The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-13
NUMBER II.
ONLY ONE YEAR 10 WATT.
The Farmers Sons Will Have Their
College in 1899.

| NREENvILLE, s. c., Special. THE
board OF trustees of the Clemson College
III session at Pcndletop. decided to press
'he work in ali the departments and pre-.
| pare 10 open the College on February I,
! io92. The sessions of the College will
oe from February 1 to December of
every year, making ten months for stu
dcn's to study and work There will he
no saturday holiday, rs in other schools,
ana the school days will he six in every
week. No student under ID years Of age
VIII be admitted unless tho student has
an Older brother in attendance. Every
student will bc required to work two
| hours OF each working day at manual Il-
Dor and will receive such to.nncnsation
Tor his work as the board of trustees can
g,fef %, md nn~aa ssrss<ter SisterrsAine upon
| ihc students will be required to live and
board ut the institution, except where
| th"y live near enough to attend from their
| homes. Board will be furnished at actu-
al cost, which will not be over seven dol
H'rS month, and books and stationery
| VIII he furnished at actual cost. The
| college will he under military discipline,
| ana every student will be required tn
wear uniform Of cadet gray.
AGRICULTURAL AND METEOROLOGICAL.
The board also fixed upon liat uf
studies, but they will be rivcn to the
press later. There will he two general
departments in the College, the ayricu!
tural and chronological. For entrance
INTO the College the applicant must have
knowledge of arithmetic, history. gcou-
'aphy and grammar. The agricultural
course will be thorough, aud the student
VIII be given complete education in
practical as well as scientific farming.
Ihe chronological department will he
as compiete as that or any tcchnorogrcar-
school in the country. The standard will
bc high, and every facility will he given
for thorough course.
PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT.
The board has determined to provide a
preparatory department on account of the
present condition of the public schools.
hut the same limitation as to age will ap-
ply in this department.
The College will be able to accommo-
date three hundred students. There are
already over two hundred applications on
lille, and they are being received every
day.
TUITION NOT FIXED.
Tha board has not decided what the
tuition fees will be. The committee OF
'ne selection OF professors has been con
'inucd, and the committee will take plcn-
~ OF time before making the selections in
order to get the best possible.
PROGRESS OF THE BUILDINGS.
There are one hundred convicts at work
On the grounds. The experimental sts-
hon, the oply all wood building to be put
A FaIsfsa! saasl4 fksse anl.ed sqs AEif AaIiss
and are covered with slate. The labora-.
tory, threc-story brick building, one
hundred by fifty feet, is now being COW
cred with slate and will soon be done.
\ new stockade for the convicts has been
built, and five dwelling houses, now used
by mechanics, have also been completed.
The historic old Calhoun house, in
which Thomas Clemson lived and died,
has been recovered, repainted and repair
ed inside and outside. The trustees ar.
making their own brick and have 400
$50 ready for use and four thousand cords
nt wood on the ground for burning more
There is also large quantity of stone on
hand for laying the foundations of the
other buildings. w. W.P.