Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Clemson University (/ ˈ k l ɛ m p. s ən, ˈ k l ɛ m. z ən / [6] [7]) is a public land-grant research university near Clemson, South Carolina. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Founded in 1889, Clemson is the second-largest university by enrollment in South Carolina. [ 10 ]
On Clemson's death in 1888, he willed the land to the state of South Carolina for the creation of a public university. The university was founded in 1889, and three buildings from the initial construction still exist today: Hardin Hall (built in 1890), Main Building (later renamed Tillman Hall) (1894), and Godfrey Hall (1898). Other periods of ...
Thomas Green Clemson (July 1, 1807 – April 6, 1888) was an American politician and statesman, serving as Chargés d'Affaires to Belgium, and United States Superintendent of Agriculture. He served in the Confederate Army and founded Clemson University in South Carolina. Historians have called Clemson "a quintessential nineteenth-century ...
Clemson University, founded in 1889, is a public research university located in Clemson, South Carolina. The university is led by a president , who is selected by the board of trustees . The president acts as the school's chief executive officer , reporting to the board, and is tasked with providing leadership to the faculty and students, and ...
Clemson (/ ˈ k l ɛ m p s ən, ˈ k l ɛ m z ən / [6] [7]) is a city in Pickens and Anderson counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina.Clemson is adjacent to Clemson University, [8] and is identified with it; in 2015, the Princeton Review cited the town of Clemson as ranking #1 in the United States for "town-and-gown" relations with its resident university. [9]
Clemson University; South Carolina State University (Founded in 1896 as the Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina. It still has the 1890 land-grant legacy of service to the citizenry of the state.)
Clemson University: Clemson, South Carolina: 1953 1889 Public 28,747 $1.027 Tigers Duke University: Durham, North Carolina: 1953 1838 Private (non-sectarian) (Methodist-founded) 16,840 $13.238 Blue Devils Florida State University: Tallahassee, Florida: 1991 [a] 1851 Public 43,701 $0.947 Seminoles Georgia Institute of Technology: Atlanta ...
John C. Calhoun. John Caldwell Calhoun (/ kælˈhuːn /; [1] March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. Born in South Carolina, he adamantly defended American slavery and sought to protect the interests of white Southerners.