The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-09
KINGsToNs SCHOOL CATALOGUE.

Managers. of the r. /. College of Agri-
culture and Mechanic Arts, made to the
General Assembly at its January Ses-
sion. 1885,"
The report was not sent to us. Indeed.
we have had some little difficulty
in getting a copy through the usual
channel-the Secretary of States Office,
because no printed copies had been sent
to him at the time we asked for
one. We have no doubt the
officers of the institution would have
been good enough to forward copy
had we asked them, and we trust copy
| will find it's way into the hands of every
member of the General Assembly and
that it will be carefully read and con-
sidered before action is taken on the
resolution to appropriate $4,000 for
new school buildings at the out-of-the-
way site on Kingston Hill.
The report is interesting and no doubt
quite as much interesting for what it
does not set forth as for what it does,
Weregret, for instance, that it does not
reproduce map of the State grounds
from an earlier report. Such map
would be instructive as demonstrating the
disadvantages of the present location,
and why the State school can never
carry out its manifest destiny as at pre-
sent located. We have, however,
already printed a copy Of the map in
these columns and will reproduce it in
| due time.
The report occupies 70 pages of printed
matter. We learn from these pages the
important fact that "the college is
situated on hillside which furnishes it
with quick drainage and delightful
view," but as to other advantages the
writer of this ingenious sentence is dis
creetly silent although he adds that sit
| is less than two miles from the rail-
road station" and "macadamized
road leads from the grounds
to the station insuring at all times a
good walk and drive" We should say
| it did. Eighteen trains run to Kingston
station in the winter and more In the
summer, and pupils may-indeed must
take two of the good walks or drives
over the two miles of Macadem every
day they attend school, quite irrespec-
tive of how many trains day land
them at the station.
The report contains a description of
the work OF the agricultural depart
ment, although it is fact, if we are
correctly informed, that not one OF the
freshman class this year elected to take
tine agricultural course at the States
agricultural school. The purposes OF
the other departments, of horticulture,
geology, mathematics, Latin and mod
ern languages and the department
of mechanic arts, etc., make an
imposing showing quite out Of
proportion to the number Of students
that the school in its present location,
whsre "quick drainage and a delightful
view" prevail, has been able to enlist,
and equally out of proportion to the
small army of officers and the faculty
required to run the institutional COR
poration of five and faculty of twenty
four.
But the most interesting part in the re-
port is likely to be found in the list of
students-the ia students whom the
"a professors are employed to instruct.
The list really numbers 100, owing to
duplication of names, but as the report
rightly states there are only ia. "count-
ing none twice." The duplication is
caused by listing names OF students in
both the post-graduates' and the
graduates roster. while GEORGE
CLARENCE ALMONDS of Kingstown is
credited with being postgraduate, a
graduate, and likewise member of the
faculty. SAMUEL WATSON SLocUM of
Peace Dale is graduate and member
of the faculty in the same year. So is
GEORGE ALBERT RoDMAN of Kingston,
as we'll as being postgraduate, while
JOHN FRANKLIN KNOWLES is also post
graduate, graduate, and member Of
the faculty, aud the name. WARREN
Brown MADISON OF East Green
witch, likewise appears in each Of the
three lists mentioned. Indeed, four of
the six students found on the post-grad-
uate roster are also listed as members of
the faculty, and all of the post-graduates
are also listed as graduates--which is
why ia is the correct number of stu
dents counting none twice." instead Of
120, although five more should appar-
emily be subtracted because they seem
to be members Of the faculty.
Incidentally we may observe thatKings-
ton Hill is largely represented among
these favored graduates and post-gradu-
ates and the idea that has gone abroad
that making professors from the imma-
ture scholarships produced at the Kings
ton school isa sort Of subsidizing scheme
is further emphasized by the fact that