Clemson University - Taps Yearbook (Clemson, SC)

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Agriculture

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D. D. CURTIS Engineering . T. M ARMSTRONG Bacteriology — 1 l m m W. B. AULL Bacteriology R. E. LEE Architecture H. M. BROWN Physics JOHN LANE. English

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TEXTILES DEAN H. H. WILLIS LEFT TO RIGHT— FIRST ROW: A. E. McKenna, J. M. L. Huckabee, W. G. Blair, G. H. Dunlap, J. r.dsav, Jr., H. H. W.llis, R. K. Eaton, E. F. Cartec. SECOND ROW: W. E. Tairant, Waltcs. THIRD ROW: W. L. Hicks, G. Gase. T. A. Campbell. With the phenomenal srowth of the textile industry in the South and the opportunities for young men to advance to excellent positions of responsibility in this line, Clemson ' s Textile School has grown in proportionate importance and size. Since 1898, the textile school has grown from the south half of the old tex- tile building to the new $475,000.00 building with its four acres of classrooms, aboratories, and correctly lighted cotton-grading room, separated from the noisy machinery section, and is recognized as the leading college of its type in the United States. The plant also includes a textile library reference room and an auditorium, both of which will be made available in the near future. In thirty years the available floor space has been increased to eight times its original size and during the same period the enrollment of textile students has been multiplied by 85. The instructional staff is alert to its responsibility for providing up-to-date instruction and information. The yarn manufacturing series of seven texts on yarn manufacturing is now in use in several Southern textile schools. The scholastic curriculum has been kept abreast of current em- phasis on such subjects as long draft, rayon manufacturing, and the financial aspects of manufacturing and selling; and in the Class of 1940 is being turned out a group of young men excellently trained to handle their part of South Carolina ' s and the South ' s greatest industry. ?8