The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-08-11
POINTS FROM CLEMSON.

President Crd:ghead has Something to say of
Interest 10 Parents,
To the Editor Of the Journal Your
readers have already learned of the resolu-
tion Of our board to the effect that latter
August 10th students will not be permitted
to enter" This applies, of course, to this
session, which ends in December. At the
beginning Of the February session new
students will be matriculated. This action
Of the board calls for o word of explain alton.
We have already enrolled 400 students.
There is limit to our capacity. 1t is prob
able that by August 10th all rooms in the
dormitory will have been taken. We can.
not as long rs new students ore permitted to
enter, arrange q permanent schedule either
for work on the farm or in the shops or for
rsoitadOns: Hence the sSs sSssd aSslisYiagI Ithstb
enter this ession could, by ON extra effort,
be here by August 10th, passed the above
resolution.
Now, Mr.. Editor, allow me q word to
parents who contemplate sending sons to
Clemson.
In the first place. each boy who enters
here must deposit with the secretary $685.
Is for the first months expenses. This
does not include books, which cost $5. Let
me itemize:
For one months board. rd.................$ 90
For two uniforms uhey .ought to last
two years.. ............ ..... 70 10
For five months medical fee. 90
For one months washipg............... 90
Total. .......................'....... 200 10
These uniforms are bought at wholesale
prices, and arc sold to cade ts at cost. 1t is
in the end the cheapest clothing q student
con buy. They would cost at retail ut least
$40. For every month after the first the
cost is 81 for board and go cents for wash
ing. Industrious students who are will
ing to do any kind of work will be furnished
two hours work daily and will thus be
enabled to make from SO TO 81 n month and
thus cut down their board to about 81 q
month. Energetic men who have push and
tact may find an opportunity to make even
more money than this, but the college d"es
not guarantee but Two hours work per day
to each student at cents per hour. If the
student performs extra work he may get rs
much as cents per hour. but the probab;!-
ity is .hat he will not be paid over cents
In Short an energetic boy could reasonably
expect to spend the first FIVE months here
at Gust of about $50. The next FIVE
months would cost him only $26, rs he
would have no uniform to buy.
This is ell the college proposes to do, and
surely it is enough. 1t puts an education
within the reach Of even the poorest boy in
South Carolina. Scoras Of parents write to
me saying: "Our son wants an education,
bat he cannot raise the money" To such
can only say, give your boy chance 10
make the money.
Any boy who is willing to do faithful
work on the fam can make $56 in FIVE, six
or eight months. The work will not kill
him. 1t will make q man of him, if he be
fired by the deteru ination to make some,
thing out of himself.
At any rate, do not send your boy to
Clemson College expecting kind people here
to see him through college. There are here
no such people with whom am acquainted
Our American youth must learn to labor
aud to wait have no faith in that young
man who is not willing to work this year
that he may 20 to college next year.
Before sending your boy to Clemson write
for prospectus that you may know what
we profess to teach. You may not like the
college, and, in that case, it would be better
for you to send TO come other instituiion,
II you aye worth 90 600 above all indebted
ness, or If you receive net income Of
$1,000 year you must pay tuition-$20 a
| session.
Clemson College offers every possible en-
couragement TO honest, energetic young men
| who desire an education such as offered
here, but TO lazy, spoiled or vicious youths
| there is perhaps no place in South Carolina
| that offers so few attractions as Fort Hill.
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