Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-09

ary colleges all the work and instruc
tion preparatory for thu
learned professions. A wis
economical coordination Of rh'
parts of our higher educational ma
I chinery will doubtless follow th'
opening OF our state university, o.
which this is an integral part, so thai
no department need duplicate tht
work OF another.
II will be as impossible then, for q
student to enter here and receive
special and profitable preparation for
one Of the so-calied learned proies-
sions, as IL will be for student 10 fit
himself for the profession Of mechan-
ical engineering in an established law
school The industries are to-day far
more profitable and certain than the
learned professions; our people
Z throughout the south are recognizing
Y that fact, and the demand for that
I practical education which teaches
I Min0s and industrial and business
| professor, rather than merely books
and theorics Is rapidly modifying the
courses of instruction of the old
| literary institutions even, as well as
creating new schools OF science, in
| dustry and design. The great mass
of our population are under the neces-
/ sity of requiring for their children an
ducution which does not turn them
7 out as college graduates, helpless, de
! pendent and unframed in any means
of making IA livelihood, with even the
rudiments of their future avOcation TO
learn. And IL is this demand which
is shaping and developing the techni-
cal schools which are multiplying all
over the land, and which must inev-
/ itably, a. with the great powers OF
| Europe, st no distant day greatly mod
/ ify the present thoroughly impractical
( course OF instruction of our common
schools, especially in the great centres
OF population.
ATTENDANCE.
| The session opened October .,
| 1882, with Il full attendance. The mum
/ Der Of matriculates to date is 200: the
| average attendance about lS5. There
| could have been great many more
students matriculated had there been
dOrinitorY rooms for their accommuda-
/ ton The number of pay students
seeking an education here, and de-
/ barred entrance from want of dormito-
4 ries, Is a fact which deserves the careful
consideration of your eXcellency and
! the legislature. Two hundred stu
( dents Is the present limit of the capac-
/ ity OF the college.
I OF tho students admitted 100 have
( been pay, and so state students. For
I the past two years 80 popular has the
college been that 1t could readily have
been filled with pay stadcata only.
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT..
The theoretical instruction (by text
/ bopks and lectures) IL embraced in the
( following departments, each in charge
/ of a separate professor, viz: English
/ Language, History and Literatue:
/ Physics and Chemistry; Ancient and
! Modern Languages; Agriculture and
I Horticulture; Mathematics; Mcchan-
les, Engineering and Drawing, The
I president gives instructions Ia Book
! Keeping, and lectures on Laws and
/ Forms of Business.
The progress oil classes this wear has
been very satisfactory to the faculty
and the students have both in studies
and conduct fully met their eXpectn.
tons. The detailed COURSES of instruc-
ton will be found in the accompany.
ing catalogue, copies of which viii
also be fnrnishcd members of the new
Legislature for their information.
AGRICULTURAL. DEPARTMENT.
Forty-one students have entered thi.
course OF studies and duties, five onl,
pay, the rest state. This department
cannot possibly be made either very
useful or attractive to students unless
u be filled up in manner worthy o
this great state and its greatest Indus
Try In no science or industry is oh
ject teaching more essential than In
agriculture; 1t Is preposterous TO Mt
tempt 10 teach it in any other way
and this college can never accomplish
any results OF value as I'm agricultural
college until students can here have
( daily before their eyes the latest and
best tools, implements, machines, and
all the materials necessary for inn.
proved agriculture, horticulture and
! stock-breeding. Here should h,
displayed, US fast rs invented, every
Improvement TO cotton gins
thrcshers, mowers, ploughs, sugar
machinery, and everything else of In.
tcrest to the planter. While n taste
for fine stock, and II knowledge of the
value OF blooded animals, should bt
inculcatcd by typical animals of tn,
purest strains of cattle, sheep, hogs
horses,
The present outfit in this depart
+ ment Is a disgrace 20 the state and col
/ lege. The only animals the state ha,
( ever purchased for this Agricultural
/ college are four work mules mot q
COW, hog, sheep OF horse Indeed. not
j enough money has ever been given Il
( fence properly sufficient land for ennal