Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-04-08
WALHATIIA, s.. O.:
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1908.
ALL FOOLS DAY AT CLEMSON.
Four Hundred Cadets in the Mire to
Some Depth.
q. H. G., in Greenville News

derstanding Oh the part Of the Glenn
son cadets as to whether the student
body or the faculty is the boss Of the
college. This question will be def
nitely answered tomorrow when the
discipline committee meets to review
very serious escapade Of nearly
tour hundred OF the seven hundred
cadets to-day. The prevailing opin-
ion among the professors and cadets
Will be compelled to turn their faces
toward their homes by tomorrow
afternoon.
At retreat last night Commandant
Minus had published the resolution
passed by the Board of Trustees at
the August meeting, provoked by the
shirt-tail brigade by the senior class
during commencement, emphasizing
the fact that the board would stand
to the decisions Of the discipline
committee and would cooperate with
the committee in enforcing the laws
OF the college. This resolution stat
ed that all fools day pranks and
pranks common at commencement
time would not be tolerated, and that
the discipline committee would deal
with the participators in such very
harshiy, enforcing the law to the let
ter.
The order published last night was
In effect a warning to the student
body that absence without permis-
sion from barracks is dismissal Of
tense. After all Of these warnings
at 7.45 O'Clock this mo- ming, when
the drums sounded for early morn
ing drill, not more than three hun
dred cadets answered the roll cali.
The other 400 were grouped in the
campus and in their rooms.
After the captains reDortad tbo
absentees the rebels in mob forma-
ron marched off the campus past
President Mell's home and on to
Pendleton, four miles distance A
number Of rebels weakened after
leaving the campus and returned to
their duties. The 800 faithful cadets
we're required to attend to their reg
ular duties to-day.
The 400 rebels spent the day
quietly and orderly on the village
green ut PendletGn. Before leaving
Pendleton at 3 o'clock this afternoon
they gathered in Evans Drug Store
and 800 OF them signed a written
agreement that IL punishment for
the escapade be inflicted upon even
one cadet then by mutual consent
all Of them would leave the college,
At 3.15 o'clock this afternoon the
rebels formed line and marched
oaCh W TIE CoileSe. IL COuiQ De cas-
lily seen that they were very much
worried as to the outcome Of their
offense. When they reached the
campus they were allowed to go to
their rooms without resistance. and
when retreat sounded this afternoon
at o'clock every cadet was in line
AS soon as the chapel exercises at
the college were over this morning
the discipline committee, consisting
of President Nell, Commandant Mi
nus, Directors Riggs, Harden, Har-
per and Doggett, and Profs. Furman,
Calhoun and Morrison, met and re-
NAMED In session two hours. This
committee reviewed the escapade
but adjourned before noon without
coming to any decision. The meet
ing was adjourned until tomorrow.
when Commandant Minus. at the in
stance Of the committee, will submit
the names of all cadets who partici-
pated in the rebellion and all infor-
nation he can gather.
1t Is understood from President
Nell tonight that the names Of the
majority Of the ring leaders--and
there are many-are known, and
these with many other cadets. Will be
dismissed from college. The 400
cadet" who participated were from
all classes except the Senior class.
No Senior nor member of the ath-
letic team participated. The author
tiles believe that the freshmen and a
few Sophomores were coerced, and
their punishment will hardly be ex-
puision. They will, however, have
sufficient punishment meted out to
ihem for them to realize that the
students are not the bosses at the
college.
President Nell Capt. Minus and
all OF the authorities of the college
are cool and collected over the mat
ter. They are considering every
phase and Il" rash move will be made
by them They realize that the Of
tense committed is serious one,
and they are determined that the
guilty parties shall receive the limit
pf the law.
The cadets who did not participate
tn the escapade are indignant of the
action OF their comrades ard have
eo-operated with the authorities in
carrying on the regular work Of the
college as if nothing had happened.
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