W.M. Riggs Presidential Records. 1907-1925 : 1910-1924.

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W.M. Riggs Presidential Records. 1907-1925 : 1910-1924.

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This series contains the records of the office of Walter Merritt Riggs, President of Clemson College 1909-1924. The series is divided into two parts: correspondence, which is arranged chronologically, and collected material, arranged alphabetically. The correspondence falls into the general categories of administration, cadet life, and institutional development. Within these respective categories the topics deal with specific issues such as budget requests, requests for raises, resignations, and loyalty to President Riggs; dance clubs, the descipline of cadets, hazing, and epidemics; construction of faculty housing, fires, maintenance of property and the construction of roads, funding of the Y.M.C.A. building, and the growth of the Experiment Station at Clemson as well as the branch stations at Jedburg and Summerville, South Carolina. President Riggs corresponded frequently with organizations and agencies such as the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, the Bankhead Highway Association, the Federal Board for Vocational Education, the Good Roads Association, and the United States Department of Agriculture.

11 cubic ft. 21 photographs, 4 oversize items.

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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