The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-12-22
REPORT OF BOARD OF VISITORS

Clemson College, December a.
The report fthe Board of Visitors,
which made the annual inspection
. OF Clemson College last May, was
received and read by the Board Of
Trustees at its regular annual meet
ing on December 1st. The Board Of
Visitors is made up of one prominent
citizen from each district, elected by
the Board of Trustees at it's April
meeting.
For 1920 the following constitu-
ted the Board: first district, Mr.. w.
w. Smoak, Walterboro; second dis
trict, Mr.. H. M. Cassels, Ellenton;
third district, Sen. II. F. Watkins,
Anderson; fourth district, Prof. G..
A. Buist, Grecnville; fifth district,
Mr.. Mendel L. Smith, Camden; sixth
district, Mr.. E. P. Miller, Benefits
vile; seventh district, Judge B. Hart
Moss, Orangeburg.
This Board visited the college on
May 5th and 9th, and made u thor
ough and systematic inspection of
all phases of the college life and
operation, giving special attention
to the cadet barracks, the mess, and
other phases of student life. The
following is the report submitted.
The Report
10 the Honorable Board Of Trustees,
of Clemson Agricultural College,
Clemson College, S. C.
Gentlemen:
The Board Of Visitors, in accord
ance with the law of this State, after
due notice, visited Clemson College
on May tie 9Th and 9Th, 1920, and
on that date and the day following
made thorough and systematic in
spection and investigation of prac-
tically all phases of the college oper
alton and life Some of the Board
of Visitors were detained by sick
ness or other causes, and those MAX
ing the inspection were Messrs B.
H. Moss, G. A. Buist, H. M. Cassels
and T. f. Watkins.
Our inspection was much facili-
tated by the arrangement made for
our accommodation and by the cour-
tesies and assistance rendered to us
by the President, several members
of the faculty.. and several repre-
sentatives of the student body.
| We had the opportunity of seeing
the cadet corps in military drill,
made thorough inspection of the
hog barns and farm, the dairy barns
and dairy cattle, the veterinary hos
pital, the Y. M. c. A. building and
its appliances, the central power sta
ton, the John G. Calhoun mansion,
fortunately reserved as shrine for
patriotic South Carolinians, and the
main college building, all on the
first day. That evening we had a
yer yinterestin and instructive
meeting with a number of the mem
bers of the faculty and with repre-
sentatives of the college press, these
three students being representative
men elected by the student body and
men who from their student officers
were in touch with student senti-
ment. At this meeting we were
given a thorough insight into tha
administrative and accounting sys-
TENS in use at the college and had
also a free round table discussion
of all phases of college student life.
On the second day, after attendance
at chapel service, we inspected the
Agricultural Department, Chemistry
Department, including the fertilizer
inspection and analysis division. We
inspected carefully the student rooms,
toilets and baths, the water supply,
the kitchen and store rooms, or
commissary, dining hall, the refrig-
Grating plant and the abbatoire. At
ter dinner with the cadets, at which
we were assured by them only typ
ical menu was served, we inspected
the Textile Department, Engineering
Department and site for the pro-
posed hospital.
In the first place, we wish to re-
port that the splendid physical con-
dition Of the cadet corps was so OBJ
vious from their appearance that
our subsequent Investigation Of the
records on this matter was hardly
necessary, and but merely verified