President Sloan's


report Jan, 1908.

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
Columbia, S. C., January, 1908
To the Board of Trustees,
University of South Carolina.
Gentlemen:
I have the honor to suhmit herewith the semi-annual
report of the President of the University, professors' reports
for the half year ending December 31, 1907, and the treasurer's
report for the entire year.
NUMBER OF STUDENTS.
The total enrollment of students up to this date is 278.
In Academic Courses 178: In Law 35: Teacher Students 58; and
pursuing post-graduate work there are 9 students - men and women.
of the entire enrollment 17 are women.(15 students, are pursuing
post-graduate English)
The Legislature cut down the number of scholarships for
the year 1907-a one-half which diminished the enrollment for this
year by at least 40 students.
FACULTY AND OFFICERS.
The following changes in the Faculty and Officers ordered
by your Board at its Annual Meeting last Jany took effect from
that date: Edwin L. Green, Adjunct Professor Ancient Languages,
promoted to Associate Professor: H. C. Davis, Adjunct Professor
of English, granted one year's leave of absence, place supplied
by Mr. Reed Smith: A. C. Carson, Instructor in Physics, promoted
to Associate Professor: George McCutchen, Instructor in History
and Political Science, promoted to Adjunct Professor: Mr. Fendley,
tutor in Mathematics, was not employed this year: Miss Ann A.
Porcher, Assistant Librarian, was relieved by Miss Charlotte H.
Porcher, the new assistant, in December.
All of the professors and instructors have done excel-
lent work throughout the term. I wish to commend especially Mr.
Reed Smith, who is new to the Faculty, for the excellence of his


Number of
students
Normal
scholarships
Promotions
of
professors
and
changes
in
faculty


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Needs
of the
University
New wing
needed for
the Library
Swimming pool
wanted


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1908
President's Rpt.
The University stands in such desperate need of so many
things I scarcely know upon which item to place greatest emphasis.
Its chapel is not respectable; it is utterly deficient in class
rooms; none of those in use is suitable. The Law Department
is really without a class room; two small dormitory rooms now

serve for the meeting of classes with their professors: the
Department of Mathematics has but one room whereas two are
absolutely necessary; the same may be said of the Departments of
History and Pedagogy. Prof. Snowden in his report calls atten-
tion to the great need of a "Seminar" room. Why not ask the
Legislature for an appropriation for the erection of a building
which should contain the necessary class rooms and a commodious
and handsome Auditorium. From $75,000 to $100,000 would be
needed for this purpose.
And then the Library building needs extension. The
Library is brimful and running over with books, pamphlets and
bound copies of old newspapers. The extension should be fire
proof and in it should be stored the many rare old books now
owned by the University, its archives, the pictures and historical
data of the State which, if the safety from fire of such articles
was assured, would flow into the library. In this extension, too,
the much needed "Seminar" room would find place. From $50,000
to $75,000 would be needed for this purpose.
For the health of students a swimming pool is badly
needed. From $10,000 to $15,000 would be needed for its con-
struction.
I suppose it is out of the question to get all of these
buildings at once, but it seems to me it is high time to make
a beginning in securing one of them at least.


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President Sloan's report, Jan. '08 contin.
President's Report.
DR. JOYNES' RESIGNATION.
It is with sincere sorrow that I transmit a letter from
Dr. E. S. Joynes tendering his resignation, to take effect at the
Dr. Joyner's
end of this session. He has been to me a tower of strength in
resignation

administering affairs pertaining to the office of President, and,
during the entire time of his connection with this institution, he
has rendered invaluable service, and the value of. his services is
no less today than it has ever been, but he deems it best to re-
tire while in full possession of all of his faculties. The ac-
companying letter from Dr. Henry S. Prittchett will show that
through the "Carnegie Fund" he has been generously provided for.
It will be necessary of course to elect a Professor of Modern
Languages who shall take (unclear) charge of the Department at the open-
ing of another session, but it is my earnest desire that Dr. Joynes
may not be taken away, entirely, from us. Should he be allowed to
remain in the dwelling where he now is for another year, I am sure
he would gladly remain, without salary or any pecuniary reward
whatever, to counsel and advise, whenever desired, with the Faculty,
in the class room, with the President or in any way which might
promote the best interests of the University. As a lecturer,
solely, his services would be invaluable. I earnestly beg,
therefore, that Dr. Joynes be invited to remmin for another year,
at least, in his house on the Campus virtually, though not ac-
tually, as Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages.
THE PLEDGE.
So far as I know no hazing was done by any student after

he had signed the pledge required by the Board, but I am afraid
The Pledge
pretty effective work was done in that line by students before
in regard to
they had signed this pledge.
"hazing."
I do not, myself, think it best to require a pledge at
all in regerd to hazing, and I am thoroughly convinced that if it
should be required it should be simply a pledge stripped of the
many modifying clauses in the one which is new required. Honest-
ly I would be exceedingly reluctant to sign such a pledge my-


President's Report.
self, and the reluctance and hesitancy of students in signing it
was so marked that I thought it necessary to place the following
interpretation upon it: "A student in signing the pledge in re-
gard to hazing does not agree to spy upon any other student nor
to report any case of hazing which may come under his notice.
He simply agrees to give the weight of his moral influence in re-
gard to this law just as any good citizen gives the weight of his
moral influence in his community to a law of that Community."
Such pledges are required at Davidson, Clemson and other
Colleges and are not only of no value, but I think positively
hurtful since students unhesitatingly sign them with no intention
of keeping them. I would deplore such a custom in the University
of South Carolina.
NEW HOUSES.
The three new houses for Professors were all completed
by November. Prof. Hand moved into the house next to the cottage
of Prof. Wardlaw on Oct. 7. Prof. Twitchell into the adjoining
house Oct. 15, and Prof. Snowden into the third Nov. 1. The
houses are very neat, comfortable and seemingly well built. The
cost of the three was $10,244.10. The excess over the appro-
priation, $244.10, was drawn for the greater part from the saving
of rents - the balance from the amount appropriated for general
expenses of the University. By order of the Executive Committee
$120 was also spent in building for these houses three necessary
out houses.
MESS HALL.
The Mess Hall, as hitherto, under the management of Mrs.
Bell has been admirably conducted, but owing to the remarkable in-
ersase in the cost of living it seams to be impossible to keep
the price of board at $11.
The old Mess Hall was sold to Major Lowrance for $157,
and has been torn down, but Maj. Lowrance is delinquent in remov-
i the debris within the sixty days allowed him.


529
Such
pledges
hurtful
Report
on three
new houses
for pro-
fessors.
Sale of
old Mess
Hall for
$157.00






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Jan. 08.
Recovering
buildings
Promotion of
Prof. Baker
recommended,
and increase
of pay for
Mr. McCarthy
and Miss
C.H. Porcher


President's Report.
I would be glad to have your building committee push the
matter of building the Wallace Thomson Infirmary as rapidly as
possible. It is badly needed, and so too is the old Infirmary
needed for a residence.
The health of students has been excellent this session.
One young man after a few days sickness in the Infirmary went to
his home with suspicious symptoms of typhoid fever, but he is now
entirely recovered.
RECOVERING BUILDINGS.
The last legislature appropriated $2800 for recovering
with tin shingles Science Hall and three houses occupied by Pro-
fessors Bain, A. C. Moore, Wauchope, Burney, Colcock and Joynes.
of this amount $2571.13 was spent in recovering and painting.
The balance, $228.87, reverts to the State Treasury. I would
like to state here that another small balance from the Scholar-
ship fund - $112.80 - reverts to the State Treasury.
ADDENDA TO APPROPRIATIONS.
The attention of the Board is called to the great amount
of work done by Associate Professor L. T. Baker - and it is done
most efficiently. I recommend that he be promoted to a full
Professorship with the accompanying salary. I also recommend
that the salary of Mr. Eugene McCarthy be raised from $800 to
$1,000, and further that the salary of the new Assistant Librarian,
Miss Charlotte Porcher - be raised from $40 to $60 per month. She
has been at work during the month of December,1907 and has already
shown great efficiency. These additions to salaries will amount
to $940.
HON. A. C. COURTENAY.
The Hon. A. C. Courtenay has at all times shown great
interest in the University and has several times presented to
the Library valuable books for which we are grateful. In
December last he presented to the Library an (unclear) - a Zulu
spear similar to the one by which the young French Prince was



President Sloan's report Jan. 1908.

President's Report.
killed while serving in the British Army. Capt. Courtenay was
at great pains in preparing a card, giving the history of the
spear, which is attached to the spear which hangs in a panel upon
the West wall of the Library. I think Mr. Courtenay would ap-
preciate highly some acknowledgement from the Board of the gift.
In closing this report I wish to commend in the Highest
terms the accuracy, faithfulness and efficiency of the President's
Stenographer and the Treasurer of the University, Miss S. F. Fickling.
Very respectfully,
Benjamin Sloan, President.


533
African
Zulu weapon
present from
Capt. Cour.
tenay
Miss S. F.
Fickling
as Secre-
tary and-
treasurer.


534


Resignation of Dr. Joynes


Columbia, S. C., Decenber 27th, 1907.
President Sloan,
University of South Carolina.
My dear Sir:
I am just informed that I have been voted a "retiring
allowance" by the Carnegie Foundation for Education, to take ef-
fect "whenever I shall discontinue active service".

This will
be at the close of the present session.
It therefore become my duty to transmit through you to
the Board of Trustees my resignation of the Chair of Modern Lan-
guages, at the close of my present year of service.
I perform this duty with sincere regret.

To sever my
connection with an institution in which I have served for over
twenty-five years, and with companions and colleagues who, like
yourself, have become so endeared to me, is almost like a sur-
render of life itself.
But I feel that advancing years have im-
paired my strength, and that the time has come when I should
surrender my arduous work to younger and strnoger hands. In
parting from you, dear Sir, and from my colleagues I am cheered
by the thought that while, in our long intercourse, there is so
much I shall love to remember, there is nothing I could wish to
forget.
To the Trustees I make acknowledgement for kind indul-
gence and support. My interest in the University shall not cease
with my retirement.
Should my life be spared for yet a few

years, I shall hope to accomplish some work that may redound to
its honor; but at any rate, so long as I live, its progress and
success shall be among my fondest aspirations.
Very respectfully,
Edward S. Joynes,
Professor of Modern Languages
Office of the)
President.)
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching. New York, Dec. 24, 1907.
Dear Sir:
I have the pleasure to inform you that at the last meet-
ing of the Executive Committee a retiring allowance of nineteen-
hundred and ten dollars ($1910) was voted you, in consideration of
your unusual and distinguished service as a professor of Mod-
ern Languages. This sum will be sent to your address in monthly
checks, beginning at such time as you may inform me that you have
discontinued active service.
In making this communication the Executive Committee de-
sires to express at the same time its high appreciation of your
work as a teacher and its best wishes for your continued health
and prosperity.
Very sincerely yours,
To
Dr. Edward S. Joynes
(Singed) Henry S. Prittchett.
University of South Carolina.


Jan. 15, 1908-


REPORT OF CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON SCHOOLS, S. C. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
University of South Carolina.
On Nov. 28, in company with Dr. Williams I inspected this institu-
tion. I would state in the beginning that all the buildings on
the campus are very old and were evidently constructed without any
attention to sanitary details. The principal need there is a new
lot of buildings, but this is out of the question, I suppose, so
I would suggest that the Board urge the Legislature to give the
University a small appropriation for sanitary purposes. The Pres-
ident of the University can suggest the amount that would be needed,
better than I can. Among the many things that are needed there I
would suggest a system of water closets or at least urinals, in
each section of the dormitories, with a urinal on each floor of
the building.
A central heating plant with a system of steam heating is

badly needed, and I would suggest that drinking water be piped into
the buildings.
I think the University is in about as sanitary a con-
dition as it can be kept when all things are considered.
Some matters that did not appear all right when I was
there have been satisfactorily explained by the President.
There was some complaint of students urinating from windows.
This matter might be lessened by having the closets within the
buildings, or connected with them by covered ways. The students
do not always flush closets after using them. I mentioned this
matter to the President and he assured me that he would have the
janitors visit the closets twice daily and flush and clean the
closets. I suggested that he post notices in each closet building
giving the sanitary reasons for the necessity of flushing the closets
There was a good bit of accumulated rubbish in the rear of the
buildings, which the President accounted for, by the absence of
the Marshal. The President stated that this rubbish is removed
certainly once, and more often twice a week. The Stewards' Hall,
or mess hall, is I think in a very sanitary condition, and the
food and foodstuffs seem to be handled in a sanitary manner.
The Gymnasium and baths are in very good condition.
Altogether I think that the institution is in very good shape.
(Signed) W. J. Burdell, Chairman Com. on
Schools.



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in re. foot-ball. Ga. Med. Col. vs. Carolina.
Dec. 1907
Augusta, Ga., Dec. 7, 1907.
Mr. Benjamin Sloan,
Columbia, S. C.,
Dear Sir:
Received your letter of the 4th inst. with inquiry as
to the cause of the Georgia Medical Gollege team leaving the
field at Columbia, Nov. 21st.
In reply I beg to say that as far as the matter is known
to me, the only reason was the decision of Referee Ellison,
calling a drop-kick safely executed by one of the players of the
South Carolina team near the close od the lst half, when actually
the ball went outside the goal-post by at least six inches. I
being the other official of the game called Referee Ellison's
attention to the fact that the ball went outside the goal-post,
but according to rules, the jurisdiction of the umpire is
limited in that respect, and the final decision of the referee
must stand, and Referee Ellison decided his to be absolute. The
Georgia team did not think it a fair and impartial decision and
subsequently decided to leave the field.
Up to that time the game was a clean article of foot-
ball, and it was really unfortunate that the progress of it should
have been marred by such a circumstance.
I do not wish to express any personal opinion in regard
to the matter, but will say that your men played good, clean -
foot-ball and displayed gentlemanly conduct on the field in every
respect, and the members of the Georgia team did not have any-
thing but praises for the treatment they received from your team.
Trusting that this information may be of service to you,
I beg to remain,
Yours very truly,
(Signed, Dr. J. E. Marek.


Minutes Jan. 15, 1908.
Columbia, S. C., Jan. 15, 1908.
The Board of Trustees met in the University Library at
3:30 p. m., January 15, 1908.
Present:
Mr. Martin,
Mr. Macfarlan,
Mr. Walker,
Mr. Hamer,
Mr. Spencer,
Mr. Davis,
Mr. Kohn,
Mr. Cothran.
In the absence of the Governor,Mr. Macfarlan called the
meeting to order that a committee from the Alumni might be heard.
Messrs. Seibels, Weston and McMahan appeared in behalf of the
Alumni to request the Board to make an effort to retain Dr. E. S.
Joynes at the University as Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages.
Governor Ansel took the Chair, and Mr. Spencer read the
following resolution in regard to a permanent order of business,
which was adopted:
Resolved, That the following shall be the order of
business at the meetings of the Board of Trustees of the University
of South Carolina:
1. Reading of unapproved minutes.
2. Reports from President.
3. Committee reports,
Standing Committees
Special Committees
4. Unfinished business.
5. New Business.
A committee from the student body representing the Y. M. C. A.
was heard. Mr. Sheppard, Mr. Rector and Mr. Reaves appeared to
request the Board to ask the Legislature for $600 towards securing


Committee of
the Alumni,
in re. Dr.
Joynes.
Perma
nent
form
of order
of
business.
Petition
from
Y.M.C.A.


542
President's con.
struction put
on pledge


Minutes, contin.



2.
Jan. 15, '08
a secretary on the campus. They stated that the students had
contributed $250, the Faculty $150, the Alumni $100, and that
they hoped to secure $200 more from the Alumni, making a total of
$1,300, provided the Board could contribute from the appropria-
tion $600.
The minutes of the October 29, 1907 meeting were read
and confirmed.
Mr. Spencer moved that all of the President's reports
be received as information. Carried.
Mr. Spencer moved that $300 be appropriated for the
Department of Physics. Carried.
Mr. Spencer moved that the construction which the
President put upon the pledge in regard to hazing be approved.
Carried.
Mr. Spencer moved that recommendations from the President's
report Nos. 2, $50 for the Dept. of Geology; 3, $50 for the Dept.
of Ancient Languages; the lst and 3rd sub-divisionsof 4, $400
increase in Mr. Easterling's salary and $200 for the purchase of
instruments in the Dept. of Mathematics; 5, $144 for the Dept. of
Philosophy; 6, $56 for the Dept. of Biology; 7 $50 for the Dept.
of History; 1st sub-division of #8, $50 for the purchase of books
for the Dept. of Education; 9, $100 for the Dept. of Chemistry;
and 10, $200 for the Gymnasium, be adopted. Mr. Hamer seconded
the motion.
Mr. Macfarlan moved to amend the motion by recommending
that the budget of appropriations asked for the Departments be
approved as they are stated in the President's report, except
as to sub-divisions 1 and 2 of #4 ($400 increase in Mr. Easterling's
salary and $600 for the employment of an Instructor in Mathematics)
and sub-division 2 under #8 ($2000 for a Summer School). Carried.
Mr. Hamer moved that the Board ask the Legislature for
an appropriation to raise Mr. Easterling to an Adjunct Professor
at a salary of $1200. Mr. Spencer sec.the motion. Carried.
Mr. Macfarlan moved that $2,000 be asked for a Summer
School. Mr. Walker seconded the motion. Carried.


