary branches of the exact sciences ; a higher grade of mental culture was reserved for the very few who had the means of going to some of the Northern or foreign colleges, to complete their education ; and mental darkness pervaded the land. But under the fostering influence of this institution, the lights of literature and the sci- ences have penetrated the recesses of the mountains, the islets of the sea-coast, and spread over the whole intermediate space. The number of students is now something like four fold what it was a few years ago, and this addition would seem to indicate the necessity of an addition to the number of Professors, and necessarily enlarged accommodations for the students. I will not anticipate what the Board of Trustees, whose peculiar duty and province it is to advise on this subject, may suggest. But I will not allow myself to question, that whatever appropriations may be necessary to sustain and promote this invaluable insti- tution, will not be withheld. 3 / JK, MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, CONNECTED WITH THE COLLEGE. Reps, and Res. of 1846,jp. 197. 273. ORDER OF PROCESSION AT THE COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT. The Procession will be formed at 10 o'clock, A. M. on Mon- day December, in front of the State House, under the direction of who will act as Marshal of the day. It will then move to the College Chapel, in the following order : Cadets of the Military Academy. Students of the Freshman class. Students of the Sophomore Class. Students of the Junior Class, The Graduating Class. Former Graduates of the College. Citizens generally. Officers and Students of the Theological Seminary. The Reverend Clergy. Officers of the State, Civil and Military. The House of Representatives, with the Speaker, attended by its Officers. The Senate, with the President, attended by its Officers. The Committee appointed by the House. The Committee appointed by the Senate. The Professors of the Institution. The Superintendents and other Officers of the Military Academies. The Trustees of the College, and the Board of Visitors of the Military Academies. The Governor and Suite, and Lieut. Governor of the State. The President of the College. When the Procession arrives at the College Chapel, it will open to the right and left, forming two lines fronting each other. 10 74 South Carolina College. The rear will then close and march Into the Chapel, the lines closing as the rear advances, until the whole Procession shall have entered in inverted order Report of Committee in 1836, as to Expenses. 274. The Trustees of the South Carolina College, deeply anx- ious for the welfare of this institution, deem it their duty to call the attention of parents and guardians to the absolute necessity of restraining the expenditures of students sent to the College, within a reasonable limit. For this purpose, they have appoint- ed the undersigned a committee to ascertain what are the neces- sary expenses of a student during the collegiate year, and to re- port the result to the public, for the information all who are in- terested in this matter. The committee have performed that duty with great care, and have ascertained that the sum of fifty dollars is sufficient to defray the expense of outfit, and to estab- lish a student comfortably in his quarters. This expenditure is for beds, bedding and room furniture of every description, and being for permanent articles, is not an annual expense. The committee have ascertained that the sum of 8350 is amply suf- ficient to defray all the annual expenses, independent of the pur- chase of such books as the collegiate course may require. This sum of S3 50 will provide for the expense of tuition, boarding, clothing, fire-wood, and all incidental expenses, and includes an allowance for pocket money during the college year. Assuming that there are annually, as is now the case, one hun- dred and twenty students in College, with fifty dollars each in his pocket, this will throw six thousand dollars among them, be- yond what is essentially necessary to their comfort or conveni- ence. - Young gentlemen are sent to College for the purpose of study. and not for pleasure. They are sent to complete their educa- tion, and to qualify themselves for the discharge of the duties of life. How far this object is likely to be defeated by an un- limited supply of funds, must, upon slight consideration, be ap- parent to all. Thrown into the heart of a large town, a young man must have very fixed principles, and great self-control, who is able to resist the allurements of pleasure, with his pockets full of gold, and an unlimited means of commanding every thing which the most unbridled appetites can desire. College discipline will in vain be exerted to restrain him. whom the cruel kindness or in- considerate indulgence of his parent has thus exposed to so se- vere a trial. The parent who. in the fearful struggle between pleasure and duty, thus takes sides with the former against his child, is laying the sure foundation of bitter and unavailing re- gret on his part, and of blasted health, corrupted morals, and South Carolina College. 75 "blighted prospects for the object of his anxious cares. "Lead us not into temptation," is a heaven-taught prayer, and he that stands most sure, needs often to repeat it. The committee are thus earnest in their appeal, because the history of this College, and of every other, bears ample testimo- ny to the fatal effect of unlimited indulgence in the command of money ; and because the evil consequences are not confined to the unfortunate victim of false indulgence, but spread their corrupting influence over all around him. The committee repeat the assurance, that the estimate of ex- penses has been made with anxious care, and after full inquiry, and that any allowance which shall go beyond it, is calculated to produce injury both to the student and the College. In conclusion, they make a most solemn appeal to parents and guardians, not to pay any account contracted beyond this esti- mate ; particularly to grog shops, or for other superfluous ex- penditures. P. M. BUTLER, W. F. DESAUSSURE, D. J. M'CORD. 275 EXPENSES, PER SESSION, IN 1547. To be paid into College Treasury. For Tuition, room rent and use of Library, $50 00 " Board, $2 50 per week, 100 00 " Fuel, 12 00 $162 00 Incidental expenses. For Text Books, for whole course of 4 years, $45 00 " Paper, Pens, Ink, &c. 10 00 " Lights, 16 00 « Furniture 20 00 For 4 years, $91 00 One fourth of which, for 1 year, is $22 75 Total of College expenses, per session, $184 75 Early Legislation as to Education. 276. In A. A. 8th April, 1710, 2d Cooper, p. 343. An Act for the founding and erecting of a free school, for the use of the inhabitants of South Carolina. Preamble recites, that it is ne- cessary that a free school be erected for the instruction of the youth of this province, in grammar and other arts and sciences, and useful learning, and also in the principles of the Christian 76 South Carolina College. Religion : and that several well disposed and charitable persons had given several sums of money for the purpose. Sec. 1. Appoints the Governor and fifteen others, (most of them the first men in the province.) to be a body, corporation. &c. Sec. V. To hold meetings on the second Tuesday in every July and February, choose officers, and transact business. X. Power to appoint a master of said schools. XI. Said master shall be of the Church of England, and to teach the Latin and Greek languages, and also the useful parts of the Mathe- matics. XII. The Commissioners have power to prescribe rules. &c. XIV. Master may appoint an usher, to be approved of by the Commissioners. 277. This A. A. was superceded by A. A. 12th December, 1712, 2 Cooper. 3S9. which, in general, was the same : appointed dif- ferent Commissioners, but Governor again. May elect Commis- sioners in room of those dead. &c. To meet third Wednesday in March and October, or after: each Commissioner to forfeit 10s. per day for absence. John Douglass appointed first mas- ter. Any person giving £20 current money of this Province, may nominate one scholar, to be taught free, for five years. The master to have a residence, and to be paid £100 per annum, half yearly, out of the public Treasury. Twelve scholars (to be named by the Commissioners.) taught free. Por other schol- ars, the master received from the guardian or parent, at the rate of £4 per annum, current money. If necessary, an usher to be appointed by the Commissioners, with a salary not exceeding £50. out of the public Treasury, and to be paid 30s. for each pay scholar, out of the master's £4. Also a writing master, (to be appointed by the Commissioners) to teach •• writing, arithme- tic and merchants : accounts, and also the art of navigation and surveying, and other useful and practical parts of mathematics, with a salary not exceeding £50. out of the public Treasury : and from pay scholars, for writing. 30s. per annum : for writing and arithmetic. 40s : for writing, arithmetic and merchants : ac- counts. 50 : for rent as agreed. (See XXI. and XXII.) The vestries in each Parish may choose place for school, and approve a master, who shall receive £10 per annum from public Treasury. Each parish allowed £12 for building school house. 278. There was an A. A. 7th June. 1712. 2 Cooper. 376. ap- pointing Jno Douglas master of a grammar school in Charles- ton : also allows a salary of £16 to Mr. Benjamin Dennis, who had been sent over by the recommendation of the Honorable So- ciety for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts. John Douglas, or his successor, to be removed only by the General Assembly. "Csher appointed under John Douglas. Fees. Greek and Latin. £3. Rent as agreed. 279. This A. A. was repealed by A. A. 9th June. 1733. 3d Cooper. 364. for erecting a free school at Childesbury : appoints Trustees to take charge of the bounty of James Childes. p. 500. South Carolina College. 77 A. A. 9th April, 1734, recites, that since the A. A. 1712, money had depreciated to one-fifth part of its original value, and di- rects that the master usher shall be paid " at four hundred per centum advance," 3d Cooper, 777. 280. A. A. 9th April, 1734, 3d Cooper, 378, for founding, erecting, governing, ordering and visiting a free school at the town of Dorchester, recites that, whereas, by the blessings of Almighty God, the youth of this Province are become very nu- merous, and their parents so well inclined to have them instruct- ed in grammar, and other liberal arts and sciences, and other useful learning, and also in the principles of the Christian Re- ligion. School in Charleston insufficient, &c. Teacher must be able to teach the learned languages, Latin and Greek tongues, and to catechise and instruct the youth in the principles of the Christian Religion. 281. And the Legislature, at various times, incorporated academies, societies, &c. for the purpose of education ; an ac- count of which will be found in Ramsay's history of South Car- olina, 2d vol. p. 352. 282. Winnsborough College — Mount Zion — incorporated, 1785. 4 Stat. 674. 283. Charleston College — Incorporated 1785. 4 Stat. 674. 284. Cambridge College — Incorporated 1785. 4 Stat. 675. 285. Beaufort College— Incorporated 1795. 5 Stat. 268. 286. South Carolina College — Incorporated 1801. 5 Stat. 403. From Ramsay 1 s South Carolina, vol. 2, p. 361. 287. The multiplication of colleges did not answer the end. Instead of yielding any more to the partial wishes of sections of the State, the Assembly, in the year 1801, took up the business on its proper ground, and passed a law for building and endow- ing a college at the seat of government, by the name of the South Carolina College, under the care of its high responsible officers, together with 1 3 others, to be chosen every 4th year by the Assembly. This measure was strongly recommended by Governor Drayton in his message to the Legislature ; and a re- port from Comptroller Hamilton, on the finances of the State, proved its ability to meet the expense. The establishment of a State College was carried through with unexampled unanimity, all parties concurring therein, and ample funds appropriated from the public Treasury for erecting all requisite buildings — for the purchase of a suitable library — of a complete apparatus for philosophical purposes, and for the annual support of a President, Professors, and other teachers. The narrow policy which prevailed under the royal' government, of confining (he choice even of teachers for the free schools, to one sect of Chris- 78 South Carolina College. tians, had been done away by the Constitution. In the true spirit of free representative government, persons of every coun- try and State, of every sect and party, were equally eligible to be teachers in this cherished seminary. The reverend Dr. Max- cy, who had with great reputation presided over Brown Univer- sity in Ehode Island, and Union College in the State of New York, was elected the first President. Under his auspices, the College has flourished to as great an extent as could reasonably be expected in the short period of its existence. Its present number of students is 87. Two classes, amounting to about for- ty, have already graduated. If its pupils are not wanting to themselves, they may be amply instructed in every language, art and science, necessary to prepare them for the service of their country. This College, yet in its infancy, possesses a very select and extensive library, and a philosophical apparatus, not inferior to any on the continent. From Mills' Statistics, p. 701. 288. The South Carolina College is located in Columbia. It was established by Act of the Legislature, in December, 1801, and in 1804 it went into operation. $200,000 have been expend- ed in the erection of the requisite buildings, composed of two ranges, three stories high, appropriated for the students' dormitories, studies, lecture room and chapel; a President's house, four Professors' houses, besides a large building, embra- cing a laboratory, library, lecture and mineralogical rooms, all of brick. There are, also, a steward's house, refectory, and an oc- tagon observatory ; the whole disposed so as to form a hollow square, containing about ten acres, which is called the Campus. The whole premises occupy altogether about twenty-five acres of ground. The first President of this institution, Dr. Jonathan Maxcy, was elected by the Trustees to this responsible charge in 1804, .and died in 1820. His memory is highly cherished — and in commemoration of his worth and talents, a marble monument has been erected to his memory in the campus. Dr. Cooper, whose talents in every branch of science and lite- rature, are so well known and highly appreciated, is the succes- sor of Dr. Maxcy. Associated with him are five Professors, Park, Henry, Wallace, Nott and Vanuxem, aided by two tutors, Baker and Divers. The salaries of these officers amount to fourteen thousand dol- lars per annum. The President receives $3000 Four Professors $2000 each 8000 The Professor of Mineralogy 1000 Two Tutors each $1000 2000 $14,000 South Carolina College. 