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; W. W. 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.