The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-18
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HIGH WATER MARK
CIRCULATION, p, 200.
SATURDAY. MAY IS, 1895.
THE TRIUMPH OF KINGSTON HILL.

The House Of Representatives yester
day concurred with the Senate in the
passage of the resolution to expend
$4,000 in adorn ing the landscape on tor
OF Kingston Hill, and putting in a water
service for the State Agricultural School.
We shall watch the renewed experiment
TO make the institution successful, Just
as we have watched the school from the
start, with friendly interest in the hope
that it may become of real benefit TO the
people, and especially to the farmers,
whose children it is especially designed
to educate. And it is simply as matter
OF recording an opinion, of which we
sincerely hope we may be compelled
some day to acknowledge the error,
that we wish to state before leaving the
subject that we don't believe the school
located on Kingston Hill will ever
amount to anything, although if the
State spends money enough and builds
an electric road or furnishes free trans
portation it may succeed in inc reasing
the attendance.
1T was amusing, but perhaps fitting,
that the remarks championing the ex-
ploded Kingston Hill location for the
Agricultural School in the House yester-
day should take the form Of eulogies of
the agriculture" which, as matter of
fact, has practically ceased TO be
at the so-oslled agricultural school.
Not boy, in either the freshman or
sophomore class, il is said, is taking
the agricultural course. Five assistants
in mechanics have been added TO the
faculty during the past year; but not
Cne in agriculture and but one in hor-
ticulture. What has agriculture to do |
with an agricultural school, anyway
No earthly solcitude is more demon
strative and affect 'ng than that of a hen
with only one chicken; except, possibly,
the anxiety for the Kingston School
yesterday by Assemblyman
HILL, who represents town which has
had but one student at the institution
for three years, and for only two terms
in all that time. The responsibility of
speaking for two-ninths of student is
too great for accuracy, so that even his
long visit to the college, Thursday, was
no guarantee against his inflioting
'laim OF 25O pupils upon the House.
Nv.
AssEMBLYNiAN BILL who. as Assem-
blyman BLoDGETr expressed it, has
advanced from the ideas of fifty years
'go to this fin-de-siecle period at one
step, and who opposed the town school
system Of education because in his
section part of the town Of Westerly
supports the school district.
lad personally inspected the Kings
on School before advocating the
for it and had drank
rom the same fount of inform
lton, evidently, as Mr.. HFIME.
or he gives us very similar figures and
tatements. He tells US that only II of
be faculty are really engaged to any
xtent in the work Of the faculty.
aging that the chief occupation
the other 10 is on the
Experiment Station staff, which also
ncludes five other names. There seems {
us bot small choice between the two
orns OF this dilemma. Either the fac
lty Is overloaded with its "A names or
he staf Is even worse overloaded with
names We ought TO have pretty
nge grist Of experiments and bulletins I
his year! Mr.. HILL made one very I
iischievous statement in this connec- :
ION, saying that the salaries of most OF /
hese worthy persons are paid ont of the Q
latch fund and the MORRILL, fund. Il
nd that the Legislature should not Y
'orry much about the matter. as Il 7
oes not cost the State a cent. =
Does this mean that the Assemblv as 4
-ustee of funds, doesn't give a CONT. :,
entail what is done with them 80 long Y
they are somebody else's funds. We il
oubt II Assemblyman HILL runs his {,
ank on that plan. II he does, we guess v
Q don't want TO deposit there. d