The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-14

run at which discipline is not strictly
maintained, least of all an institution
with such large number of students
as we have here, and situated as
Clemson Collge is, in the country. 1t
is the purpose and intention of the
board to require from any student
who may avail himself of the oppor-
tunities that we offer here implicit
obedience to all authority. Any com
binations having .:or their object the
destruction of discipline and subvers1on
of good order viii be punished to the
extent of our power. Understand. we
want it distinctly understood that the
idea which seems to prevail to some
extent among the cadets, that they
have the right to assemble in mass
meeting or class meeting and legis-
late on College affairs, cannot be TOO
strongly condemned. The faculty is
clothed with authority to govern the
College under rules and regulations
which are accessible to the students,
and there is no excusesior the claim of
ignorance of the.right Of appeal to the
trustees in any case involving their
rights. This board has on several oc-
casions previously shown its willing
ness and purpose to give patient
hearing to the students and to re-
dress grievances. We want to stress,
with all due solemnity, the feeling of
the trustees, that rather than submit
70 raoh Law taking control of Clemson
and having the students attempt to
coerce the faculty, or to: resist the Col.
lece authorities, we viii. lay it down
as q general principle of the College
government here that We Will IN !u-
ture, if necessary, dismiss the entire
student body and begin anew before
we will tolerate the continuance OF
any such spirit. In the case before us
it is the first that has come before the
board in the history of the College,
we find that the s;ophomores did not
appeal to the trustees, which they
should have done, but they left the
College without; that due considera-
tion which they should have given
such a serious step. It may be stated
in extenuation of their offence that
their sense Of justice had been out
ragged and their hot and lmpulslve
young blood had led them to resort to
this revolutionary action because they
were sensible of the wrong done their
classmate and unwilling to subject
themselves to similar treatment. We
sympathize with the chivalrous feel
ing which led them to do this. We
nave sons of our own, some of Is, and
were boys ourselves once. Therefore
we are ready to make due allowances
for this blunder Of yoush, and pemrlJ
such of the class as desire to do so to
resume their studies Immediately or at
the beginning Of 1.-THE next session as
they may elect. Such students as avail
themselves of this privilege will be
received in the College upon the fol
lowing conditions: First. They must
present petition to the president OF
the College asking reinstatement.
Second. They must make good, by
extra labor, the time lost and the work
that is reqiured in the course, and
examinations which are customary
must be passed as though nothing had
occurred. In view, however, of the
time already lost and of the nearness
of the end of this term, such examina-
tions will not be required until the
opening of the next session -
It was nearly l o'clock when Sena-
tor Tillman finished reading and, as
all the trustees were in hurry to get
away to catch a train to Greenville a
motion to adjourn was quickly put
onS oa rrio5 Tbnra was no SDapch-
making, nothing but the simple read
ing of the boards decision. In few
minutes the trustees had all left the
College grounds and the show was
over.
The members OF the sophomore class,
who came here to attend the inyestiga-
tion, have decided to accept the terms
laid down by the trusees and will re-
main until the end of the session Not
only are they doing this, but they are
to their classmates to
come back.