4C6 A SKETCH OF EDUCATIO^' IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 



its management is given by tlie President, Mrs M. A. Snvowden, and by 

 a matron and housekeaper, and by resident teachers. 



THE HOME HAS LITTLE SOURCE OF INCOME 



but voluntary contributions. The Confederate Home Association num- 

 bers one hundred and fifty, who pay annual dues of one dollar, and a 

 " Gentlemen's Auxiliary Association," the yearly membership of which is 

 ten dollars. The donations of friends have been liberal and frequent, so 

 that the Home Association not only owns the premises w^hich were at first 

 rented, but has added to them a very large building adjoining, and front- 

 ing upon another street. At the request of some of the donors, their 

 gifts have been used to purchase scholarships of $500 each, bearing an 

 annual interest of |3o for beneficiaries of the Institution. 



By far the greater portion of the pupils are wholly or in part benefi- 

 ciar3^ When, however, there is ability upon the part of the parents or 

 friends to pay anything, it is strictly required. The sum of two hundred 

 dollars yearly will provide board, lodging, fuel, lights, books and uni- 

 form ; yet but one pupil last year and but one pupil this year has been 

 able to meet this requirement. All others have been wholly gratuitous, 

 or the amount paid merely nominal. 



The number of pupils, including resident and day scholars, averages 

 sixt3^ In addition to the pupils of the school, the Confederate Home 

 has provided, for fourteen years, and still provides rooms for an average 

 of forty permanent inmates — mothers, widows or daughters of Southern 

 soldiers, with every possible help to their maintenance. 



THE SHAW" MEMORIAL SCHOOL. 



After the close of the war, the relatives of Col. R. G. Shaw, of ^lassa- 

 chusetts, who was killed in command of a regiment of colored troops 

 bafore Battery Wagner; endowed the " Shaw Memorial School " for 

 colored children. For several years it was supported by Northern funds, 

 but in 1<S74, the property was conveyed to the city, which undertook its 

 maintenance, at an annual expenditure of between six and seven thousand 

 dollars. This school has been mentioned among the public schools. 



THE AVERY NORMAL INSTITUTE, 



for colored students, was organized in 1865. A building was erected 

 at a cost of $25,000, in 1868, by the American Missionary Association, 

 and named for the Rev. Mr. Avery, a philanthropist of Pittsburg, who 



