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some of the rooms, not needed by the College, answer the purposes of the 

 Seminary, No endowment has yet been undertaken for it. It is sup- 

 ported by an annual assessment of the Churches comprising the Synod. 



The only funds it has received for permanent investment are donations 

 and bequests. The largest of these was by the will of the late Dr. jNIc- 

 Millen, of San Francisco, Cal. This is not in hand yet, but according to 

 reports of the executors, it is believed it will yield a very handsome sum. 

 This, added to others, similar, the more recent of Avhich is from Mrs. 

 Ann Wallace, of Kentucky, and Mr. Thomas Torbit, of Chester, S. C, 

 raise the amount to about $20,000. 



At present, the Seminary has three professors, with Rev. James Boyce, 

 D. D., as the President of the Faculty. The course of instruction is two 

 years, of nine months each. Tuition is free. 



Intimately connected with the Seminary, and therefore more or less 

 interesting to the friends of the College, is a Board of Foreign Missions, 

 all of whose officers reside in Due West. The Board was organized in 

 1875, at which time the first missionary was sent out. As this Board is 

 quite young yet, its funds are also quite small, not amounting to much 

 over 13,000. 



WOFFORD COLLEGE, SPARTANBURG C. H., S. C. 



This Institution was founded by the Rev. Benjamin Wofford, a min- 

 ister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and is called by his 

 name. For some years before his death, Mr. Wofford liad been deeply 

 interested in the subject of education, and was anxious to affbrd the ad- 

 vantages of the highest literary improvement to the youth of the up- 

 country of his native State. In his will, he left $100,000 " for the pur- 

 pose of establishing and endowing a college for literary, classical and 

 scientific education, to be located in his native district, Spartanburg,, and 

 to be under the control of the Methodist Episcopal Church of his native 

 State, South Carolina." The college received its charter from the Legis- 

 lature of South Carolina, Dec. 16, 1851. A board of trustees was 

 appointed, with " authority to confer and award all such distinctions, 

 honors, licenses, and degrees as are usually conferred and awarded in 

 colleges and universities in the United States. The buildings were 

 completed at a cost of $50,000, leaving the same amount as the nucleus 

 of an endowment. The college building is an imposing and handsome 

 structure of brick, containing a chapel capable of holding about one 

 thousand persons, lil.>rarv, museum and laboratoiy, and recitation rooms. 

 The other buildings included in the college property consist of a jiresi- 

 dent's house, and houses for four professors. They are all substantial 

 brick buildings 



