Clemson University - Taps Yearbook (Clemson, SC)

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Convicts supplied the labor for the earlier college buildings. The first one, the Chemistry Building, ivas completed in nSo( , three years before the college was opened to students. tHilt

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Sloping green hills crozcned ivith age- softened buildings— the first general view of the campus The Qarnpus OlpHK visitor, when he enters the portals of Clemson s Campus Jl for the first time, invariably exclaims, How Beautiful. A trite expression? Yes. But adequately expressive. For our campus is beautiful, and anyone with a spark of appreciation of beauty in any of its forms or manifestations feels it at once. The entrance to the campus from the south— two huge, granite pillars softened and mellowed by shrubbery: the sternness of the stone shaded by the verdant foliage. A winding highway that gently climbs and slopes through apple and peach orchards, that, in the spring, are a riot of feathery blossoms. Peaceful, dreamy and quiet, this part ot the campus makes one feel as if hurry and bustle were unknown quantities of an unknown world. Past the peach and apple orchards, we come to homes by the high- way, and a very tall tower is visible above the foliage of the oaks. The Administration Building. The highway curves sharply, and there on a gently rolling, and perfectly tended landscape are the various buildings that compose our institution.