Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-01-07
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1HE STATE COLLEGE OF AaRlCCLTthE AND TIE
MECHANIC ARTS.
The trustees Of the College Of Agriculture and
the Mechanic arts report year "of faithful effort
by the officers in immediate charge Of the college,
students" They very earnestly renew and press
upon your attention the wants Of the institution
and, especially the necessity for more buildings-a
farmhouse a nd q building to contain chapel. or
assembly room, two or three lecture rooms. and
rooms for the library cabinet collections, appara-
tus and other valuable material; or, instead of
one building, they would have one building for
the chapel and lectule-Iooms, and one, made fire.
proof, for the valuable material of the college.
The assurance which these gentlemen give Of
the absolute necessity for Q building or build
lngs for the purposes they specify, is sufficient to
demonstrate the need Of such accommodations.
The State has formally undertaken, ~ . condi.
ton precedent to the grant from the United
States, to provide sat least one college" for pre-
scrbed objects. The very narrowe0t definition
of such An Institution must include among its es-
sential component parts those which are shown to
be wanting and are sought to be supplied. The
completion of the college, and not its enlarge
ment, is the object the trustees have in view and
which their duty compels them to urge. They
press the claim az o matter of right, and at the
same time express their conviction that, If 1t were
only from self.interest the State should see to 1t
that the college be placed in q condition to do
well the work for which it was founded.
TIE trustees declare that 1923 $50 is the sum
necessary to meet the imperative wants of the col
lege In this sum is included S3, 500 for building
a farmhouse and $1,000 for making bricks
and other preparations for the proposed struc-
ture. The sum includes also 80 500 for the
payment of outstanding bills. The resolve Of the
last legislature making an appropriation in favor
of the college was accompanied with the proviso
that the trustees should not "under any circum-
stances, contract any further debts in behalf OF
said college," The apparent departure from the
direction Of the legislature is, doubt suscePti
BILE Of satisfactory explanation BY the trustees.
The report Of the farm superintendent, giving
in exact detail on account Of the experiments con-
ducted by him and by the students under his su-
pervison, is Of great interest and must be OF direct
value to the farming community.
The college numbers one hundred and fifteen
students. Thirty-hve are in the last class admit
ted-the largest in the history OF the Institution.
The education which they receive is not to be OBJ
tanned elsewhere in the State. Ii is an industrial
education and naturally attracts those students
who are inclined to engage in industrial pur-
suits. Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts are the
instrumentalties by which the resources OF Maine
are to be developed. Through their quickening
influences her fertile intervals and hillsides are TO
be made gardens, and her sterile acres rendered
productive her idle rivers, forced to labor; her
railroads, laden to groaning with the weight of
traffic; the rocks that rib her coasts and hills,
transmitted into gold; her winters, warmed to
summers. No fatalistic trust in the spontaneous
rssmits wb;ch ara acknowledced to he atts;nabie
should be permitted to usurp the legitimate do
main of persistent intelligent, weil-directed ef-
fort
The method which has succeeded elsewhere,
must lead to success here. The history Of the
past half century, the golden age of industry and
wealth production, is filled with examples Of the
efficacy of special schools of the industrial arts
to directly promote the prosperity OF Q country.
The competition Of to-day between countries and
states is one of skill far more than of natural re-
sources.
The aggregate of the fifty Young men whom
this college will annually send from its lecture
rooms, labor atores and fields of experiment., will
in few years constitute power in the State,
sensibly stimulating all its productive energies.
But they can use their acquired knowledge, and,
what is more worth, their trained habits Of obser
vation and powers of intelligent study and expert
ment for the benefit of the State only in coopera-
tion There must be combined effort in order to
secure the symmetrical development of all the
energies and advantages at command Capital
must exert itself to retain these and other young
men, by opening to them congenal fields for the
exercise of the various talents and capabilities
which they possess, and for which they win seek
profitable employment wherever it may be found.
Nv belief tina. the policy of the State in found
ing this institution was a wise one, and that the
public good demands its completion and support,
leads me to urge You to look with favor upon the
appeal which the trustees now make to you.
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A""'e ~ "h AMI mn DEF ~ "a" w. ~
The fashion of decryng Maine as an agricultu-
raj State is fast dying out.
The lively and increasing interest which is ex-
hbed in efforts to improve farming indicates that
it is an interesting and profitable pursuit. The
best breeds of cattle are sought for. The labor
saving machines, which have done so much to
tighten farm work, are everywhere in use. EX
permsnts are made and inquiries instituted. A
wholesome curiosity welcomes new ideas. The
papers and discussions of the agricultural socie
lies, and the societies devoted to specalties con-
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