University of South Carolina Columbia - Garnet and Black Yearbook (Columbia, SC)

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if lisHal1llolf 2w'uma..- - Z- was . in Tulum ss. 13, we Flffe-wht 11891-189g gg 1891-1902 1902-1,906 JAMESIIWOOQBOW 1 Woonwimpg-f BENJAMINASTLOAN ANDREWC..-Moottu A5Bf'i'fe3i5ffif5 59859553 ,.,. NS 'nedl'fffi9e !1'aSef43' 4B?!1!n91i9i!ivet4!age66 Assnmedlofficeatage 42, , ff' 'YH ' EQdl1!!aiif0l!:J'effQrsgi1s Qig ,EQIicali6li:Rgaud0lph Mxiisiriii z H' 'Edi1cziiiibn:JUESL,Milifa:fy.ZXcaHi5g EdUG8ti0i1!SIC-VC-'i 'UQ-'0fGhiQ3gQ ' ,Q .fldillellwrs . ,,11 1111 52150: pQeiH0u.hel!is.Profe Qf-s Pciur poeiriim gieli:-Proiesggiift Pi-io: position lielrhSDean.'iofiBib1- Wim Pdiilionfli ffi li-ffl' 1 ellilisliih riffs-1240 . lui fMall1emafivHiisltSt!TQfC- og:iDep11ftmeniiaiSJwi I f- i A I Q, The History Behind USC Qcontl McCay, president of the college at the time, realized his lack of discipline and resigned after only 18 months in office. Augustus Longstreet's replacement of McCay was a relief to the faculty. Longstreet had the rare gift of befriending the students while keep- ing firm control. When the students demanded a holiday for john C. Cal- houn's birthday and were refused they tarred the classroom benches so that classes were forced to be cancelled. Longstreet suspended 100 out of the 180 students enrolled. The new President's politics were also held in esteem. At the Interna- tional Statistical Congress in London, Longstreet withdrew as the U.S. dele- gate because a Negro delegate was present. The College's Cadet Corps was reorganized after heated debate by the faculty - they wanted to preserve the college at all costs - but the students wanted to prepare for war. At the news of the fighting at Fort Sumter in the spring of 1861, the cadets were eager to join in, but under faculty reg- ulations they needed Longstreet's per- mission to go. He refused, at a secret meeting the students decided to dis- band the Old Corps and form a new one with their own rules. They left the College, marched down to the 16 35 Z railway station and paid their own fares to Charleston. Gen. Pierre Beauregard placed the cadets on Sullivan's Island where they could drill and watch the battle and remain safe from actual fire. After three weeks they returned to Colum- bia as heroes and school life resumed for about a month until war fever overtook them once more. The gradual loss of men reduced the student body to 75 by the fall. Upon hearing the news of the Union's capture of Port Royal, the Cadets sought faculty permission to leave. They were given a firm no, l l Columbia? leveled main street provider graphic evidence Qfproblerrzs after the war: but they replied yes and left any- way. Entrance requirements were drop- ped to gather a class together for -Ian- uary 1862, but only 72 students came. Instead of risking the draft after jeff Davis, call for more troops, the majority of these students signed up for service too. By the middle of june the College was comprised of six pro- fessors and no students, so the college was closed and rented to the Confed- erate army as a hospital. Rutledge, DeSaussure, Harper, Elliott, Legare and Pinckney Colleges all served as shelter for wounded men. The professors were allowed to remain on campus until the College was officially closed in December 1863. A little yellow flag signifying the presence of convalescing troops Cblue as well as grayj was the only thing that saved the campus from the conflagration during Sherman's march through Columbia. On May 23, 1865, South Carolina College came into the hands of the United States Army. The Confederates still owed 399,500 rent to the College and more than 160 SCC alumni had been killed. A few still had hopes that the College- would be opened. Conditins in South Carolina pro- foundly affected the University's development. In 1865 it was the task of the University to define its place in the new order and rebuild Where it had collapsed with the Confederacy.

