Clemson University - Taps Yearbook (Clemson, SC)

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lit OBJECTIVES An annual has several duties to fulfill if it is to serve its purpose satisfactorily and completely in presenting a picture of the present for the album of the future. First, it must portray vividly a concrete and pictorial record of all activities of the school year. Second, it must represent all the phases of student life — scholastic, military, athletic, and club activities. Third, it must serve to remind the student, in after years, of h is fellow classmates, of his faculty, and of the aspirations, objectives, and accomplish- ments of his Alma Mater. Lastly, it must endeavor to catch and portray the high spots of the ever-changing panorama in such a way as to recall to each student his own per- sonal connection with the flow of events. Each student must feel that the book is his own because he is a part of it and helped make the publication possible. With these aims in mind, we have striven to build a greater book.

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At COMPARISON Chivalry is not dead. Courage and valor have not ceased to exist. Modern civilization has proved a challenge to the sempiternity of medieval ideals. Each new day brings to our time some ad ancement that harbors a new and different way of doing things; but as we compile this volume, we stop to look back into the distant past over the chasm of the passing centuries to the age of knighthood. For a brief moment we turn our back on this age of science and mechanical miracles to an age of chivalry and valor, when men lived and died for the perpetuation of ideals which seem to be lost in this life of today. Although customs have changed with the passing centuries, the basic principles by which men existed then still persist, and in this volume and by these principles, we would like to make comparison of that past age with the age in which we live today. Mindful of the source of inspiration which has fathered present creative achievement, this, the thirty- third volume of Taps, uses as its theme the spirit of medieval valor.

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RECOGNITION To Dr. Enoch Walter Sikes, President of Clem- son College: ... for his viqorous and ener- PRESIDENT ENOCH WALTER SIKES .. , j , . , ,. ■ a .. , , ,, getic leadership, ror his affection and loyalty to Clemson, and for his noble contribution to the wel- fare and advancement of Clemson, we dedicate this, the thirty-third volume of Taps. Dr. Sikes came to us as President in 1925, and since that time he has given untiringly of his services to the advancement of education and to the betterment of our college. Under the administration of this man, whose greatest pleasure is derived from his personal contact with the boys, Clemson has become an accredited college, and at present has approximately two million dollars worth of buildings. Through his leadership, Ciemson ' s moral and intellectual standards have been raised to the levels they enjoy today. Looking back on his fifteen years of leadership, we see that Dr. Sikes has been a driving force in the betterment of our college. Clemson finds itself 2,21 8 students strong. It sees Riggs Hall, one of the best equipped college engineering buildings in the South; the splendid new Long Agricultural Building; five new modern barracks; new dairy barns and agricultural experi- mental equipment; additions to the Chemistry Building; a new Textile Building filled with modern machinery; paved roads about the campus; and numerous improvements on the buildings and grounds.