79 To this must be added $500, allowed yearly the Professor of Mineralogy, to make a mineralogical examination of the State. The Legislature granted also $10,000 for the purchase of a library and a philosophical apparatus, and $3000 for a mineral- ogical cabinet, which contains 5000 specimens, and upwards. It also presented the observatory with an excellent astronomical circle. The number of students will average one hundred and ten or twenty. It sometimes exceeds this, and is increasing. There is no institution of the kind in the United States that possesses more able Professors, or a better apparatus to exemplify the dif- ferent subjects of natural philosophy, chemistry, mineralogy, &c. From A. A. 1785, 4 Statutes, p. 674. 289. AN ACT for erecting and establishing a College at the vil- lage of Winnsborough, in the district of Camden, a College in or near the city of Charleston, and a College at Ninety-Six, in the district of Ninety-Six, in the State of South Carolina. Whereas, the proper education of youth is essential to the hap- piness and prosperity of every community, and is therefore an object well worthy the attention of this Legislature ; and where- as, the incorporated Mount Zion Society have petitioned this House, that a College may be erected and established by law at the village of Winnsborough, in this State, for the instruction of youth in the learned languages, and the liberal arts and sci- ences, and that the said College may be committed to the man- agement, direction and government of Trustees, to be chosen and appointed by the said society out of their number. From McMullarfs Reports, Vol. I, p. 501, 290. The Act of 1836, in regard to vagrants, is held to be constitutional. The powers conferred upon a Court of Justices by the Act of 1836, in regard to vagrants, is no violation of those parts of the Constitution which provide that "no man shall be deprived of his life, liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land ," and that " the trial by jury, as hereto- fore used in this State, shall be forever inviolably preserved." A proceeding for vagrancy, under the Act of 1836, is not barred by a prosecution in the Court of Sessions for gaming. mi I Carolina College. "From Eulogy on //'. .V Legi Ay W. C. Preston, p. 7. 291. He entered College at the very early age of 14 ; his rep- utation having | receded him, he w,i-. on his arrival, an object of curiosity and interest to the students, while on his part, with boyish ingenuousness, he was Qot indisposed to exhibit his ac« qnisitions, or backward in permitting it to be understood that he intended to run for the honor- of his class. His previous ac- quirement-, the astonishing facility with which he added to them, and the eager industry with which he threw himself upon his studies, gave him at once a lead which he maintained through- out his course, until he was graduated, not only with the honors of College, but with a reputation in the State. He mainly de- voted himself to the departments of classical literature and phi- losophy, and zealously engaged in the discussions of the deba- ting societies, in which he practiced himself in the art of speak- ing. These studies were a passion with him. His attention to the exact sciences, however, seemed to be stimulated rather by an ambition of excellence and a sense of duty. His recitations in mathematics, chemistry and natural philosophy were always good, equal to the best in his class ; but his heart was in the classics. There he was not only learning but feasting. He was not only making stages on a journey, but lured on from height to height, enraptured with the growing scene, until all the glorious creations of Greek and Roman genius lay like a landscape beneath him. His own idea, in after life, of what ought to be accomplished at College, is elegantly expressed in a passage in which he un- consciously draws his own picture at the time of his graduation, defective only in this, that it falls short of what he had himself accomplished in the exact sciences. " All that we ask/' he says, " is that a boy should be thoroughly taught the ancient languages from his eighth to his sixteenth year, or thereabouts, in which time he will have his taste formed, his love of letters completely, perhaps enthusiastically, awakened, his knowledge of the princi- ples of universal grammar perfected, his memory stored with the history, the geography and the chronology of all antiquity, and with a vast fund of miscellaneous literature besides, his imagination kindled with the most beautiful and glowing passages of Greek and Roman poetry and eloquence : all the rules of criticism familiar to him. the sayings of sages, and the achievements of heroes, in- delibly impressed upon his heart. He will have his curiosity fired for further acquisition, and find himself in possession of the golden keys which open all the recesses where the stores of knowledge have ever been laid up by civilized man. The con- sciousness of strength will give him confidence, and he will go to the rich treasures themselves, and take what he wants, instead of picking up elemosynary scraps from those whom, in spite of himself, he will regard as his betters in literature. He will be South Carolina College. 81 let into the great communion of scholars, throughout all ages and all nations — like that more awful communion of saints in the Holy Church Universal, and feel a sympathy with departed ge- nius, and with the enlightened and the gifted minds of other countries, as they appear before him, in the transports of a sort of Vision Beatific, bowing down at the same shrines, and glow- ing with the same holy love of whatever is most pure and fair and exalted and divine in human nature." Such was the condition of Mr. Legare when he left College. He did not fall into the fatal error of supposing that the col- lege course completed his education, or that the distinction ac- quired by it, entitled him to repose or indolence. He had learn- ed enough — no inconsiderable knowledge — to know his igno- rance ; and did not believe that he had even laid a foundation, but had merely been collecting materials for an education. He left the College, therefore, for the deeper seclusion of his own library ; and entering on the study of law, rather added to than changed his former labors. The study of his profession was the base line of very multifarious reading, and was in the beginning, and for many years afterwards, regarded as subsidia- ry to other objects, requiring also other attainments. He did not place himself formally in a lawyer's office, as is the custom of law students in our State, but sought and obtained for the direction of his studies, the aid of an eminent member of the bar, distinguished by his love of learning, not less than by his high professional standing, just now crowned by judicial honors ; honors which, however well' won or sustained, derive new lustre from the noble benevolence with which their emoluments are ap- propriated.* Under his friendly and judicious guidance, three years of Mr. Legare' s life were devoted chiefly to the study of his profession. Being prepared for admission to the bar, he did yet not deem his education complete, and proposed to add to it the advantages of foreign travel. Meeting of Trustees, Dec. 184G. 292. Resolved, That the establishment of a scholarship in the College, by Col. John L. Manning, entitles him to the thanks of this College, as well for the munificence of the donation, as for the influence it may exercise in giving a right direction to the public charity of our citizens. * Mitchell King, Esq. — The salary of the office is appropriated to the family of the late incumbent. 11 82 South Carolina College. Extract from tlie Memoirs of Hon. Henry Wm. DeSaussure, pp. 22 and 23. 293. In 1801, as a member of the Legislature, he took a zealous and active part in promoting the Act for the establish- ment of the South Carolina College, and few contributed more to its success ; an Act of more lasting benefit to the State, more honorable to its character, and more promotive of its true inter- ests, than any which its Legislature ever passed. This measure originated in the contest which had arisen between the tipper and lower country of the State, with respect to representation in the Legislature, The upper country, which, at the adoption of the Constitution of 1791, was comparatively poor and unpeo- pled, had allotted to it, by the provisions of the Constitution, a much smaller representation. It had now grown in wealth, far outnumbered the lower country in its' population, and impera- tively demanded a reform in the representation. This the peo- ple of the lower country feared to grant, on the ground of the general deficiency of education and intelligence in the upper country, which would render it incompetent to exercise wisely and justly the power which such a reform would place in its hands. It was to remedy this deficiency, that it was proposed to establish a College at Columbia. The Act was passed, not without difficulty, nor without the strenuous opposition of many whom it was more especially intended to benefit. There is no citizen of the State, and still more, there is no one who has di- rectly and personally received the benefits of the institution, whose deepest gratitude is not due to every one who contributed, in any degree, to the success of the measure. Extract from an address by Col. S. W. Trotti, at the Citadel Academy. 294. It was, perhaps, to the efforts of the late Chancellor De- Saussure, more than to any other, that the South Carolina Col- lege owes its existence ; and I fancy that I can, even now, see his once venerable form, as he came up to each annual commence- ment, his silvery locks waving in the bleak December's wind, and his noble countenance beaming with animation, as he viewed each graduating class go forth into the busy world, educated and prepared for its struggles. And now, that my thoughts are turned to college days and joys long since gone by, I cannot for- bear this passing tribute to the memory of one of the purest and best of Carolina's departed sons. # # # # # - # South Carolina makes two annual appropriations to the sup- port of education, and two only. An appropriation of some thirty-five thousand dollars to the support of free schools, and another of fifteen or twenty thousand more, to the support of South Carolina College. 83 the South Carolina College. If, in the opinion of many, the Free School System has proved a failure, and in the estimation of all, has not accomplished the good that was expected, how, I ask, has it fared with the College % Has that been a failure, or rather has it not accomplished all, and more than all, that its most ardent friends and admirers even dreamed of? Roll out the noble catalogue of its graduates, and let it speak for itself. From its earliest alumni down to its latest, from Harper and Petigru and Preston and McDunie and O'Neall and Legare, and a host of others, whose names are identified with all that is great in eloquence and learning, down to the youthful Cantey and Adams and Moraigne and Brooks and Dickinson, who yield- ed up their lives in a blaze of glory, amid the thunders of Chur- ubusco and Chepultepec, all have vindicated the claims of the College to the support and confidence of the State. I know there are some, who give grudgingly every dollar ivhicJi that college gets, and who look u/pon all colleges as expensive a?id aristocrat- ic institutions, which only benefit those who are educated at them. Itrust, hoioever, there are butfeio, and to such economists, perhaps, the best arguments that can be applied, are such as can be gath- ered from Pikers arithmetic. And let us see what a little cypher- ing can do. The State annually spends some fifteen or twenty thousand dollars on the College. This amount is laid out in the State, employs labor in the State, and forever remains in the State. In addition to this, the College brings young men into the State, who otherwise would not have come, and who Spend their money here, in acquiring an education. Suppose we had no College at all, these two hundred young men, now at the College in Columbia, would go out of the State to receive an education, and carry with them some ninety thousand dollars annually, to pay for it. A pretty considerable figure, on the wrong side of an account. The economy which would withhold a few thousand dollars from active employment in the State, and annually drive ninety thousand entirely out of it, never to re- turn, rather subjects itself to the imputation of being " penny wise and pound foolish." Nor can any thing be more errone- ous than that Colleges only benefit those who are educated at them. The honored names already referred to, should be con- clusive. Education does much to promote the general prosperi- ty of the country, and however poor a man may be, he is more or less benefitted by the prosperity around him. Every man is in- terested in the preservation of order, and education promotes that. But above all, every well educated man is more or less a teacher, and exercises an influence on others, sometimes for evil, it is true, but much oftener for good. It is his knowledge which enables him to defend the rights of the injured, or heal the diseases of the suf- fering. It is his science which points out the resources of the State, or it is his learning which akls his divine mission in the glorious work of gospel peace. The fruits of the South Carolina College have been exemplified in some of the good men, who have come to you in the name of their Heavenly Father, and who made your 84 South Carolina College. city the field of their labors. Need I ask of you who witnessed the labors of the learned and pious Brantley, and who still cher- ish in affectionate remembrance, " the words which he spake while he was yet with you." Need I ask of you who have so often heard the voices of the gifted Manly, and the great and good Bishop Capers, warning unrepentant man against the dan- gers which beset his path, and pointing his hopes to the blood on Calvary. Need I ask of you, who, Sabbath after Sabbath, still listen to the "thoughts that breathe and words that burn" as they fall from the lips of my College friend, the eloquent Whiteford Smith. Need I ask of you, who have witnessed Ae labors of all these good and talented and pious men, who in the dis- charge of the duties of their holy mission, have watched and pray- ed by the bed side of your dying friends and kindred, and whose words of comfort and consolation, in your hours of trial and afflic- tion, have come over your wounded hearts, sweeter far than music on the ear. Need I ask you all, has that college in which these tal- ented and pious men were educated, and prepared to become such powerful instruments in the hands of God, in accomplish- ing the work of his blessed Son on earth, benefitted only those who were educated there, or have not the benefits it confers, been extended through them to others ? But if I were to contin- ue to speak of all the blessings that have been conferred by the South Carolina College on the State, I might detain you too long. If I were to name all those of its graduates, who have at- tained eminence in the pulpit or at the bar, in science, in medi- cine, on the battle field, or in the council chamber, where would I stop % It is sufficient they have more than realized the hopes of the State. Resolutions, adopted Dec. 1847, by Board of Trustees. 