The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-12-23
Clemson Commencement.

CLEMSON, na': ub,r 1G.-To-day's ex-
ercises closed Clemson's first commence.
ment, when thirty-seven young men
were given diplomas. These exercises
consisted of orations by four members Of
the class. The other twcnty-three MEM
bers made no speeches., but prepared in
stead theses on electrical motors. The
following was the programme:
Prayer. Music.
"The Power of Conscience" b. r. Tur-
nipseed:
"The Palmetto Flag" j. It. Bradley.
Changers of Democracy" CIV. Hart.
"South Carolina During the Revolu-
tion," E. P. Earle.
"Permanence of the American Repub'
lic." P. Fl. Gooding.
industrial Education" ". W. klugh.
"The Friendship of Books" f. G..
Tompkins.
Progress of the South Since the War;
J. II. Moore.
"Picketts Charge" B. NJ Aul.
concentrate and Conquer" Z. S. Moor
international Arbitration" B. Il. Till
man.
"The New Era" t. II. Tuten.
"Party Organization Essential to Ro-
publican Government" L. ~. Sease.
Graduates Presenting Theses instead of
Orations: J. NJ. Blain, A. M. Chreitaberg,
P. G. Langley, G.. P. Boulware, IT. w.
Cothran, r. E. Lee, J. r Bowen, D. Dowl-
ing, o. NJ. Pegues. J. Il. Breazeale, B. +
Robertson, J. F. Folk, T. L. Bryant, c.
M. Furman, j. 6. Simpson, P. n. Cal.
houn, K. G. Hamilton, B. L. Sloan, w.
H. Carpenter, J. Z. Hunter, A. j. Tinda!,
w. w. Wardlaw, L. A. Werts.
Presentation of diplomas by Senator
Tillman.
Address by President Craighead.
Benediction by the Rev. Mr.. Wilson.
Organization Of the Alumni at F. m.
The young men of the graduating class
held meeting this afternoon for the pur-
pose of forming an alumni association.
Mr., T. II. Tuten, Of Hampton, was elect
ed president, and Messrs. L. A. Sease, r.
E Lee, F. G. Tompkins and A. NJ.
Chreitzberg, vice Presidents; Mr.. N. W.
Klugh, recording secretary; MIR. w.
II. Carpenter, corresponding secretary.
A resolution was passed thanking
Lieut.. NJ. i. Donaldson, Jr., for a
telegram received from him congratula-
ting the class on it's graduation. Lieut..
Donaldson, it will be remembered, was
the first commandant of the College, and,
after being here four years, rejoined his
command in the West.
AS already telegraphed to the News and
Courier, the Board of Trustees elected to-
day as professor of agriculture Dr.. Walter
son of the Hon. s. r. Quick, of the Indi-
ana State Board of Agriculture, and
grandson of Judge Tunis Quick, of Vir-
ginia. He was born in Columbus, Indi-
ana, May "a, 1861, and attended the State
Agricultural and Purdue University.
Here he took three years in agricultural
science, and afterwards completed the B.
S. and M. S. courses in the same institu-
tion. After graduation he was, until 1891,
q mem Der of the firm Of s. r. Quick IL
Son. Breeders and Importers of Live
Stock, Columbus, Ind. From 1885 to
1890 he was secretary Of the Interstate
Shorthorn Breeders Association, and ed
tied and compiled remarkably complete
Shorthorn Breeders Directory. From
1885 to 1883 he was the editor of thu live
stock department Of the Indiana Farmer.
This position he resigned to take the gem
eral management of the American Short
horn Gazette. In 1891 Prof. Quick, be-
orado Agricultural College and Director
Of the United States Experiment Station
at Fort Collins. This position he held
until August, 1898, when he was chosen
to a similar position in Missouri. Prot.
Quick married Miss Anna Laura Foster,
also university graduate of Indiana.
They have one child, Katharine. Prof.
Quick is q member of the American
Shropshire Sheep breeders Association,
was among it's original incorporators and
is now its vice-President. He is also
member of the American Shorthorn
Breeders Association, Of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence and the British Association for the
Advancement of Science. In 1891 Prof.
Quick was delegate to the National Con-
vention Of Agricultural Colleges and Ex-
pertinent Stations, held in Washington,
and again in 1892 at New Orleans.
Prof. Quick has been studyingin Halle,
Saxony, Germany, at the "Royal Univer-
sity of Halle. Wittenberg," during 1895 :
96, applying himself exclusively to con-
tinuation of the studies of his life's devo-
ton, viz: Agriculture and kindred sci
euces. he passed the examinations for
promotion to the DOCTORS degree with
cum laude honorsa at the close of the years
work. The last three months since he
has spent in travel through France, Swift
zerland, Germany, Belgium, Holland and
England, studying the practical agricul-
tural conditions and examining the most
prominent neutrality-suspicious. stations
and institutions. He devoted considera-
BILE time investigating the sugar beet in
dustry, from the preparation of the soil
in detail, to the manufacture of the sugar
from the beet.
Returning from Germany, but few
weeks ago, he addressed the Farmers
National Congress on the beet sugar in
dustry and was by that body made chair
man Of the Legislative committee on the
sugar industry of the United States. :,
study in Europe on a previous trip, in
vestigating dairy questions, especially in
Switzerland. Prof. Quick is a member of
the Christian Church and of the X. of P.
and Royal Arch Mason.-Nc'cs and
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