August 17
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August 17
- August 13-August 18, 1951: Farmers' Week Exhibition held on Bowman Field.
- 1975: The planned repainting of the paws project by Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity is cancelled after publicity back-fires, state highway department forced to adhere to laws as written which forbid such activity on state roads, even if Highway Commissioner and Clemson grad Silas Pearman (1955) is actually sympathetic. Previously they had "looked the other way." Paws on campus are renewed, however.
- 1980: Dormitories open.
- 2000: Clemson named Public College of the Year by Time magazine.
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