Minutes, contin.
Jan. 15, 1908
Mr. Kohn moved that the aggregate sum for repairs, as recommended
in the President's report, be asked for. Mr. Macfarlan seconded
the motion. Carried.
Mr. Kohn moved to ask for an increase of $240 in the salary of the
Assistant Librarian. Mr. Spencer seconded the motion. Carried.
Mr. Kohn's motion that the recommendation of the Dept. of Educa-
tion in regard to increasing the Normal Scholarships to two for
each county be asked for, was seconded and carried.
Mr. Kohn moved that an assistant in the Dept. of Chemistry be pro-
vided for at a salary of $400. Carried.
Mr. Hamer moved that the Board ask for $600 for the Y. M. C. A.
Secretary. Mr. Spencer seconded the motion. Carried.
Mr. Spencer withdrew his motion that Mr. McCarthy's salary be
raised to $1,000.
Mr. Hamer moved that Mr. McCarthy's salary be raised to
$900. Seconded and carried.
Mr. Hamer moved that the Legislature be requested to make
an appropriation of $100,000 for the erection of an auditorium.
The motion was seconded by Mr. Spencer and carried.
Mr. Kohn's motion that the appropriation of $100,000
be asked for under a separate bill was seconded by Mr. Cothran
and carried.
Mr. Macfarlan moved that Mr. Baker be made a full pro-
fessor with the regular salary of $2,000. Carried.
Mr. Macfarlan moved that Mr. H. C. Davis be made an as-
sociate professor with a salary of $1,500. Carried.
Mr. Macfarlan moved that Mr. Bradley's salary be raised
to $800, in accordance with the terms of the President's recom-
mendation that he should assist in the Dept. of Education by read-
ing themes in addition to his work in the Dept. of Modern Laguages.
Carried.
Mr. Macfarlan moved that Civil Engineering be added to
the Dept. of Mathematics and that an Associate Professor be asked
for at a salary of $1,500. Mr. Davis seconded the motion. A vote
was taken and the motion failed.
Mr. Walker moved that a tutor be employed in the Dept.


545

As to in-

crease of
salary of
assist. librar-
McCarthy's
salary raised

Mr. Baker
made full
professor.
Mr. Bradley's
salary raised
to 800.00


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Dr. Joyner's
elected Prof.
Emeritus, with
right to vote
in faculty.
Thanks made
to Capt. Courtenay
for "assigai".


Minutes, contin.
4.
Jan. 15, '08
of Mathematics. A vote was taken and the motion failed.
Mr. Macfarlan moved that the President's recommendations
in regard to improvements be incorporated in tne Supplementary
report to the Legislature. Carried.
Mr. Kohn moved that the President be requested to prepare

a Supplementary Report to be presented to the General Assembly.
Carried.
Mr. Kohn moved that the Committee on Organization's
.
recommendation in regard to the School of Pharmacy be adopted.
Carried.
Mr. Hamer moved to ask for $1500 for the establishment
of a School of Commerce. Carried.
Mr. Spencer moved that the Degree of Civil Engineering
be conferred, if thought expedient by the Faculty. Carried.
Mr. Macfarlan moved to lay the following recommendations
of the Committee on Organization on the table, same having already
been acted upon: raise in Mr. Bradley's salary; increase of
Normal Scholarships; promotion of Mr. Davis to an Associate Profes-
sor. Promotion of Mr. Baker to a full professorship with ac-
companying salary; that as soon as practicable no one under the
grade of an adjunct professor should regularly teach the classes;
appropriation forethe Y. M. C. A. secretary: Carried.
It was moved and carried that at the expiration of Dr.
E. S. Joynes' term of Professor of Modern Languages under his
resignation now before the Board, he be made Professor Emeritus
of Modern Languages with the right to one vote in the Faculty,
and that during the holding of said office he be allowed and in-
vited to continue his residence on the campus in the building
now occupied by him.
Mr. Cothran offered the following resolution, which was
adopted: Resolved, - That the Board of Trustees acknowledge
with gratitude the gift of the Hon. Wm. A. Courtenay, to the
Library, of a Zulu assigai, which has been hung in a panel upon
the west wall of the Library; and that the Secretary forward a
copy of this resolution to Mr. Courtenay.


Minutes, contin.
Jan. 15, '08
5.
Dr. Davis read the report of the Auditing Committee. It 
Report of Auditing Com.
was moved and carried that the report be adopted.
Mr. Davis moved that Mr. Walker be added to the Auditing
Mr. Walker added to Audit. Com.
Committee. The motion was seconded and carried.
Mr. Walker moved to abolish the charge to professors
for electric lights. The motion was lost.
Major Sloan read a report from the Library Committee.
Report of Lib.
Mr. Macfarlan's motion that the report be adopted and that two
Com. adopted.
students be appointed at a salary of $40 a piece to assist in the
Library, was carried.
Gov. Ansel reported as Chairman of the Wallace Thomson
Bids for in-
Infirmary building committee that the bids for the building
firmary.
would be given out on Saturday.
Mr. Spencer offered the following resolution, which was
Acceptance
adopted: Resolved, That the Board accept with deep regret the
of the
resignation of Dr. Edward S. Joynes as Professor of Modern Lan-
resignation
guages, to take effect Sept. 1st, 1908, and that a committee be
	of Dr. Joynes
appointed to appropriately express its regrets to Dr. Joynes,
and its appreciation of his splendid services to the University.
The Chair appointed Mr. Spencer and Mr. Davis on the committee.
Mr. Walker moved that the members constituting the
Election of
Executive Committee at this time be re-elected. Carried.
Commitees.
The Fianance Committee was also re-elected.
Notice of 
Mr. Macfarlan gave notice of a motion to amend the By-
Amendment to
laws so that all committees should be re-elected at the June
By-laws
meeting of the Board.
Mr. Cothran's motion that the Board adjourn was carried.
The Board adjourned at 7 p. m.
S. J. (Unclear)
Secretary.





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Report of Com. on Organization
Columbia, S. C., Jan. 15, 1908.
To the Board of Trustees,
University of South Carolina.
Your Committee on Organization beg leave to make report as
follows:
We recommend,
1. That it is not advisable or expedient at this time to

establish a School of Pharmacy.
2. That a School of Commerce be organized to begin with

School of Com
next September, and that the sum of One Thousand, Five Hundred
merce.
Dollars be asked of the Legislature for that purpose.
3. That Civil Engineering be added to the Department of
Mathematics; that an Associate Professor be elected for said
department; and that the degree of C. E. be regularly conferred.
4. That the work of examining themes be placed in charge
Theme Reader
of Instructor Bradley; and that his salary be raised from $600 to
$800.
5. That the Legislature be requested to create two Normal


f


or 2 to each
the appropriation be increased accordingly.
County
6. That Adjunct Professor Davis be promoted to that of

Associate Professor, his salary to be $1,500 per annum, and to
commence Sept. 1st, 1908, at the end of his vacation.
7. That, following the President's recommendation, Associate
Prof. Baker be made a full professor, at a salary of $2,000.
8. That as soon as practicable no one under the grade of

Adjunct professor should regularly teach the classes.
9. That, if it can be secured by appropriation, the sum of
Y.M.C.A.
Six Hundred Dollars be contributed to aid the Y. M. C. A. as-
employing
sociation at the University to employ a regular Secretary for
Sec'y.
one year.
10. That at the expiration of Dr. E. S. Joynes' term of
Professor of Modern Languages under his resignation now before
the Board, he be made Prof. Emeritus of Mod. Languages with the





Jan. 15, 1908.
Rpt. Com of Organization.
right to one vote in the Faculty, and that during the holding of
said office he be allowed and invited to continue his residence
on the campus in the building now occupied by him.
(Signed) C. E. Spencer, Chairman.
Columbia, S. C., Jan. 15, 1908
To the Board of, Trustees,
Unitersity of South Carolina.
Your Auditing Committee beg to report that they have
audited the books and accounts of the Treasurer and found them
accurately kopt, with all vouchers properly filed, with the ex-
ception of a few unimportant ones.
We commend the Treasurer as a faithful and efficient
officer.
(Signed) J. 4. Davis,
R. P. Hamer,
Julius H. Walker.
PRESIDENTS OFFICE.
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
COLUMBIA. S. C.
January, 1908.
The Library Committee at its latest meeting appointed
Miss Charlotte Haskell Porcher to succeed Miss Anne Allston
Porcher as assistant librarian. Miss Porcher is a graduate of
the New York Public Library Training Class, 1907, and comes with
the very best recommendations.
The Committee recommends the employment of two student
assistants in the Library. It is the custom in most colleges
to use such assistants, who give nine or ten hours a week for a
moderate compensation - remission of fees, or its equivalent.
It has been found to be both economical and satisfactory to the
librarians, and most helpful to the students themselves.
Signed E. L. Green,
b
Benjamin (unclear)


Report
of
Auditing
Committee
Report
Library
Com.


550


Minutes of call meeting
Mch 3, 1908.
Columbia, S. C., March 3, 1908
The Board of Trustees met in the University Library at
5 p. m., March 3, 1908.
Present:
Gov. Ansel,
Mr. Martin,
Mr. Raysor,
Mr. Cothran,
Mr. Macfarlan,
Dr. Bates,
Mr. Walker,
Mr. Hamer,
Mr. Kohn,
Mr. Davis.
Mr. Spencer
The minutes of the January 15, 1908 meeting were read
and approved.
Prof. of mod.
The President read a letter from Dr. Joynes, who has in
Languages
charge the correspondence from applicants for the position of
Professor of Modern Languages.
It was moved and seconded that Dr. Joynes' request to be
allowed to report to the President and the Committee on Organiza-
tion be granted. Carried.
Mr. Martin moved that Wednesday be Commencement Day
Commencement
and that one day be granted to the Alumni for such program as
Day changed
they desire. Seconded and carried.
To Wednesday
Mr. Kohn, as Chairman of the Finance Committee, made a
report in regard to the appropriation by the General Assembly for
1908.
Mr. Kohn moved that the salaries allowed heretofore
be continued.
Mr. Macfarlan moved to amend the motion as follows: That,
all salaries, except as affected by recent legislation, be con-
tinued as heretofore. Seconded and carried.
Prof. Baker's
Mr. Kohn moved that Prof. Baker's salary be increased
salaries raised
to $2,000, dating from Jan. 1st, 1908. Seconded and carried.
to $2,000.


556
Minutes cont.

March 3, 1908
Mr. Davis' sal-
Mr. Kohn moved that Mr. Davis' salary be paid at the
ary raised to $1,500.
rate of $1500 a year beginning Sept. 1st. Carried.
Mr. Kohn moved that Mr. Easterling's salary be raised
Mr. Easterling's salary
to $1200, beginning Jan. 1st, 1908. Seconded and carried.
raised to 1200.
Mr. Kohn moved that, at the suggestion of Dr. Burney,
Mr. Griffith be appointed as his assistant at the rate of $200
Asst. in Dept.
a year until the regular man that Dr. Burney has in view can be
of Chemistry.
secured at a salary basis of $400 a year. Seconded and carried.
Mr. Kohn moved that $200 be applied to Mr. Bradley's
200 applied
to Mr. Bradley's
Carried.
salary.
salary.
It was moved and carried that Miss Charlotte H. Porcher's
Raise (unclear) sal- 
fixed at $60 a month, as asked for and granted, beginning
salary be
ary Asst. Librarian.
1908.
Jan. 1st,
It was moved and carried that $100 be added to the salary
Raise in salary
of the Physical Director, beginning Jan. 1st, 1908.
Physical Director
Major Sloan read letters from various architects asking
for the contract to erect the new building.
Mr. Davis moved that the Board select an architect.
Selection of
Mr. Macfarlan seconded the motion. A vote was taken and the
Architect.
motion failed.
Mr. Kohn offered the following motion, which was adopted:
"Moved that the Board of Trustees, through the President,
invite such architects as desire to do so to appear before the
Board on Tuesday, April 14, and present a general outline of a
scheme of permanent development, with or without drawings for the
new $30,000 building, with a view to being selected as the permanent
architect, and that the Chairman appoint a permanent Building
Committee of five, with the Chairman as an ex officio member
and the President of the University as an advisory member, to take
charge of the building and permanent development."
Mr. Hamer moved that the appropriation for improvements
be given in charge of the Building Committee. Seconded and carried.
Mr. Cothran stated that the Bill in regard to the College
College lands came up so late in the session that it was not possible to
lands
get it through, but that it would doubtless be passed at the next


Minutes cont.
3
March 3, 1908

session of the General Assembly.
Gov. Ansel, as Chairman of the "Wallace Thomson Infirmary"
Building Committee, stated that the contracts had all been let out,

and that the work was progressing.
Mr. Walker made the following motion, which was adopted:
That this Board take steps to invite the members of
the General Assembly at some day during its next session, and per-
manently thereafter, to visit the University and thereby become
acquainted with its condition and its needs.
Mr. Macfarlan moved that the bylaws be so amended 
that all standing committees shall be appointed or elected at the
stated meeting of the Board in June of each year. Seconded by
Mr. Kohn. Carried.
It was moved and carried that the Board adjourn to meet
again on Tuesday, April 14th, 1908.
The Board adjourned at 7 p. m.
L. F. Feckling (unclear)

Secretary.


Rpt. of
Building Cont. 
Invitation to
Gen. Assembly
to visit Univ.
Amendment
to By-Laws


558
Death Joe

Dan'l Pope
Portrait of
Col. Pope
PState & College
seals.
Architects
Rpt. from
Com on Org.
in re in-
creasing at-
tendance


President Sloan's rpt.
Apr. 14- 1908
PRESIDENT'S REPORT.
April 14, 1908
To the Board of Trustees,
University of South Carolina.
Gentlemen:
It is my painful duty to announce to you, officially,
the death of the Dean of the Law Faculty, Professor Joseph Daniel
Pope, which occurred on the 21st of March, 1908. He died, liter-
ally, in harness. He delivered to the Senior Law Class his last
lecture on Wednesday March 18, 1908. Had he lived until April
6th he would have reached his 88th year. Affectionately loyal
to the University; zealous in his service; grand in character;
splendid in intellect and attainments; superb in expounding the
principles of the law, his power for good in the University cannot
be told.
Since the death of Professor Pope, Professors Moore and
Thomas have taken his classes in hand and are doing his work, and
this they are willing to continue to do until the end of the session,
at no charge to the University, with the hope that Professor Pope's
salary may be continued for the year - or to such time as may seem
to you best - and paid to his family.
In this connection I will
state to the Board that Professot Pope's daughter, Mrs. Stoney,
has an excellent bust portrait of her father which, on account of
her great need of money, she is willing to transfer to the University
for $150. I hope the Board may be able to make this purchase.

I also recommend that water-colored paintings of the seal
of the college and of the seal of the State be ordered from Mrs.
Isabel Robertson and hung upon the walls of the Library. Mrs.
Robertson will make both paintings - 10X12 inches each - for $25,
a very low price.
I report that quite a number of architects have been in
correspondence with me in regard to the new building which is to be
erected. The following named architects have visited me, and ex-
pressed a desire to appear before the Board at this meeting to give
their views in regard to the improvements contemplated. The list
is as follows: Messrs. Edwards & Walter, Columbia, S. C., Messrs.

Shand & Lafaye, Columbia, S. C: Satterlee & Boyd, New York; Mr.
Albert Todd, Charleston, S. C., and Messrs. Wilson, Sompayrac &
Urquhart, Columbia, S. C. I have asked these gentlemen to be on
hand, ready to be called if the Board desires to hear them.
I
present herewith a communication from the Department
of Education signed by Professor Patterson Wardlaw and by Profs.
Hand & Baker of that Department. I heartily recommend that their
suggestions be carried out as far as possible in providing for the
development of the University.
At a meeting of your Committee on Organization, held on
March 12th, the faculty was requested to make some recommendations
looking towards the increase in attendance at the University for
next session. A committee of the faculty was then appointed and
drew up a set of recommendations which was afterwards adopted by
the faculty and a copy forwarded to each member of the Committee on
Organization.
I suppose that Committee will submit to you a re-
port at this meeting. Among the recommendations was one asking


for the establishment of a new A. B. degree course, - a course in
Commerce and Finance. Since the adoption of this course by the

faculty it has been thought best to amend it by adding to it the
subjects of Astronomy and either Biology or Geology, in all six
hours, and to deduct that number of hours from the elective hours
of the course.
It is required by the By-laws that the junior member of
the faculty shall be its secretary. Sometimes it happens that


President's Rpt. 4/14/08
2
this member does not make an efficient secretary. Prof. Baker has
been acting as the secretary of the faculty, but he is now pro-
Request for
moted to a full professorship, and the duties will fall upon one
of the younger members.
During Prof. Baker's secretaryship
appropriation
the minutes have been so well and accurately kept that it is the
desire of the faculty that he be retained as its secretary. It,
of 100.00 for
therefore, asks that $100 be appropriated for this purpose.
The
duties of this office are quite arduous, and it is not fair that
Sec'y of Faculty
the faculty insists upon Prof. Baker doing the work gratis.
It is with sincere regret that I call your attention to
a letter from Dr. E. J. Wannamaker, now in charge of the Infirmary
Resignation
stating that, on account of ill health, he will send in his resig-
nation as physician to the Infirmary to take effect at the end of
of Dr. Wan-
this session. Dr. Wannamaker has served faithfully and well, and
it will be difficult to fill his place.
namaker
I beg leave to file an application from Dr. Skottowe B.
Fishburne for a position on the medical staff of the University,
and also applications from Mr. John S. Reynolds, Columbia, and
Mr. J. Nelson Frierson, of the Law School at Buffalo, N. Y., for
the professorship of law, made vacant by the death of Prof. Jos.
Dan'l Pope for your consideration.
It is my duty now to state to the Board that I shall have
to decline, at the end of this session, standing for re-election to
Resignation
both offices - President of the University and Professor of Physics.
of Pres.
I wish to retire because I am painfully conscious that the interests
of the University can far better be served and promoted by a younger
Benj. Sloan

and more vigorous man. Moreover, because of declining years,
I find the duties and responsibilities of these offices fast grow-
ing unduly wearisome. It is with profound grief that I make this
announcement. For more than a quarter of a century I have given
myself heart and sould to this old sometimes College sometimes
University.
I now feel that the best that was within me has been
spent, and that my hold upon life has been slackened, and so I ask
you to release me.
Anticipating my release, I wish to express to the Board
my grateful thanks for its gracious courtesy, sound advice, and its

uniformly helpful support throughout my administration. Although
I leave it, my love for the old Institution is undying, and I wish
I could live to see it become the great University which South Caro-
lina must have.
It may be of interest to the Board to know that my re-
Carnegie
tirement will not be accompanied by distress to me pecuniarily.
A copy of a letter from Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, President of the
Foundation
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, herewith ap-
pended, will show that at the instance of my friends, Col. John T
appropriate
Sloan, J. J. McMahon, and others, I have been granted a retiring
allowance of $2,150 annually; this will dissipate in my old age
$2,150 annually

"all fear of the wolf at the door". Whether this recognition of


for (unclear) Sloan.
do no wrong in gratefully accepting it.
Very truly,
(Signed) Benjamin Sloan,
President.


