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I Agricultur*
I Location and EnI
vironment.
a The College is located in Oconee
5 County at the foot of the Blue Ridge
I Mountains, on the homestead of
John C. Calhoun, and later of his
Jaiv ThfiS fi OlftniSOn. Tlie
4W ?* j * -? ? -
, College is over SCO feet above the
sea level, and the climate is healthful
and invigorating. Temptations
to dissipate or to spend money fool-!
ishly are reduced to a minimum. I
The students are under strict military
government and every effort is
made to train up young men who
will reflect credit on the College and
on the State.
Religious Influences
The College contributes to the salary
of four resident ministers, who
conduct divin,e services and do pastoral
work among the cadets in barracks.
There is a flourishing Sunday
School and Y. M. C. A. with two
salaried Secretaries. A $75,000 Y.
M. C. A. building was completed
I January, 1916.
Requirements of
Admission.
No student will be admitted who is
not at least 16 years old at the time
of entrance.
An honorable discharge from the
last school or college attended is required.
' The scholastic requirments are
the same as those of the other Colleges
in South Carolina. Details are
given in College catalogue.
Hazing is forbidden by the laws
of the State as well as the laws of
the College. No application will be
accepted, whether for re-admission
or first entrance, unless the applicant
has filed pledge of prescribed
form not to haze.
ITALIANS DASH FOR LIBERTY, ed
free
Conditions So Insufferably Bad Be- and,
gan Planning Upon Arrival. com
sion
London, May 16.?It has always It
been considered fair game in war for feas
prisoners to escape from confinement ging
wherever opportunity presents itself, und<
and to make what opportunities they littl<
can for themselves, on the clear un- ed,
derstandiner that thev take their subs
lives in their own hands, it being no dug
offense against the rules of the game wor]
for their pursuers to shoot them dead ecut
on coming within range of them. ? mini
The record for this war in the way conf
of prison-breaking unquestionably ligh
has been made by a party of eight hole
Italian soldiers, who escaped from an thei:
internment camp in Czernowitz, fallc
where they had been incarcerated for trial
eighteen months. A
These Italian "escapadoes, arrived dasfc
in London a few weeks ago and I as 1
met them immediately after their ar- of t
rival in a little Italian restaurant nigh
where they were the guests of the wou
proprietor. Private Danni, who was ty o
selected as their spokesman for the was
reason that he spoke French, told but
me that they had reached London I thei]
after ninety days of traveling, partly | disa
on foot, partly by rail, and partly by hS \
sea. Their camp life at Czernowitz
was so insufferably bad from the first m
that they began by signs and other j
' devices to prepare a plot of escape. ^
"We would all have rather been ^
Jaod + Vi o v, oUttq in + V>o f infornA " coifi I
u^au bUAU c*** * A". "V, ?W*U q? ^
Danni, "and sooner than fall into the men
hands of the Austrians again, every ^
one of us would commit suicide, or j(
die of a broken heart if the means to otlie
commit suicide were not within our
agCC
reach. When our great countryman, tJijn
Dante, wrot6 his 'Inferno,' he did not .
know anything about life in an Aus- hQ
trian internment camp. If he had he .
would, have included it among the g.gh
'tortures of the damned.' " ^ecTreated
Like Beasts. unif
They were accommodated like cons
beasts, given damp beds of straw to To (
sleep on with rats for their com- robe
panions in the night. Their hours whit
of labor averaged sixteen for seven top
days of the week, and their food con- on r
sisted of unpalatable black bread "]
washed down with draughts of a said
nauseating beverage called coffee, us 1
but no more like coffee than plaii
treacle is like honey. Only the usef
pangs of hunger and thirst com- Sc
pelled them to swallow the re- thei:
pulsive rations. Each man had his Gen
appointed dole of hard work to do, pare
while over him stood a soldier arm- tion,
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NEXT !
Four Year Degree
Course.
AGRICULTURE
Agronomy
Agricultural Education
Animal Industry
Botany
Chemistry
Dairying
/
Entomology
Horticulture
Soils
Veterinary Science
ENGINEERING
Civil Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Textile Engineering
Architecture
Chemical Engineering
CHEMISTRY
! ^nemisiry
The above courses include English,
History, Political Economy,
Shop work, etc.
Short Courses.
