Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-04-10
cLEMSoN'S TROUBLES.
Junior Class Makes Manly Statement
of Affairs.

The newspaper reports Of the re-
cent trouble at Clemson college being
more or less incorrect and not alto
gether fair and impartial, we, the un-
dersigned ex-members of the Junior
class, desire to give to the people of
the state what we conscientiously be-
lieve to be a true and impartial state
ment of the facts. We do not believe
that any one knowingly made an in
correct statement; but we do know
that some of the newspaper reports
were written by men who knew but
little about the facts which they at
tempted to state. Consequently, some
blunders and mistakes were made,
and we consider it our duty to the
people Of the state to correct, as far
as possible, these mistakes.
Taking up these statements in or
der, we desire to make the following
corrections:
1st The newspaper articles refer
red to above stated that several or
ders and warnings were published at
retreat on the evening of March 3lst.
AS a matter of fact only one order
was published, and that called atten-
ton to paragraph 126 of "The Reg
ulations for the Government of Ca
dets." The order in question was as
follows:
HEADQUARTERS Corps of Cadets.
Clemson Agricultural College.
Clemson College, March 81, 1908.
General Orders No AZ.
Par. |. The attention Of the corps
of cadets is specially directed to par
agraph 126 of 1.-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 au-
thority during that time. The news
paper reports made it seem that this
order was intended for the next day.
when the order itself plainly shows
that it was not.
2nd. A statement was made that
kilograms were sent to Prof X. H.
Fike informing him that his services
were no longer needed. X. n. Flke
is cadet and not a professor; ana
the telegram was sent in spirit OF
fun. merely to let Fike know that tne
participants were carrying on their
April Fool celebration! Cadet Fike
was in no way connected with the af-
fair.
3rd. The statement that the rest
Of the students were very indignant
over the action of their comrades is
mistake, as practically the whole stu
dent body treated the matter as
joke.
4th. Cadet T. s. Allen was not
leader in the celebration. In fact,
there were no leaders, everybody act
ing for himself. Cadet Allen did, af-
ter the juniors were dismissed from
college, advise the rest of the students
to remain at college, but did so solely
because he thought that by using his
influence. he might help to prevent
the lower class men from leaving with
the juniors.
5th. There was also slight mis-
take made as to the number OF stu
dents in the junior class. There were
only 81 students i'm the class: As or
these were dismissed and one Sus-
pended OF the rest, several were on
the athletic teams and would have
gone on the lark" had they not been
persuaded by their classmates not to-
go.
We do not wish to cast any retlec-
tions on any one: our purpose being to
correct some statements that might