Clemson University - Taps Yearbook (Clemson, SC)

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Later, in 1923, a machine gun company was organized, but since then the military organi- zation has been entirely infantry, and now it has grown to be the largest Infantry Brigade in the nation. Proof of the fine work of the military staff here is the Excellent rating that Clemson has been awarded by the Army f many years past. Sergeant Wilkinson Check, check, check, and we ' re clothed! -27.

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Charlie Weeks Merits bring our smile «— aSP M m • A T J ' r iS ' Russ Walthour An old army habit MILITARY SCIENCE • j TNDER the provisions of the National Defense Act, the War Department has established at Clem- son College an infantry unit of the R. 0. T. C. This department was established with the founding of the college in 1893, its duties then, as now, being the supervision of the military training and discipline of the cadets. The military department and its class- rooms have been located in the Administration Build- ing up to this year, when the classrooms for military instruction were moved to the old Textile Building. While the Administration Building was being rebuilt following the fire in 1894, the military science classes were held in vacant rooms in barracks where, despite the highly adverse conditions, the military staff was able to impart military knowledge to the cadets with their usual efficiency. Down through the years the cadet organization has been mainly as an infantry unit, but at various times other units have existed. In 1904 there was in con- junction with the infantry unit an artillery unit with two cannon. The next year there was also a Signal Corps and a Hospital Corps. During the war a Stu- dent Army Training Corps was organized as well as a Naval Unit, both of which were demobilized in De- cember, 1918. Charlie Wyatt Big-Huch Dumas Doctor Sikes The Visiting Inspector -26-

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' Charlie Weeks and Enoch Sikes sprawl to watch us strut ADMINISTRATION • If ITTLE did that small group of men think when they laid the cornerstone to the Administration Building on July 28, 1891, that they were laying the cornerstone of a college that was to become in less than fifty years one of the leading colleges of the South. The building as it was originally built was nearly exactly as it stands now except for an addition to the chapel. It was completed and ready for use when the doors of the college opened on July 7, 1893. But it was not fated to stand for long, for in the following year on May 22, 1894, fire — that master destroyer — broke out and razed the building. Immediately a new building was built on the hill across the road to be temporarily used for classrooms while a new Main Building was under construction. While this tempo rary building was being constructed, the classes were being held all over the campus in every vacant spot — some in the Calhoun Mansion, some in the Chem- J. C. Littlejohn and Tom Stanley tackle a tremendous task Doctor Sikes breaks around, thus the textile building was begun istry Building, some even in vacant servants ' houses. The contract for the Administration Build- ing was let by the Board of Trustees and awarded to Gude and Walker. The completed structure was refitted in 1895 from a fund provided for that pur- pose. When the temporary building was no longer II [ ' Mi f % -28- 1 I HJ Holtzy ' Head of HOLTZENDORFF the Y. M. C. .