560
Major Sloan's
resignation
Building Com.
Report from
Architecture
Wilson, Sompayrac
& Edwards elected
architects to the
University.
Additional ap-
propriation of
$500 from Mrs. Jeter 
Salary of Col.
Pope.
Committee
on Infirmary.


C(unclear) meeting Apr. 14 - 1908.
Columbia, S. C., April 14, 1908.
The Board of Trustees met in the University Library at 5 p. m.
Present:
Gov. Ansel,
Mr. Martin,
Mr. Raysor,
Mr. Cothran,
Mr. Macfarlan,
Mr. Walker,
Mr. Hamer,
Mr. Spencer,
Dr. Bates,
Mr. Davis,
Mr. Kohn.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
The President read a report in which was incorporated
his resignation to take effect at the end of the scholastic year
and also stating the reasons for his retirement from the Presidency
and from his Chair, and his desire that he be not re-elected.
After the reading of the President's report Governor
Ansel expressed in feeling terms the profound regret that the Board
felt at receiving the President's resignation.
Mr. Kohn suggested that, before taking up the President's
report in detail, the various architects waiting on the Board be

heard from.
Gov. Ansel appointed the following Building Committee:
Mr. Macfarlan, Mr. Hamer, Mr. Martin, Mr. Kohn and Mr. Walker, with

the Chairman as an ex officio member and the president of the college
as an advisory member.
Mr. Martin moved that the architects be heard from, and
that they
be limited to ten minutes.
Mr. Spencer amended the motion by substituting fifteen
minutes.
Carried.
The architects were heard in the following order:
Mr.
Edwards, of the firm of Edwards, Walters & Parnham;
Mr.
Hamby, of the firm of Hamby & Hamby;
Mr.
Shand of the firm of Shand & Lafaye;
Mr.
Todd, of Charleston, S. C.;
Mr.
Wilson, of the firm of Wilson, Sompayrac & Urquhart.
After hearing the above architects Mr. Martin moved that
a ballot be taken to elect an architect, which motion was seconded
by Mr. Walker. The first ballot resulted in a tie between the
firms of Wilson, Sompayrac & Urquhart and Edwards 4 Walter, the
vote being as follows: Wilson, 4; Edwards, 4; Shand, 2; Todd, 1.
The second ballot elected Messrs. Wilson, Sompayrac & Urquhart,
the vote being 6 in favor of Wilson, 4 in favor of Edwards, and
1 in favor of Shand.
Mr. Spencer moved that Mr. Wilson's election be made
unanimous.
Seconded and carried.
Mr. Kohn stated that Mrs. Ann H. Jeter had contributed
an additional $500 for the purpose of putting a metal roof on the
Wallace Thomson Infirmary, and moved that the thanks of the Board
be extended to Mrs. Jeter. Carried.
Mr. Macfarlan moved that Messrs. Wilson, Sompayrac &
Urquhart be made the architects to the University. Carried.
Mr. Kohn moved that a committee be appointed to draw up
resolutions in regard to the death of Prof. Jos. Dan'l Pope.
The following committee was appointed: Mr. Macfarlan, Mr. Raysor,
and Mr. Kohn.
Mr. Kohn moved that the Board authorize that the salary
of Prof. Pope be paid to his family until July 1st, next. Carried.
Mr. Kohn moved that a permanent Infirmary Committee be ap-
pointed with Dr. Bates as Chairman, and that the committee report
to the Board at its next meeting.





Special rpt. from Com. on
minutes cont.
Organization
2
Apr. 14, '08.
Mr. Kohn moved that the Board meet at 5 o'clock on the
27th of May for the purpose of discussing filling the vacancies in
the Faculty. Carried.
Mr. Rayor moved that a committee of three be appointed
to express appropriately the regret of the Board at the President's
retirement. The following committee was appointed: Mr. Raysor,

Mr. Hamer and Mr. Spencer.
Mr. Davis moved that the college claim against the
Government for occupancy of the college grounds and buildings after
the war be referred to the Executive Committee with power to act.
Carried.
Mr. Kohn moved that the Board adjourn. Carried.
The Board adjourned at 7:45.
ekt.
4
Secretary.
On April 28th, 1908, Gov. Ansel appointed the following
Infirmary Committee: Dr. Bates, Mr. J. 4. Davis and Mr. C. E.
Spencer.
Special Report of Committee on Organization.
To the Board of Trustees, University of So. Ca.,
Your Committee on Organisation begs leave to report:
On March 12, 
1908 the Committee met at the Library for the


purpose of having a full and free conference with the Faculty on the
subject in hand;
the general welfare of the University. The Faculty
cordially responded to teh Committee's invitation to be present, and
after quite an extended interchange of views, especially with reference



to some
plan

looking to that end, the Faculty was requested by the
Committee to formulate a good, feasible method for increasing the at-



tendance, and to (unclear)
for the considerstion of the Board, along

with the Committee's report.
The Committee herewith submit the recommendations of the
Faculty on said subject, along with the accompanying letter of President

Sloan stating that the Facultywas doing in regard to
the Professors
visiting various schools and (unclear) in the State
and the Co
mitteee recommend that the actions and recommendations of
the Faculty as
outlined be approved by the Board, but with this qualification as to

visitations of the Professors: that with regard to lectures before the
various schools in the State, the Department of Education should seek
to secure for the various Professors opportunities for making their
various Departments more popular both before instructor and pupil; but
that with regard to a public lecture in a given community, that should
only follow a direct invitation for the particular Professor desired,
with or without (unclear) the subject. At the same time the Faculty sub-
mitted a recommendation for the adoption of a course in Commerce and
Finance, and also a course in Road Construction, and your Committee
herewith (unclear) said recommendations, and recommends that (unclear) of
(unclear) be adopted, but the (unclear) as modified by the President's
recommendations in his report this day submitted to the Board.
Respectfully submitted, 
(unclear)


Committee
on Resolutions
Claims against
Gov. for oc-
cupancy of land
& bldg. during
the war.
Rpt. of Com.
on Organiza-
tion.
Recommen-
dation from
Faculty


Essay courses.



Mr. C. (unclear). Spencer, Chairman,
Com. on Organization,
Dear Sir:
At the request of the Committee on Organization the attention

of the Faculty was called to your desire for the adoption of (unclear)
looking toward the (unclear) at the University. The (unclear) mat-
ter was reported to the Faculty Committee (unclear)
lated a scheme which it thought might be conducive to this end. The
scheme with a few modifications was adopted by the Faculty, and as
amended is herewith submitted for your consideration. The paragraphs
marked "adopted" concern the Faculty chiefly, (unclear) 
mended are already put in force.
I (unclear) course is (unclear), for which I ask your favorable consideration. It
has seemed to the Faculty that (unclear) students to come to the University.
In regard to Professors (unclear) various (unclear) munities is the State, a plan has already been adopted from which we hope 

for beneficial (unclear). Professor (unclear) visits the (unclear) 
munities in all parts of the State has undertaken when either a school
er a com
some one of the Fferses
and a aber of Frores
has cheerfully agroed te
M
alreadb
week. I hepe what has beem Gemeei
e
amin Slean, Fr
University of South Carolina,
Cofumbia, S. C., May 9, 71008.
Mr.
C. E. Spencer, Chr'm,
Com. on Organization, Board of Trustees,
Dear Sir:
At a redent meeting of the Faculty, during a general discus-
sion of the schedule of study, Dr. Joynes introduced a resolution re-
questing the Board to abolish the present regulation requiring all on-
didates for gegrees to complete two courses of essays. As I supported
the motion, i was asked by the Faculty to explain to the Boand the ea-
sons for the recommendation.
Such courses are now anomalous and do not fit in with the
other courses and the general organization of the English department.
Whereas they were useful and valuable daring the transitiondl poriod
through which the institution has been passing, this work can and should
now be done in connection with the regular English elasses, This dan
be better and more logically accomplished, because all the English
courses involve a certain amountwof compösftion werk, 'and the department
wishes to organize a regular elective of two or three hours a week in
advanced composition.
2.
These essay courses not only do not dovetail with the re-
gular written work of thewhigher English classes, but are embarrassing
to other departments of the University, many of which require written
work in the form of essays, monthly papers and term theses.. The,students
thus have cause to complain that they are required to do too much writ-
ten work.A dilemma is thus crested that.the English instruotors must
be either unjust in their requirements, or must resort to compromise
and accept work which has already done duty in other departaente, ise.,
political economy, pedagogy, history, science ethics and philosophy.
a. There is also much overlapping of work prepared for the
literary societies, speeches for delivery in the chapel contests,-essays
written ur the thaee college publications, and for the class in Rublic
Speaking.
Another serious difficulty for which no solution has been
found is that of finding suitable hours in the schedule for two seo-
tions which include all the members of the junior and senior classes.
The crowded condition of the schedule has forced the instructors during
the present session to conduct the work by conference. The hour here-
tofore used has been the nine o'clock hour on Monday from which all
classes have been rigorously excluded and which is now devoted to meet-
ings of the student body, the University Hour, 4c.
member of the Committee on Organization, B am sending
ent to you in advance of the meeting of the Board, and will
if
ommunicate it to that body, as I do not think it
ime of the meeting with such matters of detail.
Wauchope, Prof. English.


(Unclear) OF THE FACULTY OF (Unclear)
(Unclear)
(Unclear)
(Unclear)
(Unclear)
(Unclear)
(Unclear)
(Unclear)
(Unclear)
(Unclear)

(Unclear)
(Unclear)
(Unclear)
(Unclear)
(Unclear)
(Unclear)
(Unclear)
(Unclear)
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(Unclear)


See Dr. (Unclear)'s letter, page 562.





564





Rpt. of Com. on Organization June, '08
The Committee on (Unclear)
1. That the (Unclear) in Commerce and Finance, as offered by Prof.
McCutchen and herewith (unclear), be approved, and recommended to
the Board of Trustees.
2. That it be announced as a special (unclear),
to all students prepared to take it, and that a certificate be con-
ferred on its completion.
3. That it be incorporated into an additional course for the
degree of B.A. to be known as the Course of Commerce and Finance,
and constituted as follows:
Special Subjects


The Languages
Mathematics
History

English
Physics or Chemistry
Logic
Ethics


Accounts II
110 Hours (Unclear) Hours Elective (Unclear)
II
A Course in (Unclear) and History construction,
three hours a week during (unclear). These studying for this course
must have taken Courses I, II, & VII. 
This course consists of the history of road development, the study
of the local and proper construction of roads, highways, streets,
pavements. The study of 
(Unclear) material for the construction
of highways,
especially from an available standpoint. It is de-
sirable that the student should have had (Unclear) Chemistry. 


Call meeting May 27/08
University Library, May 27, 1908

The Board met this day at 5 p. m..
Present:
Gov. Ansel,
Mr. Raysor,
Mr. Martin,
Mr. Spencer,
Dr. Bates,
Mr. Macfarlan,
Mr. Davis,
Mr. Hamer
Mr. Kohn,
Mr. Wall(unclear)
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
The President read a report. Dr. Bates read a report from the
Infirmary Committee. Mr. Macfarlan moved that the Board adopt
the report - Carried.
Mr. Raysor moved that Mrs. Madden be re-elected matron of
the Infirmary. Carried.
Mr. Raysor moved that the Boand elect two physicians of equal
rank, as suggested by the Committee, to the Infirmary. Carried.
Dr. Bates suggested Dr. Watson for one of the physicians.
Mr. Kohn seconded the nomination. A vote was taken which resulted
as follows: Dr. Weston, 8; Dr. Watson, 8; Dr. Mikell, 1; Dr.
Taylor, 1; Dr. Owens, 1; and Dr. Fishburne, 1.
Mr. Kohn moved that the, election of a matron for the Steward's
Hall be referred to the Steward's Hall Committee, - Carried.
Mr. Spencer moved that the Board go into the matter of re-
commending to the regular annual meeting a Professor of Modern
Languages: Seconded and Carried.
Mr. Spencer as Chairman of the Organization Committee
read a letter from Dr. Joynes to that Committee recommending the
homination of Mr. Oscar L. Keith for the Chair of Modern Langs.
Mr. Raysor moved to adopt the report of the Committee and to second



Drs. Watson
& Weston
O. S. Keith
elected to
Chair of Mod.
Langs.


565


566
Minutes cont.
#2.
the nomination of Mr. Keith. Mr. Macfarlan seconded the motion.

Carried.
Mr. Raysor moved that Mr. Carson be recommended to the
A.C. Carson
annual meeting for the Chair of Physics, made vacant by Major
promoted to
Sloan's retirement. Seconded and carried.
chair of
Mr. Macfarlan moved that Mr. Carson's salary as a full pro-
Physics
fessor begin when Major Sloan's salary ceased. Seconded and carried.
Dr. Bates moved that the Board take up the matter of recom-
mending a professor for the Law Department. Seconded and carried.
Action on this motion was postponed in order that one of the can-
didates might be communicated with.
Mr. Raysor moved that the salary of each of the three Law Pro-
fessors be fixed at $1,700. Seconded and carried.
Mr. Hamer moved that Mr. M. Herndon Moore be made Dean of the
M. H. Moore
Law Department. Seconded and carried.
Dean of Law
It was moved and carried that the Board take a recess of an
School.
hour and a quarter.
The Board re-assembled at 8:30.
Mr. Spencer read a report from the Committee on Organiza-
tion in regard to a Course in Commerce and a Course in Road-mak-
ing.
Mr. Kohn moved that action on the report be deferred until
the next meeting, and that copies of the report be sent to each
member of the Board. Carried.
Mr. Kohn moved that a committee be
Wallace Thomson
be needed, for a bronze tablet to be placed on the Wallace Thomson
Infirmary
Carried.
Infirmary.
Mr. Kohn moved that a committee be
appointed to draw up resolutions thanking Mr. Carnegie for the re-
tirement funds voted to Dr. Joynes and Major Sloan. Carried.
Carnegie Founda-
The Chair appointed the following committee: Mr. Kohn, Mr. Martin

and Mr. Raysor.
Dr. Bates moved to proceed with the matter of a sug-
Election of
President.
gestion of a President. Seoonded and Carried.
Mr. Kohn moved that the Board commit itself to the pay-


minutes cont.
ment of a salary of $2,500 for the remainder of this year, with
the promise of $3,500 after the next meeting of the General As-
sembly, provided so much could be obtained. Mr. Walker seconded
the motion.

Mr. Macfarlan offered as a substitute to postpone the elec-
tion of a President until after the next meeting of the General
Assembly, when the Board should request an appropriation of $5,000
for the salary of the President. A vote was taken and the sub-
stitute failed.
Dr. Bates amended the motion by suggesting a flat salary of
$3,500. A vote was taken and the amendment failed.
Mr. Spencer amended the motion by substituting a flat salary
of $3,000. Carried.
Dr. Bates moved that the members of the Board be limited
to five minutes each in presenting the names of their candidates
for the office of President. Carried.
Mr. Davis moved to take a ballot which resulted as
follows: Dr. Shearer 1; Dr. Anderson 1; Dr. Smith 1; Mr. McMahan
2; Dr. Babcock 2; Mr. Hand 1; Blank 2.
 Dr. Bates moved to take another ballot, which resulted
as follows: Dr. Babcock 3; Dr. Scherer 3; Mr. Hand 2; Dr. Schnider
1; blank 1.
Mr. Spencer moved to take a third ballot, which resulted as
follows: Dr. Babcock 4; Mr. Hand 2; Dr. Smith 1; Dr. Houston 1;
Dr. Scherer 1; Mr. Barnwell 1.
Mr. Raysor moved to take one more ballot, which resulted as
follows: Dr. Babcock 5; Mr. Hand 3; Dr. Smith 1; Dr. Houston 1.
The Board adjounned at 11:45.
(Unclear)
Secretary


Salary of
President

Election of President


520


Jan. 1908.


President's Rpt.
work. It is to be noted from the report of the Department of
Education that Professor Wardlaw, in addition to the number of his
class hours, has also undertaken to deliver a course of lectures
to the Teschers' Association, and that while Professor Hand does
very little teaching in the class-room, he is doing most effective
work among the schools of the State - the feeders of the University.
Attention is called to the Schedule below:
SCHEDULE OF CLASSES NUMBER OF HOURS AND NUMBER OF STUDENTS.
GLASSRS NOURS STUDENTS NXTRA HOURS
PROFESSOR
Sloan
Physics
18
 14
Carson
18
Chemistry
Burney,
38
18
Joynes,
Modern
8
18.
Potts,
Languages
15
Bradley,
Pope,
Moot Court
H. Law
Moore, M.
once a week.
33)3
Thomas,
65
2-1/2
Wardlaw,
17
Pedagogies
Hand,
80
19
Baker,
24
Colcock,
Mathematios
116
18
Sasterling

120
is
Wauchope
English
20
121
Smith
18.
67
Bain
17
Ancient
38
1
Green
Languages
9s
Moore, A.C., Biology
161

18
Snowden
Histery
Modutchen
e22
Moore, O.B., Philesophy


4


6eb
Faneg
President's Ept.
It is urgently recommended that the appropriations for
the several depertmets asked for by the respective professore of
these departments, as setforth below, be included in the amount
asked for from the legislature to meet the expenses of the
University for this year.
1. Dept. of Physies, 1300: See Prof. Carson's report.
2. " " Geology, § 50: See Prof. Twitchell's report.
. . Aneient Languages, $50: See Prof. Green's report.
..athematics,
$400: Increase of Mr. Easterling's)
Se
salary.)
. .
$600: Employment of an Instructor) Prof.
Colcock's

$200: Purchase of Instruments) Repert.
 Philosophy,
$144: See Prof. Moore's report.
6. " " Biology,
§ 56: See Prof. A. C. Moore's report.
. . History,
§ 50: See Prof. Snowden's report.
7.
Education
§ 50: Purchase of books etc.) See Prof.
Wardlaw's


2000: Summer School
report.
"Chemistry
$100: Purchase of Supplies.
10. Gymnasium
4200.
Total Amount
44200.
I also ask that in its Supplementary Report to the
Legislature the Board will ask for the following appropriations!
§ 3000
1. Repainting all College Buildings that require it,
600
2. Covering with tin DeSaussure College,
228
3. Covering with tin three servants' houses,
100
4. Covering with tin back porch & kitchen, Pres.' House,

5. Building a neat curbing in front of the Professors'
300
houses on Sumter Street and for 200 ft along each,
Green and College Streets
600
6.
Repairs to buildings,
7. Water Closets for Servants at Professors' new houses)
400
and Mess Hall
8.Recovering, painting and refitting the Infirmary for)
500
a residence
4 9788
Total amount


Asst.
anond fot
defortanld
Tfann,
ce.


