Samuel B. Earle presidential records. 1922-1926, 1924-1925.

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Samuel B. Earle presidential records. 1922-1926, 1924-1925.

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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 walkout in October 1924, and speeches delivered by Earle. Frequent correspondents include the following University officials: H.W. Barre, director of research; R.N. Brackett, director of the chemistry department; F.H.H. Calhoun, director of resident teaching; G.D. Heath, college surgeon; R.E. Lee, head of the drawing and design division; William Williams Long, director of the extension service; C.C. Newman, head of the horticulture division; H.M. Stackhouse, secretary of the Board of Fertilizer Control; and Trustees W.D. Barnett, B.E. Geer, Senator Alan Johnstone, A.F. Lever, Governor Richard Manning, Paul Quattlebaum, H.C. Tillman, and J.E. Wannamaker. Other correspondents of interest include Iowa State College president and chairman of the Association of Land Grant Colleges, R.A. Pearson; Mrs. W.M. Riggs; and U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover. Topics covered in the letters include the death of President Riggs, the cadet walkout over the food served in the mess hall, selection of a site for the proposed Sand Hill Experiment Station, the reconstruction of the Agricultural Building (now Sikes Hall), and the search for a new Commandant at a time when Clemson's Reserve Officer Training Corps was the largest in the country. This series is arranged alphabetically by subject. Some material found in President Riggs' desk after his death was removed to the Riggs' presidential files. See the "Separation List" for a listing of photographs and oversized materials.

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Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina. Office of the President.

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Samuel Broadus Earle was born in Gowensville, South Carolina, 11 March 1878. Earle received his undergraduate degree from Furman University in 1898 and a graduate degree in language and mathematics from that same institution the following year. In 1902 Earle continued graduate study in electrical engineering at Cornell University, but did not earn a degree. (Earle received an honorary doctorate of laws degree from Furman in 1932 and an honorary doctorate in engineering from Clemson ...

Johnstone, Alan, 1849-1929.

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Alan Johnstone; farmer, legislator, and leader in public affairs was born in Newberry, S.C. on August 12, 1849. He was born the son of Job and Amelia De Walt Johnstone. In his youth he was educated at Newberry Male Academy. Later he attended both Newberry College and the University of Virginia, but never received a degree on account of the chaos that the Civil War caused. Johnstone attempted to join the Confederate Army in 1865, but met returning soldiers in Greenville, S.C., after Lee's surrend...

Lee, Rudolph E., 1874-1959.

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Cooperative association established to communicate news between members of the academic community. From the description of Collection, 1964-1975. (University of California, Davis). WorldCat record id: 43596898 ...

Brackett, Richard Newman, 1863-1937

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Born near Columbia, S.C. in 1863; Attended private schools in Charleston; 1883 AB Davidson College; 1887 Ph. D. Johns Hopkins (Chemistry, mineralogy, dynamics geology and microscopic petrography); Worked four years as chief chemist to Geologic Survey of Arkansas; 1891-1937 Clemson Agricultural College, 1st faculty, 22 years as professor & director of chemistry department and chief chemist of the fertilizer dept. 1911-1933; 1889 married Bessie Brandon Craig, 3 children; professionally active ...

Dial, Nathaniel Barksdale, 1862-1940

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Lawyer, businessman, and U.S. Senator, from Laurens, S.C. From the description of Letters, 1936-1938. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40329083 From the description of Correspondence, 1915-1935; (bulk 1923-1935). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19536357 ...

Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina

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Three Clemson cadets; George Chaplain, Paul L. Tobey, and J. Henry Woodward are credited with preparing this report. Cadets from the junior and senior classes were gathered to the campus chapel on April 18, 1935 in order to evaluate professors from the schools of: Agriculture, Textiles, Vocational Education, Chemistry and Geology, Engineering, and General Science. The report was presented to President Sikes upon it completion. From the description of Student faculty evaluations (Clem...

Long, William Williams, 1861-1934

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Lever, Asbury Francis, 1875-1940

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Evans, Samuel Wilds, 1881-1949.

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Earle, Samuel Broadus, 1878-1978

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Geer, Bennette Eugene, 1873-1964,

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University president, textile executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Bennette Eugene Geer : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122597671 ...

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Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina. Livestock Sanitary Dept.

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Pearson, Raymond A. (Raymond Allen), 1873-1939

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Raymond A. Pearson was a graduate of Cornell University in dairy industry (1894), and after working in commercial dairying, returned to Cornell to establish a Department of Dairy Industry. After heading the New York Department of Agriculture, Pearson was named as President of Iowa State College (University) (1912-1926). During his time at Iowa State, he focused on promoting the graduate program, extension and athletics. Pearson resigned to become the President of the University of Maryland (1926...

Cole, Otis R.

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Manning, Richard Irvine, 1859-1931

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South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station

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Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina. Chemical Dept.

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Calhoun, F. H. H. (Fred Harvey Hall), 1873-1959

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Riggs, Walter M. (Walter Merritt), 1873-1924

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Newman, Charles Carter, 1875-1946

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Clemson College Library

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Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina. Agricultural Dept.

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Barre, H. W. 1881-1969.

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Littlejohn, James C. (James Corcoran), 1888-1959

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James Corcoran Littlejohn was born November 27, 1888 at Jonesville, S.C. He graduated from Clemson Agricultural College in 1908 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. He worked for the college as electrician and instructor in woodwork and engineering until he was appointed Clemson's registrar in 1910. Littlejohn became Clemson College's Business Manager in 1926, a post he held until his retirement in 1954. During this period Clemson weathered the...

Barnett, W. D., 1889-1940.

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Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...