528 A SKETCH OF EDUCATIOX IX SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Instructors : Rev. J. B. Smith, N. W. Edwards, J. D. Edwards, Jno. 

 •H. Byrd, C. C. Dunlap, Mrs. E. A. Piiidle, I^Irs. H. E. Lee, Misses Sarah 

 F. Perry, Ella H. Clemens, Julia E. Perrin, and Emma Felder. 



COURSE OF STUDY. 



The University is divided into the CoUerjiatc Department, the Theological 

 Department, the Normal College Department, and the Law Department. A 

 3Iedical Depeivtment will soon, it is ho})ed, be opened under Dr. George R. 

 Henderson. 



Terms : Board, including fuel, &c., $9.50 per month. Tuition, 75 

 cents. Instrumental Music, $1.50. Students' preparing for the ministry 

 p)ay no tuition. Tuition in Law Department, $50. 



Firm but reasonable rules are adopted for the maintenance of disci- 

 pline. 



Attendance during the session of 1881, 1882, was in excess of three 

 hundred, and the proprietors of the enterprise feel much encouraged. 



MISSIONARY AND OTHER SCHOOLS. 



Benedict Institute, located in the suburbs of Columbia, was estab- 

 lished in 1871, by the American Baptist Home Missionary Society, for 

 the education of ministers of the gospel and of teachers, male and female. 

 It is maintained partly by tuition fees and partly by subscriptions from 

 Northern Baptist churches and individuals. The total receipts for the 

 year ending March 31st, 1882, were $7,598.80 ; expenditures, $11,705.21, 

 the difference being contributed by the Society. The value of the prop- 

 erty is $25,000 ; endowment $20,000. Students of both sexes are taught 

 and boarded under careful regulations. The attendance for the year was 

 more than two hundred. The course of studv is Preparatory, Normal, 

 Classical, or Theological. Rev. C. E. Becker, A. M., is President, and he 

 is assisted by Mrs. C. E. Becker, J. K. Davis, Mrs. A. M. Wood, Miss S. 

 E. Mead and Miss Mary Simms. 



Brainerd Institute, Chester, was founded in 1874, by the Northern 

 Presbyterian Chur'ih, as a Normal school for the colored. It is in charge 

 of Rev. Mr. Loomis and two assistants. It has a small library, and a 

 chemical laboratory. Besides the Normal department there is a graded 

 school, supported for ten months by State tax and by local taxation. 

 Much good has been accomplished by it. 



Fairfield Normal Institute, Winnsboro, founded in 1869, by the 

 Northern Presbyterian Church. The church owns a school house, a par- 