568






Adh fin De Dgntenn fgnn  oen Ste
University of South Carolina,
day 18, 1908.
Mr. President:
By request of the President and the Committee on
Organization, as well as from my own interest in the subject, I
took over the correspondence concerning the Chair of Modern Lan-
guages.
I have corresponded with over fifty candidates, whose
papers - except when returned by request - I have on file; also
with Teachers' Agencies, and other persons interested. I have
thus received and answered largely over one hundred letters: but
I feel well rewarded by the result, in the entire confidence with
which I am now able to recommend an appointment to this Chair.
Having given to this subject the most careful investi-
gation and consideration, I present to the Board the name of Mr.
Oscar L. Keith; now instructor in the University of Wisconsin.
Mr. Keith is a native of Greenville, S. C.; has had a
most distinguished academic career in this country, and has studied
abroad; shows most successful experience as teacher, and is recom-
mended for most exceptional personal qualities. His recommenda-
tions come from persons in whom I have entire confidence. I also
refer to Mr. O. B. Martin for statement of his family connections.
I recommend Mr. Keith without reserve over all his com-
petitors; and I congratulate myself on being able to present the-
name of a native of our own State who so fully meets the highest
standard of qualification.
Mr. Keith's testimonials will be exhibited to the Com-
mittee on Organization. I deem it unnecessary to mention other
names to the Board.
The Authorities of the University of Wiscensin beg me
to have this matter decided as soon as posgible. The head of the
Department of Modern Languages expects to embark for Europe early


2


2
in June - as does also Mr. Keith himself. If the Board could
give me, on the 27th of May, such assurance of Mr. Keith's ap¬
peintment as would justify me in informing him, it would relieve
this embarrassment. It might also give opportunity for Mr. Keith
to visit here before going abroad, as I should be glad to consult
with him with regard to the department.
Very respectfully,
Edward S. Joynes.
N. B. I should be glad to give the Board further infornaten,
if desired.


500


570


Gei Ror sngpod
PRESIDENT'S REPORT,
May 26, 1908
To the Board of Trustees,
University of South Carolina.
Gentlemen:
I wich to report that by order of the Executive Committee the
brick curbing in front of the professors new houses has been completed
and the curbing extends in front of Professor Wardlaw's house and along
College Streetto the fence limiting Prof. Wardlaw's back premises. The
entire cost was 4347.20. The Committee also ordered that bids for
painting the exterior of all College buildings and recovering with metal
DeSaussure College and several.servants houses be advertised for. A
number of bids have been received, and the Executive Committee will
meet tomorrow morning, the 28th inst. to consider them.
I have in hand applications and testimonials of the ap-
plicants for the several vacancies to be filled in the Faculty and of-
fices of the University as follows:
For President:
N. H. Brown, Professor of Physics A. & M.
College, Texas - many testimonials. Chas. A. S. Dwight - M. A. (Yale)
Winchester, Mass.
For Modern Languages:
Professor Joynes recommends from a
list of 50 applicants above all others Oscar L. Keith, now instructor
of Modern Languages, University of Wisconsin. His recommendation is
submitted herewith.
For Law:
Mr. Cornelius H. Fauntleroy of St. Louis submits
through me an application. I know Mr. Fauntleroy well and do not
hesitate to say that he would make an excellent Professor of Law. He
is now a successfulpractilloner of law in St. Louis, Mo.; is a scholar,
as well, of high culture; has taught successfully Greek in the University
of Virginia; is one of a large family of scholars and lawyers; is a
Virginian by birth and rearing; a christian gentleman, and in every way
well equipped to fill the vacant chair in the law department. His
application and testimonials which are of an exceptionally high value


Pres. Rpt. May 26,08
2.
are submitted herewith.
For Physios:
No applications for this Professorship have been
submitted to me, but I most heartily recommend the Associate Professor
of Physics, of this University, Ar. A. C. Carson, forthe Professorship.
He has been thoroughly tested and found to be in every way competent
and admirably suited for the position. He is an honor graduate of
this University: has taught here for six years, indeed has been, for that
period virtually the head of the Department of Physics; has each year
taken summer work in Physics either at Chicago or Cornell, and in my/
opinion the chances that another man may be found so well qualified to
fill the chair of Physics are exceedingly small. I would be glad in-
deed to see Mr. Carson - because I deem him tobe so worthypóf it -
succeed me in the Chair of Physics which I have filled so/long.
For the Infirmary:
The following applicatjons have been made
through me because of the resignation of Dr. Wasnamaker:
Dr. Wm. Weston to be physician in Chief
Dr. Julius Taylor to be Asst. Physician or associate Physician
Dr. P. V. Mikell
Dr. A. E. Boozer
Dr. S. B. Fishburne "
I. recommend strongly that Mrs. Addie Mauden be retained as the
Matron of the Infirmary. She has proved by four years service her
entire worthiness, and I would like to say that in addition to her com-
petency professionally, she is nossessed of those motherly qualities
which are worth as much at a sick bedside as the skill of the best phy-
sician.
Matron of the- Mess Hall:
Mrs. Ball will retire at the end of
this session and it is necessary to fill her pläce at once. A number
of applications for the position have been handed in to me, and I sub-
mit them - with them testimonials - in the order, which after a personal
interview with each one of the applicants, seems to me to be according
to merit:


57


580


Pres. Rpt., May 26,08.
Mrs. S. L. Latimer, 1317 Sumter Street, Columbia, S. C.,
Mrs. P. M. Gibbs, 1323 Pendleton Street, Columbia, S. C.,
Mrs. B. F. Jones, Union, S. C.,
Mrs. Janie B. Flowers, Bishopville, S. C.,
Mrs. Nelson, Nelson Hotel, Columbla, S. C.,
Mrs. Evelyn V. Moorman, Columbia, S. C., (I have not had an
interview
with Mrs. Moonman.)
Very respectfully submitted,
Benjamin Sloan, President.


J. B. Game


President's rpt. June 1, 1908.
PRESIDENT'S REPORT.
June 1, 1908 
To the Board of Trustees,
University of South Carolina.
Gentlemen:
I submit herewith the
semi-annual report
for the year 1908.
During the session 280 students have been enrolled, as

follows: Literary Students, 102; Scientific Students, 44; Special
Students, 34; Graduate Students, 12: Teacher Students, 65; Law

Students, 35. Total, 280. Of this number 17 are women.
Sixty-two students have applied for degrees to be con-

ferred at this Commencement, June 10th, 1908, the names and degrees,
respectively, given as follows:
Masters of Arts:
Mary R. Bookman, Walter Basoon Carns, Amelia

Elisa Mellichamp, Penelope McDuffie, John Schriner Reynolds, Jr.,
James Henry Sullivan, - 6.
Bachelors of Arts:
Miles Hannibal Anderson, Hengry T. Bouchier,
Curran Earle Cooley, James Heyward Gibbes, Robert Elliott Gonzales,

Joseph Everett Hart, John McLure Hemphill, S. Edwin Hendrix, Willie


Fulton Hiers, John C. Hungerpiller, Edwin F. Lyles, Sarah Rowan

Moore, Randolph Murdaugh, Samuel Edward McCullough, Elizabeth Jane


McDonald, Lewis Wardlaw Perrin, Clarence Jerome Sawyer, Henry L.

Scarborough, Cyrus Luther Shealy, Thomas Dorsey Sligh, James Henrgy
Sullivan, Chalmers Erastus Wessinger, James Woodrow - 23.

Bachelors of Science:
[Unclear] William Elmore
Ashley, John Laurence Barringer, Jr., John Bratton Doris, James

Heyward Gibbes, Lewis Muller Griffith, Samuel Hugh Wilds. -7.
Bachelors of Law:

William Anderson Clarkson, Cleland
Thomas Cunningham, Edward B. Friday, Plowden D. Graham, Harry

Nathaniel Grossman, Morris Israel Grossman, Edward Henry Anderson,

Alva Lumpkin, James Edward McDonald, Jr., John Gates Stabler,
John Clarence Townsend, Alfred Wallace, Jr. - 12.
Licentiate of Instruction:
Jesse Owen Allen, William Martin

Duncan, Sil Causey Dusenbury, Elliott Reed Fickling, Thomas Preston
Gaskin, Clarence Baxter Haynes, Charles B. Hanna, William Samuel
Hutchinson, Carey G. Metz, Murry A. Miller, Wellington Saxby Miller,

Jr., Stephen H. Moody, Willie Calhoun Singleton, Clinton Lamar Watkins,
William Francis Williamson, - 15.
I ask that the faculty may be authorized to confer the
degrees asked for, respectively, upon all of these candidates who
may successfully pass the required examinations. The Faculty also
asks that the degree "Honoris Causa" of Bachelor of Arts may be con-
ferred upon Josiah Bethes Game upon whom the degree of Master of
Arts was conferred by the South Carolina College in June, 1905.
He has also received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale. He
is now the Professor of Latin and Greek in the Missouri State
Normal School. Mr. Game is a native of Marion County, S. C., and


naturally he turns to his native state and to the College selected
by him in which to pursue Post Graduate work to make complete the
scale of degrees leading to the Ph. D. degree, which the completion
of his thesis, now in hand, may, he has good reason to believe, be
given to him by Yale.





584


President's rpt. cont.
President's Rpt. June 1, '08
2.
The teaching schedule is given below:
No.
No.
No. Extra Total No.
Classes Hours Students Hours Hours
Benjamin Sloan, Physics,
(No classes taught this year.)
A. C. Carson, 5 15 68 10 25

See report
Prof. Carson
Wm. B. Burney, Chemistry 5 17 50 Variable


Edw. S. Joynes, Mod.Langs. 4 12 33 Prof. Joynes


See report
Prof. Joynes
F. G. Potts, Inst.
F. W. Bradley, Inst. 5 15 95 8 23 " "

Jos. Dan'l Pope, La
Died Mch 21st. Work taken by Moore & Thomas


& Thomas
Patterson Wardlaw, Ped. 5 14 52 See report


See report
Prof. Wardlaw
Wm. H. Hand, " 1 2 4 " "
L. T. Baker   6 15 76
Chas W. Bain, Anct. Langs. 6 18 59 14 to 17 over 30 See Report



E. L. Green, " " 6 17 37 6 23

F. H. Colcock, Math. 6 24 76


E. D. Easterling, " 4 18 103

G.A.Wauchope, Eng.
4
13
114
12
25See report
Prof. Wauchope
Roed Smith,
12
126
20
"
F.W.Bradley,
8 hra themes
22
A. C. Moore, Biology
35-
G. B. Moore, Philosophy
88
See report
Yates Snowden, History,
18
166
See report
Prof.Snowden
Geo. MoCutchen,
12
58
M. H. Moore, Law, 2 8 15



Jno. P. Thomas, Law, 2 6 27 4 10


The professors. without exception, deserve highest praise for
their faithful and excellent work throughout the sesslon in their class
rooms and upon the campus.
While all of them could not be spared to
do missionary work for the University many of them have been actively
and efficiently engaged in this work in various parts of the State. Prof.
Hand's indefatigable work throughout the State and abroad has been of
incalculable value for the developement of High Schools - the chief hope
of the University for its development. Professors Wardlaw, Colcock,
G. B. Moore, Snowden, Twitchell, Baker, Carson and MoCutchen have also
During the term Professors Wardlaw and
done good work in the field.
Hand attended the Southern Conference for Education at Memphis, Tenn.
and were efficiently active in its discussions. Prof. Hand attended
a meeting of the National Association of "Charities and Correction" held
in Richmond, Va., where his speoch on child labor and compulsory educa-
tion won strong approval. Professor G. B. Moore attended the meeting
of the Baptists of the States at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and we of the
Faculty were proud to have the University, at so important a meeting,
represented by a man like Dr. Moore. Professor A. C. Moore visited
the Industrial School at Columbus, Ga., and also the celebrated Tuskegee
School. Professor Moore also attended, as a delegate appointed by Gov.
Ansel, the "Conference of Governors" for the preservation of our natural
resources, held at Washington, D. C. With a view to obtaining the
highest inspiration for teaching in their several departments the fol-
lowing Professors will spend the summer abroad: Professors Bain and
Green - Ancient Languages - in Italy and Greece; Prof. Wauchope - English -
in England and Sootland, Mr. Potts, instructor in Modern Languages,
at the University at Marburg, Prussia, and Mr. Bradley, instructor in
Modern Languages, in Cuba for the purpose of making himself familiar
with the Spanish language. At home, Professor Baker will be at

Columbia University, Professor Carson at Cornell and Professor Easter-
ling at the University of Chicago.
Professor Snowden will be engaged during the summer by
"The Carnegie Institute for Research" in writing the history of the free


President's rpt. cont.
President's Rpt. June 1, '08.
3.
negro in the South prior to the war of Secession and Professor Hand
will be at his school work all summer throughout the State.
I wish to commend especlally Mr. Reed Smith, Acting
Associate Professor of English, who has done most excellent work in
the Department of English throughout the session. Mr. Smith was ap-
pointed to fill Mr. H. C. Davis' place while he was on leave. Mr. Davis
will resume his work next session.
I respectfully call attention to what was said in my
January report in regard to pledges. From my own experience I must say
most emphatically that the pledge now required of students in regard to
hazing will, if insisted upon result most disastrously to the interests
of the University. If a pledge be required at all, let it be one re-
quiring the signer, simply, to refrain from hazing.
I also call attention to my recommendations to the Board
in the report of April 14th, 1908: viz: The purchase of a portrait of
Jos. Dan'l Pope now in the possession of Mrs. Addie Pope Stoney. - price
$150. Also the purchase of two seals for the library - one of the
College and one of the State:- price $25 each.
I ask that when the old infirmary is repaired and refit-
ted as a residence that it may be assigned to Prof. L. T. Baker, with-
the understanding that Professor Wardlaw and Professor Baker may exchange

residences if mutually agreeable. According to custom the first
vacant house should be assigned to Professor Baker, he being the senior
professor unprovided with a house.
I have notified the President of the Carnegie fund that
I would be retired at the end of this session - 10th June - and was
notified by him in return that my monthly allowance would begin on the
11th. It is my duty to make this announcement to you so that it may
be arranged for me to withdraw on that date, and that my salary as
President of the University may be discontinued on the above date.
On retiring I wish again to express thanks from the bottom
of my heart to the Board for its generous and kind treatment of me,
and to assure its members of my lasting love for the University and
sincere wishes for its growth into a truly great University.
Very respectfully,
Benjamin Sloan,
President.


587


588


Degrees
Dismissal of
H.B. Coleman
& A.D. Matheson





Presidents supplementary Rpt. June 9, 1908

PRESIDENT'S REPORT.
June 9, 1908.
To The Board of Trustees,
University of South Carolina.
Gentlemen:
The following applicants for degrees to be conferred
this session have passed all of their examinations and the Faculty
recommends that the applications be granted, and that authority be
given the President of the University to confer the degrees on
Commencement day, June 10th, 1908:
Masters of Arts.
May R. Bookman, Walter Bascom Carns, Herman Patrick Johnson, Amelia
Eliza Mellichamp.
Bachelors of Arts.
Miles Hannibal Anderson, Henry T. Bouchier, Curran Earle Cooley,
James Heyward Gibbes, Joseph Everett Hart, John McLure Hemphill,
S. Edwin Hendrix, John C. Hungerpiller, Edwin F. Lyles, Sarah
Rowan Moore, Randolph Murdaugh, Elizabeth Jane McDonald, Lewis
Wardlaw Perrin, Clarence Jerome Sawyer, Henry L. Scarborough, Cyrus
Luther Shealy, Thomas Dorsey Sligh, James Henry Sullivan, Chalmers
Erastus Wessinger, James Woodrow, Paul Ross Moore.
Bachelors of Science
William Elmore Ashley, John Laurence Barringer, Jr.,
John Bratton
Davis, James Heyward Gibbes, Lewis Muller Griffith, Samuel Hugh
Wilds.
Bachelors of Laws
William Anderson Clarkson, Cleland Thomas Cunningham, Edward B.
Friday, Plowden D. Graham, Henry Nathaniel Grossman, Edward Henry
Henderson, Alva M. Lumpkin, James Edward McDonald, Jr., John Gates
Stabler, John Clarence Towsend, Alfred Wallace, Jr.
Licentiates of instruction
William Martin Duncan, Sil Causey Dusenbury, Thomas Preston Gaskin,
William Samuel Hutchinson, Carey G. Metz, Wellington Saxby Miller,
Jr., Clinton Lamar Watkins, Elliott Reed Fickling.
The Faculty also recommends that the Honarary degree of
Bachelor of Arts be conferred upon Mr. J. B. Game at the same
time. A full statement of the reasons for the request were

given in my regular semi-annual report.
I have to report that on May 29th Messrs. H. G. Coleman
and A. D. Matheson were dismissed from the University by the fol-
lowing resolution ofm the Faculty:
May 29, 1908
"Whereas Messrs. H. G. Coleman and A. D. Matheson by their
own statement were guilty of invading at night the room of a
fellow student with intention of inflicting personal indignity,
and were there guilty of disorderly conduct, dusing which Mr.
Matheson exhibited a pistol with which he struck a fellow student:
Resolved: That these students be dismissed, and re-
quired at once to leave the University.
Subsequently, upon his own confession that he was also
guilty of the same offence, the name of Mr. Gottlob A. Neuffer,
Jr., was included in the above resolution, thus dismissing him.





