The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-02-25
THE CLEMSON coLLeeg TRUSTEES

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Filling the Vacancies in the Facultv-A
Sketch Of the Men Elected.
The board OF trustees OF Clemson
College were in session several DAYS in
Coiumoia, engaged in the c~onsidera-
tion OF Important matters. Several
vacancies In h faculty were filed by
men VINO are highly recommended
n In whom the trustees place tho
greatest confidence. The college was
~re-opened on the goth inst, and most
Oh Tie old students are expected to
return, while a great many others will
oegln their studies, which will give
an increase in the number OF students
N attendance. All arrangements have
oeen made for the reception Of the stu
dents, both old and new
"A member Of the board OF trustees
rave the representative of The State
snort skctch OF the professors elected
oy board, and they are given below
in full:
Mr.. j. V. LOWS, who was elected to
the chair OF NEUROLOGY and geology,
ID q native OF North Carolina and
aduat some years ago at the State
university there. For q few wears
alter graduation he was employed on
the United States geological survey.
lie then spent q year at Johns HoI-
klns university and another year at
Harvard under the distinguished
geoiogist, Prot. N. S. Shaler, who thus
writes of Mr.. Lewis:
"While here he won the esteem and
respect OF all who came in contact
with him. He Is a gentleman he is
we'll trained in his profession I; he had
an excellent Influence upon the young
men with whom he came In centact'
Ii there were g vacancy In our geoloni-
cal corps should consider Mr.. Lewis
as aft candidate for the place, proyid.
ed 1t called for any other than certain
special attainments. II you had
written mo to recommend q candidate
SHOULD have asked you to consider
able OF all l could have m%entioned.n
Since leaving Harvad Mr.. Lewis has
been engaged on the geological survey
OF North Carolina and also comes
highly recommended by Professor
Holmes, with whom he has been work.
Ing. He 1s a member of the Baptis,
church and Is recently married, and 6
member Of the Y. NJ. g. A.
Capt. Ezra b. Fuller was elected in
' sCructor OF physics to fill the place
made vacant by the resignation O
Prof. Q. w. Welch. Captain Fuller
Is well known to the people of thi.
IL L 10 ouulCl0uU GO say rs u
|. his qualifications that he laugh
physics for four years at West Point
He Is considered an unusually strons
, man.
Mr.; w. M. Riggs. a native OF Soutl
Carolina, was elected assistant pro
} lessor to Professor Tompkins il
mechanical and electrical engineer
ing. He is a graduate of the Aiabam,
POLYTECHNIC institute and has had som,
: special training at Cornell university
For the past three years he has beel
| an assistant in the mechanical depart
! ment OF his alma mater. He has tn,
unqualified endorsement of the facult,
at Auburn. Mr.. Riggs has had a grea
: deal OF experience in the practica
: work of a mechanic. He is unmarriet
and belongs to a Presbyterian family
For instructor in wood work til,
board elected Mr.. Albert Barnes,
? graduate OF Cornell UNIVERSITY. Nor
difficulty was found in filling this posi-
ton than all the others. Mr.. Barnes
it IL believed, will measure up witt