Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-06-19

proven Of course we are unable to
say. But surely this committee should
have informed the legislature in what
this bad management consisted when
it occurred; who was responsible for
it, and what remedy is now necessa-
ry to correct it. Was this bad man
agement all in the past, or does it
continue now? In what department
did il cxist--in the expenditure of the
funds of the College, the course Of
instruction given to students, or the
mode and extent of conducting agri-
cultural experiments Surely if this
committee found bad management
they should have been able to tell
what it was. The truth is, no single
member of the committee ever in
quired into, and now knows nothing
about either the past or present man
agement of the College.
"That its location is n very unde-
sirable one" In what respect pray?
Is it off To one corner of the State {?
Is it located in a sickly or unhealthy
neighborhood ? We are of course mt
loss to know what would const-
tute in the opinion of this particular
committee, desirable location for
State college. But we do know that
a large committee, composed of lead
ing, distinguished and disintercstcd
gentlemen from various parts of the
State, after visiting and fairly and
fully considering every location offer
ed for the State College, selected this
location over all others in consequence
of the many advantages which it pre-
sented and we know further, that it
is most central, healthtul, beautiful
and economical. What advantages
any other possible location could pos
sess over these we are unable to i'm
aginc.
That the building is entirely un-
suited for the purposes for which it
was erected Here again We are left
in the dark, for the committee does
not deigu to inform the legislature, or
the people, in what respect this build
ing is faulty. Is it too large or too
small ? l. it too substantial or too
frail? Is it too high or not high
enough? Has it too many or too few
rooms? l. it the exterior appear
ances or the internal arrangements
that fail to satisfy the architectural
ideas Of this legislative committee?
Are the private rooms of the students,
the recitation rooms, the society halls.
the laboratories, cabinets, the library
rooms, parlors, or the chapel, or all of
them together, that are unsuiied for
the purposes for which they were in
tended? The truth is, larger, more
substantial or more commodious Col
lege building docs not exist in the
State Of Pennsylvania. II is true
that n defect exists rs TO the lighting
of the halls, which is rapidly being
removed. But this very slight defect
is surely not what the members of the
committee had in their minds when
they condemned it as n whole.
"That the agricultural department,
which was intended to be the leading
object of the institution, has never
been n success Here again we are
in sea Of doubt rs to what this i'm
maculate committee means. Do they
refer to the instructions given in the
agricultural counsel to- the students IN
the College, or to the system of expert.
ments in practical agriculture carried
on upon the experimental farms, or to
both No individual member of the
committee was competent or qualified
to judge of either, for the simple
reason they knew nothing about either.
and refused to learn. While at the
College they never inquired what was
taught in the agricultural course or
asked to examine an agricultural stu
dent to know whether he was learning
anything useful in that department.
The committee did not visit any one
of the experimental farms to see for
thanaal yaa trhat tVaa Hasue. H.. -