President's Rpt. June 9, 1908
2
Subsequent to the last meeting of the Board of Trustees
a Committee consisting of Professors Sloan, Colcock and Carson
from the Faculty and Messrs. Hart, Shealy and Bradley from the
students met and elected Mrs. Latimen of Columbia to serve as
Matron of the Steward's Hall for next session, and Mr. T. C. Callison
to be the Student Manager for the Hall. The Hall is closed free
of debt and with a small balance in its favor - but with the high
prices prevailing it has been close shaving.
Before leaving the Institution I wish to urge the promo-
tion of Mr. George McCutchen from Adjunct, to Associate Professor.
He has been serving the University for
years efficiently, and
is growing in efficiency as a teacher rapidly.
He should really
be made a full professor and placed in charge of those subjects
pertaining to Banking, Commercial Law and Commercial Economics.
Mr. McCutchen would be glad to attend the University of
Chicago this summer to pursue the studies of these subjects, but
with his small salary of $1200 it would be a great hardship upon
him to do so. So I ask that a provision be made for him to do so
even though he may not be at once promoted to an Associate Pro-
fessorship.
I wish especially to commend Professor Snowden for his
excellent work. He has won the hearts of his students, not only
by his gentlemanly methods, but by his brightness and his marked
efficiency in imparting to them his great knowledge of the sub-
jects which he teaches.
Very respectfully,
Benjamin Sloan,
President.


589
Mrs. Latimen
elected matron
of Steward's
Hall.
Promotion of
Mr. McCutchen
from Adjunct
to Asso. Prof.
Prof. Snowden
commended
for excellent
work.


590


Minutes Regular meeting June 9, 1909

June 9, 1908.
The Board of Trustees met this day in the University Library
at 10 a. m.
Present:
Gov. Ansel,
Mr. Raysor,
Mr. Cothran,
Mr. Spencer,
Mr. Macfarlan,
Mr. Walker,
Mr. Kohn,
Mr. Davis,
Dr. Bates,
Mr. Hamer.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
Mr. Martin moved that the Secretary cast the unanimous

ballot of the Board for the several gentlemen who were suggest
at the meeting of May 27th.
The Secretary then cast the unanimous ballot for Drs.
Confirming
Weston and Watson for the Infirmary; Mr. Oscar L. Keith for the
election of
Chair of Modern Languages; Mr. A. C. Carson for the Chair of
Physics; Mr. M. Herndon Moore for Dean of the Law Faculty. I
Drs. Weston &
declare that these gentlemen whose names are mentioned are duly
elected to the Chairs as suggested at the meeting on the evening
Watson, Profs
of the 27th of May.
Mr. Kohn moved that the action täken at the last meeting


fixing the time when Mr. Carson's salary as a full professor should
Keith, Carson &
Carried.
begin be rescinded.
Mr. Kohn moved that the salary of Mr. Carson as a full
professor, and also the salary of Mr. Keith, begin September lst,
Carried.

at the rate of $2,000. Carried.
Mr. Kohn read a resolution of thanks to Mr. Carnegie
in regard to the retirement funds for Dr. Joynes and Major Sloan,

which he moved be ingrossed and transmitted to Mr. Carnegie. Carried.

The secretary read a resolution in regard to Major Sloan's
retirement which was adopted by a rising vote.
The President read his supplementary report.
Mr. Spencer moved that the report be received as infor-

mation, and the items taken up ad seriatim. Carried.
Mr. Raysor moved that the degrees, as mentioned in the
report, be conferred. Carried.
It was moved and carried that the report in regard to
the dismissal of certain boys mentioned be approved, and the action
of the Faculty confirmed.
Mr. Spencer moved to adopt the recommendation of the
President to raise Mr. McCutchen from an Adjunct to an Associate
Promotion of Prof. McCutchen
Professor and that his salary be raised from $1200 to $1500, be-

ginning Sept. lst. A vote was taken and the motion carried. Mr.
to Associate
Kohn and Mr. Hamer voted against the adoption of the motion.
Mr. Spencer read a report from the Committee appointed
to draw up resolutions in regard to Dr. Joynes' retirement. It
was moved and seconded that the report be adopted.
Mr. Macfarlan read a resolution in regard to the death
Resolution in
of Prof. Jos. Dan'l Pope, which was adopted.
regard to Col.
Mr. Kohn made a report from the Building Committee to
Pope
the effect that the Committee had held two meetings, going over
carefully the general plans submitted by the architects, and
further stated that Mr. Wilson is now preparing a definite plan
for the new building. He also stated that the Committee had gone

over the grounds and selected a site 100 feet from the corner of
Site for new

Bull and Pendleton Streets on the East side of Bull, and suggested
class-room

that the Board confirm the action of the Committee.
It was moved and seconded to approve the action of the
Bldg.


591


592
Portrait of
Col. Pope
Degrees E. O. Watson, D.D.

& J.B. Game, A.B. 

Purchase of Seals
Dr. Snyder


A.C. Moore act-
ing Pres.
Prof. Frierson
elected to
fill Prof. Pope's
chair.


Minutes of June, '08, -cont.
2.
June 9, 1908
Building Committee in the selection of a site for the new build-
ing.

Mr. Hamer moved that a Committee be appointed to look into-
the matter of purchasing the portrait of Col. Pope, as recommended

by the President. The Chair appointed Mr. Hamer, Mr. Spencer and

Dr. Bates to serve on the Committee.
Mr. Spencer moved that the Faculty be allowed to confer

the degree of A. B. on Prof. J. B. Game. Carried.
Mr. Raysor moved to confer the degree of Doctor of
Divinity on Rev. E. O. Watson, of Marion, S. C.
Mr. Spencer amended the motion by moving that the Faculty
be requested to recommend to the Board that the degree be conferred.
Carried..
Mr. Spencer moved to adopt the following recommendations
of the President: The purchase of two seals for the Library at a
cost of $25; the recommendation in regard to the Professors' houses,
and the simplifying of the pledge in regard to hazing, to read as
follows: "I, being fully advised of the regulations

against hazing, do hereby pledge on honor that I will in no wise

engage in hazing in any form." Carried.
It was moved and seconded that the former action of the
Board in regard to the pledge be rescinded.
Carried.
It was moved and seconded that the report of the Committee
on Organization as read by Mr. Spencer at the last meeting and re-
ferred to this meeting, be adopted.
A vote was taken and the
motion carried.
Mr. Spencer offered the following resolution from the
Committee on Organization: Resolved: that the Board of Trustees
do resolve itself into a committee of the whole for the purpose
of
ascertaining a suitable person for the Presidency; and of recom-
mending him to the Board; and that no one be so recommended who
shall not have received at least eight votes in committee: it now
being the sense of the Board that the person so recommended ought
to be elected with unanimity.
Mr. Spencer moved that the report of the Committee on
Organization be adopted. Carried.
It was moved and carried that the blank in the report be
filled with the number eight.
The Board then resolved itself into a committee of the
whole with Dr. Bates in the Chair.
Dr. Bates as Chairman of the Committee reported that
under the resolution this committee into a session and that
after repeated efforts cast eight votes for Dr. Snyder.
The report was received as information, and Mr. Spencer
nominated Dr. Snyder for President. A ballot was taken with the
following result: Dr. Snyder, 8; Dr. Babcock, 1; Mr. Hand, 1; Mr
McMahon, 1. Dr. Snyder having received eight votes out of the

eleven he is declared elected.
Mr. Davis moved that the Committee on Organization be
authorized to notify Dr. Snyder of his election and to ascertain
whether he will accept, and if so, when it will be agreeable for
him to take up the duties of the President: Carried.
Mr. Davis moved that Prof. A. C. Moore be requested to
confer with Major Sloan, and that he arrange to hold the office
until the new President accepts and is ready to take the Chair.
Carried.
Mr. Hamer moved that the Board go into the election of

a Professor of Law. Carried.
Mr. Spencer moved that whoever is elected shall have
thirty days within which to notify the Board of his acceptance.
Carried.
A ballot was taken with the following result: Mr. McCaw,
5; Mr. Frierson, 4; Mr. Rucker, 2. A second ballot was cast, as
follows: Mr. Frierson, 6 - Mr. McCaw, 5. Mr. Frierson having re-
ceived six votes, he is declared elected.
It was moved that the Committee on Organization notify
Mr. Frierson of his election, and that he had thirty days in which
to accept. Carried.


Minutes of June/08 Cont.
3.
June 9, 1908.
The Chair read a report from the Faculty recommending the
conferring of the degree of Doctor of Divinity on Rev. E. O. Watson.
Mr. Macfarlan moved that the report of the Faculty be re-
ceived as information, and that the Board proceed to confer the
degree of D. D. on Rev. E. O. Watson.
Carried.
Mr. Kohn moved that when the Board recede from business,
that they meet again at 8:30 p. m. to ascertain whether anything
had been heard from Dr. Snyder.
Carried.
Mr. Hamer moved that the Board meet at the Library at
9 a. m. on June 10th for the purpose of joining the procession
and going to the theatre to attend the Commencement exercises of
the University. Carried.

Mr. Macfarlan read the following amendment to the By-
laws, notice of same having been given on March 3, 1908.
That, All standing Committees shall be elected or appointed
at the annual meeting of the Board in June of each year, and that
all By-laws in conflict therewith be and same are hereby repealed.
The Board receded from business at 4:30 to meet again
at 8:30 p. m.
S. J. [Unclear]
Secretary.
It was moved and carried that $200, if so much be needed,
be appropriated for carrying on the work on the alumni records.


593
Degree of D.D.
on E. O. Watson
change in
By-Laws in 
regard to elec-
tion of Couns.
Alumni Recds.


594


Resolution in regard to the death of
Prof. Jos. Dan'l Pope - June 9, 1908
JOSEPH DANIEL POPE.
An inspiration has been lost to the young men of South
Carolina - Joseph Daniel Pope, the Nestor of the Bar of South
Carolina and one of Carolina's highest gentlemen is dead.
His long, useful and honorable life, with never a
single act to mar the perfect beauty of the whole, a splendid
example to those who knew him and a pattern for those who are
to follow after him.
His bold and fearless asserion of the right, yet his
tenderness to those in the wrong, noted in him the great soul.
His great learning in the law made him the effective
teacher. No man more loved a good and noble man, and none more

cordially despised and loathed a mean one.

His affection for his friends and his students could have
been no greater - his whole heart was theirs.
We and our University have been honored by our asso-
ciation with him - and his like we will not soon know again.
Resolved, that we make this record of our love and ap-
preciation of this great, good man.
That all the articles concerning him published in the
public prints at the time of the celebration of the Centennial
anniversary of South Carolina College, and at the time of his
death be gathered and suitably arranged for preservation in the
University library.
[Unclear]
Secretary, Board of Trustees
University of South Caro.
Adopted June 9, 1908.


[Unclear]




















594


Resolution in regard to the death of
Prof. Jos. Dan'l Pope - June 9, 1908.
JOSEPH DANIEL POPE.
An inspiration has been lost to the young men of South
Carolina - Joseph Daniel Pope, the Nestor of the Bar of South
Carolina and one of Carolina's highest gentlemen is dead.
His long, useful and honorable life, with never a
single act to mar the perfect beauty of the whole, a splendid
example to those who knew him and a pattern for those who are
to follow after him.
His bold and fearless asserion of the right, yet his
tenderness to those in the wrong, noted in him the great soul.
His great learning in the law made him the effective
teacher.
No man more loved a good and noble man, and none more
cordially despised and loathed a mean one.
His affection for his friends and his students could have
been no greater - his whole heart was theirs.
We and our University have been honored by our asso-
ciation with him - and his like we will not soon know again.
Resolved, that we make this record of our love and ap.
preciation of this great, good man.
That all the articles cencerning him published in the
public prints at the time of the celebration of the Centennial
anniversary of South Carolina College, and at the time of his
death be gathered and suitably arranged for preservation in the
University library.
[Unclear]
Secretary, Board of Trustees
University of South Caro.
Adopted June 9, 1908.








Resolution in regard to retirement
of Dr. E. S. Joynes - adopted June 9, 1908.
The following tribute to Dr. Joynes was adopted at a meeting
of the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina held
on June 9, 1908.
Edward Southey Jeynes, A. B., A. M., LL. D., was called to the
Chair of Medern Langusges and English in this institution twenty-six
years age, having previously filled similar chairs in other like in-
stitutions of learning for a peried quite as long. And so, whilst yet
in the fall viger of manhood, he came to us a ripe scholar and cultured
gentleman: a master not only of French and German and Spanish, but of
his own noble mother English tongue: in every way equipped to be the
head of that Department. Up to the present time of his voluntary re-
tirement from the Chair of Modern Languages, - still vigorous, but full
of honors and of years, - he has most nobly executed the trust reposed
in him. At all times he has been a tower of strength here, not only
in the class-room, and as a member of the Faculty, and as a friend and
counseller of this Board, but - in a broader field - as a public lec-
turer, and as a writer of text books of the highest standard: using
his facile, graceful pen too upon all proper occasions, but especial-
ly when the welfare of this institution was at stake; and whether through
evil report or good report; as witness how, when its other friends were
well satisfied to let the College be, he contended and continued to con-

tend that the Centennial was the occasion for its expansion into an
University: for an organization "on the most liberal basis, and aim-
ing to do the largest and best work in education that time and place
and conditions make possible": His own words, woven into its charter
without his knowledge or consent. Last but not least he has rendered
the Board invaluable service in suggesting as his successor, after most
careful deliberation, one whom he feels persuaded is well qualified to
take up the burden which he himself is laying aside for well merited
and honored repose.
It was not a mere empty form when the Board, upon accept-
ing with regret Professor Joynes' resignation, elected him Professor
Emeritus of the Chair he has so long and so well graced. But it was
meant, as is this tribute, te express the Board's high appreciation
of his eminent service to this institution, and through her to her
mother, the State of his adoption.
Let this tribute be spread upon the minutes, and let a
copy be suitably engrossed and presented to our dear Dr. Joynes.
[Unclear}
Sec'y Board of Trustees, Univ. of South Carolina.


595


596


dedmerernegfrmhrcfrith
de, Bugami, Sløn -ahiptnc Grrn ob dot
Resolutions adopted by the Board of Trustees of the University
of South Carolina, June 9, 1908.
Major Benjamin Sloan, LL. D., who for twenty-eight years
has served the University with unfaltering devotion and conspi-
cuous ability, first as professor and later as its president,
having formerly notified the Board of Trustees of his intention
to retire at the close of the session; -
RESOLVED: That the Board of Trustees has received notice
of the retirement of President Sloan with profound regret.
RESOLVED: That in the retirement of President Sloan the
University will lose an able administrator, who has guided its
destinies for the past six years with signal success, and a dis-
tinguished educator, who has consecrated the best years of a noble
life to its service.
2
RESOLVED: That President Sloan will carry with him, in his
voluntary retirement, the gratitude of the Board of Trustees and
the people of the State as well, to whom he is endeared for his
great work in the cause of education, and in inspiring the youth
of the State with lofty ideals of culture and duty, and they
wish for him many years of usefullness and happiness.
 
Sect Board of fruster:
University of So. Ca.





  gge Snst 
Tehe GotsnnGemment if Gercling Gu o.1904.
Resolutions adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Uni-
versity of South Carolina at its semi-annual meeting held June 9,
1908.
Whereas: The Executive Board of the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Education has honored this University by
granting to two of its faculty a retiring pension on the ground
of "Unusual and Distinguished services to Education", and whereas
the Board of Trustees deems it proper to recognise the compliment
and the benefits thus bestowed, as well as the great service to
education performed by this wise and far-reaching foundation, -
therefore;
Resolved: That we record our thanks to, the Carnegie
Board, and through it to its wise and magnanimous Founder, for
the service rendered to our University by this generous recog-
nition, and we express our high appreciation of the wisdom and
philanthropy manifested in this noble Foundation for the Advance-
ment of Education.
Resolved: That a copy of this minute, with the seal
of the University, be sent to the President of the Carnegie Board,
with our request that a second enclosed copy be transmitted to
Mr. Andrew Carnegie himself.
SGecht
S00v, Poard or Trustege
University of So. Ca.


598


Rpt of Infirmary Com.
June 9th, 1908
REPORT OF INFIRMARY COMMITTEE.
The permanent Committee on Infirmary begs leave to report
as follows:
At present there is not a single case of sickness among
the student body and the excellent matron and nurse is without a
patient. The fine health record of the University during the past
year is to be attributed to the excellent water supply and sewarage
system of the city.
The Wallace Thomson Infirmary will be completed by the
time the college opens in the fall, and we recommend that the old In-
firmary be turned over to the Executive Committee at the close of this
session to be converted into a professor's residence.

The new infirmary seems to be a most excellently planned,
attractive and suitable building. Possibly one necessary provision
has been omitted - that is a matron's bath room. If this is the case
we recommend that the Building Committee arrange to supply this neces-
sity. We find that Mrs. Madden, the present matron, is very efficient
and much beloved and respected by the students, and we recommend that
her services be retained, and that she be given the assistance or
services of a good colored orderly.
As the occupation of the new infirmary will mark an era
in infirmary management, we recommend that two regular physicians be
elected physicians to the University who will divide the work between
themselves, and render the necessary skilled services when required at
the usual reduced rates as heretofore.
We further recommend that your committee be empowered to
select and procure the necessary furniture for the new infirmary, and
be provided with funds for the purpose.
Your committee will need the counsel and assistance of the
University physicians in the selection of this furniture, and in their
other special duties and responsibilities in connection with its man-
agement.
(Signed) W. T. C. Bates,
C. E. Spencer,
J. Q. Davis.





Minutes June 15, '08 Meeting to elect a President.
603
Columbia, S. C., June 15, 1908
The Board of Trustees met this day in the Governor's Office
at 5 p. m.
Present:
Gov. Ansel,
Mr. Raysor,
Mr. Martin,
Mr. Spencer,
Mr. Macfarlan,
Mr. Kohn,
Mr. Davis,
Mr. Hamer,
Dr. Bates.
Mr. Kohn moved that the expenses of Professors Wardlaw,
Hand and Baker in attending Summer Schools be paid, same not to ex-
ceed $100. Carried.

