MAINE STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND THE MECHANIC ARTS. ORONO. HISTORY. MAINE was entitled to 210,000 acres in scrip. Having accepted the grant, the Legislature established (Feb. 25, 1865) the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, leaving the site to be determined by the Trustees. In 1866, 193,600 acres of scrip had been sold at a little more than fifty-three cents per acre. Thus the sum of $102,759 was realized, which was invested in bonds of the State of Maine, amounting to $104,500. This sum will be increased by the sale of the remaining 16,320 acres. Sixteen Trustees were originally appointed by the Legislature, one from each county, and Hon. Hannibal Hamlin was made the first President of the Board. He was succeeded by Hon. W. A. P. Dillingham. In January, 1867, the Trustees voted to request the Legislature to reduce this number to five or seven. In January, 1866, the Trustees determined to establish the College in the town of Orono, upon land which was offered to them by the towns of Orono and Oldtown. The place selected is on the White and Goddard farms, a large and valuable estate of about three hundred and seventy acres, possessing high natural productiveness, sufficient diversity of soil for the various experimental purposes of an agricultural school, and having a fine frontage on the Penobscot river, while the rear of the farm is rich in an extensive tract of forest. The site of the College is one of the most attractive in the State to a mind that appreciates natural beauty. It is one mile from the village of Orono with its churches, schools, stores, bank and vast water-power which furnishes a basis for manufacturing industry of various forms, and will be made tributary, no doubt, to the growth and success of the mechanical department of the College. Seven miles from Orono is the city of Bangor, already noted for its shipbuilding interest and commerce, as well as for its interior trade and extensive lumbering operations. When the department of marine architecture in the College shall have been established, the Bangor ship-yards will furnish the students with practical illustrations in every branch of the business. In addition to the gift of a site, the Trustees have received from the citizens of Bangor, the sum of $14,000 in cash. Phineas Barnes of Portland, has been chosen President of the College, but for want of a building but little progress has been made in organizing the institution. A Report on the steps thus far taken to organize the College, was presented to the Legislature in 1867, and printed. (Augusta, 24 pp., 8vo.) As a part of this document, the written suggestions of F. L. Olmsted, Landscape Architect of New York, are given in respect to the arrangement of the grounds and the construction of the building. HODE ISLAND. SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT OF BROWN UNIVERSITY. PROVIDENCE. HISTORY. THE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE in Rhode Island, provided for by the National land-grant of 1862, constitutes the Scientific Department of Brown University, which corporation has stipulated to provide a College or Department of the character contemplated by the act of Congress in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes. Rhode Island received scrip for 120,000 acres of land, which was very promptly accepted by the Legislature at its January session in 1863. The scrip was sold in 1866 for $50,000, (payable in five unequal installments between August, 1866, and August, 1870,) which is at the rate of forty-one and two-thirds cents per acre. At the date of the fourth annual report in reference to this fund, dated Feb. 12, 1867, $1,000 had been realized and invested in an U. S. five-twenty bond, bearing interest in gold at five per cent. per annum. The fund was appropriated to a scientific department in Brown University, at Providence. Until a much larger sum is received, no report can be made of the mode in which the income is employed. Four brief annual reports, thirteen pages in all, have been printed, addressed to the Governor of the State by the Corporation of the University. The second of these rehearses the difficulties which were encountered in an effort to locate for the College the National grant within the limit of the State of Kansas. Since the above brief statement was in type we have received the "Fifth Annual Report of the Corporation of Brown University to Governor Burnside, for the year 1867," from which the following extracts are made: The income from the fund will be sufficient to begin to educate students under the arrangements between the State and the University, by or before the next collegiate year, Sept. 2d, 1868. By the resolution of the General Assembly, the Senators and Representatives are