395. Resolved. That at each annual meeting of the Board of Trus- tees, three members of the Board and seven gentlemen, to be se- lected from different parts of the State, be appointed visitors to attend the final examination of the senior class : and that they be paid three dollars per day for their services from the time they leave home, until their return. Resolved, That the visitors report to each annual meeting of the Board, the result of their visit, with such observations and recommendations as they may deem necessary. Resolved, That the following gentlemen be appointed visitors, viz : Hon. Robert W. Barnwell, Hon. Whitemarsh B. Seabrook, Hon. Edmund Bellinger, Hon. Mitchell King, Rev. Alexander Glennie, of Georgetown, Rev. S. S. Davis, of Camden, Rev. Thomas Curtis, of Spartanburgh, Rev. Dr. Hazelius, of Lexing- ton, Hon. Joel R. Poinsett, of Greenville, Rev. Whiteford Smith. South Carolina College. .85 AN ADDRESS ' Delivered to the 'BACCALAUREATE of the South Caro- lina College, December 2, 1816. BY PRESIDENT MAXCY- 296. To you, young gentlemen, the present is, perhaps, the most important period of life. You are now about to commence a new career, to engage in new pursuits, to display yourselves on the great theatre of the world ; to bring into exercise the powers and the virtues which you have cultivated, and to convert to private and public use, the learning and talents which you have acquired in the shades of retirement. On the determinations which you now make, and the plans of conduct which you now adopt, de- pend your future prosperity and honor, or your ill fortune and disgrace. On your enlargement from the restraints and disci- pline of collegiate life, some of you are filled with joyous hopes, others with anxious fears, and all, I presume, with an honorable ambition. On you are fixed the eyes and the hearts of your pa- rents and friends. From you they hope and expect much. And did they not, from experience, know the dangers to which you are exposed — did they not know the real evils of life, their pleasure on this occasion would be free from intruding anxiety ; their pleasing anticipations of your future glory would fill their minds with enchanting visions, and their hopes, strong and free, would spring and smile like a morning without clouds, But alas, they know that there is no unmixed good in this world ; that all things here exist by opposition and correspondence ; that wherever there is good, there is evil ; wherever there is safety, there is danger ; wherever there is hope, there is fear ; in short, that human life is a feverish dream of honor and shame, of joy and sorrow ; a compound of lawless ambition and brutal violence ; that in all nations, force ultimately triumphs over justice ; liberty sinks into the gulf of tyranny ; that innocence is no security ; that virtue and learning, philosophy and eloquence, all the glory and all the dignity of man, must at last bow to the sword of a Caesar or a Bonaparte ; that such is the mixture of moral and physical ill, in all parts of nature, and in all human affairs, that after a cer- tain period, evil begins to predominate over good, death gains upon life, ruin follows ruin, till the majesty of virtue is forgot- ten ; the splendor of genius extinguished ; the most sacred laws trampled under foot ; man degraded to a slave ; all the monu- ments of his art and skill defaced ; all his lofty intellectual and moral endowments sunk, degraded and lost in barbarism. But you must learn not to despair. Bad as human life is, evil does not, on the whole, predominate. A virtuous, wise; and coura- geous man will find much to hope for, and much to enjoy. Con scious of his own rectitude, he will possess peace within, and 86 South ( Iarolina College. the light.of immortality will dispel the horrors with whioh he ie sur- rounded, You will do well to remember, that the present world is a state of discipline, where von musl Btrugglewith adversity, to invigorate jour virtue; where (iod bas intermingled various de- grees of pleasure and pain, of good and evil, that finding nothing here to satisfy the immortal mind, you might elevate your affec- tions and hopes to a state of pure and imperishable joys. To act conscientiously, or as you are convinced La right, is a rule of universal application, and is, in its nature, calculated to produce happiness. A rational and moral agent cannot exist independ- ent of a law which prescribes and enforces his duty. Eight and wrong are wholly relative. They refer to a law which we con- sider as a standard of rectitude. This makes the eternal differ- ence between right and wrong, good and evil. The idea of a law, implies that of a law-giver, possessed of a right, flowing from his own excellence and underived supremacy, to prescribe laws to all inferior dependent beings ; and who has power to enforce those laws by adequate sanctions. Man is the only animal on this globe who lias the power of governing him- self by law, and when he does this, he is a moral agent ; that is, he acts from respect to a law whose obligatory power he recog- nizes. The morality of his actions consists in their relation to this law — and this relation is the only foundation of moral good and evil. The tendency of all the laws which God has establish- ed is to universal and perfect happiness. This would certain- ly be the result, were the requisitions of these laws fully com- plied with. The misery of man arises from his abuse of his moral liberty ; from his voluntary disconformity to the will of his Creator. This is the true origin of all the evil and misery that ever did or ever will exist. The truth of this is apparent, from the single consideration, that in a being wholly conformed to God, there can no more exist sin or misery, than in God him- self. You are so constituted, that you cannot remain indiffer- ent to human actions. When you perceive these to be conform- ed to the rule of right, a sense of approbation rises up in the mind ; when disconformed, of disapprobation. In both cases, you exercise moral sense. Be not deceived, therefore, by imag- ining that conscience or moral sense is the creature of educa- tion, a mere adventitious acquisition God has not rested the virtue and happiness of his rational creatures on so uncertain a foundation. Conscience is as much an original power of our na- ture, as the understanding ; though it does not. like the under- standing, act alone in any instance. The operations of intellect must always precede ; for unless you know that there are such things as law and obligation, you can have no perception of right and wrong, of merit or demerit, and of course, no exercise of moral sense. All our powers are evolved in a certain order, ex- ercised in their proper spheres, and in their peculiar relations and dependencies. The operations of moral sense, though in order subsequent to those of intellect, are wholly different from South Carolina College. 87 them. If the operations of intellect prove it to be an original power of the mind, the operations of moral sense equally prove it to be an original power of the mind. You will perceive, there- fore, that virtue is not left unsupported ; that it is not left doubt- ful as to its motive, its nature or its end. You carry in your- selves the incitement, the rule and the reward. By admitting that the moral sense .springs up from the original frame of your nature, you cannot avoid the obligation of doing right, nor the censure and misery of doing wroug If you would, then, possess an approving conscience, take care to inform yourselves what is right ; to know the nature and extent of your obligations and duties. If you strictly adhere to these, you will be virtuous ; and in proportion as you are virtuous, God has ordained that you shall be happy. You are not bound down -by an invincible law of nature to be virtuous, because God has given you power to become vicious and miserable. In short, your power to do wrong, is the same as your power to do right. In both cases, the good or ill use of this power is left to your own choice. Re- member, then, that your own virtue, respectability, happiness and fame, depend on yourselves. Never leave to accident or an imaginary fatality, what God has put in your power. Honor and virtue drop not from the clouds ; the winds will not bring you bread, nor will the earth reach out a sceptre to your hand. God offers you his bounty, but leaves the improvement of it to yourselves. You have every motive, therefore, to excite you to the most vigorous exertion of all your powers, to know and discharge your duties. These relate to God, to yourselves, and to your fellow men. All your relations involve duties ; and the impor- tance of the latter, is in proportion to the intimacy of the former. Of course, your duties to your Creator demand your first and highest regard. From him you have derived your being ; on him you are wholly dependent ; and to him you are amenable. The full homage of the heart, while it is justly due to him, lays the only foundation of true virtue, and constitutes the only guaran- tee of your other duties. If you know, and love, and fear God, you will pay all suitable respect to yourselves and to your fellow men ; and you will in all things act conscientiously. This alone will give you stability in principle, energy in action, and dignity in character. Consider not, as is frequently done, the service of God as a wearisome burden. It is the highest glory and privilege of all intelligent beings. The laws of God are all just ; his re- quirements all reasonable, suitable to your state and capacity, and directly conducive to your happiness. He acts from no necessi- ty towards you. He needs neither your love nor your service — for these can add nothing to an infinite being. All he desires is your happiness, and this he pursues by all means consistent with your natures, as free accountable creatures. The true happiness of an intelligent being springs from virtue, and virtue from free- dom. Hence it is evident that omnipotence itself cannot make 88 South Carolina College. you happy by arbitrary irresistable force ; for this would destroy your moral agency, and convert you into brutes or machines. Your happiness, and that of all rational accountable beings, is the happiness of free will. Choose, therefore, the service of God ; conform your actions to his laws ; yield up your affections wholly to him, for every thing appertaining to this world will ul- timately leave you wretched. When a due reverence for the Supreme Being is established in the heart, the empire of virtue will be secured, because you will then consider all the relative du- ties of life, as duties to God. In a life of virtue, the greatest victory to be obtained, is over yourselves. The heart of man, the seat of all his appetites and passions, is the source of all his vices and crimes, and of most of his errors. Reason and con- science were designed for his governors ; but in his present fallen state, the authority of these is opposed, and not unfrequently wholly renounced. The soul loses its freedom with its peace, and sinks into the dreadful empire of death. If you would pre- serve yourselves from this deplorable state, stifle the first sug- gestion of evil ; resist the first approach of temptation ; keep your hearts with all diligence. Thus acting, you will be mas- ters of yourselves. . You will be able to cultivate, with success, every personal virtue, and to acquire every useful and amiable accomplishment. Though the rule of right applies as directly to the duties owing to ourselves and to our fellow men, as to those owing to God, yet it somehow happens that most men are disposed to disregard their own personal, more than their rela- tive obligations, especially those which involve the duties of self- denial. This is a great and dangerous error ; for no man can injure himself by vice or neglect, without directly or remotely injuring others. You are as much responsible for the influence of your example on others, as for the ill effects of your actions on yourselves. Remember that personal virtue is the founda- tion of all real worth, of all true dignity of character, of all genu- ine piety to God, and of the most extensive usefulness to man- kind. In proportion as a man becomes vicious, he renders him- self incapable of doing good ; destroys his own peace and that of others ; perverts the noble end of his being, soils every shi- ning quality, and degrades every intellectual and moral endow- ment. The danger of immoral example arises chiefly from wrong notions of true happiness, and from want of reflection and due consideration. Vice, if properly seen, cannot, like vir- tue, spread on the principle of sympathetic association. A ra- tional, sensitive being, cannot deliberately choose misery. If you examine the laws and principles which God has established in your nature — if you compare these with the injunctions of his revealed will, you will perceive a wonderful coincidence ; and all your inquiries, if impartially conducted, will result in the firm con- viction, that every motive is in favor of virtue and against vice ; that the last is only another name for pain, disgrace and misery, the former for pleasure, honor and happiness. Never imagine South Carolina College. 