The Press., 1888-06-21
LOCAL TOpICs-PENN,D AND sCIssORED
sroRRs SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT.

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 sToRRs SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT.
 The attendance from abroad at the grad uation exercises of the Storrs school on Friday was, as expected, interfered with by the counter attraction at Brooklyn on Thursday, which drew many thousands of people from all parts of the state, includ- ing many who would have otherwise been at Mansfield, but found that the hubbub, dust, rush and press of the former occa- sion with the tedious stage ride over the hills too fatiguing to make 8 repetition of the days experience in Mansfield pleas ant thing to contemplate. The absence of Gov. Lounsbury was one of the drawbacks resulting from the Brooklyn affair.
 But interest in the Storrs school suficed to draw together many of it's friends. AS the hour of noon approached the roads stations were crowded with vehicles. Of the trustees Hon. E. H. Hyde of Stafford, the vice president, Hon. w. E.. Simonds of Hartford, Hon. J. M. Hubbard of Middle town, Henry 0. Mills of Milford, and T. s. Gold of West Cornwall were present, the only absentees being Gov. Lounsbury, Hon. J. P. Barstow of Norwich, whose first ab- sence from these exercises was caused by i'll health, and J. H. Hale of Glastonbury, who had only been appointed upon the board the day before to fill 8 vacancy. Others present were Architect Gardner of Springfield, Hon. l.. B. Brainard of Hart ford, Prof. Pratt of Norwich, recently of the Hartford Theological Seminary, E. H. Lathrop of Vernon,J. B. Morrow of Mans field and other well known persons. While the attendance was large, even for grove meeing, too large for the capacity of any ordinary assembly room, yet visitors com mented on the fact of it's being so largely made of those who came from adjoining towns, and the noticeable lack of proper interest that Mansfield always seems to show in this school, which her own citizens have so generously endowed, which so Ger. tainly has a bright future before it, and from which so much is expected for the elevation of the farmer, as we'll as his in struction.
 | The beginning of the exercises was de layed somewhat by business meeting and prolonged conference between the trustees and Architect Gardner relative to new buildings being erected, so that the after noon exercises were not completed wher the time had come for many to leave. Also the mutterings of distant thunder clouds and at one time a quite brisk sprinkle from the flank of shower passing over Willing ton kept the audience disturbed, and drove many from the grounds.
 The school graduated nine pupils thi' year, each of whom read an essay as pel program published in this paper. Each es say was upon toplc relating in some de gree to agriculture, and if any seemed dul it was because of choice of dry subject He is progressive farmer indeed who sa in that audience last Friday and did no get valuable idea from some bright young stndent enthusiastic from recent stud. and full of the topic which had most en grossed him, and his observations, whethe got from text books or from experiment. il field or laboratory. "The Relation of Plant to Animals, "Sources of Energy," "BAc teria, Animal Nutrition" ''The Stud. of Insects, Chemistry, its relation to Ae riculture," "How to make the Farm Al
 tractive," ''The relation of Agriculture t the Formation of Character" and "Plan Nutrition" were subjects treated, briefly of course, but some of them extremel , we'll ; all intelligently.
 , Prof. Atwater's address was made unde disadvantage, and many were leaving i fear of rain, but the energy and enthusiasm } of the speaker held most auditors Tn
 Prof. is one of the brightest agriculture
 instructors in New England, bred fam CT, worker in the inception and creatio of the Connecticut experiment station, tn first one to be established on this cont nent, and now before it's second decade ( life is far advanced, patterned after by 1 other states, and its use so demonstrate
 that Uncle Sam has made it one of his Der efciaries. The farmer of today has an
 the farmer of many successive to-mol rows will have reason to praise Prof. Atwate for his good work in behalf of agriculture
 Interspersed along the program WE singing by ladies, including two solos b
 Miss Jennie M. Farwell of Mansfield,
 superior vocalist.
 The school will begin the next year witl out change of instructors, the fall term be ginning Sert. 24th.
 The new laboratory, almost on the sum init of the rise in the rear of the schoC
 building, is completed. It is in Quee Anne cottage style, though quite plair ? with few angles in the roof, and none ( these of the kind which roof menders s abhor, and gives great amount of TOOL
 on the ground floor. It is we'll planned fc it's purpose. The foundation is madi north of this, for small building for th experiment station. All buildings herea
 ter, for school and dormitory purposes, wi be erected on line with these buildIngl stretching southward alongth crest of th
 hill. The present board of trustees fave the building of system of cottages, at il , tervals as needed, rather than to have th 7 entire school and dormitories n one built ing, thus dividing pupils and instructor into several families around a central schoC Q building. This plan can be carried out { r convenience, without subjecting the stat
 to great expense within any one yea
 Work has already begun upon the ne
 barn, near the farm house, north of til
 school.
 A CoMMoN-SENsE REMEDY.-In the matte } of curatives what you want is something tn
 will do it's work while you continue to
 uonrs-a remedy that will give Yon no incO1