Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-05-14

Board. 1t is therefore ordered that
Cadet Thornwell DO reinstated 70 his
rights and privileges as cadet in, the
college.
The action Of the sophomore GLASS in
leaving the college, without exhausting
Sll remedies and making appeal to the
board for redress Of grievances, is one
of great seriousness. No college can be
successfully run at which discipline is
not st, .ctly maintained. least of all an
institution with such large number of
students as we have here, and situated
as Clemson College is, in the country.
1t is the purpose and intention of the
board to require from any student who
may avail himself of the opportunities
that we offer here implicit obedience to
all lawful authority. Any combinations
having for their object the destruction
of discipline and subversion of good
order will be punished to the extent of
our power. Understand, we want it dis
tinctly understood, that the idea which
seems to prevail to some extent among
the cadets, that they have the right to
assemble ia mass meeting OF class meet
ing and legislate on college affairs, can
not be too strongly condemned. The
faculty is clothed with authority to gov
ern the college under rules aud regula-
tions which arc accessible to the students,
and thore is no excuse for the claim of ig-
norance of the right of appeal to the trus-
tees in any case involving their rights.
This board has on several occasions previ-
ously shown its Willingness and purpose
to give patient hearing to the students
and to redress grievances. We want to
stress, with all due solemnity, the feel
ing of the trustees, that rather than sub
nit to mob law taking control of Glenn
son and having the students attempt to
coerce the faculty, or to resist the col
lege authorities, we will lay it down as a
general principle of the college govern
ment here that we will in future, if nee
essary, dismiss tho 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 sophomores
did not appeal to the trustees, which
they should have done, but they left the
college without that due consideration
which they should have given such a
serious step. 1t may be stated in ex-
tenuation Of their offence that their sense
of justice had been outraged, and their
hot and impulsive 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 have
sons of our own, some of us, and were
boys ourselves once. Therefore we are
ready to make due allowances for this
blunder of youth, and permit such of
the class as desire to do so to rf sumo
their studies Immediately or at the be-
ginning of the next session, as they may
elect. Such students as avail themselves
of this privilege will be received in the
college upon the following conditions:
First. They must present a petition to
the President of the college asking rein
statement. Second. They must make
good, by extra labor, the time lost and
tho work that is required 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 examinations
will not be required until the opening of
the next session."
It was nearly o'clock when Senator
Tillman finished reading, and, as all the
Trustees were in hurry to get away to
catch train to Greenville, a motion to
adjourn was quickly put and carried.
There was no speech making, nothing
but the simple reading of the Board 8
decision. In a 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 investiga-
ton, have decided to accept the terms
laid down by the Trustees and will re-
main until the end of the session. Not
only are they doing this, but they are
telegraphing to their classmates to come
back.
Cadet Thornwell went home yesterday,
but will be back tomorrow.