The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-04-03


l--. sSseretsrys sBoari'of Trustees.
80 REPORT
Owing to causes beyond the con
trol.of the Board, chief among which
is the want Of power, under the pres
ent law, of enforcing our building con-
tracts in any reasonable time, our
building is not finished in the time
stipulated. But the Boarl will use
diligence and all the means IN then
power, to have it completed and fin
ished the coming season, and they
confidently expect to be able to open
the College for the reception of stu
dents in the autumn of 1873. WH
A boarding house and dormitories
for the accommodation of students
viii soon be under contract, and
erected during the present season.
A generous donation Of scientific and
Agricultural books, by Nh John G..
Deshler and Henry c. Noble, citizens
OF Columbus, forms the nucleus of our
library. And the Secretary has pro-
cured from the Patent Office for the
use Of the College, some five hundred
-
models related to agriculture and the
mechanic arts.
The Professor of Agriculture has
been appointed, and viii be on the
ground in time to take charge and di
rection of the farming operations, to
be conducted in a systematic and
scientific manner; a general plan for
a botanic garden and arboretuln, the
improvement and ornamentation of
the grounds, has been adopted, and a
commencement will be made this
spring, and the plans gradually work
ed out to their final completion, which
viii probably take several years, Civ
ing employment and instruction at
the same time to our pupils.
Suitable appointments have been
made to several of the chairs deter
mined upon, and other professors viii
be selected before the opening of the
College.
The Presidency of our institution
was first offered to a distinguished
citizen of our own State, and after
ward to a gentleman from another
State, of scholarly attainments, large
experience in education and the con-
duct of public affairs, and Of the most
undeniable qualifications for the place;
with an unblemished reputation, and
a character for integrity and honor
as fair and pure as that of any man
in the Union, SO far as known at the
time the Board offered him the posi-
ton. Since then, however, circum-
stances rendered his appointment i'm
polite and improper, when, with a
proper manliness. he promptly and
voluntarily relieved the Boards of all
embarrassments, by declining to ac-
cept the honorable position thus offer
A senseless clamor was raised about
the above appointment by few per-
sons, who likewise attempted to create
a prejudice in relation to the studies
determined on for the College.
July I'd, 1862, the Congress of the
United States passed and approved
+" An act donating lands to the several
States and territories, which may pro-
vide colleges for the benefit of agri-
culture and the mechanic arts" The
fourth section of said act declares that
all moneys derived from the sale of
the aforesaid lands by the State to
which the lands are apportioned, shall
be safely invested, the capital of which
is to remain undiminished, "and the
interest of which shall be inviolably
appropriated by each State which may
take and claim the benefit of this act,
to the endowment, support and main
tenance of at least one college, where
the leading object shall be, without
excluding other scientific and classical
studies, and including military tactics,
to teach such branches of learning as
are related to agriculture and the me-
chanic arts, in such q manner as the
of the States may re-
spectively prescribe, in order to pro-
mote the liberal and practical educa-
ton of the industrial classes in the
several pursuits and professions of
life" An act to establish and main
tain. an Agricultural and Mechanical
College in Ohio, passed March %,
1 Q70 declares in the Last claJsa of
section 1: The leading object shall
be, without excluding other scientific
and classical studies, and including
military tactics, to teach such branches
of learning as are related to agricul-
tural and mechanic arts"
Now, after full and frequent dis
cussions, the Board of Trustees, with
a remarkable unanimity, resolved to