Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-02-25

tries of our country. Many Of them have
positions offered them before they com
plese their senior years. and 70 on,
| TO enter upon the practice OF theiI
professions. The Institution must have
| this building to 70 on with these de-
partments probably and successfully
This matter has been discussed most
completely in the newspapers.
The next article in the appropriation 10 for
. foundry building, $500. There has been
established q: the college in accordance
with . long g-cherished idea Of the Institution
. practical department in connsctisn with
mechanical engineering, . foundry and
work shop, the work being done there in .
practical way by the students in both these
departments. This building il Of . cheap
kind built - machine ahops are practically
made for the different Rorts Of man-
ufacturing in this State. The
appropriation i, small, and the
committee who have Investigated
this matter find it is needed in the college
in order to carry out that work.
The mex. item 10 "Cases in Coburn Hall
for natural history. 5000" Ills grow
ing department. Specimens are constantly
accumuls,ing. The scientist 10 never satis-
ded with his work. 1t 10 objective work
He has to have specimens Of ali kinds and
descriptions, and il il necessary that they
be preserved. There are large number
Of these specimens packed away in boxes
where they are NOT properly cared for. and
IL is desirable to have cases where they can
be kept, the same as other papers and
documents.
TOOL shed, $500" Tools accumulate
there. There 10 no proper place
to keep them. A great variety Of
agricultural Implements are given to
the institution. Implement manufacturers
take pleasure in giving specimens of their
work. Some are used and some not. They
have been KEEP. in the basement Of Coburn
hall. 1t is damp there, not suitable to
keep iron and steel property.
"Hose carriage, stand pipe for FIRE pro-
lection" This matter has been under
consideration for several years. In &C
eordsnce with former appropriation your
trustees have expended the money apprc-
pristed. They have now a pumping sta
ton. A we'll was bored and collected
water from the depths Of the earth by
means of wind power. This not being
sufficient, in accordance with the last ap.
preparation Of $4,000. steam pumping works
were placed at the river and they now
have q complete supply. We have COM
pleted with the exception of + stand
pipe, fire service equal to any in the
State; but it is incomplete without the
standpipe as we cannot establish q sufii.
cient reservoir of water without stand
pipe. There WAS no appropriation for
hose and hose carriage but the managers
OF the college thought it necessary and
arrangements were made at once for the
necessary hose. l thought myself, as q
trustee, that should not do my duty to
the State, even if there was not An appro-
priation. If it was overlooked. used my
influence to place it there At once and it
has been placed there. These two mat
te-s are simply business propositions. Now
with reference to the last item of the ap-
propristion DAIRY building S2500." You
know there has been a great deal said
in this State about what the college at
Orono was doing for agriculture. II is not
necessary for me to reiterate my position
on this matter over and over again as
have from year to year for the last Is
years. l have always maintained and main
tain today thst this was . college estab-
lished in accordance with the language of
the act which established it, for the benefit
Of the industrial classes; and l have al
ways considered as the benefit intended in
that act the fact that 1t was possible for it
to admit the youth Of the industrial classes;
and when any person goes beyond that and
ssys that the youth Of Maine are to be di-
rec.ed in what they shall do after they are
educated further than the actual ten
denotes of education may direct, say
they have gene beyond the province
of school, college or Legislature. | main
tain that the college at O,ono does its good
10 the State Of Maine in the fact that it fur
nishes opportunity to our boys to receive q
high order Of education, such ~ they
could not Otherwise. 1t 10 a new depart
ure, development Of modern education
Of the last 20 years, this teaching of the
practical sciences. We live in a practical
age. 1t is such institutions A. this which
makes our times what they are. We live
by object teaching in day when the pow
er of steam is developed to the utmost,
when The power Of electricity is rapidly
developing, when all the hidden resources
of the earth. itsj vegetable and
mineral products are being rapidly
developed. This it is that the
State college at Orono was established to
perpetuate, aod to educate men in these
lines of study and of action. When it is
argued that this college has not educated
so many farmers, blacksmiths, miIlers,
taiiors, ETC., I say it has educated 90 many
men Of science. 1t has given these students
opportunity for advanced study in the
sciences. It is a scientific college. We
live in scientific age. II hsye been forci-
bly, reminded this morning Of what the
spirit Of the institution a Orono Is doing in
the line of advanced science. young
man who has grown up under the influence
Of that institution and who has breathed the
air of science from his birth, has without
the solicitation Of himself o, his friends, but
from the result Of his own work in the study
of the science OF botany, although not
seventeen years old, hardly past his six
teerth birthday, been elected member
of the Botanical Club Of New York City,
the highest in this country. That young
man has added thirty plants of Maine
grosth. never before known, to Gtay's
Manual as revised by DR.. Watson. He has
been in correspondence for a number Of
years with the Harvard herbarium, the
leading herbatium, perhaps, in the world,
and has been adding plants to the lists of
the m 1st eminent scientists in the world.
Lately he has been offered. what was an
early ambition and is now great surprise to
himself, . position which he hsd no
expectation of obtaining for years TO come,
and which is to be obtained once in q life
tin,e-he has hsd the position offered him TO
90 to Harvard and take the management in
part of that herbarium, This illustrates
the work which this college is doing. and
what il 10 going to do in the future with its
increased facilities and enlarged endow-
ments Now as to this matter of the dairy
from which have for moment dgressed.
The most trying post ever occupied is
that of trustee at the State College. No
one knows what may be said Of him. When
take up = newspaper, hardly know what
10 to come next; and il it were not for
the fact that have received an
education from that institution,
would have resigned long ago. /
have felt it my duty - citizen Of Maine
and graduate OF the institution to stand
by it through ali criticism. There has
never been time in my Judgement when
the professional men in this State. the
lawyers, doctors, cieryymen, mechanics and
merchants have not favored the college At
0rono. There never was a time when they
did not see the advantages Of An advanced
scientific study. But ii has been question
for all time among the agricultural classes
whether TINS Institution were profitable or
not. Nov the agricultural classes in this
State are marching ahead, and they are fast
beginning to see the advantages Of their
State college of agriculture and the
mechanic arts, and in accordance With their
progressive ideas they have come up 10 the
idea Of dsiry schools. The trustees of this
college have been importuned by repre-