The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-11-28
THE PRESIDENTS REPORT.
MANY FACTS ABOUT AFFAIRS AT
CLEMSON COLLEGE.

CLEMSON COLLEGE.
President Craighead's Intelligent and Val
- liable Report--A Birds Eye Wow of the
Work ut the Best Agricultural College
In the South.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Nov. 21.-Presl,
dent Craighead, of Clemson College,
in his annual report says that 635 stu
dents have been enrolled during the
past wear and they are about equally
divided between the two leading de-
partments of Agriculture and Me,
schanic Arts. President Craighead
covers fully the work in the college
and on the grounds. The newspapers
have already covered at different
times great deal of what is contain
{ ed i'm the report, but the following are
parts which will be of interest:
CAT the beginning of the session the
Board authorized the President to take
steps to fatten and slaughter beef for
the mess hall; instead of purchasing it
by contract as in the previous year.
Accordingly slaughter-house was
built about mile to the rear of the
dormitory and pens made for both
hogs and cattle. By this arrangement
nearly 81, 900 dollars has been saved
the college, as the actual cost of beef
J has ceen but 4 IA cents per pound net,
against 81 cents of last year, and as
nearly 100 hogs have been fattened
with slops from the kitchen.
1.-The Horticultural Department, un-
der the efficient management of your
painstahng horticulturist, Mr.. j. F. @.
DuPre, has made unmistakable prog
ress. He has kept the mess hall sup
piled with choice vegetables, and has,
in addition. to this put up for the use
Eof the students during the winter
1900 three-pound cans of tomatoes,
aokra, corn and beans. The canning
factory, more fully equipped at a cost
of $3.50, has proved to be profitable
investment, as we'll as valuable OBJ
siect lesson for the horticultural stu
dents, who do most of the canning.
During the year house for stor-
ing winter vegetables has been built
on the horticultural grounds, the
green house improved and enlarged,
and the valuable collection of flowers
belonging to Mr.. DuPre purchased for
the college. The gardens have been
indeed a laboratory for the large num-
Der of students who have worked with
Mr.. DuPre. For a full account of the
work done in this department and of
its needs for the coming year, you are
referred to the excellent report made
BY the horticulturist."
President Craighead says electric
lights have been putt in the laundry,
station building, hospital, mechanical
hall and in most of the professors
houses without cost to the college.
Professor Craighead recommends
that German and French be made op-
tional in the junior and senior year,
and saws that mo man can keep
abreast of the progress in agriculture,
physics, electricity, or, in fact, In any
department of science, who is unable
to read German and. French periodic
ais. Without knowledge of French
and German, those of our students
who wish to become professors Of ag-
riculture, experiment station workers,
editors Of agricultural papers, will
find their equipment incomplete:
To prevent too much .crowding in
the senior year, where some freedom
Of choice of studies should, think, be
granted. the services of another in
structor will be needed. He should
teach either physiology and veterinary
surgery, mineralogy and geology, or
some other branch included in the
curriculum for which no instructor
has been employed"
About 5000 has been spent on IL
abrary and it is kept open four hours
under care of a cadet librarian. Pres
ident Craighead says that at least
$4,000 more is needed for books.
There is also reaeing room, supplied
with leading periodicals and daily
newspapers.
81 STUDENT LABOR.
An import ant problem is that of
student labor, Discussing it Presi-
dent Craighead says:
The student labor problem is, I
think, gradually solving itself. The
professors in the Academic depart
ment: have cheerfully consented,
whenever called upon to superintend
squads. AS will be remembered, the
management and direction of student
labor was left largely in the hands of
the president. Subsequent experience
will no doubt modify and perfect our
ap, an, but am more firmly convinced
as the way opens up, that all students
should be required to perform a Ger
tain amount of purely educational la
Dor for which they should receive no
pay whatever. Practical work in the
chemical, physical, botanical, biolog-
ical and chronological laboratories is
educational labor, required of all stu
dents taking these courses, and should
evidently receive no, compensation
whatever. In like manner, students
taking courses in agriculture and hor-
ticulture should be required to do a
certain amount of work, such as pro-
fessors may deem necessary to COM
pletion of their courses on the farm
and gardens, natures own laborato-
ries. So also should mechanical stu
dents be required to do certain
amount of purely educational work in
the foundry, the wood shops, and the
machine shops, for which it would be
folly to expect any remuneration. 1t
is clear also that mathematical stu
dents should be required to do much
practical work in surveying, leveling
and the like. All work of this kind
is not only practical, but educational