The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-02-06
Clemson, College.

cd by tho trustees at the moeting
Friday morning. This committee
examined into the working order
some months ago. The re-
port was submitted to the board
at u meeting shortly afterwards,
but it was not adopted at that
meeting.
The report is rs follows:
Clemson College, S. c., {
Doccmbor 12, 1895.
TO the Board of Trustees Of the
Clemson Agricultural College.
Gentlomen- We your commit
tee appointed to Investigate the
management Of the college re-
spectfully submit the following
recommendations: We cons slider
the academic department unduly
prominent, there being in this do
partmont three full professors and
two associates, the latter paid
81 800 each, while in the Agricul-
tural Department there is no full
professor and in tho mechanical
department only one. In order,
therefore to reduce this depart
mont to its proper proportion and
to show our determination to give
special prominence to practical
and scientific subjects, we recon-
mond that salaries Of literary pro-
foseor rangooofrom 81 900 to ST, 500.
Believing the SUCCESS Of the
Mathematical Department to be
greatly impoded because Of the in
efficiency of Professor Strobe, we
recommend that no bo required to
resign at such time as may seem
proper to tho board. This and
similar recommendations causes
us much pain but we cannot per-
nit our sympathy for any individ-
ual to outweigh our interest in the
welfare Of students whose Drepar-
alton for the responsible duties Of
life would bo irrovocnbly impaired
by inefficient instructions.
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT..
We heliove that all of onr in
structors should be mon of at
least respectable education and
we, therefore, recommend that Mr.
Lltton, whose education is lament.
ably deficient, be requested to TO-
sign and that his place be filled by
, an export Of liboral education.
} We do not recommend any i'm.
mediate increase in the salaries oI
s the instructors in tho mechanical
1 Department, but recognizing the
8 Importance Of having thoroughly
s trained mon here, We recommend
= that our present instructors be
= urged to make use Of evcry oppor-
s tunlty for improvement and that
!; they be permitted, whenevor Drac-
!, ticablo, to spcnd their vacation at
+ special schools or universities Of
: scring advanced instruction in me-
: chanical arts.
; Wo think that tho salarlos of
y instructors in tins department
), should DO not loss than $1,000,
and we recommend that these sal
n aries be increased from time to
u tlmo in proportion to tho zoal and
& efficiency displayed by tho lnstruc-
@ tors in charge.
t lnasmuch as tho Department of
# Physics was at the last meeting of
c the Board: mado branch of the
+ Mechanical Department wo recon-
$ mond that the Chair of Physics
: be abolished and that tho inslruc-
! tor in this subject be paid from
@ $500 to $1,000, thoroby ranking
with other instructors in the Mo.
: chanical Department.
: AGRIcULTEAL DEPARTMENT.
Mr.. j. w. Hart, our dairyman
has shown himself to be an expert
in his work and we therefore, re.
. commend that lis salary be in
d, creased to at least 81, 200.
FITTING SCHOOL.
: Wo recommend that Professor
0 Morrison continue in charge Of the
1 Fitting School at a salary Of ST.
8 500. AS thorough preparatory
training is indispensable to sue
+ ccssful work in the college, fail
0 uro in higher classes often being
+ duo to shoddy work in tho rudi-
8 mentary branches, we recommend
+ that hereafter only expert and ox-
y perioncod teachers be employed
$ for the Fitting School and that
= the young mon now assisting Pro
: fossor Morrison bo urged to fit
themselves rs soon as possible, by
+ special university training, for the
0 vocation Of teaching. Since it is
l now easy to secure the sorvlces of
= men who, aftor completing college
courses, havo made special prepar-
alton at tho universities for tho
t work of teaching, wo do not think
, it wiso to employ horo young mon
{ who have received only u general
, college education. Experienced
t teachers of established reputation
would of course form exceptions
+ to this rule.
, In conclusion, we consider it tho