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without separate buildings. The money was 

 not available to erect all buildings at once. 

 Those in greatest demand were built first. 

 The college is now complete with six depart- 

 ments. These six departments represent the 

 great industrial forces of our great state. We 

 are making a new era, but that era did not 

 begin with reconstruction. South Carolina 

 University was abolished and the South 

 had nothing to do with that monstrosity. It 

 began with 1876. The old South Carolina 

 College was established. The negroes were 

 given a college at Orangeburg, and the citadel 

 was given to the whites at Charleston. But 

 the old classical education, 'while good and 

 while still good, did not go far enough. 



The wonderful advance along industrial 

 lines has wrought a revolution in all depart- 

 ments of life. These new forces of nature 

 have been applied to all professions and trades. 

 No education can be adequate that does not 

 take these forces into consideration. Clemson 

 College was founded to meet the very neces- 

 sities of the times in which we live. 



No individual can master the whole of the 

 knowledge of this generation. But a man 

 may master the world's thought in his own 

 particular vocation. If a state has men who 

 do this, then that state stands at the very 

 forefront of progress. For a long time agri- 

 culture was neglected. But the learned men 

 of Europe soon saw that the business of the 

 world would collapse unless attention was 

 given to agriculture. So experiment stations 

 have been established where learned men 

 pry into the secrets of nature as they affect 

 human life. If any new discovery is made 

 in any department of science, your professor 

 of that particular line gets it and gives the 

 benefit to our state. 



Knowledge has so multiplied that men must 

 specialize. The man who does so gains dis- 

 tinction and wealth and is a benefactor of the 

 race. A man who masters the forces of 

 nature and applies them to his vocation de- 

 serves respect. He deserves it when he is 

 a farmer just as much as when he follows any 

 other calling. When farmers begin to special- 

 ize then we shall have diversified farming. 



You claim that we spend too much money. 



Why, we don't spend an infinitesimal part of 

 what we ought to spend to bring our state 

 abreast the times. Japan, though not much 

 larger than South Carolina, has 175 experi- 

 ment stations. 



Clemson has awakened thought in our state. 

 The farmers are beginning to realize that 

 there is something to learn besides what they 

 already know. It has got them out of ruts. 



The success of this college depends on you. 

 If you have a bright boy and want him to be- 

 come a doctor, you send him to college; so if 

 you want him to become a lawyer. But if he 

 is to farm you turn him loose in ignorance. 

 Why not educate him too? 



South Carolina depends on you. This land 

 is your inheritance. It should be the in- 

 heritance of your children. If it is to be, 

 you must get the best knowledge obtainable. 



Here Captain Tindal addressed himself to 

 the faculty of the college, impressing upon 

 them the responsibilities that rested upon 

 them, and complimenting them upon what 

 they had done. He spoke of the contribution 

 the other departments of the college had made 

 to the nation, but the state must look largely 

 to the agricultural department. 



Captain Tindal's speech was scholarly and 

 forceful and was listened to with interest. 



The agricultural hall contains thirty labo- 

 ratories and lecture rooms. The sciences 

 have been well provided for — general agri- 

 culture, geology and mineralogy, veterinary 

 science, botany and bacteriology, horticul- 

 ture, entomology and zoology, animal hus- 

 bandry and dairying. The state experiment 

 station is also located in this building. The 

 board of trustees have endeavored to furnish 

 these laboratories and lecture rooms with the 

 best apparatus and appliances so that the 

 teaching and experiments may be conducted 

 in accordance with modern requirements 

 There is also a large room in this building set 

 aside for a museum, where the different divi- 

 sions and departments will display for the 

 use of the students scientific specimens which 

 will also be of value to the casual observer, 

 and to the man who is investigating some 

 special topic in his line. The structure con- 

 sists of three floors, and is built of the best 



