Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-31
CLEMSON COLLEGE.
Its Present FuIfIIment and Future Promise.
A Genuine Work Shop.

10 ''oso"' Tu''iiIheit anu futuTe tr0mlSe
A Genuine Work Shop.
In a recent issue of the News anG
Courier, Mr.. Jas. II. Rice, Jr., writes
interestingly about his visit to Glenn
son College, and what he saw there
Among other things he says:
Two things impressed me. Firs
was the enormous amount of actua
work done. No business man in oul
cities is harder driven than President
Hartzog. At S.45 A. M. he is hold
ing chapel exercises and is constantl,
engaged until p. M. He then
goes to dinner and is back at 1 80
From then until $50 his time is
again all taken up and he is fire.
quently in the office at night, dctat.
ing correspondence or looking after
other interests of the college. The
faculty work thirty hours a week,
which is about double the number
of hours of other institutions in this
State.
There are no idle students loafine
about th> grounds, as at many insti-
tutions of learning. All hands are
busy, except at the short recreation
time in the afternoon. 60 where
you will, you meet these same evil
dences of work, modern, date
business methods everywhere, put in
with the push, drive and thorough
ness of modern civilization.
The other fact which impressed
me was the unity of effort and
loyalty to the institution. Clemson
is coherent whole. 1t makes for
itspurpose and evidence of design is
apparent.
In it's darkest hour the students
stood for Clemson against the world.
They were rash and often wrong,
due in large measure to their being
played upon by willy and unscrupu-
lous dcmagogue. But in making the
cause of Clemson their own they ex-
hibited 4 loyalty always respectable,
though sometimes misplaced. This
comes from the fact that the young
men soon feel that the fight is their
fight, and that the true mission of
Clemson is to break the shackles that
ignorance and bigotry have placed
upon effort. The spirit exhibited by
Clemson students is of the highest
order. Join this to coherent design
and passionate zeal, and the result is
going to be astonishing.
AS an instance of splendid man
agement take the mess hall. The
students get board for sc a month,
and it is as good board as that fur
nished by the best hotels in the State
not as varied in the menu-but
better cooked than at nine hotels out
of ten and an abundance of it.
The chef at Clemson is an institu.
ton. He is the friend and hacker
(bankcr is bctter) of needy under
graduates, and it is hard to imagine
how things could go on without him.
by it's work in agriculture the col
lcge is best known and has, perhaps,
here its widest field of usefulness.
That Col. Newman is master of his
department is almost superhuous
assertion. Better judges than have
the great work he is doing,
and South Carolina is every year
feeling more and more the effect Of
it. This department. gets $4,000
from the Hatch fund, to be expended
wholly in experiment. The expert
mcnts are interesting and valuable,
cover wide range and the results
ought to be known to every farmer
in the State. Bulletins are printed
periodically and distributed free all
over South Carolina, giving these
results.
10 remove some misconccption it
is necessary to say that Clemson Col
lcgc does not profess to turn out cx-
perts. No college docs, (barring
always literary institutions, with their
letter ofrecommendation graduatcs.) J
In the textile department, for in
stance, student receives sufficient
training to enable him to get as much
benefit from one year in the mills as
he would in ten without that train
ing. After five years experience in
the mills a graduate of Clemson
ought to be first class mill man if
he has the making of mill man in
him.
The whole business was n rcvcla-
ton to me and one can readily fore
cast what revolution is being 81
lently worked in South Carolina.
Men are being trained to do things :;
to reclaim deserts and make the
habitablc to restore, to
to uplift; to take their
place without shirking in the word
conflict for the suppression of vice
and the advancement Of civilization.
Now, when Mr.. Hartzog was made
President of Clemson College it was
said that he lacked experience, that
his youth told against him, and all
sorts of lugubrious forebodings were
indulged. 1t is fair to state that he
has more than met expectation, that
he has the confidence Of faculty and
students, and is at every point show
ing marked progress.
Ills opportunity is imperial, and
he has risen to it and grown with it.
lie is a born manager and the entire
has felt the effect of his
executive ability. He has given all
his time and attention to it and has
made the institution do its appointed
work. His career is full OF solid
promise and South Carolina has rca-
son to expect great things from him.
Clemson College is situated in
three counties, more or less, but lies
principally in Oconec. The site is