The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-04-14
'"r Hs' .cnlturnl College. -

q ~ carr yinE oub tDe lhlJhtlehH VI
nose who intrustcd the national funds to
IS ',ecpiug, VIC publish the following from
re Vermont Farmer:
1t ia high time that the farmers Of this
state were preparing to take efficient ac.
ton in the next Legislature upon the
question whether they arc to be pcrma.
nently dcirauded out of the national ap.
for an industrial college.
On the fourth page Of this weeks
FARMER we print speech, delivered be-
fore the legislature Of 1S64-5 by Henry
Lane, Of Cornwall, that is well worth the
reading by every one into whose hands it
may come. In that speech is foretold,
with almost the exactness of inspiration.
the condition of things that now exists, as
the result of the annexation Of the Agri.
cultural College to the Burlington Uni
versity. Says Mr.. Lane, land we repeat
his words here because oil their prophetic
truth --"lf the fund created by he sale
of lands granted to the state is disposed
of by connecting the college contempla.
ted by that act with Burlington college,
as merely an appendagc to that institu.
ton, | believe that the agricultural de.
partment will be absorbed by the other
departments of the older college, and ter
years hence hardly any one connected
with the college, viii know that there is
such an institution in name or fact as the
Vermont Agricultural College"
hp tho III ,l-a l. i
paper by Judge l.ynde,of Williamson,
in which, incidentally, he speaks Of this
great abuse of the agricultural fund with
proper Indignation. In the discuss on
before the Board Of Agriculture which
followed Judge Lynde's paper, aud which
was participated in by Hon +. d. Doug
las, Col. j. b. Mead, Prof Collier aud
Others, and excited a lively interest among
the largo number of intelligent farmers
present, the venerable Judge, who was
a fellow member with Mr.. Lane Of the
Legislature in which tho job by which this
money was allotted to Burlington college,
was successfully carried,) explained how
the thing was effected The farmers 10
the legislature were many OF them, mis-.
led, and some perhaps Indifferent in regard
to this money, but no. by any means all
Of them, as has been asserted. Those
who, like Mr. Lane and Judge Lynde,
uoro dos;rors no. r.o .ho,,ll ha.,
industrial school tLat .honll b., .omo,L;na
more than name, urged that the bill
Incorporating an agricultural college
;ranrenlon ;ns,;tu,,onN shorIl no. 49,
on;ra lorocr snr, ,h., s50 0oG =, Lo
r,;so1 Ly no loc,l;,y wboro il ,ros ~ ho
established pnt rho colloco lohLr s.;d
JnJoc IynIe WIN Tho do1;hnroto n r
nosc IF ,Ioyen,;na tlo OFT ro., ,,oi,,, H.
r. oror.t;on GO, ,6o s,n, ,.loooJ e elon
0o0 wa r7o,;ro rr ,h;s ,.a. ,roll 49,
dcrs,ood in ,bo lso;slatnrc ,n1 tbn Gnal
Gv;ng IF thc en,n - tb,I.'annn+ ,r.s rn.
dorstooI 70 ho in c.cI ,Lo Ioco., 81 ,bo
effort 70 establish M ;naon.,1ont colloao
and ,bo c,.o,;n, ~ ,ho ,ra,. r,r ,La IN
nasscd hy the snccccJin, lc,;.l,t,,ro oon.
ferr;nc The rnnd unon ,bc Dnrl;n,ta,
colleon
RI ,bis ,vos M, tho ,,1or ,o ,,;ol.
srv at work in The no,,on rho Co.
a., nror;5a1 ,hat r. - ~, ~
loco ;ncornora,od sho"li c,l , -. ' o,, .J,
r;,l ,ha ,orn,s ar tla ".;a.t so"i II
Ioa;s,atu,o 'ho,fJ ha.o ' .ha .. '""' ,.''
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of,ho GOA n no soaauI I'. Wv, H.. ',,: =
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,horah ,hor ;n,ordoa 80 10 ;ms. ~ , 'Lo
hovo doHo wb,t aooa !. Iool. i;;. IT, " " ;
"A n,ho, haro 49,. 1eYn9 ,yio
Rrrl;naton oollono ,lano ,.;,i, n,, r'n1 >
For o;gbt ro0rs :, ho~ hoon ro (l, ,"',I
;ntoroa, of;t a,aarn, , nn. ,a,sno ,~1
y .ano a' use AZ" ~ WV" 'e1
wha, Co.. al ,t;s 800 ,I S'''' ..' '"'
haro , ,Y . 80" ' '"e' I W I',''- u
oo;ro1 c',m H., ,.Lo IA 49,
sro,',i;na ~ l. c,,;,aS e. IN t, , 'r,
and snoe;aI ,iao1;nn ,ho r,ain f,o, s.aaI-,
co.,h ,sa, prar9 rNui1r o.,,r.s-,,i ~,
,ore ,bs meo,;nr .ddrnssad hr IaIoo
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7, hos hoon sra,, ~ o"i , ' 'or "'''y
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adnca,;on ~ ,ho rsn,n l;"a 81 ,, ,o' n
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,ho o,na; ,u N ~oS;on,I -;e'..oc 49,, ',a
no,v nrntasior,h;ns oa5o~nd hn 49,. r'nJ
uoro n'ndo ;n,, sunh ;,doc1 . aus ' r;aL
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