The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-02
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE INTERESTS.
Tbe state Raard Ut SUPERVISORS beciae
Vet tn Establish the College nj

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College met yesterday in The Executive office
b;s Excslleney, Gov. Nichols, presiding and
quorum present,
In answer to an inqsiry the Secretary stated
. that there we're number Of applications for pro
fessarsbps, ETC., that
HAD NOR BEEn ACTED Upon.
The matter of All election OF president and
faculty was again brought MP for discussion
when, In order, az he said 10 arrive at the con.
illusions formed by the members Of the board.
Gen. Brent moved that the board go into an cleo.
ton for the officers named.
Upon call, the minutes Of the meeting OF the
day previous were read, corrected and approved.
Gen. Brent added TO bic motion "that the board
elect professors of English, ancient and modern
languages, mathematics. physics, and agrieul-
tural chemistry; that their salaries be fixed at
$500 per annum, and that the salary OF the pro-
lessor Of agricultural chemistry be --- per an
| mum,
DR.. Ryland opposed the III ,tion. He did not
tbink the board could. with the means al heir
disposal, establish
AsuHDoI OR COLLEGE
that would reflect any credit upon the State. He
thought that to establish school as II should be
|
limited amount, 10000 or more, ut the disposal Of
the board IL could not establish anything better
than third or fourth class institution. He
wits an much III esrnest as any one In establishing
school, but thought it not best to go Into an
| organic ation until something was had TO estab-
| lish an institution that The people Of The State
would be proud of. He wanted the very beet
men that the country afforded az instructors and
then they could make it q success.
| With an organization Of that kind they could
go TO the Legislature and
ASH ron ASSISTANCE
II they needed IL, but without II they could not.
| There was no State In The Union, the speaker
said where the science OF agriculture could be as
we'll applied az here in Louisiana. Here the pro-
ducers realized but 80 per cent from one product
| sugar cane-@when 1t had even been shown fully
per cent had been obtained from beets by seien-
| tito appliances In France.
Other comparisons that were forcble we're
| made by DIR. Rylsnd, who urged the board not
| to go into The organization OF the school until
| the members were satisfied they were prepared
| 10 make II grand success. Bone, he said, had
| fears that Congress would take from the State
the small pittancs II had donated for the school,
| but there wss not the slightest danger Of that
| being done. Ii the board would establish good
school IL
WOULD COMMAND THE RESPECT
Of every body In the state and country, but 1t
would be an impossibility TO organize u In two
months, and nobody on the board would think
even Of organizing farm properly In that time.
The State University was, he claimed, started In
| that way, aud now IL wss in debt $4,000.
| Gov Nichols remarked that he had no idea
that the amount aoeruing from the interest bear
| ing bonds donated BIZ the United States would
l.. Nj
lsw creating the board ~ mandatory The only
question then was one OF feasibility as TO the
proper time to open the sobool. II would be
difficult TO get professors to come here with the
funds OF
THE BOARD TIED UP,
and an those professors would have TO be at some
expense in removing their families, he did not
| see how the board could pledge anything until
the pending suit was settled.
| Mr.. CRANKY took q different view and thought
that with some amendments to Gen. Brents mo-
| ton that the school couh be organized. He
would amend by making one chair for n professor
OF engineering and military science, aud In con-
| nection Herewith named "a competent several
tions contingent upon what the board could
realize. This would leave but two or three to be
provide for In any other way. He thought the
school should be started and the beginning made
at once, and would also amend Gen. Brents mo
ton by making the professor OF agricultural
chemistry the supervisor OF the college farm also.
Gen. Brent supported his motion, referring to
the beginning made by the Smithsonian Institute,
which was by small endowment by Smithson, |
and at that time Congress would not appropriate
anything 10 help IL along. II rose gradually, !
however, to its present standing, and by that
precedent he thought II perfectly feasible to be-
admit Of He referred TO the act passed by the |
Legislature, the fourth section Of which, he |
thought, prescribed ia detail even |
THE COURSE OF STUDIES
for the college, and thought that and other pro-
visions made IL peremptory upon the board to /
act at once In the matter of the organic .tion.
Gov, Nichols stated that in the selection Of |
officers, were any chosen from abroad, the board
must bind itself absolutely or oonditonally, and
he did not zee how that could well be done at
present.
Dr. Williams thought the financial question the \
only obstacle, and thought the board could, II 1t |
chose, fund
THE SEMINARY BONDS.
which would give enough funds to start on.
DIR. Ryland did not think the seminary bonds |
could be funded by any action The board. He did
not want to make proposition to any professor |
when II could not be carried out in good faith.
His whole heart was in this subject, but he be-
lieved it would BIO better to wait even FIVE years
and make q success then, rather start now and |
fail He had studied the question at some length
and for two years. and knew what would have
TO DE ENCOUNTERED.
He was not sure ABOUT the seminary ponu6 or
what their cash assets would be. Without the |
pending litigation the board would have about
$4,000, and in one year the interest accruing on
the bonds, ETC., would swell that sum TO $4,000.
when the school could be established, and upon
basis that would justify them in going before the
Legislature, IL 10 was found necessary, and ask
for assistance. In view OF all these facts he Of
fered as substitute for the pending motion that
the board do not go into an election until it's next
meeting. Carried.
Dr Roland them offered n resolution autbor-
zing the treasurer OF the board te take charge OF
ANY PROPERTY OR FUNDS
belonging to the late Agricultural and Mechanical
College. Carried.
Mr.. Harris moved the appointment of COM
mite OF three to draft a schedule of studies to
be pursued at the College. Carried, and Messrs.
Harris, Ryland and Lusher were named as the
committee
Mr.. CRANKY moved that W. L. sandiford be ap-
pointed custodian of the University property in
Rspdes parish, with power to collect rents, effect
leases etc.; also, that the vice president be au-
thOrizad and inatruc' ed to take charge of the