Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-03-25

belonp 10 the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The classifications here are ra'her
meagre.
There are nj the Illinois school elev-
en- separate departments or coirse,
the literary course ranking tDe ntghes'
so high that the industrial uhiNeisl-
~ can hardly be said TO be ggrtc"Hu- /
raj, a. compared with the Texas cor
lege. ,
Gov. Collum evidently thinks the
Industrial University prominently
"the peoples University" ana great
success. Regent Peabody, rema.king
on the conclusions drawn from Table
G. percentage of students i'll different
courses says: "To such as deem IN
struction in agriculture the iirst, last
ana only duty of the University, the
showing will certainly be unsatisiac-
tory. Unfavorable comparisons with
other Institutions organized strictly on
the agricultural basis, have been made
and will be repeated
The Galveston Netrs did not publish
these "unfavorable comparisons"
Speaking Of the a. and Nj. College,
says Gov. Roberts:
"The Agricultural College, formerly
literary high school in effect, has
been transformed i1r,o an agricultural
and mechanical college in fact, and its
rooms are all full of students"
President James says: "Agricultu-
raj department: Forty-one students
have entered this course of study and
duties. five only pay, the rest are state
students. This department cannot
possibly be made either very useful or
attractive to students unless it be fit
ted up in manner worthy of the.
great state and its greatest industry.
The present outfit in this department
Is disgrace to the state and college.
The only animals the state has ever
purchased for its agricultural college,
are four work mules not hog, sheep
or horse. Indeed, nAt enough money
has ever been giyenyJ fence properly
sufficient land for Fmall farm, to say
nothing of pastures"
These four work mules seem TO be
the same, over which the former presi-
dent OF the college and the professor of
agriculture used ito strive for the mys-
terry before every meeting of the di-
rectors, till il became a college Joke.
"Oh, who nor controls the Inules?N
do not desire to obtrude Iny views
upon you individually. The presents
ton | have made, has been done in
the interest of my adopted state; and
because feel and have for years felt,
that the press, generally, has lent its
powerful influence to pull down rather
than to build up our home institu-
tions. Neither am ! surprised that
the young men of Texas, and even
their fathers, are led to believe that we
have nothing in Texas worthy of their
attention., Hence, / can see through
the gratuitous advertising of ipstitu-
lions in other states by oar press an
,eScuse for our young men aud women,
too, crowding these schools at q dis
lance.
Not OF the students. but Of the
grm0otes OF the Illinois Indus
rial University, Texas has four
.r u The three haJtdred tsad tlpe.
tr people seem in regard tn-taif,
INSTITUTIONS nnd professors 81 distant
les 20 verify rne Scriptures 81 Sc,
faNfa> walking rs Trees Texas with
r. wonderful eXpanse OF prairie, AM
peauiiar atmosphere, throws around
I. ana about us a natural mirage, and tn,
coisequent mental phdntasDadgoriCt
G1sn, and institutions, too, not on
( nWn-are all great in the inrerse rati,
Of their distance. Give Texas com
pete system with all her department
and NIL her institutions cared for
made u harmonious whole by sucl
care, wait a little, let the press len
its sympathy and its influence, and
better comparison" better eXhibi
may be expected. The pulling dow
theory has been eXhaustively pra,
tised. Let us try the building-up pla
for Il season. ALEX. HoGG.