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OWN UP LIKE MEN.
THEDISsIISsED CLEMSON CADETS
MAKE MANLY STATEMENT.
Acknowledge They Made Serious Mis-
take and Accepts Their Punishment

To the Editor of The State:
The newspaper reports of the rs
cent trouble at Clemson college being
more or less incorrect and not alto
gther fair and impartial, we, the
undersigned ex-members of the jun
ior class desire to give to the people
of the State what we conscientiously
believe to be a true and impartial
statement of the facts. We Go not
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 plumbers were made, an we cen
slider it our duty to the people of the
State to correct, as far as possible,
these mistakes.
Taking up these statements in ord
err, we desire to make the folio wing
corrections:
1. The newspaper articles referred
to above stated that several orders
and warnings were published at re-
treat on the evening of March 31st.
AS a matter of fact, only one order
was published, and that called atten-
ton to paragraph 1875 of the "Regu-
lations for the Government of Ca,
diets" The order in question was as
follows:
Headquarters Corps of Cadets.
Clemson Agricultural College.
Clemson College. s. G.,
March 81, 1915.
General Orders No. AZ.
Par. /. The attention of the corps
of cadets is especially directed TO par.
agraph 1926 of The Regulations fol
the Government of Cadets which
reads as follows:
"'Any cadet who leaves barracks
without authority at any time re-
tween retreat and reveille, shall be
dismissed
"By order of Capt. Minus"
AS far as We have been able tt
find out, no one left barracks without
authority during that time. The
newspaper reports made it seem thai
this order was intended for the mex
day, when the order itself plaini,
shows that it was not.
2. A statement was made that tele
grams were sent to Prof. R. H. Ffkt
informing him that his services were
no longer needed. R. H. Fike Is
cadet and not a professor; and thu
telegram was sent in a spirit Of fun
merely to let Fike know that thu
participants were carrying on thief
April Fool celebration. Cadet Fik'
was in no way connected with the af
fair.
8. The statement that the rest o
the students were very indignant owe
the action of their comrades is. a mis-
take, as practically the whole SUDDEN
body treated the matter as a joke.
4. Cadet T. S. Allen was not a lead
err in the celebration. In fact, ther'
were no leaders, everybody acting To-
himsslf. Cadet Allen did, after thu
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
huence he might help to preven'
the lower classmen from leaving viii
the juniors. :
S. There was also a slight mistake
made as to the number of student:
in the junior class. There were only
81 students in the class: 48 of these
were dismissed and one suspended. o.
the rest, several were on the athe'
letic teams and would have gone or
the lark had they not been per
suaded by their classmates not to 60
We do not wish to cast any ref1ec-
ton on any one; our purpose being
to correct some statements that might
create a wrong impression among the
people of the State. 4
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 our dismfs-
sal.
H. C. Twiggs, Jas. P. Mcmillan, E. A.
Gardner, S. o. Kelley. E. D. Glenn
ent, C. Y. Wigfall, J. L.. Dove, w.
j. Shelly, 7. Fulmer, l.. c. Boone.
D. G.. Britt, l.. A. Coleman, E
Chamness, E. &. Hunter, ]. r. Pen
nell, j. II. Wilson, A.. w. Kreamer,
w. L. Nance. w. c. Spratt, T. H.
. Yeargin, J.. C.. Covington, j. D.
Murray. F.. S. Candy, NJ. R. Hirsch,
j. l.. Eason, R. f. Adams, G. A.
Burton, J. n. Loahholt, A. R. Hap
poldt, f. S. Kohn, w. G. Clarke,
w. T. Odom, T. S. Allen, r. C.
Dick, E. C. Haskell, W. A. Robin
son, G. D. Bellinger. Jr., J: B.
Simpson, w. D. Simpson, Jr., w.
J. Brockington, R. E. Blake, D. W.
Watkins, +. r. Tarbor, II. H.
Greene. P. Miley, A. Grier, F. B.
n.ea d MnCradr q Il PEN