The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-03-18
REVOLT IN GERMANY
EBERT 0USTED
MEMBERS REFUS TO CONSIDER
ULTIMATUM is ,UED BY JU-
NIORS AND SENIORS

The report of the board of trustees
of Clemson College, which has been
investigating the walkout last week
of $50 freshmen and sophomores to
enforce a demand for reinstatement
without punishment of all under
classmen and certain reforms in meth
ods of cadet government, was issued
Monday. Threats of the senior and
junior classmen to walk out in SYM
pathy with the under-classmen and
general conditions at the institution
also are dealt with in the report.
The report is featured by the fol-
lowing findings and recommendations:
Support of the president, the COM
mandant and the discipline committee
of the faculty.
Refusal to consider the ultimatum
from senior and junior classmen, lay
ing down of certain conditions upon
which Junior and senior classmen who
signed an ultimatum and sophomore
and freshmen classmen who walked
out may reenter the college.
Acknowledgement that conditions of
the mess had not been what the au-
thorities would have them, but that
economic and other conditions the
world over are such that the situa-
ton could not have been better under
existing limitations, authorizing the
president to make improvements in
the mess and providing him with ad-
ditional funds to cover cost of them
without raising the monthly rate of
board for cadets.
Conditions upon which Junior and
senior classmen may reenter the col
lege provided that each individual who
signed the ultimatum shall sign and
file with the president for the trustees
by 11:30 p. m. March 21, written
withdrawal from their approval of the
last paragraph of the document. Those
failing to comply shall be considered
in a state of subordination and shall
be dropped from the rolls of the col :
lege without the privilege of reinstate-
mens at any time in the future. Mem
bers of these classes who do not return
in accordance with the terms of their
present leave, without sufficient ex-
cuse in the opinion of the president,
shall be adjudged deserts and dropped
from the rolls as such. Freshmen
and sophomores who fail to return
by 11:30 p. m, March 21, will be
dropped from the college rolls.
When these conditions have been
met those cadets returning will be re-
quired to subscribe a new oath to the
pledge given upon their former en-
trance and to make up all work miss
ed.
Open trials for cadets, not upon de-
mands from any cadet element, but
solely to inspire more of spirit of
confidence in the work Of the disci-
pline committee of the faculty; per-
mission to be granted accused cadets
to have faculty council of their own
choosing at the trial; no student rep
resentative upon the discipline COM
mittee
Appointment of a committee Of the
trustees to study the cadet govern
ment conditions and suggest changes
as might be deemed advisable, this
report to be submitted at the regular
April meeting of the trustees.
Consideration of the case of Cadet
Crosland, not upon the demand of the
junior and senior classmen, but upon
the petition of Cadet Grassland, as
provided by regulations. The board
acting as an appellate court, found
that the discipline committee erred
technically in the trial of the defen-
dant. The sentence imposed was re-
scinded and the case remanded to the
discipline committee for trial under
the proper section of the regulations.
If Crosland returns under the condi-
tions laid down by the board, and the
committee finds him guilty, the cadet
can appeal to the board, when the
board would pass upon the actual
merits of the case.