Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-07
STATE LNDUSTRLAL COLLEGE,.

STATE INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE.
This Institution is now well under way, and
abundant accommodations will be ready for a
hundred additional students by the beginning
of the new College year, toward the end of
August. Its design is to gire a liberal and
practical education to the industrial classes.
So says the act of Congress bestowing lands
for its perpetual endowment. So says the law
Of this State creating the College. 1t is fire.
quently called 1.-The Agricultural College" but
incorrectly, for that is not its name, and only
in part descriptive of its character. Farmers
are included in ''the industrial classes" and
so are masons and printers, and chemists, and
weavers, and miIlwrights, and miners, and
builders, and blacksmiths and engineers. 1t
is as much q Carpenters College as Farm
er's College; at least in all senses but one.
If 1t is more an Agricultural College than
Maritime College it is only because farmers
outnumber sailors. 1t is as much designed
for the latter as for the former. / is every
mans college, and was intended to educate
every mans son and daughter who intends to
work for living, and who wants to work to
advantage, and prefers to put skilled labor in
to the worlds market rather than brute force
to send his son to an old fashioned College
where four years are spent in classical and
other studies of a generally educational char
acter, and afterwards to support him during
other years devoted to those studies which are
to fit him for the special business of his life,
let him do so. IT'S a good way, and has
worked well in furnishing the land with doc
tors and lawyers and ministers; and then pro-
ducing of these is about all the world knows
of the doings of colleges. But they never
undertook to educate the Industrial classes,
and they couldn't if they would.
In this new age we need something differ
ent- A great and real want, although only
lately felt in its full strength, needed to be
supplied. And now, by the bounty of Con-
gress and the aid OF the State, we have an In
dustrial College, and one free of tuition fees
to all ''Dirigo" boys; and where too a clever
lad can make good part of his bread and
butter, NOT while studying his books, but
arhiie practising has studies. Have a care
here not to confound this with something rad
ically different. A generation or two ago
there were what were called "Manual Labor
Schools, where labor was provided for the
support Of the student. They all failed, and
great was their failure. In this College, labor
is introduced as a means Of instruction of
training and dereioping both mind and body
in company with theoretical instruction; and
great is the success of this aim and this meth
od,-for it accomplishes what il sets out to do,
and incidentally contributes handsomely to
subsistence also.
The course of study at this State College
has been lately revised so as more fully to
accomplish the aims of the institution, which
are, in brief, SO to educate and train the stu
dent that he may come but good citizen and
awelf developed man, able and ready and
willing to enter upon his life-work, whether
ne intends to be a corn-grower or a ship
builder, cotton spinner or a cattle breeder,
maker or an executor of the laws Of the
land; and to do this by means of the studies
winch bear upon the pursuits of life, and not
by the study Of Latin and Greek which he
may not have the time or the means or the
taste to compass.
Catalogues and schemes of study may be
had of Prof. M. G. Fernald. Orono. or on an.
plication to either of the trustees. a list of
whom with their residence is given below.
Application should be made without DELAY.
Trustees; Abner Coburn, Skowle gan.
Lyndon Oak, Garland,
Sam'l i. Dixie, Bath,
Thos. s. Lang, Augusta,
Saml 4. Perley, Naples,
James c. Madigan, Houlton,
VIM r. Wingate, Bangor,
s. L. Goodale, Saco.
Saeo independent.