Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-01-24
local ana State Nems.
state College Of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.

feet title has been granted the college to its
lands in Orono, making available the $50, 900
appropriated by the last Legislature. The
principal work of the past season has been to
devise plans, provide material and erect
buildings for the necessary wants of the col
lege. The construction of chemical laboIa-
tory was commenced in 1868, and work has
been carried forward upon it as rapidly as the
small appropriations would allow. During
the present season, the work on the interior
of the main building has been completed in
the most thorough manner. The ell, also,
has been added. The walls and interior
partitions are brick. The roof is slated, and
the entire building is now nearly completed.
Its interior arrangements consist of an analy-
teal or working laboratory, occupying the
entire ground floor of the ell, furnished in
the most complete manner, and sufficiently
large to accommodate class of fifty students.
a large lecture room on the second floor of
the main building, connected with which are
two preparation rooms-rooms for private
laboratories for the professors room for
chemical apparatus, and room TOR chemi-
cal libary. There is also one room, that, for
the present, will be used for the philosophical
apparatus, and one for a neurological cabinet
All the rooms are completely furnished with all
necessary appointments. The building is two
stories in height, 50x40 feet on the ground. A
boarding house has been built large enough to
supply board and washing to l25 students.
The entire ground floor will be used for a din
ing hall. The second floor is divided into rooms
for family. The ell furnishes the necessary
rooms for cooking and washing-also store
and drying rooms. A wood-house and stable
with necessary outbuildings, have been sup
piled. A brick building has been erected as a
dormitory to accommodate about 100 students.
1t is three stories high, with mansard roof,
giving an additional story; sill on ground
s34x42b feet. The building will afford 45
very desirable rooms, l6xl2 feet in size.
The college buildings are situated on an
elevation at distance of twenty-five rods
from the public way. A carriage way has
been constructed, and a beginning made
towards tastefully ornamenting the grounds.
The board of instruction is well organized.
The services of John Swift, B. s., gradu-
ate of the Agricultural College of Michigan,
have been secured for the department Of
botany and horticulture. He has also been
employed in teaching classes outside of his
special department The coming season he
will have charge of the class in botany, and
direct the labors of the students in horticulture.
in French and German. A course of lectures
on the subject of Dairy Farming, was given
in the summer term by Y. A. Willard, \. NJ,
of Little Falls, New York, and course on
Market Farming and Gardening, in the fall
term, by James J. II. Gregory, A. NJ, of
Marblehead, Mass. Arrangements are in
progress for special courses of lectures in the
spring on Applied Mechanics, land on Anatomy
and Physiology. Arrangements have been
perfected for lectures in the summer on Conn
parative Anatomy and Zoology, by Prof. +.
S. Morse of the Peabody Academy Of Science,
Salem, Mass, and on Useful and Injurious
Insects, by A. S. Packard, M. d., of the
same institution. 1t is confidently expected
that military professor will be appointed by
the government, to enter upon duty early in
the spring term. Other departments will be
provided for as the exigencies Of the institu
ton may require. The progress of the stu
dents in the various branches taught has
been marked.
The library, although entirely inadequate
to the wants of the institution, has neverthe-
less subserved an important purpose.
An interesting report on the botanical de-
partment is made by f. l.. Scribner of the
Sophomore class The members of the
Junior Glass will receivr instruction during
the ensuing year in the principles of Mechan-
les and in Mechanical drawing. The laboratory
which has been built is just what the wants %
the institution deman. No necessary effort
has been spared to make its appointments
fully adequate to the purposes of instruction
in Natural Philosophy, Chemical Physics,
eralogy in manner as thorough and COM
plete as the most modern and improved
methods and apparatus will admit. In addi-
ton to those studies which are embraced in
the regular course, it is designed that facil-
ties be furnished to advance students in chem
istry to pursue special investigations in Ag-
ricultural Chemistry, Metaliurgy, CONNER
cial and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, or any
other allied branch or special subject selected
for investigation, by which they may fit them
selves for such industrial pursuits, of the
character above indicated, as they may de-
sire to follow. 1t is also designed to collect
as rapidly as possible, as a special adjunct to
the laboratory, library of scientific and
chronological works based upon chemistry
and its allied branches. As such works are
expensive, contributions of either books or
funds are solicited from persons especially
interested in these departments. Old works
which were standard at the date of their pub
LEGATION, but not now generally in use, would
be deemed valuable. The number of students
now in the different classes is 80.