ONE YEAR COURSE IN
AGRICULTURE
t
'(October 3rd to June 1st)
Requirements; 18 years of age, 3
years farm experiences, eight grades
in school.
TWO YEAR COURSE IN
TEXTILES
Requirements; 18/years of age,
one year of mill experience, eight
grades in school.
with a whip which he used down
ly on the slightest provocation soldi<
when no provocation was forth- withe
ing, applied as a devilish diver- "T
! said I
was discovered that the only! all d
ible means of escape lay in dig- Lond
; an apperture in the soft ground i undei
ar the walls of the prison, and thedr
a by little, as opportunity afford- Six
especially during the night, the the f
toil was silently and stealthily when
away uy me pnmuivc opauc caym
k of fingers and nails. The ex- of th
ion of their plan occupied their bia, ;
3s and relieved the tedium of throu
inement. When eventually the dista:
t of day was seen through the whicl
in the wall the men experienced trave:
r first thrill of joy since they had upon
>n into the hands of the Aus- reduc
is. footg
t length a time was fixed for the j had
i for liberty. Watching the sentry j move
le paced- along from end to end hut t
he dimly lighted corridor in the them
t they calculated how long it Of
Id take him to reach the extremi- 'and
f his beat ^nd return again. It | upon
only a matter of a few moments, j they :
so skillfully had they perfected j The !
r arrangements that they had all j hospi
ppeared through the hole before! their
vas aware of their escape. decid
The Escape. *ll?k
hey stepped out into snow that
in the open country several feet
secre1
?, so that progress was exceedingifficult
at the most critical period j ?
heir enterprise. Several of the i ^
were actually weltering waist-}
), and it seemed as if they must j
eft behind; but by grasping each;
x's hands they somehow man- Trs
- I fpnm
i to get well away before any-1
g was heard by them of the Aus- 40
is in pursuit. Half a mile from only
camp was a convenient hollow, ians?
which they scrambled out of' to pa
t of the prison, <%nd here it was j neces
ded that the mahogany-colored j t0 ^
orm which they wore showed up j move
picuously against the white snow. I an(* T
>vercome this difficulty they dis- were
id in the cold and, taking off their j *ans 1
:e undergarments wore these on , outsl<
of the uniforms, which they put i these
text to their skins. I 3umP
[t was very irritating at first," Pecte
Danni, "but that did not distress diers
very much when we could see
ily that the ruse would be very Two
ul to us if we were chased." coupl
?arcely had they thus reversed and *
p clothing when a company of tion
nan soldiers came into view ap- drink
ntly marching in their direcTbe
Italians instantly lay Ev<
ON CO
y, Engineering, T exl
SESSION OPENS SEPTEMBER 1
"education" a patriotic dutyIn
the.-e war times eVerv technically trained man is a national
asset. The Colleges, as well as other agencies, have a real contri
burion to make towards the winning of the war. The special interests
of institutions must be subordinated to the one purpose
now before the nation. *
President Wilson has declared that it is the patriotic duty of
young men under twenty-one years of age to seek a technical education.
and if already in College, to continue and complete their
education.
A sufficient number of technically trained men is so essential
that the War Department has made the following provisions to
encourage college students arriving at draft age before graduation
to continue and complete their courses. Immediately upon graduation,
such students enter the service in their special lines. t
1. Qualified engineering students may enlist in the Engineering
Enlisted Reserve Corps and be placed on the inactive list until
graduation. At graduation they will have an'opportunity to enter
an Engineer Officers' Training Camp to try for a Commission, or
they enter the Engineers' Corps as a private.
2. Qualified engineering students may enlist in the Naval Re
serve, and on graduation may enter the U. S. Navy Steam Engineering
School and train for Ensign's Commissions. (Students
in the Naval Reserve will likely not be eligible for membership in
the R. O. T. C.)
3. Qualified agricultural Students in the Senior Class may enlist
in the Quartermaster's Reserve Corps to be called to active
duty in that branch of the service after graduation.
The Secretary of War has distinctly stated that young men under
draft age who have entered upon a technical college education
can render the nation the greatest service by being educated first
and serving afterward. Young men sixteen or seventeen years of
age can graduate by the time they reach the draft age and be
prepared for maximum usefulness in the military establishment.
