488 A SKETCH OF EDUCATION IX SOUTH CAROLINA. 



By the year 1847 additional buildings were necessary, and the roll of 

 students the following session numbered 221. A fire destroyed one 

 building in 1851, and, four years later, a still more serious loss was in- 

 curred in the burning of Rutledge College and tlie old chapel. These 

 damages were speedily repaired. 



A rebellion in 1852 led to a relaxation of the old rule requiring all 

 students to board in commons. After this the Steward's Hall served only 

 as a check upon regularly licensed boarding houses. 



The College continued its usefulness until the war. A company was 

 formed within the walls for State service. 



In 1862 the exercises were suspended, and the students and professors 

 were called to other duties. Hundreds of matriculates and alumni 

 were near the flashing of the guns, and many of them achieved high 

 reputation. 



The college buildings served as a hospital up to the time of the sur- 

 render. 



THE SOUTH CAROLINA UNIVERSITY. 



In 1800, the college was reopened and converted into a university', 

 Hon. Robert W. Barnwell beino; a second time called from private life 

 to the presidency. He placed the institution on a soun:l footing. Schools 

 of law and medicine were attached to the academic department. A num- 

 ber of earnest students attended, and the attendance increased to more 

 than a hundred. The reorganization of the Board of Trustees, in 1869, 

 was followed by some resignations in the faculty. In 1873, a radical 

 change was made. The doors were thrown open to all students, regard- 

 less of race. The old professors resigned their places, and a new faculty 

 and a new class of studsnts cam 3 into o?3upancy. In 1877, 



THE INSTITUTION WAS CLOSED 



b}^ the Legislature. In 187i), the Legislature issued State stock to revive 

 the fund, given by the general Government for an agricultural and me- 

 chanical college, and lost by tlie State autliorities between 18(58 and 1876. 



THE UNIVERSITY WAS REOPENED 



in 1880 with two branches — the South Carolina Agricultural and Me- 

 chanical College at Columbia, for the whites, and Claflin L^niversity at 

 Orangeburg, for the blacks. Hon. Wm. Porcher Miles was elected Presi- 

 dent of the College at Columbia. Tins organization continued two years. 

 In 1881, the Legislature made additional appropriations, and the trustees, 



