Clemson University - Taps Yearbook (Clemson, SC)

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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. .

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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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THE 19 3 9 TAPS Gus Metz Our Registrar helps us plan a schedule Joe Brown Bookkeeper Mr. Evans Treasurer Mrs. Goodman A postmistress and a friend needed, it was converted into a hotel, and is still used as such. There were no other additions made until 1924, when the chapel was en- larged to have a seating capacity of 1,850, and in that same year, the Physics department was moved into the basement, which had been ren- ovated for that purpose. Since then the only other change that has been made was in open- ing up the top floor to be used as classrooms. Today we see the building much as those first cadets saw it back in the first years of Clemson ' s existence. Time has mellowed its ivy-covered exterior, but its tower standing high in the air symbolizes as always man ' s search for education. jfejfcfcf- K$ A k . : tv , - -. V •