An admired and respected leader on campus, Dr. Clement C. Maxwell鈥檚 tenure as president in the 1950s and 1960s marked the greatest period of growth up to that point in 猎奇重口视频鈥檚 history.
His decade at the helm helped lay the foundation for the campus we see today, which features a library bearing his name.
Named For
Dr. Clement C. Maxwell
The Backstory
A native of Taunton, Maxwell came to 猎奇重口视频 with extensive experience as a secondary school teacher and a college professor. He became chairman of the English department in 1937, served as dean of the graduate school, and directed continuing studies programming and a summer school at Hyannis.
Maxwell became acting president upon the death of his predecessor, Dr. John Kelly.
Faculty and students praised his subsequent permanent appointment to the post, with one student telling the Campus Comment: 鈥淚'll be proud to receive my degree from Dr. Maxwell.鈥
In an editorial, the student newspaper praised Maxwell鈥檚 familiarity with 猎奇重口视频.
鈥淣othing could have pleased us more than his appointment as president of 猎奇重口视频,鈥 the paper wrote. 鈥淭o have a president whom we know means much more to us than to have a perfect stranger take the position as head of 猎奇重口视频.鈥
Under Maxwell's watch, the number of faculty tripled as new courses and majors took shape. The physical campus also grew as 猎奇重口视频 built two new residence halls and a gymnasium.
Maxwell, who believed that 鈥渁 library is the heart of a college,鈥 led the remodeling of the old gymnasium (now the Art Center) into a library that was named for him in 1963. In January 1958, 900 students formed a human chain to move the library鈥檚 30,000 volumes from Boyden Hall across School Street to their new home. They toiled for five hours as music played over a loudspeaker to boost morale.
Use Today
The current , which is on the west side of campus between Shaw Road and Park Avenue, opened in 1971 and continues to honor 猎奇重口视频鈥檚 seventh president. It offers approximately 300,000 volumes, more than 31,000 periodical subscriptions and nearly 100 electronic bibliographic and full-text article databases. The library includes a caf茅, classrooms, offices, the Academic Achievement Center and an auditorium.
Material in this article comes from the of the Campus Comment, by Dr. Thomas R. Turner, and the .