Engineers and technicians cannot be made over night, and our
Government will be seriously embarrassed if young men refuse to
begin now the training necessary to keep up the supply of such
men both for the needs of the army and for carrying out the war
programme at home.
After the war the greatest opportunity in history will be presented
to men trained in Agriculture, Engineering and other technical
lines. If the U. S. is to be a leader in the reconstruction of
the world, she must have men trained for the task.
For Catalogue Application Blanks, Etc.,
Write at Once to
W. M. RIGGS, President,
CLEMSOX COLLEGE, S. C.
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in the snow and the German 1 after the fugitives had been fifty d
jrs passed them by on the left" on their journey. The spectacle t
>ut detecting their whereabouts.1 presented on calling at the Ita!
hat was a very narrow escape," j consulate was that of famishing,
I
)anni, " and we thought we were washed, half-demented men attirei
ead men. But here we are in rags and looking as if their rea
on enjoying a first rate dinner j had left them. The consul immedi;
p the shadow of St. Paul's Ca-j ly procured food and clothing,
al." ! for three days they remained in 1
:teen hundred miles lav before' rograd, when they felt sufficiently
joldiers and the Arctic ocean, j freshed to resume their journey;
e lay their only chance of es-1 the object upon which they had
g to England. The first stage: their minds was to reach Engla
eir route lay through Bessara-1 an(I thereafter to return to their <
across the Province of Podolia, j country and fight the foe they
igh Volhynia and on to Minsk, a| learned so heartily to detest,
ice of 350 miles, every yard of j It might well be asked how did
i they must traverse?and did I Italian soldiers protect themse!
rse?on foot with the result that | against the cold, which grew m
' -?A ^ O TJrt n /I TXTV
reaching Minsk their boots were intense every u<ry : am*
>ed to tatters hardly resembling did they sleep at night? Were t
ear at all. The frost and snow | n?t constant danger of starvinj
bitten their feet until every; death? Did any of them become fa
ment was an agony and nothing \ hearted and threaten to put an
he passion for freedom enabled j *he business by the last means
to bear^ip and struggle on. j to men in overwhelming difficult!
food they had practically none j Life in Snow Huts,
were obliged to subsist mainly | The answers to these questi
radishes and other roots which j were given by Stefano Danni afte
found at the bottom of the snow.; consultation with his fellow "e:
Russian pesants extended every j padoes." They constructed huts
tality within their power, but i snow and discovered, as travelers
resources in this direction were. quently do in the Artie, that wan
edlv limited. A great stroke of j was actually obtainable in such
befell them when a particularly cumstances. Their Mbed-cloth
1 old peasant produced some of j were snow: their drink was deri
orbidden vodka which he had. sucking ice, and they managec
ted in some corner of his hut, j keep together by holding each oth
ave them a small quantity and j hands and moving in a single
gratitude was expressed to me leaning on each other's shoulders
mni, who said: string of weary men weak and t
7e have built a monument to fr0ni exhaustion, trudging throi
peasant in our hearts." the pitiless Arctic region, buoyed
lins were running frequently bv the remote hope of yet reach
Minsk to Petrograd, a distance their homeland alive. None of tt
0 or 500 miles, but these trains gave up, though all of them :
proved tantalizing to the Ttal- threatening fits of faintheartednei
who had no money with which Was there ever a picture in
,y their fares. Here again the world of ice and snow, like this ;
sities of the position drove them ^ure 0f eight Italian soldiers trai
jsperate measures. The trains jng through blinding snow-stor
d in a very leisurely manner, an^ singing, as they did for ho
vere mostly full of soldiers, who together, the stirring strains of
V. ^ fK<An/11r TVie. Ttol_ *1 u: T i . ^ -r, ft
nis.t;i%Y tu uc mciiui;. Ac*** uanuaiui nyiiiii., iu ivcc^ up u
secreted themselves a little way drooping spirit^?
3e Minsk station, and as one of Qn g^venty-fifth day of tl
trains left in the dark the} pjigrjmage from Czernowitz
ed on behind and as they ex- away behind them in Austria, M
d were well received b} the sol- man Qn shores of the Artie oe
to whom they conveyed as best wag reached by tortuous routes <
could an idea of their position. unSpeakably painful degrees. H<
of the Italp'ana jumped on the w{jere everybody was kind and s:
ings betv-een the last carriage naf]iefip_ thpv staved nearly a we
he brake van, and in that posi- wamng for a g^jp to take them
they traveled without food or England, where they knew all wo
for two days. wejj gy a strange irony of f
Fifty Days to Petrograd. a steamer called the "Huntsend" i
entually Petrograd was reached placed at their disposal, bound
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tiles, Militar
1, 1918
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Award or Scholarships
and Free
T uition.
