500 A SKETCH OF EDUCATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 



construction, necessarily somewhat uncared for during the troublous 

 times of the war, and much injured by its occupancy by United States 

 soldiers during four months of the year I8G0, was found in ISOC to be 

 unsafe. Ste^DS were taken to effect the necessary repairs, Ijut to tlie 

 astonishment of the Board and the friends of the college, claims against 

 the Board to the amount of $18,000.00 were presented. Such was the 

 poverty of the people that the building could not Ije reclaimed and these 

 debts paid. The trustees, therefore, made sale of the property and closed 

 the institution. 



At this juncture, the citizens of Wallhalla, S. C, made favorable pro- 

 posals to have the college located at that place. The offer was accepted, 

 and in Xovember, 1868, the college was removed to Walhalla. Here the 

 college sojourned for nine years, struggling amid many and heavy em- 

 barrassments. 



In 1877, the citizens of Xevrberry, desiring the re-location of the college 

 on its old site, offered to the Sjmod buildings and grounds worth 815,000. 

 The offer was accejDted, and in September, 1877, the exercises of the 

 college were opened at Newberry. By the close of this year, a suitable 

 and substantial brick building was finished, and the property of the 

 college at this date, 1882, in building, grounds, library, apparatus, ifec, is 

 worth f 25,000. 



Rev. J. P. Smeltzer, D. D., who had been president of the college for 

 sixteen years, upon the removal of the college from AValhalla, retired 

 from the presidency, and Rev. G. W. Holland, the present incumbent, 

 was elected his successor. 



Up to 1882, the college has graduated forty-eight young men, twelve 

 of whom are now teaching in this State. 



In addition to the first faculty, the following gentlemen have been at 

 various times members of the corps of instructors : Rev. J. P. Smeltzer, 

 D. D.; D. Arrington, Rev. J. McNeill Turner, D. D., Rev. G. W. Holland, 

 D. B. Busby, E. J. Dreher, Carl Weber. Rev. J. F. Probst, G. D. Halti- 

 wanger, G. B. Cromer, and perhaps others. 



The faculty, as at present constituted, is as follows: President, Rev. 

 G. W. Holland, and Professors 0. B. Mayer, M. D., S. S. Rahn, B. AV. 

 Bittle, C. W. Welch, and E. H. Aull. 



The average number of students for the past four years has been 

 about one hundred. 



A small endowment of $12,000.00 has been raised from proceeds of the 

 college in the State, and generous patrons of education in Boston have 

 contributed about $4,000.00 toward the equipment of the college. 



It is believed that a career of prosperity and usefulness is now opening 

 to the institution, and that its friends will soon add to its endowment 



