The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1891-03-12
NO.
ONLY ONE YEAR TO WAIT.
The Farmers Sons Will Have Their
College in 1902.

GREENvILLE, $. c., Especial. The
board Of trustees of the Clemson College
in session ut Pendlcton, decided to press
the work in all tho departments and pre-"
pare to open the College on February !,
1892. The sessions of tho College will
be from February to December OF
every year, making ten months for stu
dents to study and work. There will 30
no Saturday holiday, aS in other schools,
nnd the school days will be six in every
week. No student under Is years Of age
will be admitted unless tho student has
an older brother in attendance. Every
student will he required TO work two
hours OF each working day ut manual Ia
Dor, and will receive such compensation
for his work rs the board of trustees can
offer and shall hereafter determine upon:
The students will BIZ required to live ana
board ut the institution, except where
they live near enough tUuttcnd from their
homes. Board will be furnished at actu-
al cost, which will not be over seven dol
lars Il month, and bucks and stationery
will be furnished ut actual cost. The
College will be under military discipline,
and every student will be required to
, wear Il uniform Of cadet gray.
AGRICULTURAL AND TEcIINol.oGICAI"
! The board also fixed upon II list of
:tu,lics but they will hc given to- the
pres; later There will he two general
, departments in the College, the agricul-
,ural and archaeological. For entrance
l Into the College the applicant must have
J., II knowledge of arithmetic, history, gcog
). raphy and grammar. The agricultural
{ course will be thorough, aud the student
= will be given complete education III
practical ns well as scientific farming.
The chronological department will be
{ rs complete MS that of any ,crhnologlrai
4 school in the country. The standard will
>, be high, and every facility will be given
/, for IL thorough course.
Il PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT.
II The board has determined to provide Il
e preparatory department on account OF the
~ present condition Of the public schools,
a! but the same Imitation ns to age will ap.
'c ply in this department.
to The College will be able to accommo-
ri date three hundred students. There arc
c already over two hundred applications on
:" file, and they are being received cvcr\
sc day.
~ TUITION NOT FINED.
n Tha board has not decided what th'
cn tuition fees will be- The committee ol
r. the selection Of professors has been con
II tinucd and the committee will take plen
'ic Is OF time before making the selections II
"a, order to get the best possible.
v. PROGRESS OF TIE BUILDINGS.
not There are one hundred convictsat wor
nc uu IA, Grounds. The experimental ST,
-. tom 'hr '.,'v MI wood N,ilaing to bc w
n& mp, is nearly shed. Two brick house
,rc Tor the use "i professors are also bcin
he finished. These are eight room building
81 and arc covered with slate. The labora
NV tory, a thrcc.storv brick building, ON
in hundred by fifty feet, is now being GOV
cred with Slate and will soon be done
A new stockadc for the convicts has bee
=. built, aud five dwelling houses, now use,
~ ic' by mechanics, have also been completed
iii The historic old Calhoun house, i
o', which Thomns Clemson lived and died
~, .h' las been recovered, rcpaintod and repair
'he cd inside and outside. The trustees N
u, li' making their own brick and have 400
:"c 600 ready for use and four thousand cord
III Of wood on the ground for burning more
'n 'hs There is also large quantity Of stone o
'hs hand for laying the foundations Of til
yea other buildings. w. w. i.