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,. . , ,,q,a,.,,. , , -,,1-r.a-1-,- , r. Z 1 - - - er-.eef-' . ' ,. . i E .VT ia.. . , Y Y, 4 E if Ze. 1882 1891 JOHN M McBRYDE AUGUSTUS B LONGSTRIJET MAXMILLIAN LABURDE WILLIAM PORCHER MILES Assumed office at age 67 Assumed ofiice at age 57 Assumed office at age 56 Assumed office ai age -1-1 Education Moses Wacldel's Acad Educauon Yale Education USC emy Yale Pnor posxhon held Historian Pnor posxhon held Country Gen Prior positron held President of S C C tleman University of Mnaslssxppl Pnor positron held Professor of Agneulture at University of ennessee E lk' V Q V Q 1 I i -' ,, ' , A . 1' . , V 1 ., E y c I . ,-, -, i .. 1 I Lg lr, 4 N - , - - , -, . ,i 1' - r v i V . .. ,R gi VMI.. -V-I is fa 1 Q : ' A pf- K D: H: . ' A in C' ' K Edl5ealionQ.S.C.C.gl1. ofvifgfilia' 3.,,1:VV. L Y Q L .:.L...,.g . ...Hal .V A Z: V ,. 5, Z- Y., i, 'Q 1 7gf,,f.',., ,. 1 1' -Fa, 455535 s Z if ig, e ' .g -lig... e T ,N A if- ' L r r ' - removed his name from their roles, destroyed his bust and returned his portrait to the artist. But Lieber's memory was never erasedg he had been one of the most outstanding lec- turers the campus has ever known and his writings brought worldwide rec- ognition to the ever-struggling South Carolina College. Professor Francis Lieber was Thornwellis logical successor, but his political views were unacceptable to many. The opposition succeeded in electing Professor Charles McCay. Many were disappointed at the selec- tion, and Lieberis resignation greatly magnified McCay's troubles. After 18 months of student disorder and public criticism, McCay submitted his resig- nation in 1857, Following an investigation it was announced that Augustus Baldwin Longstreet had been elected President. He had at various times been a legisla- tor, writer, judge, minister, and col- l ' ' Frarzris Lieber rereiveii wide acclaim fbr editing the ffm' edition of lhe Encyclopedia Americana in 1833. n the dark of night, five half- masked horsemen, their faces blackened and their scarlet capes blowing in the breeze galloped furiously through the quiet campus. The torches they waved and the beat- ing of hooves brought out sleeping students to cheer them on. Perhaps the night of black ridingi' would end with tin-panningi' in the yard of an unpopular professor. Such noisy pranks of the students seemed to be only a small outburst of the fiery spiritthey were suppressing until the impending war finally came. The guard house riot of 1856 was the foremost example of built-up hostility. When a student named Niles was jailed after a fight with a town marshal, the battle cry of Col- lege! brought the students off the campus and they came rallying in defense of their peer. Several beat their way into the guard house with clubs but were chased out. The next day 100 revenge-seeking students armed with rifles from the Cadet arse- nal marched to the guard house only to find themselves face-to-face with ZOO pistol-carrying townspeople. Before any violence exploded, how- ever, former President Thornwell was summoned, and promising the stu- dents revenge he led the way back to campus with the cry of College!,' The faculty forthwith disbanded the Cadet Corps. The unpopular Charles 15

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Uk Sbviiiieevib 1Flish'a6'3'i1r i 'Ni'i5'ee'i1h- Q ' 1909-1913 ' 191461922 I 1192211926 - w1LL1aMs.cU1mELL . D4MEL'1'0Nt 1 i BAKER. Assumed- officqra! age 44 Aisiimedoffice, at'aige'56 Aiiiiilieiirliffiife ati!-562544 Zi ABBl1mQ!liQffi99-37: 989 53 Educaiidn: U- 0EfWirgi1i.i'a: Chi- 5511086011:WaBlii11Ef6I?wdQLee- EQ!!B'4L'Ei0!l ' of Vi1?Si l4'5 5QCiQ- E'i!10'1'5iQQQ3C'C-. ,V . .. ,. sag, , g g Q g , L13-gigs-purifier hdlkli. Punt-pgsrnbajhslag nm of yrmsi- paging as Prorami-.refs pqsiiianrlrreldirrziiiiigg-aaraur or W mHbQ wfiQu 'Hfildmy at Ugggminy oirChi-also amwasliingfiigaud Lee . . summary- ' e he S. C. Legislature of 1865 convened in buildings on the S. C. College campus since the State House had been lev- eled by Sherman's troopsearlier that year. The war was at an end and the hopes of re-establishing the College were being rekindled by Gov. Per1y's proposal to open the College in the form of a university. A university, he suggested, would draw in more pupils since degrees in specific fields would be offered, the higher enrollment would bring in more money. Perry also pointed out that the majority of the students would be veterans who had been away from school a long time and who would need the versatil- ity of a university curriculum. The legislature approved the Gov- ernor's proposal in the form of a bill establishing the University of South Carolina with eight colleges, giving the Trustees the right to establish schools of law and medicine, provid- ing for a chaplain, and setting the entrance age at 15. Each course would cost S525 and a student could take a minimum of three courses. The pro- fessors were to be paid 351000 yearly plus the fees of the students enrolled in their departments. The University was to be governed by a faculty chair- man and no president was provided for. The bill was ratified on Decem- ber 19, the same day the S. C. College had been approved 60 years before. The University was patterned after the University of Virginia, having only the junior and senior classes. A student could choose his own course and upon completing the require- ments would receive a degree in that field. To receive a B.A. degree one had to complete two literary schools, two science schools and two other schools of his choice. The University opened on -Ian. 10, 1866. In the preceding years the build- ings had been used as hospitals, a prison, shelter for freed slaves and the freedman's bureau. Many refugees from the fire in 1865 remained housed on campus until 1869. In spite of the dilapidated condition, the old college buildings were in better shape than most of Columbia and the stu- dents came. By May, 1866 there were 48 on roll. In general the new students were more mature and well-disciplined as compared to their predecessors. How- ever, when the U.S. Army built a gar- rison on the present site of the Rus- sell House, the Rebels-turned-stu- dents became infuriated. The same blue uniforms they had spent four long years shooting at now marched in front of their campus every day. The professors were forced to repeat- edly warn the students that killing a Yankee in '64 was justified by war, but killing him in '74 would be an illegal assassination. There fart frimds ofthe University? Claw of1884 wer? called the Immortal Four during their college yearr. The University was growing and its only academic set-backs in the first years were the losses of two colleges. The School of Astronomy was discon- tinued after the theft of the telescope and the College of Medicine, which received criticism from the Medical College in Charleston saying one medical school in the state was enough, was ended when funds ran out. Social life in post-war Columbia was more lively than when money had been available. Refugees from Charleston were still in the capital and they added to the spirit. People would party for the joy of being together again in peace. 17