The Press., 1889-06-27
THE sToRRs AGRICULTURAL sUH5o OIL.

x The school in Mansfield, established by the liberality of now deceased member of the Storrs family, further helped by the continued generosity of one now living, and now fortunate in its full adoption by that most generous foster mother, the state, is in its name fitting monument to family name that is a credit to the town of Mansfield, and to all eastern Connecticut
 Passing from the station at Eagleville just before arriving at the agricultural school the attention is attracted by vast cemetery substantially walled, reaching far back over a sloping hull and comprising enough of the finest moving land to answer the requirements of an ordinary farm. The grounds are well dotted with fine monu- ments. One towering above all on the summit of the hill attracts attention, and on inquiry we are told that it is the Storrs family monument. But as we inquire we find that it is but one of the family monu- ments. Another is the cemetery itself, fenced and put in its present condition and made a free public gift to the town. Another, the agricultural school, whose farm abuts the cemetery, and one of whose neighboring elevations is soon to be crowned with new buildings auxiliary to some smaller ones already erected, and to
 
 side lower down. Another is the Storrs farm, lying beside the school farm, an ob- feet lesson to every pupil with it's fruitful fields, nearly all reclaimed from various conditions of swamp and rock, carried on by the best farmers that money can se- cure, and all under the supervision of a man whose talents have earned a con- petence in distant business marts, but who loves every rood of the farm on which his boyhood was passed, and who loves agri- culture as an artist loves art.
 | And fitting recognition, to round out all has proved another monument. The post office, created for the needs of the school, bears the name of Storrs, by the wishes of the neighbors as we'll as of the school trus. tees. A short, pretty name, which signi fes much.
 It is fine thing for the town of Mans field to secure the location of the states agricultural college, and appreciation oi this fact will grow upon it ill the com. ing years. The town is now thereby wide ly known, not only in Connecticut, but outside. As Connecticut, fifteen years ago, in establishing the first agricultural experimental station in America, thereby set an example to the rest of the country, and secured such recognition of the wis dom of the movers that there are now vel towards hundred such stations in exist ence, so the plan of the Storrs school i' attracting attention everywhere as some thing worthy of copying. Three years ago Secretary Russell of the Massachus etts state board of agriculture at tht Storrs school commencement placed tn, school far in preference of Massachus etts' expensively endowed agricultural col llege at Amherst, and commended its com mon sense plan and its fruits. This wa praise from a discerning man, who hat had opportunities of observation, and who swallowed his own state pride in the utter ance. Of course it is not so much wha Storrs is, is as what it will be. Those fit ted to judge see the scope of the plan o it's founders. It has had struggle for ex istencethus far, ,oppos'd by those who should have been it's friends, chiefly by those wh' recognized its future and were jealous o it's chosen location. One only needs to ge among the zealous boys who have elected to become it's benefciaries and note thei lenthusiasm over farm duties and farm studies, their loyalty to ''Storrs, '" and af lection for its faculty, to be convinced that there was place for just such , school as this is planned to be.
 The class graduated on Friday last con sisted of three pupils only. The class o