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Harbison College. Abbeville. S. C.
Rev. W. H. Mitchell. President
FOUNDED in 1898 by Rev. W. H. Mitchell, who ha
continued as its president until the present time. The
school property, valued at $25,000, includes a threestory
main building, and a few smaller buildings, and a farm
of six acres.
Of the $2,500 required for annual expenses, the Presbyterian
Board of Missions contribute about one third. The remainder
is secured from friends of the institution. The enrollment in
1908 was 6 teachers and 156 students. The departments are
primary, English preparatory, and normal. The school has a
large constituency in the center of the "Black Belt" of South
Carolina.
Harbison College is an institution designed to promote the
industrial, literary, and religious progress of colored youth of
both sexes. The literary course is chosen with the view of
securing sound elementary training that will make those graduating
from the college proficient in the duties of active life.
The college is located at Abbeville Courthouse, about a mile
and a half from the public square. It occupies a tract of land
consi ting of sixty-seven acres. The site is healthful, the water
pure, the drainage natural, and for sanitary and moral reasons
the location cannot be surpassed.
The college owns a plantation con isting of two hundred and
ten acres, the object of which is to provide boys with means
whereby they can support themselves in school. Harbison
College is an outgrowth of Ferguson Academy, which was
established in the town of Abbeville a quarter of a century ago.
Its development into a college is due to gifts received from the
friends of Christian education, notably from Mr. Henry Phipp ,
of Jew York, and Mr. Samuel P. Harbison, of Allegheny, Penn.
The wife and sons of the latter have also made substantial gift
to the work, making pos ible at the pre ent time accommodations
for about 100 boarding tudents (before the destruction of
Ferguson Hall by fire) and 100 day students.
There are four departments: the Literary, the Industrial, the
Religious, the Musical. The Bible i taught daily throughout
the Course. Lessons in connection with practical farming are
given once a week during the fall and pring season. The
college has about 500 volume in its library. Three hundred of
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the are r ligiou works pI' en ted by Mr . Walter ondit
who de ired to provide a ouree from whieh minister re17ardl'
of denomination. can borrow books.
The YounO' 1\1en' hristian A., ciation doe a plendid
work amonO' the. roung m n. which as, i t. in the government
of the school and wi ely promote, piritual work. It has a
convenient, wfOll-furnished room. Everv abbath aflerno n it •
conducts a meeting for young men, whieh i attended by about
one hundred per on'. The student. arc required to tudy the
Bible throughout the cour. e. to attend the abbath-school and
all meetings for divine services on thc Sabbath and during the
week.
Cotton Plant College, Cotton Plant, Ark.
President W. A. Bryd
FOUNDED in 1880 by Francis Potter, under the direction of the
Presbyterian Board of Missions for Freedmen. Th in titution
was an academy until 1908. Six teacher and 165 tudents
were enrolled in 1908. Thi is its fir t year of college life.
The $6,000 required for annual expen e ecured largely by
voluntary gift from friends. 'aluation of property, 16.800.
One of the need of the chool i money for a teacher of the
Bible course.
Mary Potter Memorial School, Oxford, N. C.
Rev. G. C. Shaw, President
FOUNDED in ]893 by Rev. G. baw. Under the au pices
of the Presbyterian Board of Mi, sions for Freedmen. Nine
teachers and 285 tudents in 1908. Annual expense, $10,000:
secured largely from student. Valuation of property,
$17,000.
Dayton Academy, Carthage, N. C.
Henry D. Wood, President
ONE of the chool of the Pre b)ierian Board of Mi sion for
Freedmen. Founded in 1880 b,' Henry D. Wood, Four , J
teachers and 80 students enrolled in 190. Annual expense,
$1,000, secured largely from the Board of Mi sions; the balance
from tuition. Valuation of property.. 2,500.
