Is it common knowledge that Thomas Green Clemson the founder of Clempson University wrote it in his will for the University to be modeled after yours truly Mississippi State University? In his will, Clemson explicitly stated that he wanted the school to be modeled after what is now Mississippi State University: "This institution, I desire, to be under the control and management of a board of trustees, a part of whom are hereinafter appointed, and to be modeled after the Agricultural College of Mississippi as far as practicable. - Wiki excerpt