The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-03-11
CLEMSON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
The Doors VIII be Thrown Open 10 Feb
ruary Next.


ruary Next.
PENDLETox, S. c., March 5.-The
board of trustees ofthc Clemson college,
in session here to-day, decided to press
the work in all the departments and pre-
pare to open the college Feb. |, 1892.
! The sessions will be from Feb. to Dec.
! Of every year. making ten mOuaths for
students to study and work. There will
be no Saturday holiday, us in other
schools, and the school days will be six
in every week.
No student ,,urder fifteen years of age
will be admitted unless the student has
an older brother in attendance.
Every student will be required to
work two hours of each working day at
manual labor and will receive such COM
pensation for his work as the borad OF
trustees can afford and shall hereafter
determine upon.
The students will be required to live
and board at the institution, except
where they 1--we near enough TO attend
from their homes.
Board will be furnished at actual cost,
which Will not be over s. a month. and
books and stationery will also be turn-
shed at actual cost.
The college will be under military dis
cip!inc. and every student will be re-
quired TO wear uniform OF cadet grey.
The board also fixed upon list OF
studies. but they will be given to the
press later.
There will be .wo general departne. IS
in the college. the agricultural and tech
nclogical.
For entrance into the college the ap-
pllcant must have a thorough owledsc
in arithmetic, history, geography and
grammar.
The agricultural course will be thor
OUCH and the student will he given a
complete education in practical farming.
The archaeological department will be
as complete as that ofany chronological
school in the country. The standard
will be high, and every facility will be
gwen for thorough course.
The board has determined to provide
a preparatory department, OF account ol
the present condition Of the public
schools; but the same limitation as to
age will apply in this department.
The college will be able to accommo-
date 300 students. There are already
over 200 applications on Iile. and they
are being received every day.
The Board has not decided what the
tuition fees will be.
The committee on the selection Of
professors has been continued, and the
committee will take plenty Of time be-
fore making the selections. IN order 10
get the bess men to be had.
There are now 100 conyicts at work
on the grounds. The experimental sta
ton, the only atwood building TO be
put up, is nearly finished. Two brick
houses for the use Of professors are also
being finished. They are eight-room
buildings and are covered with slate.
The laboratory. three-story BRICK
building, 100 by 50 feet. is now beng
covered withs ate and will soon be done.
A new stockade Tor the convlcts has
been built, and five dwelling houses, now
used By mechanics, have also heen com
pletcd.
The historical old Calhoun house, in
which Thomas Clemson lived and died,
has been recovered, repalnted and re-
paired inside and outside.
The trustees are making tnclr own
bricks, and have 400,0 ready for use,
and 1000 cords of wood on the ground
for burning more. There is also large
quantity OF stone en- hand for laying the
foundations Of the other buildings.-The
Stats.