The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-09-15


ready for use, and the green house will
have been completed ere the first week OF
school has elapsed.
The faculty, which have given the insti-
tutian such efficient service in the past re.
mains unchanged, and is as follows:
FACULTY.
John NJ. Boss, A. NJ, President and Pro .
f=ssor of mental and moral science.
John ID. Letcher, c. f., professor of
mathematics and engineering
f. Berchtold, A. NJ, professor of modern
languages, history, drawing and music.
Margaret :. Smell, NJ. D., professor OF
household economy and hygiene.
Grant A Csvell, NJ. f., professor of me.
chanics and mechanical engineering.
F. L. Washburn, A. B., professor of 90
ology and entomology.
H. 7. French, NJ. S., professor of agri.
culture.
Moses Craig, NJ. S.. professor of botany.
G. W. Shaw, A. NJ, professor of chem
istry and physics.
Dumont Lott, NJ. &c., A. G., station
chemist.
George Coote. instructor in horticulture.
j. B. Horner A. M, professor of Eng
lish language and literature.
w. w. Bristow, A. B., principal prepara
keeping.
Mrs. Ida Callahan, B. s., assistant in pre-.
paratory department.
G. d. Thompson, A. B.. foreman of agri-
cultural department.
e. NJ. BelInap, engineer and practical
instructor in wood and metal working, me
chanical department.
Harley K. Clark, Instructor in printing
Emile Pernot. instructor i'll photography
and photo-gravure.
Mrs. J. A. L. Casio, matron of girls hall
The staff of the Oregon agricultural ex-
pertinent station, department of state agri-
cultural co! !eee, is as follows:
| John M. Bloss, A. NJ, director; H. T
French, NJ. s., agriculturist; T. L. Wash
burn, A. B., entomologst; Dumont Lotz
NJ. &c., a. c., chemist; Moses Craig, NJ
S. botauist; George Coote, hortIculturist
The work of the station Is an important
feature of the institution. Bulletins, such
as are thought to be of interest, are issued
giving information of Importance to the
public, copies OF which are forwarded tt
| every applicant.
The student who enters the Oregon az
| ricultural college is endowed with privilege,
| second to none found in the country, baset
| OIL q system of education, the basal though
| of which is calculated to make better citi-
zens of those who come directly under it,
Influence, and every reasonable effort viii
be made to prepare the youth of this insti-
tuition for better citizenship. Education in
wolves the training of the mind AMI it.
| faculties and their rendering submissive t,
I the control of the will. 1t is the result O
all the processes Of training that terminate
in education. Such training in detail may
be secured while pursuing the work laid ou
i'll the curriculum of this college, as well al
in the private college, the normal school O.
the university. By law the o. A. c. ha
special field of work assigned to it, ane
when organized to fu I'LL it's highest mission
it is poly technic school where the scien
tific principles underlying our great busines
neutrality-suspicious., mechanic arts AM
household economy-are taught i'll con juno
tion with military discipline and militar
science. Agriculture is here used in it
broadest sense, and embraces all appertain
ing to the art of good husbardry, includin
horticulture, entomology, veterinary scienc
and all that relates to the proper rearin
of auilnals and plants and their preservatio
from disease. Mechanical industries aud a
phases of work in wood and metals, as we
as tho manufacture of machinery for til
application or transmission of power. I'll
study OF the English language and traiEir
in the art Of expressing thought is made OK
!igatory upon all students, and IN oppol
tunity IS given for the study of all gener
topics calculated to enlarge the mental az
physical faculties whereby they are enable
to enter intelligeutly npon the duties
manhood and womanhood, and thus furni,
a stepping Stone into the exciting lives
business men and woman.
At the state fair III Salem is an exhibit
all the work done by the students. of the I
A. c., and of the several varieties of graf
and grasses grown by the college,. inciudil
$50 varieties of potatoes, IS or 80 varieti
of wheat, and display of fruit, mechanic
arts, grasses, etc. The chronological d
partment ID represented by specimens
beatles, bugs, etc, prepared by the sccon'