The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

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ident OF the board of trustees. Judge
J. ID. Thomas, and the president, Gen.
John Il. James, OF the Agricultural
and Mechanical College, live miles
from Bryan, the STATESMAN makes
the following extracts:
SiR--I have the honor herewith to
tvRnsmit the report OF the y. and NJ.
College OF Texas.
BY this report il Will be seen that
the college might have been filled
with students who would pay Tor
their boarding, fuel, lights, etc, but
for the fact that the legislature has
reqSired preference to De given to
state students to the number of
ninety-three, who pay nothing to the
college.
The salary or $500 year allowed
the professors contemplates the addi-
ton of the use of residence Tor each
oftEem. There are. however, two OF
the professors now without any place
of residence. This is Il great inconven-
1ertce 20 them. 1t IS believed that the
state should provide means to place
them 0n an equality with the other
professors by supplying them each
with comfortable dwelling house.
The session opened October 2, 1882,
with y full attendance. The number
Of nnatriculates to date is 200; the av-
erage attendance about lS5. There
could have been atgreat many more
students matFiculated had there been
dormitOry rooms for their accommo-
dalton. The number of pay students
seeking ~ edcatiOn here, and debarred
entrance from want of dormltorleS, Is
a fact which deserves the careful con-
Ridoratiou of your eXcelency and the
leRislaJ,lre. Two hundred students is
the present limit of the capacity OF
tho college.
OF the students admitted 100 have
been pay, and eighty state students.
For the past two years SO popular has
the college been that it could readily
have been filled with pay students
only. The students throughout the
session take part in all the farm opera
lions.
The head of this department, Prof.
9. q. GeOrgeSon, submits the follow
ing estimate Tor improvements:
TO fence the college land ..... $500
For fine stock OF cattle and sheep. 1900
For stables and yards for the
6tock. .............,,...... lUUO
Fora proper Toulouse and inn
plcnenr shed, quarters for hired
men and farm office. ......... 1900
For small greenhouse and
plants. 49,. ............ 1900
TO salary for a gardener-mnu-
ally ....- ..--......-........ 6OO
s95OO
So intimately connected with agri-
culture the mechanic arts and their
related industries, are the branches of
chemistry and physics, that ali proper
efIotts are made to give them promi-
nence in the courses of instruction of
4 AL the Leading industrial and scientific
kschoolS OF technology. Our laborato-
kies now own about $500 worth of
lscfui apparatus. We have no room
at al suitable for students work.
without which chemical study
amounts to little. The small room
in which rs many as ten students
have worked at qualitative analysis
AZ one time has no ventilation, no
water taps, no gas, no sinks. no desks
and no closets for each student. III a
building be furnished it can be prop
- .triy fitted up for the thorough instruc-
t,on Of thirty OF forty students (prob-
ABLY as many rs we need to provide
for) for between 5000 and $1,000
For 4 larger number the additional
cost would be from $50 to SO per stu
dent. It buildings now here could be
altered aud adapted, the cost on that
account would probably not exceed
<l1u0. II special building be erected
(which should by all means be done,
fhA cost should not be less than
< El2Oo0 Water might be supplied
from large cisterns and head given
for the use of aspirants, etc, by rails
ing II with small steam pump.
estimate the total amount needed by
our laboratories including building al