89 that you can evade or violate, with impunity, the laws of your nature. G-od has, in all things, connected your duty with your happiness. The relations which you sustain towards others, in- volve numerous and important obligations. These result from the common principles and reciprocal wants of your nature, and from the laws of political society. Here opens the principal field for the display of those virtues, talents and qualifications which benefit mankind ; which conciliate their esteem, secure their friendship, and excite their admiration. Be cautious, therefore, that you honorably discharge the obligations resulting from the social state. Much of the happiness of your lives will depend on the good will of those around you. This will be most effect- ually secured by a conscientious discharge of your duties — in rendering exact justice to all men, in paying all due respect to your superiors, in kindness and condescension to your inferiors, in civility and politeness to your equals, in liberality to the poor and distressed, in supporting all institutions for the relief of hu- man misery, and for the increase of human happiness. Thus, by acting in all the relations of life according to the rule of right, you will satisfy your own consciences, you will promote your own respectability and usefulness, you will secure the esteem of men, and the friendship of G-od. As it is your lot to come forward into life at a most interest- ing period, let your conduct be marked with the most disinterest- ed love of your country. Avoid the contagion of party spirit. Exercise a noble and independent liberality towards those who differ from you in sentiment. Cultivate peace with all men, and support the laws and constitution of your country. I trust and believe that you go from this college with a deep sense of the value of civil and religious freedom. To behold you exerting your talents in support of these, will afford the highest pleasure to those who have conducted your education. The prompt obedience which you have rendered to the author- ity of this college, the diligence with which you have pursued your studies, the civility and decency which have characterised your deportment, have greatly contributed to the good order and regular discipline of this college, and have set an example which I hope will long be remembered and followed. Though many individuals among your predecessors have held a high rank in literary distinction, yet, when I consider the number and talents of the present class, I must pronounce you the lights of this in- stitution. Permit me to express, on this occasion, the high satis- faction which I experience in crowning you with the laurels of this college. May they grow and flourish forever. Departing from this institution, you carry with you my most ardent desires for your happiness. I now give you my final adieu, and recom- mend you to the blessing of God. 12 90 South Carolina College. PRESIDENT PRESTON'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS, 1846. Young Gentlemen of the College : — Entering upon the office to which the trustees have appointed me, I have thought it not inappropriate to present myself to you, in a somewhat formal way, and to make a few remarks, which the occasion seems to justify. The intimate relations which are hereafter to subsist between us, involving very grave responsibilities on my part, and the deep- est interests of life on yours, will be the more readily and efficient- ly established by an exposition of my understanding of our most prominent respective duties, and of the feelings and purposes with which I now assume mine. It has been the pleasure of the Trustees to call me from walks of life very remote, from those I now enter upon. For many years, I have been busy amidst the active pursuits of men, ta- king some part in affairs where the conflict of interest, the colli- sion of intellect, and the tumult - of strenuous and stormy pas- sions, left but little leisure for those calm and meditative employ- ments which are the occupation within these walls. After thirty years absence from them. I return, but in a new and trying condition : with sympathies in all your pursuits, to be sure, and tastes not entirely alienated from science and literature, but with a deep and fearful anxiety, that I may, indeed must be, unqualified to discharge the trust as it ought to be. Under a conscious deficiency. I would have shrunk from this office, but that I yielded my own opinion to that of those for whose judg- ment, experience and knowledge of the institution, I have an en- tire deference. Of that Board of Trustees, whose command I obey, I can safely affirm, that having, in the chances of life, been occasionally thrown with men distinguished by the consent of the whole country, I have not found any where, even in those ex- alted stations to which a nation's interests call its most conspicu- ous citizens, a wiser, graver, or more highly endowed body. To its discretion and intelligence, the destinies of this cher- ished institution are well confided : and I hold myself ready to conform to its wishes with the same implicit confidence, whenever it may think fit to remit me to the pursuits of private life, as now, that I relinquish those pursuits in compliance with them. I have the more willingly acquiesced in their judgment, as it has been in favor of one who had differed with the State, on some important and exciting questions. To be made its trusted agent under such circumstances, to be put, without solicitation, in this place of confidence and honor, in which the interests, the hopes, and the affections of the State are so deeply implicated, fills me with gratitude, and oppresses me with a painful sense of responsibility. In the swell of strong emotions which fill my heart, all vanity is quenched in the consciousness of inadequacy to make a suitable return. South Carolina College. 91 What I bring, gentlemen, to my station, and what I trust may in some sort make amends for my deficiencies in other respects, is a deep and reverential love for this, my Alma Mater — a sol- emn sense of my duties, and I may be permitted to say, a love of letters not altogether extinguished by contact with the world. Nor am I insensible, in adopting this course of life, to the pleas- ing satisfaction (as Cicero says) of seeing myself surrounded by a circle of ingenuous youths, and conciliating by laudable means their esteem and affection. There certainly cannot be a more important or honorable occupation, than to instruct the rising generation in the duties to which they may hereafter be called ;* and I hope I may, without the imputation of arrogance, be al- lowed to adopt another sentiment of that illustrious Roman : " Ac fuit quidem quam mihi quoque initium acquiescendi, atque animum ad utriusque nostrum prseclara studia referendi, fore justum et prope ab omnibus concessum arbitrare — si infinitus fo- rensium rerum labor, et ambitionis occupatio, decursu honorem, etiam setatis flexu, constitisset."f In the pleasing task to which I now address nryself, it will be my constant effort to promote your studies, and to prepare you for the duties of life, (more important than life itself,) with such stores of learning as may be acquired here, but more especially with ardent and virtuous aspirations to acquit yourselves with honor hereafter. The immediate and ostensible object of our association, is the pursuit of learning, and this might seem to be our sole purpose ; but in truth, learning is only a means to the great end we have in view. It is an instrument which is prepared and fashioned here, with some instruction as to the mode of using it. It is but the armour, but a part of the armour, to be worn in the bat- tle field of life, for the achievement of honorable and glorious victories, for the triumph of truth over error, of virtue over vice, of right over wrong. And although I cherish the conviction, that there is a natural and intimate connection between knowl- edge and virtue, yet I know that they are not inseparable. There have been melancholy instances of great intellectual pow- ers united to acquisions from the whole circle of learning, with- out a corresponding moral elevation. These, however, I regard as anomalies ; I rejoice to believe, that in the general order of Providence, whatever enlarges and exalts the intellect, promotes, purifies and invigorates the virtues of the heart. If I did not believe in such a connexion, I would abandon myself to indo- lence and despair. But the noble and distinctive faculties of man, whose combination constitutes his dignity and glory, aye * De Scnectute. t I have always soothed myself with the hope, that there would eome a time of quiet and repose, when I might return to the noble studies thai oc- cupy us here. I have fondly looked forward to the day, when having fin- ished my career of active life, I tnighl have the right to enjoy a lettered re- pose, freed from the toils of the bar, and the painful pursuits of politics. — pe Oralore. 92 South Carolina College* harmonized by his Creator into a concerted action for a common purpose. Whatever enlightens the mind improves the heart, as the sun which illuminates the atmosphere warms the earth ; and although it may happen that his beams are reflected from fields of ice, yet his general mission is to call forth whatever is useful and beautiful, and impregnate with vitality the whole body of nature. True knowledge is the knowledge of truth ; as it is said in the fine arts, that nothing is beautiful but the true, so, in the wide signification of the word, it may be said that nothing is good but the true. To confer upon learning its just dignity and importance, it must be considered as subsidiary and auxili- ary to the paramount ends of our being. It must always have in view our responsibilities in this life, and the awful responsibil- ities of a far more exceeding weight hereafter. You are to be made intellectual men, that you may be fit moral agents — so that as you advance in learning, you may advance in the knowledge and appreciation of virtue ; remembering always, that the lamp which you light up is not a gaudy show, to please by its variegated radiance, but is intended for a more useful and noble purpose, to show you, amidst the double night of error and of passion which obscures your journey through life, the only ways of pleasant- ness and paths of peace. Undoubtedly, learning, of itself, is graceful and ornamental, and knowledge is power, but learning and knowledge attain their true beauty and full power, only when united to virtue, and this union is ennobled, and, so to speak, sanctified by piety — making the highest condition of our nature. Learning, morality, religion, these are your great objects. These, in the right understanding of them, include all that is desirable. They comprehend those lesser morals, the aggregate of which make a gentleman fitted to adorn and delight society — they comprehend all those sentiments which become a citizen born to a participation in the government of the commonwealth, and all those deep convictions and lofty aspirations which belong to heirs of eternity. This is my conception of the object and purposes for which we are associated. If we can persuade you to enter- tain a corresponding idea of your duties, our task will be an easy one. We shall be joint laborers in the same field, cheered by the sure prospect of a luxuriant harvest. This, our seed time, will be a season of hope and joy, while we look forward with eager and confident anticipation to the glories of a rich harvest, and still further, to the garnering of it where there is no rust, and thieves cannot break through nor steal. But besides the ulterior and paramount value of the moral sentiments to which I have alluded, they are of immediate and vital consequence to us here. The good order and successful administration of the College, depend entirely upon their influ- ences. You have passed the period of coercion, and already are mor- al agents. In all communities, laws avail but little, without a prevailing sentiment to sustain and carry them out in their true South Carolina College. 93 spirit. " Quid valeant leges sine moribus" is true every where, but most emphatically true here ; our government resolves itself almost entirely into an appeal to the sense of honor and duty, without which, our laws are nugatory, and their impotent penal- ties carry no sanction. The fear of the law which prompts to a cold and reluctant observance of it, may secure from punish- ment, but as a principle of action, must always fail of any hon- orable success ; and the government whose efficiency depends solely upon it, must fail in its main objects. You cannot, young gentlemen, you ought not to be governed by mere dint of law ; you must feel that there are other and higher rules than it imposes — indeed other and higher laws than are to be found in our statutes ; laws in your own bosoms, writ- ten on your hearts, the penalty for disobedience to which, is the consciousness of wrong, and the reward of obedience, the con- sciousness of right. It may, and perhaps must be, necessary, wherever human na- ture is to be governed, to invoke the interposition of the law ; but our habitual and by far more pleasant, and as we hope, most efficient appeal, will be to your honor and sense of right. We do not indulge the chimerical expectation that a moral discipline can be so far enforced, as. to supercede an occasional application of penal laws. Our observation of life permits no such hope, for no association whatever, not senates or councils, can be regulated by the mere discretion of the mem- bers, much less can it be expected from the thoughtlessness and passions of the young. Acts of discipline must occur, and when the occasion requires them, they will be firmly and promptly ap- plied ; but what we do calculate on, is the prevalence of a per- vading sentiment, that will render such a necessity unfrequent — ■ a sentiment which will inspire more fear of offence than of pun- ishment. The impulsiveness and impatience belonging to your time of life, naturally make the degree of exertion and industry requi- site to your proper advancement, irksome and painful to you. Indolence presents herself to the young, aye, and to the old, in a thousand seducing forms. Industry is of a harsh and crabbed aspect. The one seems to point to a smooth and flowery path, the other to a rugged and painful assent ; but around that se- ducing path lurk all the ills of life, and that toilsome assent, at every step, opens wider and wider a broad and beautiful pros- pect, and leads eventually to those elevations to which the noble spirit aspires. Industry is the prolific mother of many virtues. She produ- ces as well as sustains them ; they all cluster around and nestle about her, growing and strengthening by her care. Genius it- self, that divine quality which seems to be instinct witli innate power, and to rise by its own upward tendency — genius itself, is plumed for its highest flights, and trained to them by industry. It is an utter mistake to imagine that any endowment can dis- 4 94 South Carolina College. pense with labor. It is a fatal error into which young men fall;, no great achievement ever has or ever can be effected without it ; the mode of its application may be obscure, but its presence is not the less certain. We have heard of the forest-born De- mosthenes, " of nature's darling," — " Fancy's child. "Warbling his native wood notes wild," — il of the blind old man of Scio's rocky isle." These were men of genius, unquestionably, but Henry and Shakspeare and Ho- mer, were also men of labor ; they had the blessings of inspira- tion, but the blessing came to them after they had wrestled all night. Our intercourse, I trust, will be characterized by the courte- sy becoming gentlemen. My government. I hope, will be ani- mated by the vigilance, and tempered by the affection, of a pa- rent. If I see you preparing yourselves to go home to delight a father's heart, my bosom will swell with a parent's pride, and my vanity will be gratified, if your proficiency authorizes me to believe, that when the State shall hereafter point to its jewels, I may say I helped to fashion them. I trust, also, gentlemen, that both our official and social rela- tions may be such, that when you go into the world, and ascer- tain by experience the value of the lessons taught here, you will remember the College with affection, and me with no indifferent feelings, and meet me, when the chances of life throw us togeth- er, not without emotion. Young gentlemen, if I were better qualified than I am for this office, I know how vain my efforts must be, even with the assist- ance of my able colleagues and your zealous co-operation, without the gracious protection and help of our Heavenly Father. To Him, then, and to his beneficent providence, I humbly and ear- nestly commend the issue of this undertaking. Extract from an address by Hon. Charles J. Jenkins^ of Geor- gia^ at AtJiens, 1836. 298. We have convened upon the bourn that separates the preparatory and the active stages of human life. Here are as- sembled young adventurers, eagerly pressing into the crowded scenes and alluring enterprises of earth; and time-worn pil- grims, happy in a temporary respite from its toils and cares, its vanities and vicissitudes. How opposite their thoughts, how dis- similar their emotions. From the quiet shades of our academi- an grove, where towers in its simple grandeur the temple of sci- ence, have come her youthful votaries, the expectant teachers of South Carolina College. 