The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25
CLEMSON COLLEGE
WHAT IT BIO AND WHAT IT COST
TO RUN PAST YEAR
WHAT PLANT IS WORTH
l,ablic Service OF State Institution
q Large Part Of Expenditures Las;
Year.-President Riggs Warns tht
Trustees that tho Limit OF Such
Service Is About Reached.

!
Service Is About Reached
The twenty-third annual report o
he board Of trustees of Clemson
College, which is now being printe,
IS corporate part OF the annual re
..o1t of the State Superintendent 0
education, has good many interest
.pg matters in it for those interested
! 10 matters educations and for th.
general public The report Is. o
course, for the fiscal year endils
june 80, 1912.
During the session the student en-
rolment was S11, Of whom 198 wer,
nom South Carolina. There were g.
other matriculates besides those or
Inc regular rolls, making total o
o4S, larger by las than any previous
sessions enrolment.
Among the important achieve
nents Of the year are mentioned sucl
things as:
l. The new dairy building anc
dairy barns at q cost OF about $42,-
900.
2. The additions to barrack at {
cost of about $4,000, thus increasing
the student capacity about 100 ca
dets.
3. The establishment Of the Pee
Dee experiment station at An initia,
cost OF about $4,000.
3. The cooperative combination o:
.he Knapp demonstration forces ane
the extension work division OF tn.
College.
4. The recon animation Of the asri-
cultural department Of the College
and the South Carolina experiment
station.
E. The establishment OF the work
boy course and the oue-year asrlccf
lural course.
6. In the matter Of finances, {
brief statement Of resources and eN'
,endItuses may be of interest. A bal
ance from the previous year Of so2.
s7.10, the fertilizer tag tax OF s22l,'
coo, and income from the United
States Government, the Clemson be,
quest, etc., Of s51.043.56, make :
total OF s324.s4o.05 for resources
70, public State work sl06,sS6.5s
md permanent additions to the plan;
ys7,4s3.27-making total OF s3ls'
;oa.14 for expenditures
The rapid increase In the money
expended for public State Work
shown IN a table giving the figure
from 1s07-s, when the amount va
only s56,366.l2 until 1928 waei
lhe amount being expended Is aoou
s1e1,2ls.S3, If present estimate
he'd.
The president, DR.. W. n. Riggs J:
a.s statement to the trustees has u
following to say: 1T is my ootS
sound g. warning note against unoe
taking new lines Of public serFie'
We are now in balanced eondit'o'
instead of having 100 much money
Is often charged. we are coniron'e'
with the possibility OF having 10 GRO
sona Of our public work, should tn
TAX 90 below s25e,ooo this year, 10
we receive only about ss0,oee i1on
al! other sources.
The inyentoried property ot tn'
College on Jul, !, 1912, was the iaIs'
,um Of s1,327,72s.57. Nearly tW'
and q aAlf millions have been pala "
The college in privilege tax mona
s,nce the College was established. De
letting the one and one-third MILL
ions above mentioned as ln7es's"
T., the College plant, and q little e'e'
half a million that has been spen
Ill told in fertilizer analyses ane
other public State work, there Is iel
slightly legs than one million which
with Government and Clemson be-
Guest funds, has been used 10 1eac'
1900 students.
Tie cost to the State per studen'
q, Clemson during the session "as
s1l6.2s. a low figure for coilegt
giving the kind of education furnish
ed at Clemson, and Including the op-
Grafton of costly laboratories, anc
the opportunity to follow one O.:
many, rather than one OF few course
NJ instruction. The cost to the par
ant ner student was S165 for ooaro
laundry, heat. light, and water, uni
forms. medical and other fees. BOOK:
and necessary equipment
The board Of visitors, one tron
each district, including such men as
Judge Purdy, Mr.. J. clmore Aaftio
Nr. David R. Coker, Mr.. Thos.
Parker, and others, in the openln;
paragraph Of their report. said: we
are impressed w!tk tie magnltuo'
and ys!ue OF the work done at cien'
con. and with the fne spirit tha'
seems to prevail among its faculty.
The apparent discipline and the nnt
anpearance Of the student BODY. anc
the thorough business like manage
ment of the whole institution, mad
an impression upon all Of our mem
hers" And the legislative committee
IN It's last report says: The College
has been injured by criticism IRON
those who were not fully informed
and has been annoyed by attempts tf
| interfere with It's income by legisla
tion. which is unwise and ill-adv1set
! and we request that Clemson Col
lege be allowed to work out its hig'
destiny without interference from tn
! T oois,atura with the plans OF th'