The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-05-21
Waiting for u Vacancy.

In me dialogue OF what lHE AID
vERTISER doesu', know is how to run
Glenn Ion College. This Office has not
ever a telephone connecting with
Glen IN; NOT v. a grape-v ne wire.
II some time or o her we bu, and W
8 dozen good colleges We shall hire a
few gangs of trustees and, handing
them the reins, tell them TO trot the
colleges for all they are worth This
State is a producer of a superfine ar
ticle of college trustee. 1t had a
mighty clever man once who swore
grandly that he would accept no office
except a tr~usteeship of a farmers col
lege. He is dead, we believe. If he
were still on top of ground he would
make a peerless lead-horse in q trustee
team.
We do own an interest in several
thoroughbred colleges, but our hired
servants, the members OF the legisla-
ture, elect expert trustees for them.
So we leave them alone, believing that
our stock in them will not 90 to the
oORo' lICuCS atlOtISl ICaoOh VIC %
elected to straighten out the recent
tangle in Clemson. We failed to
~canonize young Thornwell, whom our
agents, the trustees, have neverthe-
less unmartyred. We forgot to brevet
the intrepid sophomores who made a
gallant secession, charged back in
force, and captured the kopje-glory
be. To date, we have not accepted
young President Hartzog's resignation
We have not even kicked him. Nor
have we elected any successors of him,
Why should we bother with all this:
Why should we relieve the trustees oil
their duties? Let them stir around
and arm their mileage. Perhaps later,
for amusement, we shall exhibit some
candidates for Clemson's presidency,
We have, we don't mind saying
so much, a fat and pretty string
They know Latin Greek, French, song
and dance, with a sprinkling Of Taga
log and ping pong. But they shan,
come out OF the bush until those trus
tees have duly held further post NOR
TENS. We suspect that there is a dis
position to crowd Mr.. Hartzog. Pos
sibly the sophomores are crowdine
him. We know MIR. Hartzog and like
him. Any man who is at the head Of
a college leads a strenuous life. Mr.
Hartzog was just as ruddy a youth five
years gone ss David, the son of Jesse
and went up against a tougher propo
sition than young lions. He has held
his ground well. He has been these
years master Of harder lads thar
pranced up San Juan Hill. These
younglings have deyoured from the
face of earth the football teams OF
wide slice Of creation. They have
made most college base ball mines South
of Pennsylvania a byword, a reproacl
and a faint greasc-spot. Some Of then
are making Cardinals cotton mill pace
warner than aver for Massachusetts
They have done things, these Clemson
ladies, and have done them under
Hartzog, who is young and one sample
of the large output of recent year
from a Charleston "dude factory
Therefore our bruuettes and blondes
silver-tongued orators, embroidered
statesmen, frilled %jurists, silk
tiled preachers, shining lights, seers
sages, sachems and saints, all fit ant
eager for the bossdom of Clemson, W,
shall keep safe from faint in our sane
tum ice-box until the humble and dill
gent trustees have tossed and tumblet
and sweated many s~leepless nights aat
gagged over it some before &C
cepting MI. Hartzog's resignation.