Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-05-24
BOARD OF VISITORS OF CI eMsON
College Make Their Report Adventures Of
The Military Feature.

Below is the report OF the Board
Of Visitors of Clemson College.
Hon. II. W. Simpson, Chairman
Board OF Trustees of Clemson Col
legr, S. C.-Dcar Sir: In pursuance
of notice received by us from the
Secretary of Trustees of Clemson
College the undersigned arrived at
the College on the 2d Of May to
serve as the Board Of Visitors.
We beg leave to make the follow
ing report:
TO those Of us who had not be-
fore visited the institution and who
had formed our ideas of it from cas-
ual report, the beauty OF the si,ua-
ton, the extent of the grounds and
their state of improvement, as well
as the number and excellence OF the
buildings, was a most agreeable dis
covcry.
Our attention was next arrested
by the appearance before the agri-
cultural hall of the military corps Of
the College, comprising all the stu
dents IN attendance, and numbering
over four hundred stalwart, active
young men, handsomely uniformed,
we'll equipped and thoroughly or
ganzcd.
We heartily endorse the employ
mcnt of military exercise in the
management Those Of us who have
had experience as students and
teachers in other colleges feel salts
fled that nothing conduccs more to
the cultivation of habits Of order and
obedience to law, while ut the same
time it clcvatcs the tone and car
riagc of the student, than military
discipline.
Our opinions on this matter re-
ccived very considerable coniirma-
ton by our visit the same evening to
the barracks, where we found every
thing quiet and orderly, the students
all through the large building oc-
cupying their rooms and buSily en-
gagged in their studies.
On the following day the Board
made the complete round Of the
various departments, visiting the in
structors and students in their class
rooms, observing the equipments and
methods OF instruction in each, and
also three Of the laboratories and
work shops Everywhere we found
extreme order, ncatn"ss and dill.
gcncc prevailing among the students
and hearty carncslncSs and cnthu-
Slasm on the part Of the teachers.
1t is impossible to cnt,. upon details
IN SO wide a field Of work, but we
can say, without hesitation or quail
fication that while we found the in.
struction being given very different
in character and method to that i'm
parted to us in our youth, it was
such as we have continually felt the
need OF during our maturcr years.
While the useful in the Baconian
sense is throughout the predominant
idea in the laboratories and work
shops, from the mechanical and tex
tile departments to the agricultural
and veterinary class rooms, every.
where the becoming and the acS,hc-
tic was observed and provided, and
we believe that, usefulness aside, the
students will derive from The study
OF the sciences OF chcmis-
try, botany, entomology, geology,
pursued here, a culture as high and
broad rs that sought for in the purely
humanitarian studies Of other days.
We understand that it is proposed
to lnauguratc new course Of nature
study in connection with the publ
cation Of bulletins TO be distributed
among the rural schools. We hope
tins movement will be successfully
developed. 1t has been SUGGESTED
mat the state Sumn;cr School Tor
Teachers, held sometimes at RocN
I'M, should meet this year at Glenn
SON Such change, if prac,icabl,,
would be OF great advantage to the
teachers in the agricultural sections.
Nowhere else could varied and yaln
able object lessons in rural science
and industry be presented
We note with pleasure the i'm
provcmcnt on the slope in front Of
the agricultural hall by the success
fuI establishment Of lawn of Italian