Mr. Spencer read a letter from Dr. Snyder giving his reasons
Dr. Snyder
for declining the Presideney of the University, recently tendered
declines Pres-
him. (Why wasn't this entered in minutes?)
idency.
Mr. Kohn moved that a committee of five be appointed to
canvass the situation with reference to filling the vacancy in the
Com. appointed
office of president of the University; that this Committee report
to fill vacancy
immediately to the Board of Trustees any suggestions that it has
in office of Pres.
to make, and whether or not the gentlemen suggested will accept
the position if elected.
Mr. Spencer offered as a substitute instead of having a
committee of five that the Board resolve itself into a committee of
the whole and see if someone cannot be suggested. Carried.
The Board resolved itself into a committee of the whole
with Mr. Davis in the Chair.
Mr. Raysor moved that the Committee have an expression
of opinion from each member.
Mr. Spencer offered as a substitute that each member ex-
press a first, second ani third choice. Carried.
The following gentlemen were named: For first choice Dr. Mitchell
received 9 votes. For second choice Dr. Alphonzo Smitn, received


604
Salary of Pres.
fixed at $3,500
Prof. Colcock
made Dean Depts.
of Math & Physics
Degrees of E.E. &
C.E. added to
Grad School





2
seven votes; Dr. Smith, of Wis., one, and Dr. Rice, one. For third
choice, Dr. Smith of Wis., received two votes; Mr. McMahon, four;
Mr. Hand, one; Dr. Alphonzo Smith, one, and Dr. Anderson two.
Mr. Hamer moved that Dr. Mitchell be interviewed over the
long-distance telephone. Carried.
Mr. Raysor moved that the salary of the President be fix-
ed at $3,500. Mr. Hamer seconded the motion. Carried.
Mr. Spencer moved that the Committee take a recess. Carried.
The Board was called to order and Mr. Spencer read the
following resolution from the Committee on Organization.
1. Resolved, That F. Horton Colcock, Professor of Mathematics,

be made Dean of the Department of Physics and Engineering.
2. That the degree of Civil Engineer and also the degree of

Electrical Engineer be added to the Graduate School, it being under-
stood that as long as it may be practicable all appropriate studies
or courses of study leading to said degrees are to be conducted by
the Faculty as now constituted under the supervision of said Dean,
and that all proper changes be made to appear in the catalogue of
1908-'09.
3. That a copy of this resolution be promptly furnished to
Prof. Colcock and Prof. Carson, and to the acting President.
Dr. Bates moved to adopt the report of the Committee.
Carried.
The Committee of the whole was called to order, and a
vote taken for second choice of a President. Dr. Alphonzo Smith
received nine votes.
Mr. Spencer moved that it is the sense of the Board that
the action of the Committee be held in strict secrecy until the
Board acts. Carried.
Gov. Ansel moved that the Board take a recess until 8:30.
The Board reassembled at 8:30.
Mr. Hamer moved that a committee of three be appointed
to take charge of the matter, and report to the Board as soon as
practicable.
Dr. Bates amended the motion by substituting five in-
stead of three. Carried.


June 15, '08
Mr. Macfarlan moved that the Committee be authorized to visit
one, two or three of the gentlemen named, as they think best. Carried
The following Committee was appointed: Mr. Spencer,
Mr. Macfarlan, Mr. Davis, Mr. Kohn and Dr. Bates.
Mr. Spencer moved to adjourn to meet again on the 25th
inst. at 1 p. m.
The meeting adjourned at 9:30.
[Unclear]
Secretary.


606
Rpt. from Com.
Interview with
Dr. Mitchell.
Dr. Mitchell
invited to
visit Univ.
[Unclear]


Columbia, S.'C., July 18, 1908
The Board of Trustees met this day in the Governor's
office at l1 a. m.
Present:
Gov. Ansel,
Mr. Cothran,
Mr. Spencer,
Mr. Kohn,
Mr. Hamer,
Mr. Walker,
Mr. Macfarlan,
Mr. Davis.
Mr. Spencer made a report from the Committee appointed
to look into the matter and make suggestions in regard to the
presidency of the University. He stated that they had interviewed
Dr. Mitchell, and that a letter had been written to each member
of the Board in regard to same. .



After an expression from each member of the Committee
and much discussion on the part of the other members of the Board,
Mr. Walker moved that Dr. Mitchell be invited to meet with the
Board on next Saturday, July 25th, in the Governor's office at
9 a. m.
This motion was seconded and carried.
Mr. Kohn brought up the matter of employing counsel,
if such action be necessary, to establish the University's right
to erect the new building on the site selected on what is known as
Gibbes' Green.
Mr. Spencer moved that a committee be appointed to con-
fer with the Attorney General in reference to taking such action
as may be necessary to ascertain whether the University has the
right to build on the site mentioned. Carried.
The Chair appointed Mr. Spencer and Mr. Macfarlan to
act on the Committee.


July 18, '08
The Governor read a letter from Dr. E. O. Watson express-

ing his appreciation and thanks to the Board for the honor they
did him in conferring upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
Mr. Spencer reported that he had received a very kind
and appreciative letter from Mr. Frierson, acknowledging his ap-
pointment as a professor of Law.
Mr. Kohn moved that the letter from Messrs. Thomas &
Thomas in regard to the University deeding to the city 30 feet
of land on Pickens Street be referred to the Committee appointed
to look into the matter of the University lands. Carried.
The Board receded from business at 1 p. m. to re-
assemble on Saturday, July 25th at 9:30 a. m.
[Unclear]

Secretary.


609
Dr. E. O. Watson
degree of D.D.
Prof. Frierson
Univ. Lands


Conference
with Dr. Mitchell
Dr. S.C. Mitchell
unanimously
elected Pres.


Minutes of Adjourned meeting July 25 '08
Conference with Dr. Mitchell
Columbia, S. C., July 25th, 1908
The Board of Trustees held an adjourned meeting at the office
of Governor M. F. Ansel.
There were present the following:
Mr. Spencer,
Mr. Davis,
Mr. Macfarlan,
Mr. Walker,
Mr. Hamer,
Mr. Kohn.
The chief purpose of the meeting was to have a full and free
conference with Dr. S. C. Mitchell, with a view to electing him
President of the University of South Carolina. Dr. Mitchell, on
invitation, was present, and entered fully into the discussion and
consideration of the question, particularly with reference to his
selection to take effect sometime subsequent.
Mr. J. Q. Davis was called to the Chair, and presided at the
meeting.
After discussing the situation fully and frankly, Dr. S. C.
Mitchell was unanimously elected President of the University, all
of the ballots cast being in his favor. Dr. Mitchell was elected
with the understanding that his selection was based upon the fol-
lowing letter addressed to the Committee on July 6th, and which had
been under consideration for some time.
Charlottesville, Virginia,
July 6th, 1908.
Messrs. Spencer, Kohn, and Davis,
Committee of the University of South Carolina,
Gentlemen:
As I do not think it would be fair to Brown University
for me to seek to be released from the engagement to teach there
the coming session, I shall have to decline the attractive offer
you so kindly presented, unless you would consent to my absence
for that time - nearly nine months. In this case I could spend
next month in South Carolina and about ten days each in December


and April, entering fully upon the duties there about June 1st,
1909.
I believe that the stay in Providence will mean much to a
Southern man in acquainting me with educational conditions in New
England, and mean time I could be maturing plans in regard to the
growth of the University of South Carolina.
I have chosen thus frankly to lay before you my situation
and mind, because I appreciate genuinely the candor and kindnese
you evimced in making known to me the encouraging prospects of the
honored institution which you represent.
With sincere regards to each of you, I am,
Respectfully yours,
S. C. Mitchell.
P. S. Should there be need of any further conference, I can come
to Columbia any Saturday within the next three weeks."
Mr. Macfarlan moved that in view of the engagement with Brown
University, entered inte prior to his election, that Dr. S. C.
Mitchell, the nealy appointed President of the University, be
granted leave of absence until June, 1909, save so far as he may
be present in the mean time. Adopted.
In view of the absence of the President during the coming
year, Mr. Spencer moved that the Vice-President be the executive
officer of the University, but in matters of discipline and of
special importance, the Board directs that he call into conference
a special committee composed of five members of the Faculty, and
in the event that any two of the five shall so desire it, the
Faculty shall be called in for consultation and advice.
Upon motion of Mr. Hamer the special committee provided
for in this resolution shall consist of the three members of the
present committee on discipline of the University together with
Dr. W. B. Burney and Prof. Patterson Wardlaw. Both of these re-
solutions were unanimously adopted.


Vice-Pres.
Committee
to confer
with Vice
President


612
Expenses of Dr.
Mitchell.
Salary of
Vice-Pres.
Asst. for Dept.
of Biology


3
July 25th, '08.
It was moved and carried that the expenses of Dr. S. C. Mitchell
to and from this conference be paid by the University.
Mr. Spencer moved that the Vice-President draw the salary
of the President, at the rate of $3,500 per year during the ac-
tual absence of the President, and that during the presence of the
President of the University, the Vice-President only draw his
salary as a full professor. Adopted.
Mr. Kohn moved that an assistant be provided for the Depart-
ment of Biology, and that the salary of this assistant be paid out
of the salary not expended for the full professor, provided that the
same shall not exceed $1,000, and the selection shall be made by
the Executive Committee. Adopted.
On motion the Board adjourned, and in company with
Dr. Mitchell, the newly elected President, visited the campus and
building of the University.
August [Unclear}
Act of Secretary.


F.





Minutes of Building Com.
Columbia, S. C., August 3rd, 1908
The Building Committee appointed by the Board of Trustees
in connection with the new class-hall building held a meeting at
the office of Governor Ansel on August 3rd. Gov. M. F. Ansel
was selected as Chairman of the Committee and Mr. August Kohn as
Secretary. Mr. C. C. Wilson, of the firm of Wilson, Sompayrac
and Urquhart, was present at the meeting and presented the sealed
bids in connection with the work on the proposed class-room build-
ing.
The bids were opened and listed by the Committee, and
were as follows:

C. M. Lide, Columbia, $34,897.00

Simmons, Mayrant Co., Charleston, $34,873.00


King Lumber Co., Charlottesville Va, 28,73.00

Nicholas Ittner, Atlanta, Ga., 35,418.00

T.C. Thompsin & Bros.,Charlotte, 32,488.00

John J. Cain, Columbia, 35,003.00

Geo. W. Waring, Columbia, 30,989.00

M. L. McCullough, Columbia, 38,824.00

Grant Wilkins, Atlanta, Ga., 40,000.00

E. L. Hertzog, Columbia, 33,570.00

Geo. A. Clayton, Columbia, 31,900.00

Campbell & George, Lexington, 31,795.00
In connection with all of these bids was a provisional pro-
position relative to the substitution of Limestone for Granite
where named in the specifications. The Board after considering
the bids decided to use Granite for all of the work instead of
Limestone.
After due consideration the Board decided to award the
contract for the erection of the class-room building to the King
Lumber Company, of Greensboro, N. C., they presenting the lowest
bid. The Board instructed Mr. Wilson to see that the proper bond
was executed by the King Lumber Company, and that said bond be
made payable to Gov. M. F. Ansel, President of the Board of Trus-
tees, and that the formal contract be prepared for signature.



616


Building Com. Aug. 3,'08.
2
Mr. Hamer moved that if Mr. Shand advised in writing
that the change in location could be made that then the new build-
ing be erected on the College green on what the Committee know as
the upper location, or the location nearest to Green Street, and
that a Committee of two be appointed to confer with Mr. Shand and
ascertain definitely whether the Board is within ints legal rights.
in erecting the building on the site nearest to Green Street.
Adopted. Mr. Kohn and Mr. Walker were appointed on the Com-
mittee to confer with Mr. Shand.
Mr. Wilson was asked to submit a letter giving the ex-
act lines and distances in connection with site No. 1 and site
No. 2 for the proposed building.
A discription of the sites is
given in the following letter:
Columbia, S. C., August 3rd, 1908.
Mr. August Kohn,
City.
Dear Sir:
Replying to your inquiry of this date: We beg to advise
that the two sites under consideration for the new building at the
University of South Carolina are as follows:

Site No. 1. 25 ft. east of Bull Street;
50 ft. south of Pendleton Street.
Site No. 2. 25 ft. east of Bull Street;

90 ft. north of Green Street.
The building will be 69 feet wide by 140 feet long, and
will be placed parallel to Bull Street.
Yours very truly,
Wilson, Sompayrac & Urquhart.
The special report submitted to the Committee in con-
nection with the right to build upon site 2, as indicated in the
letter of Wilson, Sompayrac & Urquhart, follows:
: SPECIAL REPORT:
as to title of the Trustees of the University of
South Carolina,


Building Com., Aug. 3, '08. 
3.
to the two acres, constituting the western half of the block bound-
ed North by what was College (formerly Medium) Street, South by
Green Street, East by what was once Pickens Street, and West by
Bull Street.
Since making my Abstract of Title dated December 28,
1902, I have found an old map purporting to be copy of Map made
by original Surveyors in 1786, but the copy must have been made
later as the names of the owners of several of the lots are written
across them. On this old copy map these two acres are put down
as the property of "M. Howell", and the two acres, eastern half
of same block, and the entire block north of this are put down as
property of "College".
I have also learned since making my former Abstract that
the Minutes of the Board of Trustees were all preserved. Acting
upon this information, I have read them all from their first meet-
ing down to the end of the year 1838, and I find the following
entries.
April, 1822. "A letter was received from Col.
Chappell relative to the sale of certain lots adjoining the College
and the same was referred to" a Committee. No report of this Com-
mittee is of record. Note: Col. Chappell was at that time a pro-
minent attorney of Columbia.
29 November, 1833. Appended to minutes of this day's
meeting is the following entry: "The lot in the rear of Dr.
Cooper's house (the president's residence) 2 acres, belongs to the
estate of Mal Howell Co. Chappell admits that it will not bring
$100, but offers it for $200, and says he wishes the trustees to
make a bid. One hundred dollars is a full price. All the other
lots to the south-east of the College belong to the State.
Respectfully submitted,
E. H. Maxey, Sec'y of the Trustees."
There is no record of any action taken on this informa-
tion.



College [Unclear]


618





Building Com., Aug. 3, '08.
4.
29 November, 1837.
"Mr. Gregg introduced the following resolution:
"Resolved, That the sum of four hundred dollars be ap-
propriated for the purchase of Mrs. Howell's four lots of two
acres, east of Bull Street, near the President's house, and that
the money be paid by the treasurer of the College upon receiving
legal and valid titles for said lots. Agreed to."
In the volume of Minutes of 1837 - 1849, on page 30, is
attached printed copy of the treasurer's report for 1838. Among
the disbursements appears the following entry:
"Feby. 21. By cash Col. Chappell for tract of land
ordered by Trustees ----$400.00".

It is manifest from what is above written that these
two acres, consisting of four half-acre lots, Nos. 41 and 42 on
Green Street and Nos. 55 and 56 on Medium Street, were the property
of Malachi Howell; that he died and that his widow thereafter con-
trolled them; that Col. Chappell was Mrs. Howell's attorney; and
that the College purchased them in February 1838 for $400, receiv-
ing valid title therefor.
It may be that this deed could be found by proper search
among the archives of the University.
All the record books of deeds in Richland County were
destroyed by fire 17 February 1865.
Under Act of 21 Dec. 1865, section 1, the above"writings"
would be receivable in evidence to prove the facts therein recited.
-OPINION-
From the above we are of the opinion that the two acres
on the east side of Bull Street extending from Green to College,
are the absolute property in fee of the Trustees of the University
of South Carolina, and that there is no possibility of claim thereto
by any other person whomsoever. "Site No. 2" described in letter
of Wilson, Sompayrac & Urquhart to Mr. August Kohn, dated August 3,

1908, is wholly on these two acres, which is a parallelogram measur-





Minutes of Executive Comm.
[Unclear]
Building Co., Aug. 3., '08.

[Unclear] on Green and College Streets, and [Unclear] on the east
side of Bull Street.

August [Unclear]

Secretary, Building Committee

Board of Trustees, U.S.C.
Minutes of the Executive Committee


Columbia, S. C., Sept. 2 '08
The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Uni-
versity of South Carolina met in the Governor's office at 3:30 p.
m. on September 2nd, 1908. Present: Gov. Ansel, President Mitchell,
Messrs. Martin, Hamer and Kohn and Prof. A. C. Moore.
Mr. Wilson P. Gee was elected assistant in the Dept. of 
Biology at a salary of $500.
[Unclear]
Prof. Moore asked for instructions in regard to furnish-
ing the new Infirmary. The matter was referred to the special Com-
mittee on the Infirmary, consisting of Dr. Bates, Mr. Davis and Mr.
Spencer.
Prof. Moore was instructed to see Mr. Lafaye and have
necessary grading done on the grounds.
Gov. Ansel moved that the keeping of the grounds be under
the direction of the President. Carried.
Committee for
$75 was appropriated for the purchase of furniture for the
Pres' office.
President's office. $15 per month was allowed as house rent for
[Unclear]
the Marshal, Mr. Dyches.
Marshal Dyches
Upon the request of Prof. Moore for a ruling, it was ex-
pressed as the sense of the Committee that free tuition could not
[Unclear] 
be granted to students from other states.
Mr. Kohn offered a motion that Mr. Royal, the contractor
for painting the buildings, be excused from the penalty named in
the contract after Sept. lst, provided the work be completed by
Sept. 5th.
Secretary, pro. tem.


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Hazing pledge
Alumni Asso.
Moore residence
to be converted
into social hall.