constituted a Board of Commissioners to present to the Governor and Secretary of State during the January session in each year, the names of worthy young men from the several towns as candidates to be educated as State beneficiaries in Brown University, under the Agricultural College Act, and from that class of persons who otherwise would not have the means of providing themselves with the like benefits. From the candidates so nominated, the Governor and Secretary of State, with the President of the University, are to select, on or before Commencement Day, (the first Wednesday in September,) of each year, the scholars to be educated. The department in the University to teach the branches of learning required by the Agricultural College act, has been organized, and the course of studies has been so liberally arranged as to supply the demands of a scientific and practical education for the present day; besides which all the courses of instruction given in the University are thrown open free to the students in the Agricultural department. KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. MANHATTAN, RILEY COUNTY. HISTORY. THE KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE was established February 16, 1863, on the basis of the National land-grant, and went into operation in September following. The amount of land appropriated to Kansas, was 90,000 acres, which was located in the State by a commission who visited and inspected each quarter section. The land thus located is offered for sale at prices ranging from $3.00 to $8.00 per acre, the agent in charge being Hon. I. T. Goodnow, late Superintendent of Public Instruction. It is expected that these lands will yield an endowment of 500,000 dollars. Until the fund arising from the sale of these lands reaches the amount of $150,000, the Legislature agrees to advance an amount sufficient to pay the current expenses of the institution. TRUSTEES. The Trustees consist of the Governor, the Secretary of State, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the President of the College, and nine other persons appointed by the Governor and Senate, as follows, (1867–8,): Gov. S. J. CRAWFORD, President of the Board; Hon. R. A. BARKER, Vice President; Hon. T. H. BAKER, Secretary; Judge JOHN PIPHER, Treasurer; Rev. P. MCVICAR, Sup. Pub. Instruction; Rev. J. L. REASER, Rev. E. GALE, Rev. R. CORDLEY, Rev. D. EARHEART, Judge L. D. BAILEY, Hon. S. D. HOUSTON, Hon. I. T. GOODNOW; Rev. J. DENISON, President of the College. LOCATION. The College is located in the Kansas valley, near Manhattan, Riley County. It is about 115 miles west of Leavenworth, and about the same distance from Wyandotte at the mouth of the Kansas river. Its distance west from Lawrence is 80 miles, and from Topeka about 50, and it is 15 miles northeast from Ft. Riley. It stands on a beautiful eminence back of the town, running northwest and southwest. From the base of the building, but especially from its top, is a panoramic view seldom surpassed for beauty and loveliness. The beholder, facing the west, will see the valley of the Wild Cat Creek, running up to the northwest some 15 miles and skirted with undulating bluffs. Facing the east, the scene that opens to view, is made up of the thriving town of Manhattan, spread out at the Junction of the Big Blue and the Kansas rivers, and the valley of the Kansas extending far on below with its majestic bluffs and intervening creeks. The field of view at the left takes in a part of the valley of the Big Blue, but the conspicuous figure in front is Blue Mont, the parent of the bluffs that line the valleys of the Big Blue, and the last one the river passes ere it unites with the Kansas. A straight edge, sixty miles long, with one end laid on the top of this cone-shaped bluff and the other end on the top of the bluff nearly opposite Marysville in Marshall County, would be touched by a series of similar bluffs running the whole distance, the most of which are truncated, though on a few the tops still remain. Manhattan is very easy of access by railroad and otherwise. The Depot of the, Union Pacific Railroad Way E. D. is about two miles from the Institution. TUITION. Tuition is free in all the Departments except Instrumental Music. Ladies share the privileges of the Institution equally with gentlemen. A contingent fee of three dollars a term, or nine dollars a year, is charged to meet expense of fuel, lights, sweeping, &c. In Music, for instruction on the Melodeon, $8 per term; on Piano, $10 per term. For use of Melodeon, $1; for use of Piano, $2. For use of Library, 50 cents per term. LODGING AND BOARD. Board at the Boarding House, (a new, ample, and well furnished stone building, in charge of Col. F. Campbell,) is furnished at $4 per week, with an additional charge of $5 per term for fuel and lights. Washing done at reasonable rates. A portion of the students board themselves at less expense. TERMS OF ADMISSION. 