Scope and Contents This series forms part the records of the Athletic Council. In addition to the Council records are papers of the Clemson College Athletic Association and papers of Walter Merritt Riggs relating to athletics. The records consist of correspondence, minutes and reports and span the period 1899 through 1996. The records are arranged in four sub-series: Athletic Council records, Clemson College Athletic Association records, Walter M. Riggs Athletic papers, and Originals. Subjects represented in...

Scope and Contents This series consists primarily of transcripts of committee hearings regarding cadet discipline. There are occasionally correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other material related to cases. The files also contain forms signed by cadets reaffirming conformity to College regulations, reports and other material related to the cadet walkouts of 1908, 1920, and 1924. There are cadet demerit cards, 1921 – 1924 and photocopies of file cards about cadet dismissals, suspensions and acquittals....

Scope and Contents This series contains the records of the Board of Trustees of Clemson University. The records are found in files, volumes, publications and microfilm. Included in this series is information which may be categorized as follows: Athletics, Biographical Files, Board Activities, Board Materials, Board of Visitiors, Commission on Higher Education, Committees, Correspondence, Executive Secretary, and President. The records span the years of 1888-1991.The athletic subseries consists of...

Scope and Contents This series contains the correspondence files of Enoch Walter Sikes. Also found within the files are minutes of directors meetings, annual reports, departmental reports and budgets, employment agreements, photographs of some employees, and partial lists of cadets. Frequent correspondents include Clemson College Officials: H. W. Barre, director of research; F. H. H.Calhoun, director of teaching; W. W. Long, director of the extension service; H. M. Stackhouse, professor and...

Scope and Contents This series contains the speeches and writings of Enoch Walter Sikes while he was President and after his retirement from office. In the series are found speeches, addresses to cadets at Clemson College and to organizations in the community, short public statements, lectures, Sunday School talks, and articles that appeared in student publications and newspapers. Topics include agriculture and the training of farmers; education; histories of the Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, and Presbyterian...

Introduction

This collection consists mainly of material compiled by J. C. Littlejohn for a history of Clemson College. He died before completing this project. It is a rich source of documentation on every aspect of Clemson, from information on the Calhoun and Clemson families to student life and college administration.

Scope and Contents The Mell scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and printed material document primarily the period when Patrick Hues Mell served as Clemson College president, 1902-1910. There are clippings from the major state newspapers as well as some smaller local and out-of-state newspapers. A variety of invitations to commencements, dances, lyceum programs, dramatic offerings, presentations, and the various programs of the College's literary societies are also included in the scrapbooks. The clippings deal...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the legal, financial, personal, and family affairs of Richard Wright Simpson, Thomas Green Clemson, Anna Calhoun Clemson, and Gideon Lee, for his deceased wife Floride and their daughter, Isabella Lee, who was Clemson's only grandchild. The Lee's contested Clemson's will. The papers, and original documents, are resources Simpson and other legal representatives used to prepare for the court cases and estate settlement following Thomas Greene Clemson's death on April...

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 Content Note 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,...