The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-04-10
OWN UP like MEN.
THHDISNiISsED CLEMSON CADETS
MAKE MANLY STATEMENT.
Acknowledge They Made Serious Mis-
take and Accepts Their Punishment
AS just.

take and Accepts Their Punishment
As just.
To the Editor of The State:
The newspaper reports of the rs
cent trouble at Clemson college being
more or less incorrect and not altu-
gther fair and impartial, we, the
undersigned eX-members of the jun
lor class desire to give to the people
OF the State what we conscientiousiy
believe to obe true and impartial
statement of the facts. We Go 10:
believe that any one knowingly made
an Incorrect statement; but we do
know that some of the newspaper re-
ports were written by men who knew
but little about the facts which they
attempted to state. Consequently.
some blunders were made, an we con-
slider it our duty to the people of the
State to correct, as far as possible,
these mistakes.
Taking up these statements in ord
er, we desire to make the following
corrections:
l. The newspaper articles referred
to above stated that several orders
and warnings were published at re-
treat on the evening of March 31st.
AS matter of fact, only one order
was published, and that called atten-
tion to paragraph 1875 of the "Regu-
lations for the Government Of Ca.
dets." The order in question was as
follows:
Headquarters Corps OF Cadets.
Clemson Agricultural College.
Clemson College. S. c.,
March 81, 1915.
General Orders No. AZ.
"Par. 1. The attention Of the CORPS
of cadets is especially directed to par
agraph 126 of The Regulations for
the Government of Cadets which
reads as follows:
ANY cadet who leaves barracks
without authority at any time be-
tween retreat and reveille, shall be
dismissed
"By order of Capt. Minus"
AS far as We have been able to
find out, no one left barracks without
authority during that time. The
newspaper reports made it seem that
this order was intended for the next
day, when the order itself plainly
shows that it was not.
2. A statement was made that tele-
grams were sent to Prof. R. H. Fike
informing him that his services were
no longer needed. R. H. Fike Is a
cadet and not professor; and the
telegram was sent in a spirit of fun,
merely to let Fike know that the
participants were carrying on their
April Fool celebration. Cadet Fike
was in no way connected with the af-
fair.
3. The statement that the rest of
the students were very indignant over
the action of their comrades is mis-
take, as practically the whole student
body treated the matter as joke.
4. Cadet T.. S. Allen was not lead
er in the celebration. In fact, there
were no leaders, everybody acting for
himssf. Cadet Allen did, after the
juniors were dismissed from college,
advise the rest of the students to re-
main at college, but did so because
he thought that by using his in
fuence he might help to prevent
the lower classmen from leaving with
the juniors.
5. There was also slight mistake
made as to the number of students
in the junior class. There We're only
81 students in the class; 48 Of these
were dismissed and one suspended. OF
the rest, several were on the athe-
letic teams and would have gone on
the lark had they not been per-
suaded by their classmates not to go.
We do not wish to cast any ref1ec-
tion on any one; our purpose being
to correct some statements that might
create wrong impression among the
people Of the State.
In conclusion, We, the undersigned,
wish to say to the people of this
and other States that we, the dismiss
ed cadets of Clemson college, do now
feel the seriousness Of the offense and
think that the punishment received
was Just; and that we have absolute
ly no Ill feelings toward the action OF
the discipline committee Of Clemson
college. We realize that the mistake
was a serious one but we do not feel
that any disgrace attends onr dismis-
sal.
II. C. Twiggs, Jas. P. Mcmillan, e. A.
Gardner, S. O. Kelley, E. D. Glenn
ent, C. Y. Wigfali, }. l.. Dove, w.
J. Shcely, T. Fulmer, l.. c. Boone,
d. c. Britt, l.. A. Coleman, r,
Chamness, b. G.. Hunter. j. K. Pen"
nell. J. H. Wilson, a. W. kreamer,
". L. Nance, W. G.. Spratt, T. H.
Yeargin. J. c. Covington, }. d.
Murray, f. S. Candy, NJ, K. Hirsch'
Il. l.. Eason, R. E. Adams, u. A.