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 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...