95 her sublime truths. Some there are, who, anticipating a speedy return thither to complete the term of collegiate education, re- gard this scene with restless aspirations for the prerogatives and occupations of manhood. So the captive mariner, from the gra- ted window of his prison cell, looks out upon the expansive main, the proper element for his own wild, ocean spirit, then breathes a sigh in prospect of his protracted thraldom Others, having completed their novitiate, and received the first titular distinc- tion among the learned, are prepared to enter upon their several stations in society. To-morrow they mingle with the throng — to-morrow they assume the grave responsibility of choosing, each, the occupation of his life, of controlling, each, his individual des- tiny. Bouyant with hope, the past is not in all their thoughts — the future, the ever-glorious future, in its broad immeasurable stretch, lies before them, and youthful imagination throws over the pros- pect its own bright and gorgeous coloring. This is the hour of promise, and the exulting heart accredits its blissful anticipa- tions, as the prophetic disclosures of inspiration. Not so with those who have learned lessons in the school of experience, to whom there have been days and years of fruitless expectation. The voluptuary from his wonted haunts of pleas- ure, the merchant from the busy mart of commerce, the states- man from the closed halls of legislation, the husbandman from the verdant fields of agriculture, the beauteous maiden from the social circle she enlivens and adorns, the venerable matron from the home of her affections, and the sphere of her charities, all have come up hither, engrossed by the thronging and chequer- ed recollections of the past. How delightful on this anniversary, is the retrospect of col- legiate life. As the traveller of the desert turns many a linger- ing look upon the oasis, whose reviving shade and cooling foun- tain renovated his failing strength, so on life's toilsome journey, does the weary graduate revert to the pleasant scenes of his Alma Mater. Then, why on this occasion suppress the sympa- thetic emotions of the few in this assembly, whose reminiscen- ces of that period are intensely excited by personal and local associations ? Here, sitting in high places of literary distinc- tion, are some of those who governed in this little aristoc- racy of letters, in the days of our allegiance. Instructors of our boyhood, whose pleasure it was to develope our minds, to guard our morals, and. to regulate our affections, we greet you, the benefactors of our lives. Yours has been a day of active usefulness ; tranquil and happy be the evening that cometh, un- clouded and full of hope the night when it falleth. Here, too, are many who then graced and dignified by their residence, this seat of science. How blest were the years, when their applause quickened our emulation, their example led us on in the ways of probity and honor, and their generous hospitality beguiled our hours of relaxation. While we have been abroad in the world. 96 South Carolina College. the liand of art hath wrought a mighty change in the surround- ing scenery. It is as though the enchanter had waved his ma- gic wand oyer the hills we left in their native wildness, and tem- ples and palaces and gardens had sprung into being. Yet amid all these monuments of growing prosperity, there are numerous traces of the olden time, landmarks sacred to memory, which shall stand unchangeably the same, while coming generations pass over the scene. Hills and groves and fields, identified with holiday sports and rural rambles : old Oconee in her perennial flow, tributary to the arts, yet true to nature ; yon ancient pile teeming with recollections of boyish hilarity^ the undulating hue of blue that bounds the western horizon — Yonah and Curra- hee, towering dimly in the distance ; these are objects familiar to the eye and dear to the heart of the returning wanderer. But dearer far is the memory of those blithe, impulsive and unso- phisticated spirits, whose sweet companionship animated and hal- lowed the scenes we revisit. Dispersed as we have been, over a widely extended territory, engaged in various pursuits, who of us all has forgotten the fellowship of that early day ? who, that owns not, and feels not the spell, which no enchantment of after times can dissolve : a spell that thrills in the heart, and beams in the eye, as each greets his fellows in our annual return to the spot where first it bound us. But our emotions are not those of unmixed delight. Forms there were which we see not, and voi- ces which we hear not in the walks of life : companions we had, who meet us not here. With pure hearts and cultivated minds, honor their polar star, public good their general aim, they went forth to discharge the duties that devolve upon man in the social state. Soon a new impulse stirred in the bosom of society ; a gentle but growing influence attested the accession to benevolent and patriotic enterprise. But the doom of mortality awaits alike the old and the young, the prodigal son, and the child of promise. Our comrades have fallen. To the multitude, they are as if they had never been ; but ours is the melancholy pleas- ure of recalling them to these scenes, sacred to our youthful friendships, and our manly sorrows. Peace be to their manes, honor to their memories. The infinitely various phases of society present no spectacle more imposing, than a grave, earnest and consentient multitude ; and in proportion to the dignity of the general purpose, will the impression approximate to the moral sublime. Why, then, are here congregated the old and young, the mirthful and serious, the renowned and beautiful ? What is the attractive object, whose secret, potent charm, has, for successive days, actuated as by one impulse, this enlightened auditory 1 The pageantry of wealth, the glitter of fashion, the display of gallantry and the canvass for office, are but incidents of the grand design, imparting to the occasion a secondary interest. To foster and perpetuate a system of education, to observe its progress and celebrate its triumps, is the leading motive, the interesting employment of this whole people. They are here to bear testimony, that the South Carolina College. 97 University of Georgia is the pride and hope of her sons. And thou, fair daughter of science, instructress of youth, patroness of genius, behold in this spectacle the evidence of thy past use- fulness, and the earnest of thy future greatness ! Fellow-citizens, the cause of education is worthy the interest you manifest in its advancement. All individual happiness and national prosperity result, either mediately or immediately, from the successful employment of cultivated intellect, in ameliora- ting the condition of the species. What momentous consequen- ces have resulted from the energetic, self-confident and perva- ding intelligence of Christopher Columbus — how forcibly is the proposition illustrated by contrasting the new world, as discov- ered by him, with the western hemisphere, as inhabited by our- selves ! Here was the same mighty continent, with its vast va- riety and fecundity of soil, irrigated by the same majestic rivers, irradiated by the same genial sun, and canopied by the same bright heavens. Here, too, was man, not the tenant of a day, but the possessor by immemorial descent, of this more, than princely heritage, though unblest with that richer inheritance, intellectual cultivation. And what was the aspect of the coun- try ? The habitation of man was scarcely less rude than the lair of the beast ; his occupation as ignoble, his ferocity more indomitable. Broad as the land, ancient as the hills, and fruit- less as the desert, stood the primeval forest. All things bore the original impress of nature ; and mountain to mountain echoed nought but the roar of the cataract, and the yell of the savage. Whence came the change? Who felled the forest, built up cities, organized society, and established empire in the bosom of the wilderness % 'Twas the emigrant from other climes, where reason, asserting her supremacy, had acquired science and originated arts. 'Twas educated man. Extract from an address delivered before the. Euphradian and Clariosophic Societies, at the anniversary celebration, in De- cember, 1842, ^2/ C. G Memminger, a member of the Clario- sophic society. Gentlemen of the Euphradian And Clariosophic Societies: 299. The time will soon arrive when you will leave the care of this, our Alma Mater, to take your places upon the stage of human action. Many of you will be called upon to yield your talents to the service and councils of our country. It is when the active duties of life shall make their demands upon you, that you will perceive and exhibit the value of the principles with which your minds are imbued. Their truth or error will produce results fraught with blessing or with evil, to yourselves and to others, within your sphere of influence. It is of the last impor- 13 98 South Carolina College. tance, tlien, that you should search well your foundation, and plant yourselves upon those great principles of religious truth, which, like the never failing laws of nature, ever point to the same great centre, from which, iliey all do emanate. In Physical science, as well as in mere Mental Philosophy, it has pleased the great Creator to place us in the midst of facts, and have us to build up systems from tJiese facts by the operations of inductive reasoning. As the truth or error of these systems involve no moral agency, we are not held accountable for them, but are left free to admit or deny their reasonableness, accord- ingly as they impress our minds. But when we step further, and reach the point of action, philosophy has become changed to duty, and the wisdom and benevolence of God now intervene to guide us. Revelation now presents us with positive commands, and the facts of the moral icorld are no longer left at large, to be arranged, into system by our finite intelligence ; but are adjusted by infinite wisdom into so simple and well contrived a scheme, that lie ivho runs may read it. Thus, in the events of history, to which I have been directing your attention, God does not per- mit us to look upon the prosperity and upon the ruin of nations, as a mere spectacle to be gazed at ; but He tells us distinctly, of the object and causes of that prosperity and of that destruc- tion. Behold this nation, says he, it shall nourish, because it obeys my laws. Look at this other, it hath filled up the meas- ure of its iniquities, and I will sweep it with a besom of destruc- tion. The great principle is announced. " The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, and shall spread abroad like a cedar in Lebanus, while the wicked shall be cut down like the grass, and be withered even as the green herb." And as we follow down the course of events, we behold nation after nation subjected to this rule, and suffering its consequences with that undeviating certainty which is the element of every law of God. Thus we are taught that we, too, must be subjected to this same unvarying law. Our people and our nation must, like those whose fate has been exhibited to us, be weighed in the everlasting balance. See, then, to what point you are brought. Behold how important it is, that you, who must soon take your places in directing the destinies of South Carolina, should feel your dependence upon the Almighty Governor of the Universe, and should strive to secure His favor and obey His laws. Behold His blessing or His curse awaiting the course which you may pursue. See what may be done by the eiforts of a few, when for ten righteous men, even Sodom would have been spared. But not only will the land be spared, but it will be refreshed by the favor of the King of kings, if you but keep in that land a remembrance of his statutes, and an earnest desire to walk in the same. There is also another great practical principle announced, in the events which we have been considering, to which I desire to invite your attention. It is, that man is not held accountable South Carolina College. 99 for ultimate consequences. The immediate act before him, is that which he must conscientiously perform, Duties are ours, results are in the hands of God. We are not charged to con- cern ourselves about possible results, further than as they are part of the present act. The providence of Grod cares for the future — our business is with the present. We are to see that our next step is in the straight forward path of truth, that our next act is prompted by an enlightened sense of right ; and all fear, least in doing right now we may suffer evil hereafter, is to be ban- ished from the mind. On no occasion is the conscience to be be- guiled by the snare, that one false step may be taken to retrace or avoid evil, or to procure future good. If we move steadily forward in the path of right, Grod hath given us his promise, that no evil shall befal us, however much it may seem to impend. Such a course of action creates a noble, manly, Christian character, unfaltering in its resolution, brave in action, and strong of pupose ; fearless, never daunted, and always moving onward in the path of duty. Confident of the support of the Supreme Lord of all, he is relieved of all fear of human oppo- sition, and is discharged from every feeling of mortification at defeat, or exultation at success. Flattery cannot pervert, scorn or ridicule cannot move him, for the approbation which alone he seeks, is that of the great Being who has never failed those who seek His favor. It is true that, occasionally, the path may be beset with dan- ger. Darkness may obscure the distance, even clouds may lower and threaten to burst, if we pursue our way. But there is the test of principle ; there is to be exhibited the force of that truth which should fill our souls — the truth to be deduced from every page of revealed religion. " The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry." Let him who is beset with danger stand firmly at his post, and the path will soon be clear. Let him who fears the bursting of the storm, advance in the direction whither duty calls ; let him breast even the billows, and they will subside before him , for he has the sure word of promise from Him, of whose truth heaven and earth bear witness. From " An Act to make appropriations for the year commencing in October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one." 300. For the expenses of two students in the College, sent by the Orphan House in Charleston, each, four hundred dollars, if so much be necessary, to be paid to the order of the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of said Orphan House, for the use of each such student. 100 South Carolina College. 301. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 1847. David Johnson, Governor of the State, President of the Board of Trustees. W. A. Cain, Lieutenant Governor. Angus Patterson, President of the Senate. Wm. F. Colcock, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Chancellors : Messrs : Job Johnston, James Gillespie, B. F. Dunkin, Edmund Bellinger, J. J. Caldwell. Whitemarsh B. Seabrook, G. W. Dargan. James H. Adams, Judges: B. F. Perry, J. S. Richardson, Wm. F. Davie. J. B. O'Neall, Wade Hampton. J. J. Evans, C. G. Memmtnger, D. L. Wardlaw, J. N. Whitner, E. Frost, T. N. Dawktns, T. J. Withers. J. L. Manning, Messrs : R. F. W. Allston, R. W. Gibbes, John Buchanan, W. F. DeSaussure, H. C. Young, R. W. Barnwell, J. D. Witherspoon, Thomas Smith, F. Wardlaw. J. D. Blanding, Secretary of the Board of Trustees. FACULTY. Hon. Willdim C. Preston, President, and Professor of Belles Lettres and Elocution. William H. Ellet, M. D. Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology. Francis Lieber, Professor of History, Political Philosophy and Economy. Rev. James H. Thornwell, D. D. Professor of Moral Philoso- phy, Sacred Literature, and Evidences of Christianity. Maximilian Laborde, M. D. Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, Men- tal Philosophy and Physiology. Rev. R. Henry, D. D. Professor of Greek Literature. Charles P. Pelham, Professor of Roman Literature. Matthew J. Wdlliams, Professor of Mathematics, Mechanical Philosophy, Astronomy, and Civil Engineering. Francis Lieber, Secretary of the Faculty. OTHER OFFICERS. F. W. McMaster, A. M. Librarian. A. D. Goodwyn, A. M. Treasurer. G. T. Anderson, Bursar. C. Looms, Marshal. INDEX. Sec, ABSENCE. In case of, of President of Board of Trustees — ._ 19 48 Of President of College , 24 81 ACTS OF LEGISLATURE. Concerning College.-,. -.*._* . 3 to 18 ADMISSION TO COLLEGE. Applicants to be examined by Faculty, and not ad- mitted, unless acquainted with necessary prepar- atory studies- _ ^ * - 22 66 To be 14 years of age for Freshman class, and 15 for other classes __-^ *..«*•-*..>;*: 22 67 To pay in advance to Treasurer 22 68, 69, 70 Certificate of, to be given by President of College. 22 71 Qualifications for, to be such as Board of Trustees shall, from time to time, prescribe 23 73 Qualifications for, prescribed. *p r l 44 227, 228 ADMITTANCE TO ROOMS. When refused, officers may break doors, &c 25 91 AIKEN, GOV. Extract from Message of, 1845. 70 269 " " 1846. 71 270 AGE. Students to be 14 for admission into Freshman class, and 15 for any other class 22 67 AMENDMENTS. To Laws of College ._-_.- 43 226 AMERICAN ARCHIVES. Loaned to Library 64 259 AMMUNITION AND ARMS. Not to be used or kept in College 41 206 APPROPRIATIONS. For College buildings, $50,000 _ 5 8 102 INDEX. Page 5e: 5 5 ;: 25 11 30, 32 14 ::- 47 231 45 235 53 253 •M 253 I- 300 5 APPROPRIATIONS Cmtinned F:r Salaries :: Faculty. £5.11 '. annually. ... . Pr : fe s a : r of Chemistry, $ 1 .500 c . . K Snpport of Student from Orphan House Purchase :: the fihenrieal, philosophical and -::;::-:::::.- aaaararus :: X: L Heruairiier. $1,000.-1 —_-_„-„— Cheiiueal apartuient. 85.100 a Purchase of Library. $5.000 Library. ani.iLa.llT. 81-1 -0. ana stiriaai :i tui- tion fund . Furnishing :~: r : ;a_- ::r Library. $4( '. ■• Expenses ::' t~ : stuaeuts ar:na OrUaan Knuse $400 each _ _ •• 5upa:r: :: li-llege. a:~ aaair aaaaillT ASTBONOMY. Professorship of Mathematics. Mechanical Phil : b - ophy. Asarinomy and Civil Engineering, estab- lished ______ __..__.___ _ a 54 BACHELOR Haw entitled :: the i.aree :: A M . BALLS Students a:: :: attend, -a: a:: C :aaaara:eaa^a:.-^::h- Dutiernaissitn :: President BELLINGER. ED0IU1\D. Jr. Chuiraaau :: : :a_au:::-T :: re:: :rt law s.__ .__.___. BELL RINGER T: 1 araar a . . Talc aaa:iu:edby Faculty BELLES LETTRES'aND ELOCUTION. Pr::ess:rshia :: established 20 54 BOARD OE TRUSTEES. (See Trustees BOARD OE SUPERVISION rder BONDS. Of certain purchasers of lots in Colombia, to be Of itaacers ::" C allege. h:~ -; "; r taken .... Sureties thereto = >._.....__.__.. 21 64 127. 125 41 ;;: 1 i 36 172 45 223 35 165 35 157 35 157 12 21 63 INDEX. 103 Page. Sec. BONDS. (Continued.) Of College Treasurer - 32 139 Of Librarian 33 145 Of Bursar _- . 35 166 Of Marshall.--. 40 197 BONFIRES. Marshall to inform Faculty of, and aid in detect- ingoffenders 39 186 Forbidden 41 212 BUILDINGS, COLLEGE. Appropriations for 5 8 Tobeinsured 14 38 To be under care of Marshall 38 184 BUTLER, GOV. Extract from his Message, 1837 62 251 « " " 1838 63 252 BY-LAWS. May be made by Trustees 4 5 Enacted 19 BURSARSHIP AND COMMONS. Bursar to be appointed annually by Board of Trus- tees, removable by Board of Trustees or Board of Supervision, and subject to such rules as Board of Trustees shall adopt 35 163 His salary one thousand dollars 35 164 Entitled to provisions from Commons hall 35 165 To give bond 35 166 To be furnished with funds by Treasurer, to pur- chase provisions for Commons, which he shall have properly served, and submit his accounts, monthly, to Board of Supervision 35 167 Not to sell provisions, without order 35 167 Board of Supervision, consisting of Faculty and five Trustees named annually, to have entire con- trol of Bursarship. 36 168 And to see that Bursar fulfils his contract 36 169 Powers of Faculty, as to Bursarship 36 170 Each student to pay in advance to Treasurer $2 50 per week for board #36 171 Bell ringer and 2 servants to board free, and cov- ers to be reserved for one Professor and one Trustee _ 36 172 104 INDEX. Page. Sec. BURSARSHIP AND COMMONS. (Continued.) Bill of fare 36 173 Bursal t • > cultivate garden of Commons hall 37 174 Professors to attend meals, in monthly rotation, and prescribe rules for preservation of order 37 175 And ask a blessing before every meal 37 176 Students required to be orderly 37 177 And not to be wasteful 37 178 Students shall all board in Commons, except those who reside in Columbia, and except in case of sickness 37 179 Regulations as to deductions in case of absence 38 180 Faculty to make rules for government of Bursar. _ 38 181 Transient Boarders' in Commons 38 182 CHAPLAIN. Professor of Sacred Literature, to officiate as 20 56 CERTIFICATE. Of admission, to be given to student by President. 22 71 Of Treasurer, that all College charges are paid, to be produced, before degree conferred 30 126 And of Librarian, that books are returned 33 150 Of good character, to be produced by applicant for admission 44 227 CHANCELLORS. To be Trustees ex officio 3,14 4,40 CHEMISTRY. Appropriation for Professor of 10 26 CHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY. Professorship of, established 20 54 CHRISTIANITY. Professorship of Moral Philosophy, Sacred Litera- ture and Evidences of Christianity, established- . 20 54 CHRISTMAS. There to be 3 days holiday at 29 118 CITY COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON. To send two students 47 232 CIVIL ENGINEERING. Professorship of Mathematics, Mechanical Philoso- phy, Astronomy and Civil Engineering, estab- lished 20 54 INDEX. 105 CLASSES. To be Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior. . 22 To be examined twice a year 23 Exhibitions of, as Faculty may appoint 23 Qualifications for admission into 44 Course of studies in the several 44 COLLEGE. Established, at Columbia, 1801 3 May confer degrees, on students and others .- . 9 COLLEGES. Several incorporated 77 COMBINATIONS. To oppose Faculty, forbidden 28,41 COMMENCEMENT. To be on 1st Monday in December- 29 Order of procession at 73 COMMENCEMENT BALL. Not to be held in State House .. 13 Students not to attend any other 41 COMMISSIONERS OF COLUMBIA, With Trustees, to fix on site of College 6 To cancel certain bonds 6 To convey certain lands to Trustees 7 To convey two more squares 8 COMMISSIONERS OF ORPHAN HOUSE. To select one youth to complete his education in College w . 11 His expenses, how to be defrayed 11 Vacancies to be filled. 11 Authorized to draw $800 from Treasury, for ex- penses of two students. 99 COMMITTEE. Apppointed to report Laws for College 1 COMMON PLEAS. Judges of, to be Trustees ex officio 4, 9,14 COMMONS. See Bursarship and Commons. COMPTROLLER GENERAL. Trustees to "account to him for expenditure of money appropriated for College, and he to report to Legislature annually 5 To insure College buildings ' 14 Report of, as to College disbursements 52 U Sec. 72 74 77 227,228 228 3 23 105,210 119 273 37 209 10 12 13 18 30,32 28 32 31 300 1 4,21,40 8 38 239 100 INDEX Pa- Sec. COOPER, Dr. TIIOS. His Library 63,64 251 COSTS, OF SOLICITOR. In cases of vagrancy, how to be used 17 16 CUNNINGTON, \\\M ' His bond to be cancelled 6 12 DEGREES. College may confer them, on students and others. - 9 23 When Faculty to recommend for 120 To be conferred publicly by President of College. . 121 Forfeited, by not performing part assigned 30 121 Or for exhibiting any thing not previously ap- proved by President 30 125 Not to be conferred until all College dues are paid, 30 126 Of A. M. when to be conferred on Bachelor 30 1 27. 1 28 Honorary, not to be conferred without 4 months notice, unless recommended by Faculty 30 1 29 DeSAUSSURE, Hon. H. W. Extract from Memoir of - 293 DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES. To be performed in Chapel morning and evening. 24 87 Public Worship to be performed in Chapel, on Sunday, and to be attended by students 28 114 Exceptions as to attendance 28 114 Prayers to be said in the Chapel, morning and evening, during the week, and on Sunday tnorn- ing 29 115 DIPLOMAS. To be furnished by Faculty 23 78 DOGS. Not to be kept by students about College 41 206 DRUM. Beating, about College, forbidden 43 219 DUELLING . _. 40 202 EATING HOUSES. Not to be visited by students- 27 101 EDUCATION. Early legislation as to 75 276 ELECTIONS. Of officers, to be by ballot, a majority of votes neces- sary . 20 57 To be held only at stated meetings, but occasional meeting may fill vacancy till stated meeting. _ 12 35 INDEX 107 Page. Sec. ELECTIONS.— Continued. To be only at annual meeting, and when a majority of the Board are present 14 41 ELOCUTION. Professorship of Belles Lettres and, established- _ 20 54 ENGINEERING. Professorship of Mathematics, Mechanical Philoso- phy, Astronomy, and Civil Engineering, estab- lished., ._____- 20 54 EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY. Professorship of Moral Philosophy, Sacred Lit- erature and Evidences of Christianity, established 20 54 EXAMINATIONS. Twice a year. Of the Senior class, one within ten days preceding the 1st July, and another begin- ning three weeks before Commencement. Of other classes, after examination of Senior class in June, and week before Commencement 23 74 To be attended by Executive Committee 26 96 No student admitted to a degree or to a higher class who omits to be examined 30 123 Of applicants for admission 44 227, 228 Trustees to appoint a committee to attend regular examinations of all the classes 70 268 Visitors appointed to attend final examination of Senior class 84 295 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. To be appointed, consisting of President of Col- lege and four Trustees, to serve four years, to meet monthly, to regulate expenditures from Col- lege Treasury, audit and report upon Treasurer's accounts, attend examinations, and also to act as Library Committee.-,. 26 96 To approve bond of Bursar 35 166 To have sheds erected for firewood 39 193 EXERCISES. Of Senior Class, to be prepared six days before Commencement 30 124 Of all the classes, to be at such times as Faculty may appoint 46 229 EXHIBITIONS. Of the Senior class, to be twice a year ; of all the classes, as Faculty may appoint 23 77 10S INDEX. Page. EXPENDITURES From College Treasury, to be regulated by Ex- ecutive Committee 26 96 EXPENSES. Of student in College — Report of Committee as to, in 1S36 . 74 274 In 1847 75 275 EXPULSION. (See Faculty, Trustees ) FACULTY. To enforce the ordinances and By-laws adopted by the Trustees for the government of the students, by rewarding or censuring or suspending them. _ 5 6 To report their proceedings in cases of suspension of student, to Trustees 12 36 To proceed against prostitutes and gamblers, under the vagrant Act 17 46 Exempt from military duty 18 47 Duties of the Professorships to be equalized among them 20 55 Their residences 21 60 No member of, to pursue, during session, any other profession 21 61 To examine applicants for admission 22 66 To exercise Freshman and Sophomore classes in composition and recitation 23 76 To appoint exhibitions of all classes 23 77 To furnish diplomas 23 78 President to preside at meetings of 23 79 In case of equal division of, including President, President to have casting vote, and to deliver the result of their opinions, and pronounce senten- ces against students 24 80 In absence of President, to appoint one from among themselves to perform his duties 24 81 To meet weekly, and. on emergencies, on call of President or any member 24 82 May call other officers of College to their assistance, 24 83 Not to debate questions of College government or discipline in presence of student, nor the result of their debate be made known without their order 24 84 To assign rooms to Tutors 24 85 In case of riot or other disturbance, to repair in- stantly to the spot, and suppress it _ , 24 86 INDEX. 109 Page, Sec. FACULTY. (Continued.) To cause devotional exercises to be performed in the Chapel, morning and evening 24 87 Each member of, to visit daily the portion of the tenements assigned him, and report to Faculty at weekly meeting 24 88 To keep a registry of the admission, dismission, graduation, &c. of students 25 89 To appoint a secretary, and his duty 25 90, 3, 4, 5 When refused admittance to rooms, may break doors 25 91 To appoint a Monitor quarterly 26 97 To admonish, suspend, and report for expulsion, at their discretion 27 99 Students not to attend any other teacher without permission of 28 106 To cause rooms of students to be kept clean 28 107 To direct the order in which students shall enter, be seated in, and leave, Chapel and other public rooms 28 109 To prescribe text books 28 113 To cause prayers to be said in Chapel every morning and evening during the week, and on Sunday morning 29 115 To confer the honors and recommend for degrees, immediately after examination of Senior class, in November ; 29 120 Not to admit any student to a degree or to a higher class, who omits to be examined 30 123 Student leaving college by order of parent or guar- dian, without consent of Faculty, to lose his standing in his class 30 123 To assign, immediately after Commencement, the students' rooms 31 132 Which are not to be changed or damaged 31 133 In cases of damage to college rooms or premises, to assess, and in case of non-payment, further pun- ish, the student convicted 31 131 No student to make any alteration in his room with- out consent of 32 135 May assign rooms to graduates 32 1 36 Not to sign diploma without certificate of Librari- an that graduate has returned all books 33 150 110 INDEX. Page. Sec. FACULTY. (Continued.) May allow students preparing compositions, an ex- tra number of books from Library - 34 151 To enforce Library regulations, even as to Trustees 34 159 To constitute, with 5 Trustees named annually, Board of Supervision of Bursarship 35,36 163,168 Their powers as to Bursarship 36 170 To make rules for government of Bursar 38 181 To appoint a College Marshall 38 183 Who shall report to them any injury to College buildings, grounds, &c ! 