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ton UniversIiv leads with over 1000 students.
And each institution Is presumed to control
Its few Students.
%Insubordin alton on the part OF college
boys can furnish bu: one indisputable
testimonial. and d~isorderly conduct is proof
that cannot be gainsaid. Competent men at
The head OF Clemson College will command
that respect that would restrain the boys
from violating the college rules.
If, for instance, the pers IN; or persons, who
are responsible for the warning" had taken
another tact than that OF issuing orders and
making an implied threat which might
come from q tyrant, the result might have
been different.
II the "warpirg' Of itself was not sugges:
tive OF evil doing on the part Of the boys. the
President. or other person re'ponsib BILE for ex.
citing the evil That 10 in boys. as we'll ss
In older men, hal appealed to their better
nature, and had asked the boys In a proper
manner, to respe,t the rurss Of the college,
q TO av' i | violations OF decorum, do you
believe taat there would ha We been an alb
sentee at roll call 10 the classes? Or, II the
President had knowi that there was q gener-
al desire for q rest day, then a better mana
ger of young men would nave yielded. But.
1t seems that; somebody had 1t In for the
boys who wanted to show their authority.
By Issuing humil1ating orders to them
thoughtless or impulsive boys gave the pro.
fessors the right to set their ponderous heels
on the necks OF the boys. That course could
result only in one way. College professors
need not "warn' or bully young gentlemen.
The boys that have been so mistreated are
as good, as honorable, and as manly as are
the professors where the proof Ia 80 clear that
they lack the ability to fill tn places which
they hold In college, and for the payment OF
whose salaries the people are taxed.
The constant disturbance at Clemson Ia
evidence as clear as the noon day sun that
somebody beside the boys should be gotten
out OF Clemson. Aud II the Legislature OF
the State is true to the people. that body will
see that this perennial row at Clemson shall
cease. Let the law-making power Of the
State take such control as Will secure q CON-
petent management OF that great institution.
When there is expressed q doubt as to who
controls Clemson, that doubt proves that the
College needs more competent men at Its
head. The boys will average up to the best,
If they nave a competent leader.
Lenlency may be properly exerolseI to-
ward boyish indiscretion, but official iucom.
potency Is quite another thing and needs
more stern discipline than Is accorded 10
thoughtless young gentlemen.
In the signed statement OF the Juniors. they
say 1.-THE punishment received was just"
The Press and Banner makes no such admls-
sion and denies with all possible voheme noe
the correctness Of that statement. The pnn-
lshment WAS not just. For severity. 1t Is
unprecenled, and 1t is enough 10 outrage the
better sense OF the public.
The president and the professors who may
have been responsible for the boys lack OF
personal respect for them should have been
dismissed.
The wrong persons were sent home.