Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-09-13
Clemson College Opens With
1905 Matriculated.

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Clemson College, Sept 1.-THE
thirtiath session of Clemson College
began this morning with the chapel
assembly, all old students having re-
turned and matriculated yesterday
and rev students arriving today. As
signmants to classes are being made
today and regular class work will
begin on Thursday morning. The
only other students to arrive are the
members of the one-year agricultu-
raj course, who are due to come IN
October 2.
In his announcements at the chap
el exercises today, DR.. w. M. Riggs,
president of the college, gave matrlc-
ulation figures showing a total OF
1905, as follows: $50 old students,
325 freshmen, so one-year agricul-
tural students and 100 Federal
Board students. While it is entirely
possible that a few of the 355 new
men may not arrive, there will be
others to take their places, so that
the total enrolment will most likely
be as great as, if not greater, than
that Of last session, which was 1,OO7.
In this connection, DR.. Riggs call
ed attention to the fact that during
the three decades since the opening
of Clemson College to students In
1895, the average enrolment by de-
cades is as follows: 1~893-1901, 455;
1~e91-19I1, 625; 1911-192l, S25.
The enrolment of 1,007 for last ses-
sion and the enrolment to date for
this session give promise that the
present decade will show average
yearly enrolment much above any,
thing in the past, and it has already
become a problem of how to provide
buildings, equipment and teaching
forces for the constantly charging
student body.
In his talk to the students regard
ing the work of the session just be-
ginning, DR.. Riggs emphasized as one
of the greatest needs and ideals to-
ward which to work is the necessity
for more independent thinking and
less subsection to what might be
called mass psychology. DR.. Riggs
predicted that with a faculty
strengthened by a number OF new
teachers and with some increased
facilities where most needed, the SEES
sion gives promise of being a sue
cessful one.
Engineering Department.
With not a single change in the
faculty of IA members of the engl-
neering teaching force and with
considerable increase and improve
ment in shop facilities, The engineer
ing department begins the new SEES
sion's work in fine trim, according
to Prof. S. B. Earle, director of the
department. In the way of increased
and improved shop facilities, the de-
partment constructed during the
summer vacation a new wood-shop
of ample size by the erection of a
second-story Of the wing of the
building, which has always been used
as the commercial woodshop. This
new woodshop provides ample space
for the systematic installment OF
woodworking equipment, so as to
greatly improve the instruction in
woodwork and makes room for bet
ter arrangement of laboratories OF
other divisions. In the old wood-shop
the mechanical and testing labora-
tory has been installed, and in the
basement of the same wing the me-
chanical and hydraulic laboratory
has been placed. The space occupied
by the former mechanical laboratory
on the ground floor of the main body
of the engineering building has been
rearranged and made into class
Q and instrument rooms for the
civil engineering division, which is
charging its work, especially in
roais construction phases.
With the change from the three
term to the two-semester plan, there
has been considerable improvement
in The courses of the seven divisions
OF the engineering department, these
divisions being as now r~eorganized
mechanical and electrical engf-