In the News
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The battleship U.S.S. Maine explodes in Havana Harbor, Cuba, killing some 260 crew. Although the cause was probably due to a coal bunker fire setting off an ammunition locker, the Yellow press blames the Cubans and whips up the Spanish-American War.
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Signed on December 10, 1898, the Treaty of Paris ended the Spanish-American War. The treaty ceded the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico to the United States and granted Cuba independence.
On Campus
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David Wistar Daniel is elected to join the faculty as Associate Professor of English. He will serve on the Clemson faculty until 1947.
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The Board of Trustees meets on March 2nd and makes an appropriation for establishment of a textile school at Clemson. Intent is to have it in operation by September 1898. The rise of the textile mills in the Upstate makes this addition logical.
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