Minutes of Sept. 23rd 08 Meeting
Columbia; S. C., Sept. 23rd, 1908
The Board of Trustees met this day in the University
Library at 4:45 p. m.
Present:
Gov. Ansel,
Dr. Bates,
Mr. Davis,
Mr. Kohn,
Mr. Martin,
Mr. Hamer,
Mr. Spencer,
Mr. Raysor.
The minutes of the meeting of June 9th were read.
Acting President A. C. Moore was invited to come before
the Board. Pres. Moore suggested a slight change in the pledge
against hazing, so as to make it read as follows:
"I _________ being fully advised of the regulations
against hazing, do hereby pledge on honor that I will not engage
in hazing in any form during my connection with the University.
______________"
Mr. Spencer moved that the Board adopt the suggestion, and
that Mr. Moore be authorized to submit the pledge as revised to
the students. Carried.
Pres. Moore made a report on a meeting of the Executive Com.
of the Alumni Assiciation held last week, as follows: "The Com-
mittee proposes to organize local county Alumni Associations and
in connection with this work desires to undertake the raising of
a fund of $6,000 with which to convert. the residence of Prof. G. B.
Moore into a social center for the University in accordance with
the plans of Dr. Mitchell for the development of the institution.
Pres. Moore, upon request, outlined the plans of Dr. Mitchell.
Resolution was adopted endorsing the plan to convert the
Moore residence into a social center, and authorizing the Alumni
to solicit funds for this purpose.
It was moved and adopted that the Legislature be asked for an


Sept. 23rd, 1908
2.
Appropriation
appropriation with which to put up a new building to match the
for new bldg.
one now in process of erection, and a residence to be occupied by
a professor.
That the acting president communicate to Dr. Mitchell
the acceptance by the Board of his suggestions in regard to the
C. B. Moore residence.
On motion of Mr. Hamer the Board decided to call the
R Means Davis Hall
Social Center hall the "R. Means Davis Hall".
The matter of students being required to register on
arrival, or within 24 hours thereafter, was referred to the Exe-
cutive Committee with power to act.
The request of the students that a shower bath within the
campus be provided, was referred to the Executive Committee with
power to act.
The minutes of the June 15th, July 18 and 25th, were
read, amended, and approved. Minutes of the June 9th meeting
were also approved.
The minutes of the Executive Committee of Sept. 2, also
the minutes of the Building Committee, dated August 3rd, were
read and approved.
It was moved and carried that all the records and reports
of the Building Committee be reconded, as set forth in their min-
utes.
Mr. Spencer, as Chairman of the Committee on Title,
made a report from that Committee.
The report was received as infonmation, and authority to
carry out its recommendations by the proper officers given.
Mr. Kohn called for resolutions as to the retirement of
the ex officio members, and the President of the Board named a com-
mittee of three to draft resolutions expressing appreciation
of their esteemed services. Committee, Messrs. Hamer, Bates and
Spencer.
Dr. Bates read a report for the Committee on Infirmary.
Rpt. of Com.
(4) Authority was given for the removal of the telephone from the
old infirmary to the new. Rpt. of Com. on Infirmary


Infirmary board
raised to 15¢ per
day.
Salary of Matron
raised from
40 to 50.00 per
mo.
Athletic Com.


3. Sept. 23rd, 1908.
On motion of Mr. Kohn the Committee was authorized to confer
with Mr. Shand, the architect, as to making such additions and
changes as recommended by it.
(No. 11) Board of Students. The the price of board be ad-
vanced from 50 cents a day to 75 cents, so as to cover the actual
cost of feeding the sick. It was moved and carried that the
salary of Mrs. Madden be increased from $40 to $50 per month, be-
ginning September 1st.
(No. 13) It was moved that the President of the University
be requested to ask City Council, in the name of the Board, to
light up Green Street in the vicinity of the Infirmary and Class-
room building.
No. 14 of the recommendations was approved, and authority for
the furnishing of the two private rooms given.
The report of the Committee was received as information, and
the Committee requested to submit to the next meeting of the Board,
a detailed inventory of the necessary furnishings, etc., including
hot water and conveniences not now in the equipment, with estimation
of cost, in order that it can be submitted to the Legislature for
an appropriation.
The Board adjourned at 7:35.
Mr. [Unclear]
Acting Secretary.
On November 3rd, 1908, Gov. Ansel appointed Messrs. J. Q.
Davis and Julius H. Walker, two members of the joint athletic com-
mittee of the University of South Carolina.


Rpt. of Infirmary Com.
September 23rd, 1908
The Infirmary Committee respectfully submits the follow-
ing report:
After careful consideration and a personal examination of
the situation and a free conference with the Matron and the Phy-
sicians, your Committee submits the following list of what to them
appear as the urgent needs.of the Infirmary.

1. The installation of an electric call bell system.

2. The necessary fixtures for utelizing the electric light-
ing plant.

3. Some provision for using gas for lighting and for heating
water and
preparing food in emergency cases. A few lamps are also
needed.
4.
There should be a telephone placed in the Infirmary.
5.
Hot and cold water should be introduced into the medical
dispensary- with sink and waste pipe.

6.
The wooden floors of the building should, by proper
filling with putty and oil or other substance, be made impervious

to all impurities.
And the walls should be made also impervious
to such matters and be hard finished so as to readily be cleaned
of any impurities that might happen to be attached to their surface.
7.
The drainage of water from the building should be provided
for by grading the surface of the land and providing suitable large
pipes for carrying off the water that falls.

At present the rain
water soaks thnough the soil or runs through ventilators into the
basement of the building.
8.
Proper sheds will have to be placed to prevent rain water
from running through cellar stairs and windows into the cellar.
9.
Some ventilators are needed under the floors of a section
of the front piazza.
10.
There is need of a suitable building for a woodshed, a
wash room and a home for the orderly.

It will be more in keeping
with infirmary methods to have the washing done on the premises -
whereall sanitary precautions can be taken, than to continue the
present system of sending :out the clothing and bed linen to be
laundered. The fuel for cooking should be sheltered. And the
orderly should reside on the premises - where his services can be
had in any emergency.
11.
Since the price of provisions has advanced so greatly
the charge of 50 cents per day for board of students in the infirm-
ary will not cover the cost, and we recommend that the University
suppliment this amount by giving from its receipts 25 cents per day
to cover the cost of board.
Some provision shoüld also be made
for feeding the servants.
12.
The infirmary grounds should be fenced as a protection
from intruders - and in such way as to provide for a kitchen garden.
13.
City lighting is needed on the streets at the infirmary.
14.
Your Committee recommends that all the furniture of the
old infirmary be disposed of with the exception of the linen and
blankets and a few sanitary articles, and that two modern hospital
beds be furnished - one to each of the two private rooms - with
other necessary sanitary articles such as enamelled chairs, commodes
and wash stands - for these two rooms only - leaving the rest of
the building unfurnished for the present - and await an appropria-
tion from the Legislature to complete the furnishing in suitable
style.
Of course if any emergency should arise requiring more
articles before an appropriation can be obtained, we will have to
supply them.
(Signed) W. T. Bates,
C. E. Spencer,
J. Q. Davis.





1st Rpt. of Acting Pres. A. C. Moore
Dec. / 08

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
REPORT OF PRESIDENT
December, 1908.
Board of Trustees,
University of South Carolina.
Gentlemen:
I have the honor to submit herewith a report for the half-
year ending December 31st, 1908, to which are appended reports of
the professors; the librarian and the treasurer:
I. THE FACULTY

The death of Prof. Joseph Dan'l Pope and the retirement of
President Benjamin Sloan and Dr. E. S. Joynes have been recorded in
previous reports by President Sloan. Prof. M. H. Moore was promoted
to the deanship of the Law School to succeed Dr. Pope and Prof. J.
Nelson Frierson of the Buffalo Law School was added to the faculty.
Prof. Oscar L. Keith, instructor in the University of Wisconsin, was
elected professor of Modern Languages to succeed Dr. Joynes, and Dr.
Samuel Chiles Mitchell of Richmond College was chosen President to
succeed Major Sloan. Dr. Mitchell having already obligated himself
to deliver a course of lectures on history in Brown University,
Providence, R. I., found it impracticable to enter actively upon the
duties of the presidency until the beginning of next session. Prof.
Andrew C. Moore was selected by the Board to act as President until
Dr. Mitchell's arrival.


The following promotions have been made: Prof. L. T. Baker
from Associate Professor to Professor of Pedagogy; Prof. A. C. Carson
from Associate Professor to Professor of Physics; Prof. H. C. Davis
from Adjunct Professor to Associate Professor of English; Prof. E. D.
Easterling from instructor to Adjunct Professor of Mathematics.
During the summer vacation the various members of the
faculty were engaged in study, travel and other activities of profit
to themselves and the University.
Professors Bain and Green spent the summer in Greece and
Italy, where they visited the localities made famous in the liter-
ature of the ancient classics. Prof. Wauchope retraced the foot-
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2.
President's Rpt.
letters, and visited the historic haunts of Cambridge and Oxford.
On December 9th, by special invitation, he delivered an address at
the University of Virginia upon the occasion of the celebration of
the ter-centenary of the birth of Milton. Prof. Keith spent the sum-
mer in study in France and Spain, Mr. Potts in Germany and Mr. Bradley
in Cuba.
Prof. Davis continued his English studies in the Univer-
sity of Chicago and Prof. Easterling studied mathematics in the same
institution. Prof. Carson took a course in Physics at Cornell, and
Prof. McCutchen visited the University of Wisconsin for study in
History and Economics. Prof. Twitchell spent some time at Johns-
Hopkins University where he was engaged in completing, in conjunction
with Prof. Clark of that institution, a paper on the Fossil Echino-
derms of the Allantic Coastal plain. He was afterwards employed
upon Geological Survey work in Maryland and Virginia.
Prof. M. H. Moore visited several libraries inthe North
in search of material for an important article he has in preparation
upon the law writers of the South.
Prof. Colcock was engaged in a survey in settlement of a
boundary dispute between Kershaw and Lancaster Counties. He is now
during the Christmas holidays in attendance upon a meeting of the
National Athletic Association in New York City.
Prof. Snowden continued his historical studies upon the
free negroes of South Carolina for the Carnegie Institution.
Prof. Wardlaw was kept in Columbia the greater part of the
summer by work on connection with the scholarships for teachers. He
visited and spoke before the Pickens County Summer School for Teach-
ers and delivered a course of lectures before a Sunday School Insti-
tute at Camden.
Prof. Baker conduted summer schools for teachers in Kershaw
and Richland Counties, addressed the Summer School at Yorkville and
attended various conventions and meetings of fraternal orders. He
is now engaged in giving a course of lectures before the teachers
of Richland County at their monthly meetings.





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3.
President's Rpt.
Prof. Hand was actively engaged in his duties as High School
inspector throughout the summer. Between Commencement day and
December 4th he visited 53 localities in the State in the interest of
High Schools, making fourteen public addresses and assiting in the
organization of twenty-six high schools. He visited Agricultural

and Industrial High Schools in Monroe and Rome, Ga., and met with
the Committee appointed by President Roosevelt to investigate con-
ditions of Rural life. He also attended a meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Conference for Education in the South at Atlanta.
With Professors Main and Baker he represented the University at-the
meeting of the Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the South at Chat-
tanooga, Tenn.
Prof. A. C. Moore was engaged throughout the summer in
work connected with the office of president, and in editing the alumni
records. He represented the University at the inauguration of Pres.
Harms of Newberry College on November 7th, and attended the meeting
of the National Association of State Universities at Washington, D.
C., Nov. 16th and 17th.
SCHEDULE OF CLASSES, LECTURE HOURS AND NO. OF STUDENTS.
Professor
No.Classes No. Hours Students Extra Hrs.
Burney, Chemistry, 5 15 50
Wardlaw, Pedagogy, 6, 16, 81, 5
Hand, Pedagogy, 1 2 8
Baker, Pedagogy, 5 16 74 6
Moore, M.H., Law, 2 6 35 4 Moot Court
Thomas, Law, 2 6 35 4
Frierson, Law, 2 6 35 4
Colcock, Mathematics, 7 27 92
Easterling, " 5 21 166
Carson, Physics, 5 19 55
Wauchope, English 5 15 86 14
Davis, English, 7 19 126 23 
Bain, Ancient Langs. 6 19 50
Green, Ancient Langs. 6 17 40





































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4.
SCHEDULE OF HOURS, ETC, cont.,
Professor
No.Classes No. Hours Students Exrta Hours
Moore, A.C., Biology 3 6 1
Gee, Biology, 2 3 2
Snowden, Hisotry 4 17 138
McCutchen, History, 5 15 71
Moore, G.B., Philosophy, 5 12 81
Keith, Mod. Langs. 6 18 32
Potts, Mod. Langs, 6 18 85
Bradley, Mod. Langs, 4 12 74
Twitchell, Geology, 4 11 57 4











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2.
STUDENTS.
The enrollment of students is slightly in excess of the
enrollment at the corresponding period last year, viz., 284 against
278. The distribution of students by departments is as follows:
Graduate, 10; Literary, 111; Scientific, 59; Special, 26; Teachers,
43; Law, 35. Only ten women are in attendance this year, and of
these four are graduate students.
Remarkably good order has prevailed upon the campus during
the period covered by this report. The general bearing of the stu-
dents has been courteous and helpful. There are many evidences of
greater harmony in the student body and closer sympathy between
groups of students which have hitherto been antagonistic. There seems
to prevail a desire for co-operation and mutual helpfulness, and a
general pulling together for the upbuilding of the University. It
has been necessary to discipline a few individual students, but these
have been satisfactorily dealt with.
3.
INFIRMARY. 
The Wallace Thomson Infirmary has been completed and fills
a long-felt want. Although inadequately equipped with worn out
furniture, it has been in constant use since the opening of the pre-
sent session. It should be completely furnished at once with all
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President's Rpt., Dec. '08
among the students. Since Prs. Jeter has provided so liberally
for the building, the State should be willing to provide suitable
furnishings. Gas in the building is a necessity, but some diffi-
culty has been experienced with the Gas Company in having the con-
nections made, since the nearest point at which their mains can be
tapped is two blocks away, and the Gas Co. objects to bearing all the
cost of making the connections when the probable consumption of gas
will be small.
The expense of maintenance has been high and I beg to sug-
gest that in the future the contract with the physicians be modified
so as to fix a maximum charge. Under the present arrangement if ten
patients are in the infirmary a charge of $11 is made for a visit.
It would seem that when there are a large number of patients, the
physicians could afford to make their charges more moderate. There
is no reduction made for office visits - the regular charge of $1
per visit being made. The University receives nothing in return for
throwing all of this business to the Infirmary physicians. Some re-
duction, therefore, in the charge should be made, or the students
should be permitted to consult any physician they may choose.
It has been necessary to employ a special nurse on several
occasions when patients with infectious diseases were being treated.
No pains have been spared to prevent the spread of such diseases, es-
pecially typhoid fever. All cases of this disease, with the excep-
tion of one, have been traceable to sources beyond the University,
and this one is as yet unaccounted foror.
Report of Matron.


Twenty-six cases of sickness of a more or less serious nature have been
treated, the patients remaining in the infirmary from one to 33 days,
or an average of a little more than nine days per patient. The fol-
lowing diseases have been treated: Grip, 5; Typhoid fever, 5; Measles,
4; Malaria, 3; Dysentary, Burn, Appendicitis, Abcess, Cold, Disloca-
tion, Infected foot, Rheumatism, and Hock worm, 1 each.


Dec. '08
President's Report.
SANITATION AND HEALTH.
The report of the State health officer is appended to this
report. The matters criticised by him have been remedied as far
as possible. Sinks for the reception of slops containing urine
should be provided in the rear of the dormitories. This could be
done at comparatively small cost. The inspector emphasized the
necessity of screens at the Infirmary and Stewards Hall. The Stewards
Hall has been thoroughly screened, but the Informary is yet to be pro-
vided for. This is an important matter, since flies and mosquitoes
are known to play an important part in the dissemination of disease.
DeSaussure college which contains 48 rooms and accomodates
96 students is totally unprovided with sanitary closets. It is ne-
cessary for students occupying this building to use the closets in
the rear of the other buildings, the nearest being at a distance of
700 feet from the East end of DeSaussure College. This condition is
deplorable both from the standpoint of the comfort and the health of
the students, and should be remedied at once. The location of the
present closets outside of the buildings is unfortunate and incon-
venient for students, especially those rooming in the wings of the
buildings.
No provision is made for bathing in any of the buildings,
and it is necessary for all students to go to the Gymnasium for a
bath. This is to say the least a great inconvenience and does not
promote cleanliness and health. I would recommend that a closet
and bath room be provided in the east end of DeSaussure College this
year, and that similar arrangements be provided in the other col-
leges as soon as practicable.
STEWARDS HALL.
5.
The Stewards Hall has been successful under the management
of Mrs. Latimer. The students are provided with plenty of good,
wholesome food at $12 per month and seem well satisfied. A commit-
tee of the faculty has visited the Hall and found the food to be of
excellent quality and well served.


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Dec. '08
President's Report.
LIBRARY.
6.
The report of the Librarian presents some important and
interesting facts. The library has outgrown its present quarters
and provision should be made as soon as possible for a new building

or an annex to the present one. The appropriation to the library
should be increased to at least $1500. Many public high schools
are spending as much annually upon their libraries as the whole State
of South Carolina upon the library of her University.
7
ATHLETICS.
The spirit which has dominated the students in their sports
has been commendable. They have not sought success at all
hazards, but have first striven for fair play. No professionaliam
or sharp practice of any kind has been tolerated.
Basket Ball is growing in favor and olaims the attention
of a number of students who cannot or do not care to take part in
foot-ball or base-ball. Tennis is also growing in popularity, and
is a means of furnishing many others with healthful outdoor exercise.
The financial management of athletics has been satisfactory, and all
obligations will be met.
GYMNASIUM.
8.
Students are encouraged to take outdeer exercise whenever
practicable and such is the case during most of the year. The pre-
sent gymmasium accomodations are growing inadequate. There is not
sufficient room for both exercising and bathing, and it has been
found that classes under instruction are seriously interfered with
by members of the athletic teams entering the gymnasium for their
suits or for bathing after practice. On the other hand the athletic
teams complain that the classes are in their way. Some provision
should be made in the near future to meet this difficulty.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
9.
The Y. M. C. A. continues to play an important part in the
University life. It has been active in the promotion of bible study
and in furthering all forms of religious activities among the students.
An affort is being made to secure the services of a trained secre-
tary to take charge of the work. The advantages of such an officer


President's Rpt. Dec. '08
are apparant to all who are familiar with association work. All town
and city associations find it necessary to employ a trained man to
direct the work, and the plan has been successfully tried in many
colleges. For several years Clemson College has employed a secre-
tary and the results amply justify the expenditure. The students
propose to raise among themselves and from the faculty and alumni
$400, and will ask for an appropriation of $600 to supplement the
salary of a competent man. Their plans have been heartily endorsed
by the faculty, and I trust your board will make every effort to se-
cure the appropriation.
10. STUDENT PUBLICATIONS.

The management of student publications has not been en-
tirely satisfactory. A bill of $500 against the Garnet and Black
has recently been presented. Inexperienced student managers intrusted
with the expenditure of a thousand or two dollars frequently fail to
make ends meet through lack of judgment and for want of business
training. The same difficulty was experienced with athletics until
the adoption of the present excellent plan of management. I would
recommend that a similar plan be adopted for the management of all
student publications.
11. ALUMNI RECORDS.

