Clemson University - Taps Yearbook (Clemson, SC)

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1916 Cap0 dicaxi eatcaxtou Babib J|tll J enrp - V AVID HILL HENRY, Associate Professor of Chemistry, entered m Clemson College in the raw days of February, 1894, and joined a hand ■ of over one hundred young men, from among whom he and twenty- four others were to graduate in February, 1898 — the second class to receive diplomas from Clemson Agricultural College. He hailed from Abbeville, the home of the judges, the Athens of South Carolina, as he so proudly and so frequently proclaimed to us all in those good old days when the Clemson world was young. He had spent his childhood and boyhood in that town, and he has never known any other place to love as home but that and Clemson College, to both of which his devotion is unmistakable and undoubted. From his first days in College, he took a first place in every kind of work and every phase of college life; and, best of all, he took a first place in the hearts of those who knew him — students and teachers. Everybody always liked Little Dave, in spite of his insistence upon reporting persistently every breach of regulations he saw while on any sort of responsible duty. And that, in a military school, is a supreme test. Most of us respect a man for doing his duty, even at our expense; but it is not very easy to be fond of him in such circumstances. In the classroom, in the Literary Societies, in military matters, in the various forms and phases of college pleasures, such as they were in those early days, he easily stood first, a man to be noticed of teachers and students. At a time when Senior Captain was the highest cadet office, he filled that trying position in such a wax- as to win from all commendation and admiration.