The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-02-13
THE COMMITTEES REPORT.
TO the Honorable President Of the
Drona,a Stnfp ,Sea1N{e.

Committee appointed to examine
into the affairs of the State Agri-
cultural College, beg leave to
make the following report:
We visited the College located
at Corvallis and examined into the
affairs of all the departments so
far as the limited time at our dis
posal would permit. We exam
ined into the system O making
appropriations for the different de-
partments, manner of disburse-
ments. etc. The books, checks,
vouchers, requisitions, stubs, cor
respondence and the entire system
of accounts was cheerfully laid
before us by the authorities of the
College, and we find that the books
have been carefully and systemat-
ically kept, and that properly GER
titled vouchers are on file in the
Treasurer's Office for all expendi-
lures made since the school has
been under the State control and
in the hands of the present Board
of Regents. We therefore have
no fault to find with the books.
We beg leave to report further
that we made inquiry into the
workings of the different depart
ments of the College and Expert
ment Station, and believe that
there is evidence on every hand to
show that the management are
striving to educate the students
committed to their care in the
lines of work for which the endow-
ments have been made, and we
believe that the Board Of Regents
are working i'll perfect harmony to
this end.
We believe that the appropria-
tions made at last session Of the
Legislature for the purchase Of
land and the erection of buildings
for the use of the College and Sta
ton, have been wisely and judi
ciOusly expended.
We find that the increase of
students has been so rapid (the
number present during the first
year being 90, and now while only
in the second quarter Of the third
year there are 200 registered) it is
necessary that additional buildings
be provided, or the Board of Re
gents will be compelled to adver-
Else to the State that no more stu
dents can be received.
We believe that the people of
the State are anxious to have the
good influence of this school ex
tended to the greater number, and
we therefore recommend that the
necessary buildings be provided
for the accommodation Of the in
creasing number of students that
we feel sure will want the benefits
of an Agricultural and Mechanical
education.
In closing this report we beg
leave to submit the following ex-
tract from the report Of the U. s.
Senate Committee of Education
and Labor, which expresses our
views: ssThese institutions are now
thoroughly established and have
already demonstrated that they
must be accepted as among the
chief agencies through and by
which the new and practical indus
trial education of the people is to
be accomplished"
Perhaps contrary to the general
impression, the proper equipment
of one of these colleges is far more
expensive. being at least ten times
greater than that of an ordinary
classical institution. A college OF
agriculture and the mechanic arts
is not cheap affair, and the soon
er we awake to the idea that it
will and ought to cost something
to spread the knowledge of facts
and principles which will change
the drudgery of common toll to