Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-11-20
The New Hampshire College Of Agriculture and
the Mechanic Arts.

We copy and call attention to the follow
Ing extracts from recent report of the in
stitution named above, made to the Congress
sional Committee on Education and Labor, be
Cause, with the change Of a proper name or
two. they apply exactly to our own Agricul-
taral College, in its connection with the
University Of Vermont
The advantages secured 10 the College by
It> connection with Dartmouth, are worthy
g, particular notice. This connection was
proposed on the ground. mainly, that the
national git, in the proportion that tell to
- small a State as New HAMPSHIRE, was
wholly inadequate, of itself. to the founding
aud sustaining of co lege worthy of the
maine. y small State, according To the
Congressional Statute, must have small
ailoNance; hut a. NeS Hampshire needs
jI~t a- large sun a. the great State OF
New York or OF Illinois, 50 1t needs a. it re-
-,ac;> the various apparatus of teaching, a.
large "a college. lialta sun does not answer.
AAlnj tie same equipment u required, in
other NuIG>. Tor a smaller as for larger
Nambrr 90! students. This view l. the more
important from the fact that small and
comparatively poor State like ours has not
the means, ike the larger ones, OF supply
ing deficiencies. By the connection with
Dartmouth College. however. his difficulty
Is in - measure ubyiated The Agricultural
College has Access, - far as Is necessary 10
nil IL u.;>rual and other means of inStruc-
ton GRATED into the old olive-trec, it par
takes a'ur dainty, as our report shows, of
the root ang iatI..Ss thereof Dartmouth i
doubtless IA ~une respects benefited. bat the
Agricultural college more. The terms OF
CONNECTION have been - carefully adjusted
that not the least friction has occurred
the tao have worked together IN entire har-
mcny. And the Agricultural students. IL
l. believed, have been greatly prOfiied by /
the bread range of educational association /
and influence into which they have been in
troduced. The apprehensions of evil in /
such a connection which some have enter
tanned have been happily dissipated and .
u'efr = nov general conviction that for a /
SiStu Ike New Hampshire, whatever NAV
be sIli of tie larger States, no arrange /
meut could be better
ire establishment OF our institution in
the Safe has already exerted an influence
favorable I" agriculture and applied science
generally We have cD-operated variopsly
wiki the State Board of Agriculture and
We contemplate larger cO-operation in The
iuture We have analyzed fertilizers and
made experiments in soils and crons
within lew years past there has been in
our State marked Increase of interes, in
Agriculture; an Increase due to yarious
causes, doubtless. but to which the Apri-
cultural College 1t l. believed, has in A meas
ure contrihu Ned. Our institution furnisbs
the only large and complete chemical lab,r-
atory IN the Commonwealth; and II has
done something IN the way OF supplying the
various departments OF mechanical indus
try with educated wvrkmen. Ii has nader
OF course, IN these directions, beginnings
only. t0r the expense bestowed on the in
liant. We do not expect 20 be remunerated
AT once by the productlyeness Of manhood.
ct We see not only what gratiies Us Tor
the present. but unmistakable presages
what the future may be.
80 fa7, this report, changing New Hamp-
shire to Vermont, and Dartmouth to Univer-
slty OF Vermont, woali answer, in almost
every word and line. for the State Arricul-
turai College of Vermont. Further on We
find the following:
Here OF all lands, the blow. the loon, ..,
tne anVll should be educated-not moraI,.
ssiffed IN mechanical and seryile ye,
Not vii! their education harm. it will helm l
rather. thar of the pulpit. the bar and " ZIP
Professor Is chair Views like these are hue ,
coming more and more prevalent in o~r
State- Among the proofs of it. | NAV c;,a S
tne iact that our Legislature, with a I;har /;
aiity hardly paralleled in its previous b;s :!
sory. has, within the last five wears, oixan i
SH 600 to the New Hampshire Coileen er d
Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts Vi
Nothing like this last statement. unfo,. !
aately, can be said for the Agricultural Col.
'sss Of Vermont. Our Legislature, which :
''sn'nly ought to be as liberal as that Of a