The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-01-24
NEWsY COLLEGE NOTES.
Items Gathered by Our Reg
ular Correspondent at the
Agricultural College.

| Pres. Bloss received the faculty at dinner
Monday, the occasion being to commemorate
his ffty.sixth birthday.
In the near future, Colonel T. M. An
drews commandant of Vancouver barracks,
will deliver an address for the college
The Farmers Short Course class is pro.
crossing finely. Good work along every
line is being done and the professors speak
NEST highly of the class as workers.
Mr.. s. P. Hanawalt, of Portland, paid
the college thorough and exhaustive visit
last Tuesday. He visited every depart.
ment and expressed himself as being greatly
| surprised and pleased with the workings of
! our school.
The number of students now matricu-
lated is 256. This is very perceptible in.
crease over last years enrolment at this
time. This increase is all the more remark.
able because of the great decrease in the
number in the preparatory department
Prof. Coote's bulletin will be out in the
first week of February. This bulletin will
be of especial interest to farmers, as prac-
tical subjects are discussed in practical
manner. Numerous varieties of common
fruits are to be discussed in this bulletin;
their best methods of growth, polleniza.
tion, ETC., will also be taken up.
| The next lecture that will be delivered
under the auspices of the agricultural col
lege will be one by Pres. Chapman, of Eu.
gene, who will lecture next Saturday even.
ing in the college chapel. His subject will
be Suffrage and the lecture will NO
doubt be an intellectual treat, Everyone,
especially the townspeople, will be vel
come.
The football season ended in blszs of
glory, 6guratively speaking. In reality ii
ended in game amongst the various foot
ball enthusiasts Of the college last Monday
afternoon, In the midst of mud and water
| A slow, but very scsntifc(?) game was
played: one sids scoring one touchdown
| and no goal, and the other side gaining two
goals and touch-iowns, in the first halt
Neither side scored in the last half. The
losing team will furnish the victors, them
| selves ano,several visitors with fine supper,
TO bs served at eau thorn hall; probably on
next Friday evening. The winning team
will be obliged to take down the goal posts,
cloar the grouds of the fences, etc.
The football expenses, exclusive of the
cost of the games are as follows: The s1-
penses of the coach, suits, goalposts, tele.
graph and telephone messages, suppers at
Cauthorn hall during training season, ETC.,
amount to $3.50; which sum was subscribed
from various sources. Our townspeople
donated $94; $l0,5 80 was collected from the
students, and 90 from the faculty. All
the gate money taken in at games played
on our grounds during the season goes to
at Eugene, after the expenses of the visit
ing teams have been paid from it,
From the various articles in the Crego.
nian one would think that the Agricultural
College is no more than an ordinary high
school and that the students represented
only the population of our town. This is
| great mistake, and after glancing over the
enrolment book. one can see that the great
| majority of students lave their homes in
the country and are mostly farmer boys
and girls. We have obtained the following
interestingg statistics from the rolls of the
college, which give the lie direct to the
! Oregonian's statements: Benton county is
1 represented by llo of her young people. OF
! these, 81 register as residing within the
city limits and the remainder come from
| different parts of the county. a large pro-
portion of the city pupils parents only rs-
side irs town SO .s to be close to their
children while they arc offending school;
| the remainder OF the 256 students come
from all over Oregon; whils few represent
| California and Washington 2S counties
out of the 80 in onr state are represented,
After knowing this, no one can say that
the college is other than q school for
the country people. IF any one with or.
dinary powers Of observation were to com.
pare the class Of boys and girls in our col
lege with the pupils of city high schools,
the great difference at once would be seen.
AS class, the agricultural students are
larger, harder and mors countritied In their
appearance than any other body of stu
dents in tho state and what is more to the
point, we are proud of it and consider it an
honor TO be called ''hayseeds.
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