38 184 And report their condition weekly ^ 38 185 And inform Faculty of bonfires and other disturban- s ces, and aid in suppressing them 39 186 Marshall to be under direction of Faculty 39 192 Who shall assign him a residence in College build- ings 39 194 To have the Campus gate opened and shut 39 196 To punish students, by admonition, information to parent or guardian, suspension or expulsion 40 199 May degrade student to an inferior class, or refuse him promotion 40 199 Offences not provided for, to be punished at discre- tion of. 40 200 May remove from College any student of bad gen- eral deportment ^_ 40 201 To punish students for duelling 40 202 And for gaming, profane or obscene language, lying, stealing, drunkenness, or riotous, disorderly or immoral conduct 40 203 And for insulting or striking any officer of college, 41 204 And for keeping deadly weapons 41 205 And for using or keeping spirituous liquors, dogs, arms or ammunition, or keeping or hiring a horse, mule or servant : 41 206 And for playing on musical instruments on Sunday, 41 207 And for entertaining company in their rooms 41 208 And for attending balls, except commencement 41 209 And for combinations to oppose Faculty 41 210 And for making bonfires, &c 41 212 And for blowing horns or trumpets, beating drums. riding horses, &c __»-_____._ =. 43 219 INDEX. Ill Page. Sec, FACULTY. (Continued.) And for harboring student who had been ordered to leave college 43 220 As to calling on students to give information in ca- ses of misdemeanor, riot, &c 42 213,4,5,6,7 Convicting student of offence authorizing expulsion, to suspend and order him from College, and re- port to Trustees 42 218 May employ two additional servants 43 222 And a bell man 43 223 To make all necessary rules to carry College laws into effect 43 224 To examine applicants for admission- 44 227,228 To prepare a system for public schools 51 238 List of, 1847 100 301 See Officers of College. FEES of College 31 130 FIRE. Students to be careful as to 32 137 FIREWOOD. To be purchased by Marshall 39 191 FRESHMAN CLASS. Applicants for admission into, to be 14 years of age 22 67 To be examined, twice a year 23 74 To be exercised in English composition and recita- tion 23 76 Qualifications for admission into 44 227,228 Studiesof- . 44 228 FUEL. Assessment for, to be paid in advance 22 68 GARDEN. Of Commons hall, to be cultivated by Bursur 37 174 GATE. Servant to open and shut it, under direction of Mar- shall, according to orders of Faculty 39 196 GEOGRAPHY. More knowledge of, will be. required of applicants for admission 46 230 GEOLOGY. Professorship of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geol- ogy, established „ 20 54 112 INDEX. Page. Sec. GOVERNOR. To be Trustee ex officio 3,14 4,40 To be President of Board of Trustees 19 48 GRADUATES. Faculty may assign rooms to them, they paying $10 for use of Library 32 136 GREEK LITERATURE. Professorship of, established , 20 34 GROG SHOPS. Not to be visited by Students -. 27 101 GUARDIAN. (See Parent or Guardian.) HAMILTON, GOV. Extract from Message of, 1832 . 52 241 HAMMOND, GOV. Extract from Message of, 1843 66 264 " " " 1844 68 265 HAYNE, GOV. Extract from Message.of, 1833 52 242 HENEGAN, GOV. Extract from Message of, 1840 -„ -_„_-_ 64 257 HISTORY. Professorship of History, Political Philosophy and Economy, established 20 54 More knowledge of, will be required of applicants for admission , 46 230 HOLYDAY. Of three days, at Christmas 29 118 HONORS. When to be conferred, and how to be determined. . 29, 30 120, 122 Forfeited by not performing part assigned 30 124 HORN, Not to be kept or blown by students 43 219 HORSE OR MULE. Not to be hired or kept by students 41 206 Not to be ridden about College in a disturbing man- ner 43 219 HOTELS. Students not to visit them ,_ 27 100 INSURANCE. College buildings to be insured 14 38 No longer insured 14 JENKINS, HON. C. J. Extract from Address by.. _„___„_» .___„._„_ 94 298 INDEX. 113 Page. Sec. JOHNSON, GOV. Extract from Message of, 1847 72 272 JUDGES. Of Law and Equity, Trustees ex officio 3,14 4, 40 JUNIOR CLASS. Established 22 72 Applicants for admission into, to be 15 years of age, 22 67 And to be well acquainted with preparatory studies, 22 66 To be examined twice a year 23 74 Qualifications for admission into - 44 227, 228 Course of studies in 45 228 JUSTICE. Of Peace or Quorum, on requisition of Faculty, to issue warrant for apprehension and trial of pros- titutes and gamblers, as vagrants _. 17 46 KEYS. Students to leave them with Marshall, at end of ses- sion 39 195 LABORATORY. Faculty may employ servant for 43 222 LAW. Professoiiehip of 47 233 LAWS OF COLLEGE. Committee appointed to prepare and report 1 1 Copy of, to be given to student on admission 22 71 Students to make themselves acquainted with 28 112 Faculty to make all necessary rules to carry them in- to effect ... . 43 224 Not to be altered, or new ones made, except with six days' notice, and by vote of two-thirds ... 43 226 LEGARE, H. S. Extract from Eulogy on _ _. 80 291 LEGISLATURE. To nominate 13 Trustees of College 3 4 To elect 20 Trustees of College- __ .___ 14 40 L'HERMINIER, MR. $1000 appropriated for purchase of his chemical, phi- losophical and mincralogical apparatus 14 39 LIBRARY AND LIBRARIAN. Appropriation for Library 7 . 15 Executive Committee to be also Library Coin mil tee, 26 96 Fee for use of Library 31 130 15 114 INDEX. Page. Sec, LIBRARY AND LIBRARIAN. (Continued.) Resident graduates to pay ten dollars for use of 32 136 Librarian to be appointed by Trustees, and to attend daily from 8 to 1 o'clock 33 144 To give bond __._ 33 145 To keep Library in neat order, and see that books are returned ; . , 33 146 Who may take out books - ". 33 147 President, Professors and Tutors entitled to use of Library at any hour 33 148 Librarian to note all books taken out 33 149 Diploma not to be signed without certificate of Li- brarian that books are returned 33 150 How many books may be taken at once * _ 34 151 Recent periodicals not to be kept longer than 3 days, 34 152 In case of loss of or damage to books 34 153 Books not to be kept by students longer than two weeks, without special permission of President. _ 34 154 Students not to lend Library books . 34 155 To preserve decorum in Library 34 156 Books not to be carried beyond vicinity of Columbia, 34 157 No lamp or candle to be carried into the Library. _ 34 158 Regulations of Library to be enforced by Faculty, even in the case of Trustees , 34 159 Rare books to be withheld from circulation 34 160 A blank book to be kept, in which visitors and others may enter suggestions as to purchase of books. . 34 161 Librarian to hold office one year; his salary $600. _ 35 162 Appropriation for Library 63 253 American Archives loaned to Library 64 259 Various books transferred to Library 66 262 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. To be Trustee ex officio , 3,14 4,40 In absence of Governor, to preside at the Board. _ 19 48 LOGIC. Professorship of Logic, Rhetoric, Mental Philosophy and Physiology, established 20 54 MANNING, COL. JOHN L. Scholarship established by him 81 292 MARSHALL. To be appointed by Faculty, his salary and duties, 38 183 to 196 His bond.. - — „„_.„- — _ — „-..-_„.--.. 40 197 INDEX. 115 Page. Sec. MASTER OF ARTS. Degree of, when to be conferred on Bachelor-.-- 30 127,128 MATHEMATICS. Professorship of Mathematics, Mechanical Philoso- phy, Astronomy and Civil Engineering, estab- lished. -'-- 20 54 MAXCY, PRESIDENT. Addressby, 1816 __- 85 296 McDUFFIE, GOV. Extract from Message of, 1835 54 247 " " « 1836 58 250 McMULLAN'S REPORTS. . Extract from, as to Vagrant Act 79 290 MEETING- OF TRUSTEES. Stated, on first Wednesday in December ; occasion- al, may be called by President of College and four Trustees . . 4 5 Stated meeting changed to fourth Monday in No- vember 9 22 Changed to Wednesday after fourth Monday in November 12 34 To meet also on Wednesday after first Monday in May 19 50 President of Board and five Trustees may call a special meeting „ 19 50 MEETING OF STUDENTS. Not to be held without permission of President 28 105 MEMMINGER, C. G. Extract from Address by . 97 299 MILITARY DUTY. Faculty and Students exempt from 18 47 MILLS'S STATISTICS. Extract from .___*_ 78 288 MINERALOGY. Professorship of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology, established 20 54 MONITOR. To be appointed by Faculty, and his duty 26 97 MORAL PHILOSOPHY. Professorship of Moral Philosophy, Sacred Litera- ture and Evidences of Christianity, established 20 54 MULE. (See Horse.) 116 INDEX. Page. Sec. MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. Students not to play on, on Sunday -,_- 41 207 NOBLE, GOV. Extract from Message of, 1839 1 _.__ 64 256 OFFICERS OF COLLEGE. To be elected and removed by Trustees 4 5 To be appointed only at annual meeting of Trus- tees, and when a majority of the Board are pres- ent . , 14 41 May be dismissed by Trustees 15 43 To consist of President, Professors and such other officers as Board of Trustees may appoint. „ 20 54 To be elected by ballot, a majority of votes necessa- ry to a choice 20 57 To hold their offices during pleasure of Board of Trustees _'_______ 20 58 Not to resign without giving one year's notice. _ 21 59 To have apartments assigned and to reside in the College buildings, and keep their premises in re- pair ___ _ %\ 60 Their bonds __ 21 63 64 To enforce among the Students every moral and religious duty 21 65 To attend on call of Faculty, and give advice and assistance 24 83 In case of riot or disturbance to repair to the spot and suppress it ._ ._ 24 86 When refused admittance to rooms, may break doors 25 91 Student insulting or striking one, to be suspended or expelled 41 204 Listof, 1847___ . 100 301 (See Faculty, Professors.) ORPHAN HOUSE. (See Commissioners of Orphan House.) PARENT OR GUARDIAN. Circular to be sent to, on admission of student 25 93 Also monthly 25 94 To be informed, in case of suspension. _ : .. 26 94 At request of, student excused from attending wor- ship in Chapel on Sunday . 28 114 Student leaving College by order of, without consent of Faculty, to lose his standing in his class.. --'.,. 30 123 INDEX. 117 Sec. PARENT OR GUARDIAN. (Continued.) Student being convicted of damaging College rooms or premises, Secretary of Faculty to inform 31 134 PERIODICALS. Recent, not to be kept longer than 3 days 34 152 PHIL. AND MAT. APPARATUS. Appropriation for 7 15 PHYSIOLOGY. Professorship of Logic, Rhetoric, Mental Philosophy and Physiology, established 20 54 PICKENS, EZEKIEL. His bond to be cancelled 7 12 POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. Professorship of History, Political Philosophy and Economy, established 20 54 PRAYERS. (See Devotional Exercises.) PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES. And 10 Trustees, a quorum at stated meeting 4 5 And 6 Trustees, a quorum at occasional meeting. .. 4 5 Not attending, one pro tern, may be appointed- 8 17 The Governor to be 19 48 In his absence, the Lieutenant Governor, the Presi- dent of the Senate, or the Speaker of the House 19 48 In their absence, a pro tern, appointment to be made 19 48 With 5 Trustees, may call special meeting 19 50 PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE. With four Trustees, may call occasional meetings of Board of Trustees.. 4 5 To be head of the Faculty 4 6 To be appointed only at annual meeting of Trustees, and when a majority of the Board are present. _ 14 41 To proceed against prostitutes and gamblers, under the Vagrant Act „ 17 46 Exempt from military duty 18 41 To perform the duties of one of the Professorships, 20 55 To be elected by ballot, a majority of votes of those present necessary to a choice 20 57 To hold office during pleasure of Board of Trustees, 20 58 Not to resign without giving one year's notice 21 59 To reside in buildings assigned him, and keep the premises in repair 21 60 US INDEX. Page, Sec. PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE. (Continued.) Nor to pursue, for reward, during session, any other profession _• 21 61 To enforce among The students every moral and re- ligious duty _- 21 65 To give copy of laws and certificate of admission to each student 22 71 To be chief executive officer of College, and preside at ail meetings of Faculty 23 79 In case the Faculty, including himself, be equally di- vided, to have casting vote, and to pronounce all sentences against students 24 SO In case of absence of. Faculty to appoint one from among themselves to perform his duties May call meeting of Faculty, on emergency To report to Board of Trustees at every half yearly meeting To be chairman of Executive Committee Students not to visit Taverns, and places of public amusement, without permission of JNor to hold class or other meetings ■May. at request of parent or guardian, excuse student from attending worship in the Chapel on Sunday . To confer the degrees at Commencement Exercises of Seniors to be submitted to him six days before Commencement 30 124 And nothing to be exhibited on the stage that he has not approved Not to confer degrees till College charges are paid. To direct studies of resident graduates Entitled to use of Library May allow student to keep books from Library long- er than stated time May permit student to board or lodge out of College. in case of sickness . Students to give notice to. as to absence from Com- mons May, with assent of Faculty, remove from College any student of bad general deportment No student to use or keep in College any spirituous liquors, dogs, arms or ammunition, or keep or hire a horse, mule or servant, without permission of- - 41 206 24 81 24 82 25 92 26 96 27 100 28 105 28 114 29 121 30 125 30 126 30 128 33 147. 148 34 154 37 179 38 180 40 201 INDEX. 119 Page. Sec. PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE. (Continued.) Or attend balls 41 209 Or leave the town of Columbia 41 211 May, during vacation, exclude any student who dis- turbs the Campus 43 225 PRESIDENT OF SENATE. To be Trustee ex officio 3, 14 4, 40 In absence of Governor and Lieutenant Governor, to be President of Board of Trustees 19 48 PRESTON, HON. W. C. Extract from his Eulogy on H. S. Legare 80 29 1 His Inaugural Address 90 297 PROFESSORS. Not to be Trustees 4 6 To be appointed only at annual meeting of Trustees, and when a majority of the Board are present 14 41 To be elected by Trustees, by ballot, a majority of votes necessary 20 57 To reside in buildings assigned, and keep their pre- mises in repair . Hereafter elected, to deliver a public address Entitled to use of Library To attend meals in Commons in monthly rotation, and prescribe rules for the preservation of order. _ To ask a blessing before every meal May allow persons not students to attend Lectures, (See Officers of College, Faculty.) PROFESSORSHIPS. Established 20 54 PROSODY. More knowledge of, will be required in applicants for admission 46 230 PUBLIC AMUSEMENT. Places of, not to be visited by students, without per- mission of President 27 100 PUNISHMENTS. To be addressed to the sense of duty, and to the principles of honor and shame. 40 198 To be by admonition, information to parent or guar- dian, suspension or expulsion 40 {()() QUORUM. At stated meetings, President of Board and ten 21 60 21 62 33 147, 148 37 175 37 176 43 221 120 INDEX. : :: C _ tinned.) 1 1 stees : occasional meeting. President and rnrf rk __ _ 4 14 ;: 25 1 74 47 45 50 52 r ; 53 -\ 58 A 64 -:-: -:■: n 71 21 1 SI 6 en no quorum, those attending mav appoint a Chairman, and meet and adjourn, from time to time. -. _ Nine members to constitute a quorum, rz : e pt : : : r the appointment of an officer, when a majority of the Board must be present RAMSAY'S HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLJUA Extract from.. ■' M RECITATIONS _ le at hours prescribed TLree iiilv. ;: •.