The College maintains 1C9 fouryear
scholarships in the Agricultural
and Textile Courses, and 51 in the
One-Year Agricultural Course (October
3rd to June 1st). Each scholarship
is worth $100 and free
tuition.
Scholarship and entrance e.vami\
nations are held at the county court
I houses at 9 A. M.f July 12th. Write
a for full information in regard to the
j scholarships open to your county
R next session, and the laws governI
ing their award.
] Credit will he given for any ex
animations passed at the county
seat.
The State Board of Charities and
Corrections is charged with investigating
the financial standing of all
applicants for four-year scholarships
and free tuition, and reporting their
findings to the Board of Trustees of
the College. This Board passes upon
the matter, accepting as correct
the information gathered hv the
State Board. Appeal from the decision
of the Trustees may be made
to the State Board of Education.
The College will furnish blanks to
all applicants for scholarships ami
free tuition.
Summer School
Courses For
Agricultural Teachers
(July 2nd to August 27th)
Corn Club Boys
(July 16th to July 27th)
(July 31st to August 10th)
t
Rural Preachers
(July 2nd to July 13th)
Cotton Graders
(July 2nd to July 23rd)
County Superintendents
(July 2nd to July 13th)
Poultry Husbandry
(July 16th to July 23rd)
Cost of All Courses
For Room, Board, Water, Light,
etc., $1.00 per day.
Xo tuition charged.
1
[ays | Newcastle-on-Tyne. The "Huntsem
hey was a steamer of the Hamburg-Ame
lian i ican line that had been captured 1
un- j the British and was now being put
d in. British uses. It gave the Italian sc
son | diers a peculiar satisfaction to knc
ate- that in this way their barbarous en
and! mies were, so to speak, compelled
Pet- j minister to their wants in the la
re-; stage of their adventures,
for; In due course the "Huntsend
set; which was making its first voya;
md, after the break-up of the ice, arriv<
>wn at Newcastle, where they were clot
had ed and nourished back to life ai
fitness. Their stay in Newcastle w
thj? short, money and Italian uniforms b
Ives j ing given to them at the consula
lorej there. On their reaching London tl
lere j Italian ambasador had everythii
I
hey j done to minister to their comforl
I to They spent a week in the metropo]
int- j enjoying "a very good time amoi
end Italian friends and English symp
left i thizers."
ies?j "Jf we are killed when we beg
! fighting again," said Stefano Danr
ons' wil1 be * glorious thing to die
i the cause of liberty; so very miv
sea-! yetter than t0 have *n a pr's:
, of camp under the lash of the unspea
?re_ I able Huns."
nth j ? THR CYCLOPS MYSTERY.
cir
es" (Continued from page 2, column 6
ve(* Pickering to go under.
I t0 The Wasp with 140 men und<
er'3 command of Commander Johnstc
: Blakely, engaged and captured (
a September 1, 1814, the British br
,ent Atlanta. A Swedish brig report*
L1&h | having spoken to her thr<
UP; weeks after that date, but no furthi
in& j news ever was had about her. SI
iem j is supposed to have foundered in
had j gaje#
3S* ' The Hamilton, one of Commodoi
the1 Chauncey's squadron on Lake 0]
Pic-j tario, capsized on the night of Ai
mP"| gust 10, 1813, while trying to weatl
ms? | er the enemy's squadron,
urs "All hands," says the offici;
the chronicle, "are supposed to hai
ieir been at quarters."
The Epervier, a ship of eightee
leir guns and a complement of 128, ca;
far tured from the British by the. U. I
ur- S. Peacock, sailed from Gibraltar f<
ean this country on July 4, 1815. SI
and last was seen by a merchant vess
are, on August 14 in mid-Atlantic,
fm- The Lynx, a schooner of three gui
>ek, with fifty men on board, commande
to by Lieut. J. R. Madison, sailed fro:
uld St. Mary's Fla., for Jamaica, on Ne
ate Year's Day, 1821.. She last was sigh
svas ed on January 22 that year,
for The Wildcat, with three guns an
t
y T raining.
