Scope and Contents This series contains the files of Patrick Hues Mell, President of Clemson College, 1902-1909. Within the files are Mell's correspondence, annual reports of the college, reports of departments within the college, budget summaries, minutes of committees (for example, the Discipline Committee), requests for raises from faculty members, resignations of various faculty and staff members, rosters of various faculty and staff members, rosters of graduates, newspaper clippings, and biographical...

Scope and Contents This series contains the general and subject correspondence of Robert Franklin Poole. The bulk of correspondence deals with the development of Clemson College and its various programs, for example, training of agricultural teachers, the school of architecture, a nuclear science program, silk production, research involving the use of bamboo as reinforcement for concrete, and the army engineering program. A number of letters concern the development and use of lands for various purposes, for...

Scope and Contents This series contains the presidential records of Samuel Broadus Earle, Acting President of Clemson College, 1924-1925. (For the six months in 1919 that Earle served as President in the absence of Walter M. Riggs, see the Riggs Presidential Records.) The series includes correspondence, departmental report and budgets, and annual report to the South Carolina General Assembly, partial lists of cadets, employment agreements, letters from parents and other individuals concerning the student...

Scope and Contents note The Post-Gubernatorial Series consists of architectural drawings, articles, booklets, cards, clippings, correspondence, invitations, memoranda, notes, photographs, a poem, postcards, press releases, schedules, speeches, statements, tax forms, telegrams, and transcripts.The files in this series date from 1946 to 1976, with the bulk of the material covering the period from Byrnes’ retirement in January 1955 until 1968, four years before his death on April 9, 1972.Materials...

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This report contains student evaluations of faculty members at Clemson College which were conducted in 1935.

Introduction

T. Wilbur "Buddy" Thornhill, was a South Carolinian, a Clemson graduate, a Captain in World War I, a business man, and public servant. He was always interested in educational, agricultural, and industrial development for South Carolina. These interests and his activities qualified him for his position on Clemson's Board of Trustees.

Abstract W.J. Megginson conducted a series of interviews with 17 residents of Calhoun, SC in 1988 and 1989 as part of research for a lecture entitled Calhoun, South Carolina: the Founding of the Town, its Early Years, and Its Relationship to Clemson Agricultural College, 1890-1910. The interviews focus on everyday life in the small town that developed around an upcountry South Carolina train depot in the early 1890's and for over 50 years was known as Calhoun before...

Scope and Contents Note The collection consists of certificates, clippings, correspondence, diaries, obituaries, photographs, a poem, postcards, programs, a recollection, a scrapbook, sheet music, telegrams, and other items. The material covers the period 1905-2013, with the majority of the items dating from 1934 to 1945.The material in the collection document aspects of Jackson’s life and those of his wife, Virginia; his children, Tracy Jr. and Beverley; his parents, H. O. S. and Emily Evans Jackson;...

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This letter dated October 10, 1924 is from Clemson cadet Harold Witt to his father, concerning a student walkout that had recently occurred on campus.

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This series contains some of the material/records produced by the Young Men's Christian Association.