. Clemson University Catalog . bruary to December, 1895,there were 370 students in attendance, with the former sopho-mores advanced to the junior class. There was a recess oftwo weeks in the latter part of July, and the session wasclosed on December 7th. The enrollment during the fourthsession, February to December, 1896, was 350, and the firstcommencement exercises were held on December 13th to16th, 1896, with a graduating class of 37, 29 in the agricul-tural course and 8 in the mechanical-electrical. The fifthsession opened in the regular way, on the third Thursday inFebruary, 1897. At a mee
. Clemson University Catalog . bruary to December, 1895,there were 370 students in attendance, with the former sopho-mores advanced to the junior class. There was a recess oftwo weeks in the latter part of July, and the session wasclosed on December 7th. The enrollment during the fourthsession, February to December, 1896, was 350, and the firstcommencement exercises were held on December 13th to16th, 1896, with a graduating class of 37, 29 in the agricul-tural course and 8 in the mechanical-electrical. The fifthsession opened in the regular way, on the third Thursday inFebruary, 1897. At a meeting of the Trustees in July, itwas decided to open the College on the 11th of September,and that henceforth the sessions should begin regularly onthe second Wednesday in September and close on the secondWednesday in June. The exercises of the second commence-ment, which would normally have occurred in December,L897, were held on February 6th to 9th, 1898. The graduat-ing class numbered 25, 13 in the agricultural course and 12. Clemson College 23 in the mechanical-electrical. The undergraduate classeswere continued until June, and the total enrollment for thislong session (February, 1897, to June, 1898), was 449. Itwill be observed that, owing to the change from winter tosummer vacation, there was no class graduated in 1897. Since 1898 the annual commencement exercises have beenheld regularly in June, although the closing day was after-ward changed to first Tuesday, instead of second Wednes-day. During the sixth session, 1898-1899, the enrollmentwas 416, and the graduating class numbered 16, 6 in theagricultural course, 6 in the mechanical-electrical, and 4 inthe civil engineering. The textile department was firstopened for students at the beginning of this session, in Sep-tember, 1898. During the seventh session, 1899-1900, 461students matriculated, and the class of 1900 numbered 28,including 12 in the agricultural course, 6 in the mechanical-electrical, 6 in the civil enginee
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