Military Training
Clemson College is rated by the
War Department as a "Military College."
All students are required to
wear, the uniform and are under
military discipline at all times. Military
instruction is supervised by
regular army officers.
1 o /-x 1 1 r-r V? r\ ** O H A flk
\^idiiavsu nab uvcr OW Bg
men in the service, many of them
holding high rank. When war was
declared, fifty-one of the class of
1917 went to the first officers' training
camp, and forty-seven of these
won commissions. Since then, the
military instruction has been made
even moije efficient. No patriotic
young man can afford to miss th?
opportunity of combining with a
technical education thorough military
training.
Clemson College is a member of
the Senior Division of the Reserve
Officers' Training Corps. All Freshmen,
Sophomores and Short Course
students are required to take the
Basic Course of three hours military
instruction per week. Juniors and
Seniors may enter the Advanced
Course if physically and otherwise
qualified, and if admitted, are required
to take additional military
instruction.
All students in the Basic and Ad-'
vanced Course receive from the gov
ernment $14.00 on their uniforms,
and students in the Advanced
Course $0.00 per month in addition
for subsistence.
While no obligation rests upon
the graduate of the Advanced
Course, completion of it gives distinct
military advantages and special
military opportunities. Membership
in the advanced course amounts
practically to a two year scholarship
furnished by the Federal Government.
1 *
"Drive Courses"
For Teachers of Agriculture in
Schools. (1 Session) 1 /
For Chemists. (1 Session)
Write for Details.
1" thirty-one men, commanded by Lieut. . #
ir-j J. F. Legare, sailed from Cuba for
by Key West in 1824. She is supposed
to to have gone ashore on Carysford
>1-; reef, as an armchest and other
iw | wreckage from the vessel later were
a - j found there.
to | Armed with eighteen guns and
st; carrying a crew of 140 men, the
j Hornet, with Commander Otho Nor,"
j ris as skipper, foundered in a gale
ge( on: lampico on sepiemoer iu, 1023,
sd | with a loss of all hands.
h-: The Sylph, a small naval schooner,
id also believed to have foundered a
asj few years later, as she never was
e- j heard after her departure from port.
te: The Sea Gull, which left Orange
tie Harbor for Valparaiso in company
igj with the Flying Fish on April 28, ?
:s. i is believed to have sunk in a severe
[is | gale, from which the Flying Fish''
ig took refuge under false Cape Horn. .
a" i Sailed from Charleston.
I
! The Grampus, a schooner of twelve
m! guns, sailed from Charleston, S. C.,
*l'j about March 14, 1843, and was due
inl at Norfolk, Va., between the 8th and
2h! 15th of April. In June the Navy
m r-. A A ?J . _ii 1 c~
! ueparimeni auaiiuuiiea an nupe iui
v"i her safety.
1 The Jefferson, a steamer engaged
. in the coast survey was lost near the
? Straits of Magellan in 1850.
1-! The Albany, a sloop-of-war with
210 men under command of Comer?
mander J. T. Gerry, sailed from
)n Aspinwall on September 29, 1854,
m for New York. After a long wait the
is, steamers Princeton and Fulton were
sent in search of her, but no trace
2e ever was discovered.
er| The Levant, also a sloop-of-war
ie with 210 men, under Capt. William
. Hunt, departed from Hilo in the
1 Sandwich Islands on September 18,
re 1860. Vessels of the Pacific squada".
ron searched for her many months,
a~ I but the only traces ever found were
; an oar and broken spar, believed to
! have belonged to her.
3,1
The only case in recent years of a
re naval vessel, other than the Cyclops,
! disappearing from the face of the
5 i sea, is the tug Nina, which officially
was declared lost by the department
on March 15, 1910. She is believed
^ -? i? - * a ?ii ^ 11 1.
i to nave iounaerea wun an nanus m
ie' a gale off the Atlantic coast,
el;
| Henry S. Felder, of Bamberg, fa1S
miliarly known as "Punch," was a
:(* member of the crew of the Cyclops.
m ^ < > ?
w Let's not wait for "history to punt
ish the Boche." Why not do it our|
selves, and permit history to tell
id about it?