WOFFORD COLLEGE, located at Spar tanburg, S. C. It was founded in 1851 under the control of the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in accordance with the will of Benjamin Wofford, a minister of that Church, who left a legacy of $100,000 to the conference for establishing a college. It was opened to students in 1854. and the sessions have never been entirely sus pended, though during the Civil War the col lege suffered heavily, the endowment was ren dered worthless, and full college work was not dime. Since that time the college has been largely supported by the Church, and the en dowment partially restored, amounting in 1913 19 to $200,001/. Two preparatory schools have been established in connection with the college, the VS'ufforil College Fitting School at Spar tanburg, and the Carlisle Fitting Schol at Bamberg, S. C. The course in the former is three years; in the latter, four years. The arlisle school is coeducational. The college studies arc arranged in four groups, or courses, the classical, the language-scientific, the scien title and the Latin or Greck-modern language; each group intludrs a ct mon 11111111,ct tin: tives. The degree of A13. is conferred for
the completion of any of these courses. In struction in methods of teaching and in school organization is included in the curriculum. Gymnasium work is required of all students. There are 24 loan funds and four scholarship funds. The students maintain three literary societies, membership in one of which is com pulsory, and a Christian Association which has been in existence over 35 years, and exercises an important influence on student life. The college campus comprises 70 acrcs; the build ings include the main building, the John B. Cleveland Science Hall, Alumni Hall (a dormi tory), residence cottages, the Wilbur E. Bur nett gymnasium, Whiteford Smith Library Building and the fitting school. The library in 1919 contained 26,000 volumes; the students at Spartanburg numbered 480, of whom about 175 were in college.