The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-08-31

II Inc Free Press is sure we ought
to know better than to repeat what it
calls "the old and often denied false
hood that no more professorships have
been maintained by the University and
State Agricultural College than were
maintained by the University before the
union. Our authority for the state
ment was the writer in the Boston
Globe to whom we referred in our no
tice of the matter, and whose statement
on that poin: remained mcontradicted
in the reply to his article which was
published in subsequent number of
the same paper. A reference to the
last catalogue of the University and
State Agricultural College shows that
our error consisted in using the word
"professorship" instead of professor"
We should like to have the Free Press
say precisely how many more bona fide,
full-blooded professors are now engaged
in the University and Agricultural Col
lege than were to be found in the facul-
ty of the University before the union of
the Agricultural college with it-leav-
ing out of the enumeration the casual
and uncertain lecturers from other in
situations whose names help TO fill up
the catalogue. Multiplying professor
ships" is easy business for any col
lege, but ii is very different matter to
secure and pay for specially qualified
men to fill them. The fact is, not one
of the professorships at Burlington
leaving out the medical course-is out
side the regular curriculum Of any clas-
steal college in the country. There is
not one professorship covering any
ground pertaining wholly to agriculture
to be found named in the catalogue
To be sure, the course processes to make
provision for "quantitative," "qualita-
tive" and other kinds of analysis, and
also agricultural chemistry, but since
Burlington has dismissed the only men,
Der of its faculty interested in those
matters, it is difficult for any outsider to
see that those parts of the course are, or
are intended to be, anything but fimsy
pretenses. These is nothing in the
history of the institution, in the dis
position of its faculty or in the cur
riculum, to show that any return is
made for the $4,000 year income be-
longing TO the State Agricultural Col
lege.
~ "The Hotel and Travellers Jour-
nal' is the name of paper that is pub
lished in New York and circulated on
cars, steamboats,, ETC., pretending to give
reliable information that will be useful
to guide tourists in regard to routes,
hotels, and pleasant places to stop,
etc. In the issue for August 20 1t says,
"Our correspondent who has recently
made tour through Vermont, writing
under date of the 22, dsays, "-here fol.
lows description of the White Noun
tain train, unnecessary TO give oul
readers, and then goes on to mention
some of the hotels by the way, in
which description he says, "There are
not more than twenty guests at Lake
Dunmore, Salisbury, vt. The Bread
Loaf Inn at Ripton, VT, is not so full AZ
last year. The Addison House at Mid
dlebury, VT, is deserted. The new
management is not success. Tho
house is not well kept, and the table II
poor" II must be magnanimous cor
respondent that would state the case Of
Lake Dunmore without mentioning tho
fact that the hotel was burnt there just
as the season was opening, with pros
pect of a very full house, and with
very limited means have had all the
patronage they could provide for since