Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-11-02
RUTLAND HERALD.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 90, 1866.
Report of Trustees OF the Vermont
Agricultural College.

TO TIE Hon, P0H D"tH9hdt'i UoV"''" " INC
State Of Tam0nt'
SIR:-In behalf of the trustees of the
Vermont Agricultural College, we have
the honor TO report, that, In pursuance
of an act of incorporation, a meeting OF
the board was held at Montpelier, on the
I'd day of May, 1866, when the board
was duly organized, and at once pro-
ceeded TO institute measures for thor
ough and efficient canvass of the whole
State for the purpose of raising by sub
scription 100000 being the amount re-
CURED by our charter as condition TO
the location and continued existence of
the corporation. The board next pro-
eeeded to appoint committee to consid-
er and report plan Of organization and
course of study. This committee, at a
subsequent meeting, reported as follows,
viz
Plan Of Organisation and Course Of Stady Of
the Vermont agricultural College.
/. Real Estate, $50 acres or more,
with farm buildings, livestock and i'm
plements for illustrations in Agriculture,
Stock growing and Rural Affairs.
Divisions. Crops; Vegetables !;
Fruit Garden Botanical Garden; Ar
boretum, including specimens of the
principal trees and shrubs growing in
the State.
II. College Buildings.
Divisions Lecture and Recitation
ROOMS Chapel Library and room for
Librarian; Museum of Natural History,
Mineralogy, Geology, Woods, Seeds, In
sects, Wool, Models of Agricultural I'm
plements, and Models of Fruit in Wax;
Chemical Laboratory; Rooms for Philo-
sophical and Chemical apparatus and
Surveying instruments; Hall for EXhi-
billions and Military Drill; Armory +;
Rooms for the President and other Off.
GERS Rooms for Students; Boarding or
Club House for such students only as
cannot be otherwise accommodated.
III. A President, who shall discharge
the duties of some department allotted
to a professor.
". A Faculty, composed Of the
president and resident professors, who
shall carry out such course of study as
shall be established, and make and exc
cute all other regulations necessary to
proper order and discipline.
V. A Farm Superintendent, who
shall, under the direction of the Presi-
dent, manage all the affairs Of the farm
and control all labor thereon, except
such labor of students as the faculty
may place under the control of profess
ors or others, and shall keep an accurate
account in detail of the operations of
the farm, all expenses, labor, crops,
stocks, sales and consumption of pro
ducts, and make an annual report, en-
bracing the substance of such account,
to the President of the College, on the
first Tuesday OF -- in each
year.
VI. The following Departments, each
under one Professor and such assistants
es may be necessary, viz:
l. Moral and Intellectual Philosophy
and Political Economy.
2. Chemistry, and Chemistry in all its
relations to agriculture, embracing ami
8. Latin and Greek.
A. Modern Languages and Literature,
including the English, French and Ger
man languages, History and English
Composition.
8. Natural History, including Botany,
Geology, Mineralogy, Zoology, Entomol-
ogy.
6. Comparative Anatomy and Animal
Physiology, including Veterinary Medi-
sines and Surgery.
7. Mathematics and Military Science
8. Physics, Mechanics, Surveying
Architecture and Drawing.
VII. Lectures to be provided for dur
ing the winter term on Law of Con
tracts and Rural Affairs, and on praetic
al Farming, working Of mines and Tech
nology
VIII. The course of study to be -four
years. Provision for special course t.
be made by trustees.
TX. For admission, students to be
years Of age, and to pass sucf
an examination in reading, writing
arithmetic, English grammar and sucl
other studies as the trustees may pre-
scribe.
Y. Military Drill each day.
XI. Manual labor Of students may
be required in such manner az shall b
arranged arranged ~ the Faculty
XII, Students to wear, while on pa
rade or military drill, a dark blue frocf
coat, dark pantaloons and vest, will
bright buttons, and blue military cap
XIII. Tuition, until it can be giver
gratuitously, to be fixed by the Trus
tees, with such free scholarships as may
be established by public and private
bounty.
This report, after discussion, was sub
stantially adopted, leaving it open tx
such amendments as might render i
more perfect, and such as it might b,
found desirable to receive.
In the effort to obtain subscription
no labor has been spared, and while lib
eral subscriptions have been made il
such places as might be supposed t,
have some chance of securing the loca
ton of the College in their vicinity, i
was found that all, or nearly all, wer
coupled with the condition that tn
college should be so located. There will
be some subscriptions without limita
tions of this character, but the amour
is comparatively small. The amour
raised, or which could reasonably b
counted upon, for any specified locality
has in no case exceeded s25, 00
a sum quite inadequate to tn
wants Of an institution like the one con
templated, even from the donation q
lands by Congress, and equally made