The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-08-11

The Nineteen Graduates of the First Year
Now Hold Important Positions in This
and Other States-A Four Years Course
Necessary to = Graduation-An Glasses Are
Repres nted.
Special Correspondence 10 THE GLOBE.
In the capacity of commi ttee, ap-
pointed by the board of trustees for such
purpose, We are glad to put the college
before the public.
The institution has now completed its
fifth year. Its development may be best
noted by the number of students matric-
ulating each year: Seventy one in the
first, "a in the second, 110 in the third,
115 in the fourth, and 191 in the fifth
year.
The scheme of education, as decided
on in the beginning, has not been
changed, but it has been enlarged. 1t
past. 1t is true that some of our institu.
tions of learning contemplated certain
industrial features in the beginning of
their career, but these features were,
however, soon abandoned.
The college of agricultural and me-
chanic arts promised the youth of the
state an education which could be pro-
cured at no other institution in North
Carolina; an education broad and thor
ough in its basis, omitting the classics
and metaphysics, but including the
principals Of production by skilled labor,
with the essentials of development and
improvement in such things as consti
tute the basis of all true prosperity to The
commonwealth.
A brief glance at the curriculum will,
perhaps, best exemplify the work under
taken in the beginning, and now carried
on in the several departments of the
college. The intelligent reader can
judge whether such work promises
practical results, and then will carefully
consider how much has been accomp-
lshed in this short time as detailed be-
low. See if it does not promise well for
the state.
A four years course is necessary to
graduation; but shorter courses are be-
ing prepared for special cases.
In the first year the course is not elec-
tive, but arbitrary. In the second year
the student must decide which of several
purses he will take, viz: Agriculture,
:ience, or mechanics. The students in
the agricultural course, however, are
allowed one more year in mechanics.
The agricultural course embraces the
theory and practice of advanced and
economical farming, drainage, improve
ment of land, crops, care of stock and
cattle, feeding for beef, and butter max
ing, CreamcrieS, etc. In this general
division horticulture is taught Atten
tion to orchards and small fruits, garden
ing and practical Horticulture, forestry
4 entomology botanical investigations,
with or without microscopes. The divis.
ion contains, as also do others, a good
course in English, history, mathematics,
physics, and chemistry, pure and agri.
cultural, and in bookkeeping.
The scientific course includes all such
studies as lead to the B. S. degree. But
in this institution the student must take
much practical work in laboratories
along with the course, the botanical work
in the senior year of this course leading
into bacteriology.
The mechanical course includes the
, technical study of buildings and building
materials, steam and all kinds OF steam
machinery, graphic statistics, bridges and
roofs, and applied mechanics generally,
/ To these technical studies the course
adds four years course in English in
pure and applied mathematics, a course
in history, in physics and electrical engi
neering, in chemistry and in moral sci
ence
The practice work OF the course con,
sists Of the use Of all sorts of wood work
ing tools, of forging and tempering and
making iron tools, of the use of the var
iOus machines in wood turning and pat
tern making, of machine work in iron,
together with 8 thorough course in me-
chanical drawing, architectural drawing,
surveying, civil engineering, work in
physical and electrical laboratories, etc.
In the college of agriculture aod me
chanic arts it is not designed 10 teach
single trades or occupations. Especial
reference may be had 10 some particular
line Of work, but the student who desires
TO graduate must take the entire course
in one of the three departments, and thus
obtain a good knowledge of the princi-
piles underlying all Of the work taught.
II will probably be asked, is the work
+ OF the college practical: Is the worth OF
+ the education al all commensurate with
the outlay in providing for the same
Such questions will occur TO all thinking