During the summer months work on the records was pushed
vigorously, and 2,500 individual records were gotten in proper form
for publication. About 500 more are in hand ready for being edited
and many more are yet to be secured. It does not seem practicable
to make the records complete without great delay. It is my desire to
push the work during the next summer vacation and publish at once
such matter as may be in hand. I would, therefore, ask for an ap-
propriation of $400 for this work.
PREP. SCHOOLS & ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS.
12.
Reference has already been made to the work of Mr. Hand
as High School inspector. The University will soon feel the effect
of this work in the larger number of students seeking entrance and
the time seems ripe for advancing the standards of the institution.


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Such action will be helpful to the high schools as well as to the
University and will be welcomed by them. The faculty committee on
Accredited schools and Entrance Requirements is at work on this
problem and will be ready with its report during the present session.
13. CARNEGIE FOUNDATION.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has
recently extended the benefits of retiring allowances to State insti-
tutions upon certain conditions. An institution to come within the
requirements must demand 14 unites of high school work as a prepara-
tion for entrance. At present few colleges and universities in the
South come up to this standard, but the Board has indicated its will-
ingness to modify this requirement temporarily provided such insti-
tutions agree to meet the requirements within three or four years.
The rapid improvement in the high schools of South Carolina make it
practicable and desirable that the University advance its standards
to meet the requirements of the Carnegie Board.
The formal action necessary to be taken by your board and
by the legislature will be indicated in a special communication.
14. PROF. KEITH'S CLAIM.

Your attention is respectfully called to the accompanying
letter from Prof. Keith with regard to a misunderstanding in the
matter of an allowance for house rent. The Acting President did
not feel that he was authorized to pay to Prof. Keith such an al-
lowance and so informed him. The matter is, therefore, referred
to your Board.
15. SPECIAL REQUESTS OF IMPARTMENTS.

Law.
The special attention of the Board is directed to the needs
of the Law School as set forth in the accompanying report. The
present rooms are entirely inadequate, and I would recommend that a
suite of rooms in the new building be assigned to the Law School.
The request for a working library in close proximity to the lecture
and moot court rooms where law books will be accesible to the students
at night is a reasonable one, and I, therefore, recommend that steps


President's Rpt. Dec. '08 10.
be taken looking to the establishment and maintenance of such a
library. (See rpt of Law School).
b. Physics & Engineering.
The dean of the Department of Physics and Engineering asks
for the appointment of a professor of engineering. The over crowded
condition of the department of Mathematics makes it absolutely es-
sential for efficient work that some relief be afforded. The sec-
tions as now taught are entirely too large and the head of the de-
partment is greatly overburdened with work. There is an abundance
of work for the entire time of an additional instructor and I re-
commend his appointment. A request is also made for the appro-
priation of $500 for apparatus.
The board is requested to determine whether Commercial
Arithmetic should be taught by the Department of Mathematics or the
Department of History & Political Science, as a part of the course of
Commerce and Finance. In my judgment it properly belongs in the
department of Mathematics, just as Com. Geology, another branch re-
quired in the course of Commerce and Finance, belongs to the Dept.
of Geology. (On this subject see rpts of Pros. Colcock & McCutchen).
c. Physics.

The Department of Physics stands in need of the following
additional equipment:
Apparatus illustrating light, sound & electricity $500
2 500 Watt Experimental Dynamos 
$500
2 500 Watt Motors

Electric current from city at $9 per mo. 81
or Gasoline Engine 250

This department is making great progress in the development
of laboratory work and if this development is to continue, and the
courses be made attractive to prospective engineering students, the
apparatus asked for is absolutely essential. (See rpt Prof. Carson)
d. Dept. of Education.

The special attention of the Board is called to the request
of the Dept. of Education that the matter of restoring the number of


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normal scholarships to two to each county be urged before the com-
ing session of the general assembly.
This, in my opinion, is one of the most important matters
brought to the attention of your Board. As a mere matter of jus-
tice to the institution the number of scholarships should be at least
two to each county. Clemson has 165; Winthrop, 124; and the Citadel
with an attendance smaller than the University, has 68, paying $250
per year. With the rapid establishment of high schools, the demand
for male teachers has already exceeded the supply of competent men.
The young men now holding these scholarships are among the most

earnest and conscientious students at the University, and the in-
crease of such a body of men of serious purpose will greatly bene-
fit the institution. The present teaching force of the University can
handle these additional men without further expense to the State and
the money expended for these scholarships does not come to the insti-
tution but goes directly back to the people of the various counties
through the winners of the scholarships. (See rpt of Dept. of Edu-
cation).
e. Modern Languages.
The request of the Department of Modern Languages for an
appropriation of $100 for the purchase of books is a modest one and
should be granted.
f. Ancient Languages.

The suggestion of Prof. Green for the division of the Dept.
of Ancient Languages into the Departments of Latin and of Greek may
well be worth considering, though. I am inclined to think that the
time for such division has hardly come as yet. A practical division
of the work of Latin and Greek between the two professors in the dept.
as it now stands can be made, thus securing the advantages of a high-
er degree of specializing.
The course in Mediterranean Cizilization offered by Dr.
Green has proven very attractive and suggests an important line of
development; - viz., the establishment of courses of ancient history
in connection with the study of ancient languages, art and archeology.
Dr. Green's taste and training in historical studies makes him peculiar
ly fitted to undertake this work, and he should be given every encour-


President's Rpt. Dec. '08 12
agement to carry it out. (See rpts of Profs. Bain & Green).
History & Political Science.
Prof. Snowden asks for an appropriation of $75 for the
purchase of books for his department. Recommended.
Prof. McCutchen suggests a plan by means of which an in-
structor in accounting could be employed without the payment of a
full instructor's salary. (See Prof. McCutchen's rpt.)
h. Geology & Mineralogy.


The special attention of the Board is called to the request of Prof.
Twitchell for an appropriation of $150 to defray his traveling ex-
penses in visiting the various mines and quarries of the State. It
would be a distinct advantage to the University to be thus put in
closer touch with the mineral industries of the State. Besided plac-
ing the professor in a position to render more efficient teaching
service by acquainting himself with conditions and possibilities in
the various localities of the State, and by supplying the cabinets
of the University with illustrative material, it would be an effec-
tive means of bringing the advantages offered by the University to
the attention of the people.
16. REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS.

The appropriations made by the last general assembly for
repairs and improvements were expended as directed, and as a con-
sequence the campus presents a much neater and better kept appearance.
The painting of the buildings was done in such a way as to freshen
them up without destroying their air of quiet and dignified repose.
Observant visitors constantly remark upon the great improvement.

17. LECTURE-ROOM BUILDING.
Satisfactory progress is being made upon the new lecture
room building, and from present indications it will be completed be-
fore the close of the present session. It would be well for the
Board to determine what departments will be assigned to this build-
ing. Those who seem most in need of new quarters are Mathematics,
Modern Languages and Law, each requiring three rooms, unless it is
deemed advisable to give the law department an additionel room for
the law library and moot court. This would leave two or three rooms


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normal scholarships to two to each county be urged before the com-
ing session of the general assembly.
This, in my opinion, is one of the most important matters
brought to the attention of your Board. As a mere matter of jus-
tice to the institution the number of scholarships should be at least
two to each county. Clemson has 165; Winthrop, 124; and the Citadel
with an attendance smaller than the University, has 68, paying $250
per year. With the rapid establishment of high schools, the demand
for male teachers has already exceeded the supply of competent men.
The young men now holding these scholarships are among the most
earnest and conscientious students at the University, and the in-
crease of such a body of men of serious purpose will greatly bene-
fit the institution. The present teaching force of the University can
handle these additional men without further expense to the State and
the money expended for these scholarships does not come to the insti-
tution but goes directly back to the people of the various counties
through the winners of the scholarships/ (See rpt of Dept. of Edu-
cation).

e. Modern Languages.
The request of the Department of Modern Languages for an
appropriation of $100 for the purchase of books is a modest one and
should be granted.
f. Ancient Languages.

The suggestion of Prof. Green for the division of the Dept.
of Ancient Languages into the Departments of Latin and of Greek may
well be worth considering, though I am inclined to think that the
time for such division has hardly come as yet. A practical division
of the work of Latin and Greek between the two professors in the dept.
as it now stands can be made, thus securing the advantages of a high-
er degree of specializing.
The course in Mediterranean Cizilization offered by Dr.
Green has proven very attractive and suggests an important line of
development; - viz., the establishment of courses of ancient history
in connection with the study of ancient languages, art and archeology.
Dr. Green's taste and training in historical studies makes him peculiar
ly fitted to undertake this work, and he should be given every encour-


President's Rpt. Dec. '08 12.
agement to carry it out. (See rpts of Profs. Bain & Green).
g. History & Political Science.
Prof. Snowden asks for an appropriation of $75 for the
purchase of books for his department. Recommended.
Prof. McCutchen suggests a plan by means of which an in-
structor in accounting could be employed without the payment of a
full instructor's salary. (See Prof. McCutchen's rpt.)
h. Geology & Mineralogy.


The special attention of the Board is called to the request of Prof.
Twitchell for an appropriation of $150 to defray his traveling ex-
penses in visiting the various mines and quarries of the State. It
would be a distinct advantage to the University to be thus put in
closer touch with the mineral industries of the State. Besided plac-
ing the professor in a position to render more efficient teaching
service by acquainting himself with conditions and possibilities in
the various localities of the State, and by supplying the cabinets
of the University with illustrative material, it would be an effec-
tive means of bringing the advantages offered by the University to
the attention of the people.
16. REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS.

The appropriations made by the last general assembly for
repairs and improvements were expended as directed, and as a con-
sequence the campus presents a much neater and better kept appearance.
The painting of the buildings was done in such a way as to freshen
them up without destroying their air of quiet and dignified repose.
Observant visitors constantly remark upon the great improvement.

17. LECTURE-ROOM BUILDING.
Satisfactory progress is being made upon the new lecture
room building, and from present indications it will be completed be-
fore the close of the present session. It would be well for the
Board to determine what departments will be assigned to this build-
ing. Those who seem most in need of new quarters are Mathematics,
Modern Languages and Law, each requiring three rooms, unless it is
deemed advisable to give the law department an additional room for
the law library and moot court. This would leave two or three rooms


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13.
President's Rpt.
unassigned, and it might be advisable to leave them unassigned for
the present.
NEW LABORATORY BUILDING.
18.
At its last meeting the Board determined to ask an appro-
priation of $50,000 for the Legislature for the erection of a build-
ing for scientific laboratories. It would, perhaps, be unwise at
this time to unfold fully the plans of the Board for the future de-
velopment of the University, but enough should be said to convince
the legislature and the public that such plans are being prepared
and that every imporvement to be made now and in the future is ef a
permanent nature and will form a part of a harmonious whole when com-
pleted.
The department which now stands in greatest need of accom-
odations in a new building is that of Biology. The other sciences
which ought to occupy the same building should be determined after
a careful study of the whole situation by the professors of the de-
partments concerned and the architects. There is a natural grouping
of the sciences which should be observed in all future plans. For
instance, Biology and Geology or the Natural History sciences, form
a natural group; or Biology and Chemistry might well be placed to-
gether. Psychology should be associated with Biology. Buth these
are matters to be determined after careful study. It should be suf-
ficient to designate the new building before the legislature as a
scientific laboratory.

19. CENTRAL HEATING PLANT.
One of the greatest needs of the University is a central
heating plant. The present method of heating by open fire-places

and stoves is not only wasteful, unsatisfactory and unsanitary, but
militates against cleanliness. Other State institutions, and all
institutions build in recent times are provided with such heating
plants. It does not seem practicable at present to install a com-

plete central plant, but the plans for the future should be made with
this ultimate end in view.
Respectfully submitted,
A. C. Moore, Acting President.
5


January 9th 1908.
SUMMARY OF PRESIDENT'S REPORT.
1. Faculty.
2. Students.

3. Infirmary:

Furniture, $2,500
Screens, Servant's house and



Gas, laundry ----
Physicians' charges,
Special nurse.
4. Sanitation:
Sinks for slop, $50.
Closets & bath in DeSaussure College.
5. Steward's Hall.
6. Library:
More room needed,
Increase in appropriation from $1,000 to $1,500.
7. Athletics,
8. Gymnasium:

More room needed.
500
9. Y.M.C.A.
Secretary's salary ($500).

10. Student publications:
Advisory board on same.
11. Alumni Records:
Appropriation (400).
12. Preparatory Schools & Entrance Requirements.

13. Carnegie Foundation:

Trustee & Legislative action accepting
benefits of --.
14. Prof. Keith's claim. $300

15. Departments:
a. Law:
Suite of rooms in new building,
Law Library.
b. Physics & Engineering:

Prof of Engineering ($1800)

Apparatus ($500)
Status of Commercial
Arithmetic.
c. Physics:
Apparatus illustrating light and

electricity ($500)
2 500 Watt Dynamos)

2 500 Watt Motors ($500)
Electric current from city at

$9 per month ($80)
or
Gasoline engine ($250)
d. Education:

Increase of scholarships to 124.
e. Modern Languages: Books ($100)
f. Ancient Languages:
Division of Dept.
g. History & Pol. Science:
Books ($75)
h. Geol. & Mineralogy:
Expenses of Professor in visit-
ing mines &c. ($150)
i. Biology: Supplies ($50)
16. Repairs and improvements.


17. Lecture-room Building:

Assignments to:
Law,
Mathematics,
Modern Languages.
18. New Laboratory Building (350,000)

19. Central Heating Plant.



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Jan. 13 09
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
ColumbIa, S. C., Jan. 13, 1909
Board of Trustees,
University of South Carolina.
Gentlemen:
I beg leave to submit the following supplementary report:
1. At a meeting of the faculty, Sept. 29th, 1908, it was recom-

mended to the Board of Trustees that in all degree courses in which
Ethics is required there be added after the word Ethics the words,
"or Sociology"
2. Dec. 8, 1908, Prof. Twitchell asked permission for a course

on meterology by Mr. Bauer of the Weather Bureau, one hour a week
during the second term. It was approved by the faculty and referred
to the Board of Trustees.
3. The following are needs in addition to those presented in re-
gular report:

1. Repairs
Valleys & Roofs $ 150.00
Fences, 500.00


Dr. Joynes' piazza, 150.00

Prof Colcock's servant's house, 75.00


Covering Prof. Wardlaw's house, 200.00

General repairs to E. DeSaussure, 800.00

Fence for athletic field, 35.00

Surface drains on campus, 200.00

Painting roofs, 250.00
President's house, 1,500.00


Moving Prof. Baker's kitchen, 50.00

2. Increase in salary of Physical Director, 200.00

3. Janitor for New Class-Room building, 225.00

4. Volt meter for testing electrio light service, 75.00


5. Supplies for Gymnasium, 689.00

Respectfully submitted,
A. C. Moore,
Acting President.


Rpt. of Librarian - Dec. '08
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
REPORT OF LIBRARIAN.
December, 1908.
The library is growning in all departments - more books
were donated in 1908, and more books added by purchase, than in any
year since the library was re-organized in 1898. The appropriation
for books has increased from $300 in 1896 to $1,000 in 1908. The
periodical list has grown from 22 subscriptions in 1898 to 68 in 1908.
Two student assistants were employed beginning the second term of
the session 1907-8, and the experiment has proven a marked success.
The two students employed were eminently qualified for the work, and
it is recommended that their pay be the total amount of the fees, in-
stead of only the tuition fee, from $40 to $58 a session.
The office of librarian and treasurer was divided March,
1907, and the librarian thereby relieved of the treasurer's work,
which has been greatly to the benefit of the library, although the
force is still inadequate to the work of advancing the catalog.
In 1898 the catalogue was started under the supervision
of Miss Ellen M. Fitz Simons, a graduate of the Aster Library, re-
commended by Dr. J. S. Billins, who visited the library and sug-
gested the plan of re-organization.
During the vacation of 1898 Miss Fitz Simons, Miss Rion
and Miss Carrie Means rearranged the books, and cataloged English
literature and American history, using the scholarly Cutter classi-
fication, in preference to the more popular Dewey system. Since
that time the catalog has moved more slowly, there being little time
that the librarian and assistant could give from the daily routine
of administering the library, loaning books etc.
The library is almost all of it classified and labeled,
thereby making it practically available; the catalogue is only com-
plete in the following departments: Literature, British and American;
History and Biography; Geography, travels and description; Education;
Politics, social science and legislation; Latin and Greek; Philology.
Partly cataloged:- Religion; Philosophy; Reference books;
Arts, fine and useful; Smithsonian reports.


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Not cataloged:- Natural sciences; Foreign literatures; Public
Documents.
The law books, periodicals and Carnegie Foundation pub-
lications are made accessible by means of check lists. As far as
possible bibliographies are prepared for the students, covering the
subjects of the various debates and medal contests. A card shelf
is made, and reported up to date, of all the South Caroliniana in
the library.
The government documents are not satisfactorily arranged,
except the Congressional Globe and Records, owing to lack of room;
and nothing is done in the way of check list or catalog - no one's
time being available for such work. The law books are carefully
listed, and available to the students at all hours of the day, not
being let out of the library except over night.
The average circulation of books is 20 a day. No record of
the use of books in the library is kept, but the greatest use of the
books is in that way, as it should be. It is a library axiom that
a reference library will accomodate more usert in a day than a cir-
culating library.
Without an actual count of the books, a careful estimate
credits us with 31,977 volumes in the general library, not including
government documents (about 10,000) and pamphlets and newspapers.
In 1872 Mr. Bruce Walker reported by a careful count 26,812 volumes.
In 1898, a careful count showed 27,967 in the general library and 4,
175 government documents. The accessions by gift and purchase since
1898 amount to 4,010 volumes in the general library. There are
238 bound volumes of newspapers in the library - the majority added
recently.
The crying needs of the library are: - More room. Repairs
to valuable standard books. Many of our fine editions, very much in
use are so out of repair that it is damaging to let them be used at
all. An increase of library staff; at least one more assistant,

so that the law library could be under supervision, more time given
to cataloging, and the public documents made available. It is re-
commended that the Library of Congress printed cards be purchased for
the new books, so that the catalogue of the older books can be ad-
vanced.
Respectfully submitted,
M. H. Rion, Librarian.