HISTORICAL STATEMENT. THE Winthrop Training School for Teachers was organized for the benefit of the young women of South Carolina, Nov. 15, 1886, in the City of Columbia, with the aid of an appropriation from the Peabody Fund. The School is named in honor of Hon. ROBERT C. WINTHROP, the illustrious statesman, orator, and philanthropist, who, as President, since its organization, of the Board of Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund, has done so much for the cause of education in the South. It was incorporated by Act of the General Assembly of South Carolina, in December, 1887. The same legislative body also passed an Act establishing thirty-four annual scholarships in the School of $150 each, to be given to one student from each of the thirty-four counties of the State. The School offers one scholarship of free tuition to each. county in addition to the State scholarship. This School receives pupils from all parts of the State on equal terms. It has graduated fifty-six students. Most of the graduates of 1887 and 1888 have taught successfully in various parts of South Carolina. The School is under the control of a Board of eight Trustees, including the State Superintendent of Education. RESOLUTIONS OF BOARD ESTABLISHING MEMORIAL DAY, MAY 12. Resolved, That the 12th day of May-the birthday of the Hon. ROBERT C. WINTHROP -be set apart as an annual holiday in the Winthrop Training School, and as a Memorial Day, in commemoration of the beneficence by which the school was founded. Resolved, That on this day there shall be held in the school such public and memorial exercises as the Board may annually appoint, appropriate to the occasion. PROCEEDINGS OF MEMORIAL DAY. In accordance with the foregoing resolutions of the Board of Trustees, appropriate Exercises were arranged for May 12, morning and evening; but that day being Sunday this year, they were held during that week, on May 16. The celebration of the occasion began at the schoolbuilding in the morning, at 10.30 o'clock, with the following Programme. Practice Department. First Grade: Form Lesson. Miss RICHEY. Second Grade: Lesson in Reading. Miss McCaslan. Third Grade: Lesson in Geography. Miss E. Davis. Devotional Exercises. Normal Department. Teaching Exercises: "Lessons on Leaves." Misses BAUSKETT, WEEKLEY, WALLACE, CROSLAND, FRASER, Powe. Singing: "Emigrant Song." Teaching Exercise: "Lesson in Drawing." Misses LUCAS, WILSON, and ROYSTER. Essay: "The Power of Judging." Miss WHAM. Essay: "Calisthenics." Miss A. Davis. Essay: "School Morals." Miss BURCKMYER. Gymnastics. Miss MCMASTER. Teaching Exercises: "Lessons in Arithmetic, Common and Metric Measures." Misses CONNOR, BARR, and PARKS. Teaching Exercises: "Lessons in Paper Folding." Misses COPES, BURTON, and GREGG. Singing: "Roseate Clouds are Rising." Essay: "Teachers' Institutes." Miss RUSSell. "Resolutions to George Peabody." Miss Norris. "Plans Adopted by the Peabody Board." Miss TATE Dr. J. L. M. CURRY, who had been an attentive listener during the exercises, responded to Superintendent Johnson's invitation by making a brief and appropriate address to the School. The Commemorative Exercises were concluded in the evening at the Opera House. Upon the stage, besides the orator of the occasion, the Honorable J. L. M. Curry, ex-Minister to Spain and now General Agent of the Peabody Board, were Governor Richardson; ex-Governor Manning; State Superintendent of Education Rice; Secretary of State Marshall; Comptroller General Verner; Mayor John T. Rhett; Professors Edward S. Joynes, E. E. Sheib, J. R. Edwards, and W. J. Alexander, of the State University; President O. A. Darby, of the Female College; Col. F. W. McMaster; William H. Lyles, Esq.; John P. Thomas, Jr., Esq.; Col. John W. R. Pope; Rev. W. C. Lindsay; and Superintendent D. B. Johnson, of the Winthrop School. After music and an opening prayer by Dr. DARBY, Superintendent JOHNSON, in the further conduct of the exercises, said: The illustrious statesman, orator, and philanthropist, whose name this Training School bears, and whose great work for Southern education through the Board of Trustees of the Peabody Edu cation Fund, as President, this occasion is intended to commemorate, has taken a deep personal interest in the welfare of the Winthrop School from its inception. He has presented to the School handsome engravings of Peabody, Sears, and other distinguished philanthropists and educationists, and has annually made contributions to the School library of both money and beautifully bound volumes. He has recently given fifty dollars for the purchase of books. Mr. Winthrop has just reached the advanced age of fourscore years, with all of his great faculties unimpaired and with an unflagging interest in all that pertains to the welfare of his country and his fellow-men. An ode on the occasion of the recent Centennial of Washington's inauguration, written by him and privately printed, has just been sent me, and I take the liberty of asking Col. F. W. McMaster, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, to read it on this Memorial Day held in honor of the author. This ode was then read by Colonel McMASTER, with excellent effect: TO GEORGE WASHINGTON. "WASHINGTON is in the clear, upper sky." 46 · Christianity [Daniel Webster's Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson.] the key to the character and career of Washington." [Rev. Dr. Slaughter's Discourse at Pohick Church, Virginia, 1886.] "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, - Conscience." [Rule from the Copy-book of Washington when a schoolboy.] I. ILLUSTRIOUS names in each successive age, Have won the homage of the little hour The grandest lesson History hath known |