1. Candidates for admission to the Freshmen Class are required to pass a satisfactory examination in English Grammar, Ancient and Modern Geography, including outlines of History and English Composition. 2. Harkness' Introductory Latin, his Latin Grammar, his Latin Reader and Latin Prose Composition, Cæsar, Sallust, Cicero's Orations, and six Books of Virgil's Æneid. 3. In Greek, Harkness' 1st Book in Greek, with Fables, Anecdotes and Mythology, Hadley's Greek Grammar, and Zenophon's Anabasis. 4. Arithmetic, Mental and Written, Robinson's Elementary Algebra entire, and four Books of Robinson's Geometry. Candidates for admission to the Scientific course will not be examined in Greek, nor the Latin Authors after Sallust, but in all the other studies. Candidates for advanced standing will be examined in all the preceding studies pursued by the classes they enter, or their equivalent. Those wishing to enter the Academic, or Preparatory Department, should be prepared to pass a satisfactory examination in the four fundamental rules of Arithmetic, and the Elements of English Grammar, Geography, Spelling, and Reading. COURSES OF STUDY. Seven courses of study are announced on the programme, of which it ap pears that the "Classical,” and the "Preparatory," are the more thoroughly carried out. The series announced is as follows: CLASSICAL COURSE. AGRICULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC COURSE. MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS. MECHANIC ARTS AND CIVIL ENGINEERING ACADEMIC AND PREPARATORY COURSE. COMMERCIAL AND MERCANTILE COURSE. AGRICULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC COURSE. FIRST YEAR. First Term.-Soils in their relation to Vegetation, Water, Atmosphere, and also in their relation to vegetable products. Recitations, Lectures, and Field Practice on the Farm. University Algebra, and Modern History. Second Term.-Subsoil Plowing, Tillage, Draining, and Fertilizers. University Algebra, Natural Philosophy, (Wells, with Lectures.) Third Term.-Botany, (Gray's.) Zoölogy, (Agassiz.) Meteorology, (Brockelsby, with Lectures.) Botanical Lectures, Excursions, and Field Instruction. Geometry, (Robinson's.) SECOND YEAR. First Term.-Structure and Physiology of Plants; Buildings; Fall Crops and use of Farm; Machinery, and best Farm Implements; Preservation of Seeds; Recitations, Lectures, and Field Instruction. Geometry, (Robinson's.) Logic, (Coppee's.) Second Term.-Philosophy and care of Domestic Animals; Diseases of Cattle and Horses; Propagation and Culture of Forest Trees adapted to Hedges, and their Cultivation; Recitations, and Lectures. Trigonometry, (Robinson's.) Logic, (Coppee's.) Third Term.-Horticulture, and Kitchen Gardening; Propagation and Training of Fruit Trees, Vines, (especially_the Grape,) Small Fruits, Vegetables, Grafting; Recitations, and Lectures; Surveying, and Engineering. THIRD YEAR. First Term.-The Staple Grains, Forage, Root and Fibre Crops of the Northern and Middle States, with their varieties, and soils adapted to them; Insects injurious to vegetation; Origin and Natural History of Domestic Animals. Conic Sections, (Robinson's.) Mental Philosophy, (Haven's.) Second Term.-Raising and care of Domestic Animals; Characteristics and Adaptation of Breeds; Cattle for Beef, Draft, and Dairy; Horses; Sheep; Swine; Pasturing, Soiling, and Stall Feeding; Agricultural Botany; Description of Weeds and noxious Plants; Farm Book-keeping. Chemistry, (Wells', with Lectures.) Physiology, (Hitchcock's.) Third Term.-History of Agriculture and Sketches of Husbandry in foreign lands. Adaptation of Farming to Soil, Climate, Market, and other natural and economical conditions. Systems of Farming; Stock; Sheep; Grain, and mixed farming. Geology, (Dana's.) Moral Philosophy, (Haven's.) Political Economy, (A. Walker's.) Agricultural, Zoological, Botanical and Geological Excursions, during the Fall and Spring terms of the second and third year, will be conducted under the guidance of the Agriculturist, or the Professor of Natural Science, and are intended to be thoroughly practical in their character. Daily and weekly exercises in Music, Calisthenics, Composition and general Reading, the same each year as in the Classical Course. CLASSICAL COURSE. FRESHMEN YEAR. First Term.-Livy, (Keightly's History of Rome.) Latin Prose Composition. University Algebra, (Robinson's.) Herodotus, (Johnson's.) Modern History, (Lord.) Second Term.-Ovid. University Algebra, (Robinson's.) Homer's Iliad, and Greek Prose Composition, (Anthon's.) Natural Philosophy, (Wells'.) Third Term.-Horace, (Anthon's.) Homer's Iliad. Keightly's History of Greece. Geometry, (Robinson's.) Botany, (Gray's.) |