-; . ;_ i-lzss : _-.- : "_ * : ::.: ..." mniiii. REGISTER * Students, k be kept — . REPORT C 7 ; )MMITTEE. : Trustees, to prepare laws astc Expenses. 1836 Of Le^isl-TZTr. 1.823 . 1824 1825 229 ffi 2 274 236 237 2 I 1834 - •■._-. _._ 2 : .. 335 .. 2 14 ;: : 245 248 .. 1838 ■• •• . 253 184C ■• ■•-_ .-_ . 258 .. 1841 . ._. 2SS 1842 •■ ■■ 262 .. - ■•__ a : .. 1844 1 ; - ' • "erred to u •;— 1846. RESIGNATION Nc :~:e: fcc resign without giving one _ -:: ; notice, RESOLUTIONS ". : Trustee* appointing Committee to prepare Laws 1846. in regard tc Scholarship estab- lished by Col J.I Mashwg...__ __L. 271 '. 1 292 INDEX. RESOLUTIONS. (Continued.) Of Trustees, 1847, appinting Visitors to attend final examination of Senior Class Submitted to Board of Trustees, to be in writing, if any member requires it. _ Of Legislature, 1823, as to Professorship of law.. " 1825, requesting Faculty to prepare " a system for Public Schools " 1835, concerning bawdy and gaming " houses in Columbia " 1836, as to renewals of Charters — REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS. {See Punish- ments.) RHETORIC. Professorship of Logic, Rhetoric, Mental Philoso- phy and Physiology, established RICHARDSON, GOV. Extract from Message of, 1841 « " « 1842 RIOT. In case of ROMAN LITERATURE. Professorship of, established ROOMS OF STUDENTS RULES AND REGULATIONS. - Faculty may make all necessary, to carry College laws into effect SACRED LITERATURE. Professorship of Moral Philosophy, Sacred Litera- ture, and Evidences of Christianity, established. SALARIES. Of Faculty, $6000 yearly appropriated Of Secretaty of Board of Trustees Of Secretary of Faculty Of Treasurer Of Librarian Of Bursar Of Marshall Treasurer to pay SECRETARY OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES, To be elected by ballot, to give bond for perform- ance of his duties, and receive a salary of $250 _ To provide books, in which he shall keep a minute £6 Page. 84 19 47 51 53 58 121 Sec. 295 49 233 238 246 249 20 65 a 24 54 260 261 86 20 54 31 132,3,4,5,6,7 43 20 224 54 5 8 19 51 26 95 32 138 35 162 35 164 38 183 32 143 19 51 122 INDEX SECRETARY OE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. (Con.) of the proceedings of the Board, and record com- munications from the President and Professors of the College, with an index To file all com m unications; and at each meeting read the journal of the preceding meeting . SECRETARY OF FACULTY. . Appointed by them, to keep a journal of their trans- actions, which shall be laid before the Trustees at their annual meeting, and be at all times sub- ject to the inspection of any Trustee On admission of student, to transmit a circular to parent or guardian, giving all necessary informa- tion concerning College Also a monthly statement of delinquencies of son or ward . Also in case of suspension His compensation Student being convicted of damaging College rooms or premises, to inform parent or guardian SENIOB CLASS. Established Those admitted into, to be 15 years of age And well acquainted with preparatory studies To be examined twice a year Two exhibitions of. yearly Their exercises to be prepared six days before Com- mencement Qualifications for admission into . Course of studies in Visitors to be appointed to attend final examination of SERVANTS. Board of two to be defrayed out of Commons rand. To be under supervision of Marshall 2s one but those of 'College and its officers to be em- ployed about College ... To wear a badge , Xone to be kept or hired by students Faculty may employ two additional SESSION. When to begin and terminate. __.___- To be divided into three quarters. __^_^__ r — -' — : Page. Sec. 19 52 20 53 90 93 25 94 94 26 95 134 22 72 22 67 22 66 23 74 23 77 30 124 44 227. 22S 45 228 54 36 172 39 188 39 189 39 190 41 206 43 222 29 116 29 117 INDEX 123 Page. Sec. SMITH, BARTLEE. His bond to be cancelled . ------- 7 ' 12 SMITH, THOMAS RHETT. His bond to be cancelled -._-- — __ _. 7 12 SMOKING. Forbidden in public rooms of College, Campus or streets-. ------ - - — -_ — — 27 102 SOLICITOR. To proceed against prostitutes and gamblers, under Vagrant Act - _.. 17 46 His tax costs, $300, to be used in enforcing that Act 17 46 SOPHOMORE CLASS. Established - . 22 72 Those admitted into, to be 15 years of age 22 67 And well acquainted with preparatory studies 22 66 To be examined twice a year ._—__ 23 74 To be exercised in composition and recitation 23 76 Qualifications for admission into u 44 227, 228 Course of studies in __-._ 45 228 SPEAKER OF HOUSE. To be Trustee ex officio 3,14 4,40 In absence of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and President of Senate, to preside at Board of Trus- tees --. 19 48 SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. Not to be used or kept in College 41 206 STUDENTS. Faculty to enforce the College laws, by rewarding, censuring or suspending 5 6 In cases of suspension, Faculty to report their pro- ceedings to Trustees, who may confirm or reverse the sentence 12 36 Exempt from military duty 18 47 Every moral and religious duty to be enforced among them 21 65 Applicants for admission, to be examined 22 66 To be 14 years of age for the Freshman class, and 15 for any other 22 67 To pay in advance to Treasurer 22 68,69,70 To be furnished with copy of laws, and certificate of admission 22 71 To be divided into four classes 22 72 * 124 INDEX. Page. Sec. STUDENTS. (Continued.) Not to be present at debates of Faculty ___-»-'- 24 84 To attend devotional exercises in Chapel 24 87 To be registered ~__ 25 89 Not to refuse admittance to officers charged with visiting rooms 25 91 Monthly statement of conduct of, to be sent to pa- rent or guardian _-_ 25 94 Who is also to be notified in case of suspension 26 94 Those often noted on the Monitor's book, to be ad- monished, and if they do not reform, suspended, and reported for expulsion 26 97 Daily course of study 27 98 In case of neglect of study — . 27 99 Not to visit taverns or places of public amusement, without permission of President _= 27 100 Not to visit eating houses or grog shops - 27 101 Not to smoke in the public rooms of College, the Campus or streets 27 102 To abstain from vicious, immoral and irregular con- duct, and always behave as gentlemen 27 103 To be uncovered in Chapel, and in lecture and di- ning rooms 27 104 Not to hold class or other meetings, without per- mission of President «. . 28 105 Not to attend other teachers, without permission of Faculty 28 106 To keep their apartments clean . 28 107 To obey, and be respectful to, their instructors, neat in person, courteous in conduct ; not to enter Chapel or recitation rooms without being fully dressed, and to be decorous there. - 28 108 To be seated in, and leave, the Chapel and other public rooms, in such order as Faculty shall di- rect . 28 109 Not to use tobacco in, or otherwise deface, the pub- lic or recitation rooms 28 110 Not to leave their rooms during hours of study — 28 111 To make themselves acquainted with the Laws of College . 28 112 To provide text books.. fc _.__ .____..-„__.___- 28 113 125 »age. . Sec. 28 114 29 115 30 124, 125 30 126 31 131 31 132 31 133 INDEX. STUDENTS. (Continued.) To attend worship in Chapel on Sunday, except in certain cases To attend prayers in Chapel Omitting to be examined at the times required by law, not to be admitted to a degree or to a higher class. Leaving College, by order of parent or guardian, without informing Faculty, to lose standing in their class 30 123 Exercises of graduates, to be prepared six days be- - fore Commencement, and submitted to President, and any one not performing the part assigned him, or exhibiting any thing not approved by President, the degree shall not be conferred Before graduating, to produce certificate of Treasu- rer that College charges are paid Treasurer to settle with, at end of session Rooms to be assigned to Which are not to be removed from or damaged In case of injury by, to rooms or College premises, to be charged with expense of repairs, and an ac- count thereof be sent to parent or guardian, on non-payment of which, to be suspended, and be subject to such other punishment as Faculty may inflict Not to alter their rooms or fire places To be careful about fire Entitled to use of Library Before graduating, to produce Librarian's certifi- cate that books are returned How many books may be taken at once by In case of loss of or damage to books by How long books may be kept by Not to lend books To be decorous in the Library To pay to Treasurer, quarterly, in advance, $2 50 per week for board in Commons Dying or leaving College, amount to be refunded. . To behave with propriety in Dining hall Not to waste provisions To board in Commons, except those who reside in Columbia, and except in case of sickness 37 179 31 134 32 135 32 137 33 147 33 150 34 151 34 153 34 154 34 155 34 156 36 171 36 171 37 177 37 178 lac INDI sic::"- ; ::i- ~-£ All: _ t! i-E- .".v.::: :l friz: brirl ir_ c-is-r :: s~.sfr_ •:-. . M " "--..:. is A: eni : -ssii :•: Ifi— >tt> ::' .'_ T Lr ::::_5 vim Marshal] . __.. j.t _ ^:_ ; :_i ::i:-_iir:: ; ;: . J: .r^r: . ". ' : : :_".-::: _ 7 - s-fi: frizi CillrgT. ftot t. :: :r get drank, or te f:_" :: __:. ; ". : ;•_ '::/.- ~ ;~It: :: . iH-tjTt . - ; :: '— "if — . ill.:: - :: . :.- ITvZS-. :■ i N : I izii"i~:i- :•: :i: :: '--- 1 :■ . v_:_~ .. ".t"_". ili ; ti:::: 1 : ziziez :^:r_f zr. —.zyi: ill :: I: :i t_ :..- . -lizs :•: " . :^v :Lt " — ::' :"_1t J: izl- Ai ;— -_ ::-t : . .... Firf 5-: ; ; ISO Si 201 40 11 41 -.: ■::s ;:. : 14 ;:- -r". ■::s 4] 209 "-- 210 .; -211 4: -212 _ 42 45 ,;. :■: .-: 43 INDEX. 127 Page. Sec. STUDENTS. (Continued.) Any Student disturbing the quiet of the College du- ring vacation, may be excluded 43 225 Qualifications for admission of 44, 227, 228 Course of studies of, in the several classes. _ 44 228 STUDIES. Of the several Classes 44 228 STUDY. Times of— 27 98 SUNDAY. Students not to play on musical instruments on, and to abstain from diversions 41 207 SURETIES. To bonds of College Officers 21 64 SUSPENSION. See Faculty, Trustees. TAVERNS. Students not to visit them 27 100 TEXT BOOKS. To be provided by students 28 113 Of the several classes 44 228 TOBACCO. Not to be used by students in public 28 110 TREASURER. Students, on admission, to pay to him certain sums in advance His accounts to be audited by Executive Commit- tee At close of session, to refund to students overpaying, To be elected annually, salary $500 To give bond To receive all monies which students are required to pay 32 140 To keep an account of tuition fund, and make no disbursement without order of Board of Trustees To report annually to Board of Trustees To pay salaries as provided for To take charge of bond of Bursar, and report an- nually thereon To advance funds to Bursar To receive board of students in Commons, and re- fund, in certain cases To receive fund for purchase of lire-wood 22 68,69 26 96 31 131 32 138 32 139 32 141 32 142 32 143 35 166 35 167 36 171 39 191 12S INDEX. Page, Sec TROTTI. COL. S. W. Extract from Address by 82 294 TRUMPET. Not to be kept or blown about College 42 219 TRUSTEES, BOARD OF. (Legislative Enactments.) Appointed 3 4 To continue in office' four years 3 4 Incorporated, by the name of " The Trustees of the South Carolina College" with perpetual succes- sion 4 4 May hold lands and tenements, personal property. money. &c. in trust for the use of College 4 4 To meet on first Wednesday in December 4 5 President of College and four Trustees may call oc- casional meetings 4 5 President of Board and ten Trustees a quorum at stated meetings 4 5 To fill up. by ballot, vacancies in the Board 4 5 President of Board and six Trustees a quorum at occasional meetings 4 5 To transact all the business of the College, elect the officers, fix their salaries, remove them for miscon- duct, prescribe the course of studies to be pursued by the students, and enact ordinances and by-laws for the government of the College 4 5 May expel students 5 6 To have a common seal 5 7 May sue and be sued 5 7 May hold or sell lands, tenements, chattels. &c 5 7 Vested with ample powers, as a body corporate, to be exercised for the benefit of the College 5 7 To draw B50.000 from the Treasury, to erect Col- lege buildings And 86000 yearly, for salaries of Faculty To account to Comptroller annually To select site for College Certain lands in Columbia to be conveyed to them. May enclose certain streets Until salaries of Faculty commence, may use that fund for purchasing philosophical and mathemati- cal apparatus and library 7 15 D a 5 8 5 8 6 10 7 13 7 14 9 19,20 9 21 9 22 9 23 INDEX. 129 Page. Sec. TRUSTEES, BOARD OR (Continued.) When no quorum, those attending may appoint a chairman and meet and adjourn from time to time 8 16 President not attending, may elect a President pro tern 8 17 Two squares of land to be conveyed to them, which, with other squares, and intervening streets, they may enclose 8 18 Certain persons having acted as Trustees, by reason of a variance between the enrolled and printed copy of the Act establishing the College, their acts legalized Judges of Court of Common Pleas made Trustees ex officio Stated meeting changed to fourth Monday in No- vember May confer degrees To be elected by joint ballot of both branches of Legislature 9 24 To meet on Wednesday after fourth Monday in No- vember-- 12 34 To fill no vacancy in the officers of the College ex- cept at stated meeting, but may fill such vacancy at occasional meeting, until stated meeting 12 35 Faculty to report to them their proceedings in cases of suspension, and Trustees may restore suspend- ed student 12 36 To consist of the Governor and Lieutenant Gover- nor of the State, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Judges of the Court of Appeals, the Circuit Judges of the Court of Law, and the Chancellors, ex of- ficio, together with twenty other persons to be elected by joint ballot of the Senate and House of Representatives, to continue in office four years, and until others shall be elected 14 40 Nine to constitute a quorum, except for election of an officer of College, which shall be done only at annual meeting, with a majority of Board present 14 41 Authorized, by subpoena, rule and attachment, to compel witnesses to appear and testify, and pa- pers to be produced _ 15 42 17 130 INDEX. Page. Sec. TRUSTEES, BOARD OF, (Continued.) May dismiss any officer of College _„-___»_ 15 43 Certain squares and lots vested in 16 45 By-Laws. The G-overnor to be President of the Board ; in case of his absence, the Lieutenant G-overnor, Presi- dent of Senate or Speaker of House ; in their absence a pro tem. appointment to be made . 19 48 The Chair to be addressed standing and uncovered 19 49 All motions, propositions and resolutions submitted, to be in writing, if any member requires it._ __ _ 19 49 To meet also on Wednesday after 1st Monday in May, in every year fJ 19 50 President and five members may call special' meet- ing 19 50 Their Secretary, and his duties 19 51,52,53 To determine what Professors and other officers shall be appointed 20 54 To assign and equalize the duties of the President and Professors - _. 20 55 To elect all officers by ballot, a majority of votes ne- cessary to a choice it- 20 57 President, Professors an 9 I ■ft * '■ .c.^iWB