Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-12-10
UNIVERSITY IMPROVEMENTS.

UNIVERSITY IMPROVEMENTS
New Rooms in the Agricultural Building
on Main street.
The veterinary department at the Uni
versity is this year in more commodou
quarters and furnished with more complete
equipments than heretofore. In addition to
tho lecture and recitation room there is
now finished off dissecting room, furnished
with large table 9x4 feet i'll surface and
~ feet high. Here during the past term the
agricultural students have anatomical a
cow two horses, and cats by tho dozen.
There are facilities for class OF II at pres
ent, and soon the equipment is to be in
creased by a second table, duplicate of the
one now IN use In the lecture room Prof.
ftlch has cabinet containing large colec-
ton OF Tho bones of farm animals, including
several very good specimens of diseased
bone. This course affords an excellent OBJ
portunity for young farmers to become
familiar with the diseases and treatment of
farm animals.
After investigating the veterinary de-
parttnent tho visitor is invited to go up
stairs where he steps into spacious room
about 30x11 feet in size, the walls of which
are covered with colored biological charts,
solid looking oak tables. The place is flood
Ell with light from botn side and roof win
dows. THIS is the new biological laboratory,
which is furnished with first-class appara-
tus for biological investigation, including
! ii large microscopes and a magnih-
cent binocular manufactured by
the veteran microscope maker Crouch OF
London. This instrument with its accesso-
ries is said to be worth $500. Instead of
the old limited quarters in the college BALD
! ing the natural science department now has
one Of the best laboratories in this part of
the country, and one which will accommo-
| date 30 students at time. The room is
| soon to be connected by wire with the dyna.
! mo at the mechanical building which will
| afford the students electric light for evening
work. 1t is well worth the while of visit
ors to tde college to inspect these new
rooms.
UNIVERSITY NOTES.
Shaw, '9i, has returned to college.
Thompson, 'y5 has left college and will
| teach school this witer.
The dairy school has 10 students.
Il. r. Davis, SO, has been called home by
the sudden death OF his sister.
The deadly test recitation, suggestive of
mid year examinations, has already begun.
Several of the students accompanied
the Glea and Banjo clubs to the concert at
Vergennss Thursday evening.
The freshmen have begun drill in the
manual of arms.
/ Porouto, 80, is not expected to return to
college this year, on account of i'll health.
Lewis, 1872, is confined to his room with q
severe throat trouble.
Tennis is still the rage. Two OF the
courts were in use nearly all day Saturday
and in spite Of the lateness of the season
were in good condition for playing.
AT college meeting Saturday morning
the students voted TO hold college recep-
ton and a committee consisting OF Martin
and Allen, 'J2 Miller and Crombie. 49,
Armstrong and Mower, "a, Chase aud
Bennett, 80. were appointed to make suit
able arrangements.
+. X. Kyle and Lyman Allen went Sat-
urday to Plattsburgh and made ARRANGE
ments for the appearance of the University
Glee and Bani clubs there Friday evening.
INSPECTING VERMONT'5 MINERALS.
a Swedish Geologl-t Examines the Mar
Bile and Slate nuarrIe, FOR His Govern
ment.
den, delegate to the interna onal geo!osi-
cal congress at Washington, ID. c., last
August, has been in kutiunI and vicinity
for few days Inspecting the marble and
slate quarries, and was in Proctor We Ines
day says the Rutland Herald. He wa, sent
to this country with four others 10y the
Swedish government, and has been travel
ling through the country since the congress,
principally in Canada ana the New Eng
land States, examining tue mineral deposits.
On his return lie expects to make q report
to his government.
In Canada he inspected the phosphate and
iron mines, and from there came to the
granite quarries in Barre, the marble quar-
ries at Swanton, then down to Rutland.
w hen asked his opinion in regard to ' err
mont marble, Mr.. LuuOhoim said that lie
had not studied CT inspected it carefully
enough to express an opinion lie said he
had very little idea Of what the marble
business was in this country, and that il
was conducted on u much larger scale than
he expected. The quarres, he said, were
very different from the marble quarres in
Europe, and the method Of operating here
he thought much more economical II was a
surprise to him that any marble is imported.
THE ST AL PAMS RANK EAiI IRE.