The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-13

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TO you n manly man with a clear brain. q
clean conscience aud muscles of steel He
couldn't get out to debauch himself II he
wanted TO. And II he were 10 violate the
laws of the college and do so, you would
soon know It, for you would be notified
to take him home at once. There are no
halfway measures INDUCED in ut the
Agricultural and Mechanical college and
the young man very early comes TO that
conclusion and governors his actions ac-
eordingly.
Aside from this training, which is the
best in the State, the young man obtains
an excellent education and has his choice
of course in scientific agriculture, hor-
ticulture, mechanical engineering or civil
engineering. What 4 wonderful field is
here opened up for a young mani Many
good mechanic is spoiled by making
sions are oyercrowded now and the grad
uato In one OF them most be fortunate
enough to have sufficient to live on for
awhile or he may find himself Singing
bash in lac restaurant. There are TOO
many brieiiess young attorneys and pa
tientless doctors now, and IL is folly to
add to the list. You may argue, how YER
that your boy is an exception, that he il
carrying around load OF brains liatle to
spring his kneejoints or give him flat feet,
aud that there's room at the top. Yes;
and it's because so many have kicked the
rungs ont of the ladder. trying to get there,
and failed.
1t is dollars to doughnuts that your boy
will turn up his nose at the so-called high
err education after he has graduated at tho
Agricultural aud Mechanical college, and
strike out making money for himself at
once. In this day OF low prices for farm
products the process called farming has be-
come a science, and the man who does not
know his business is quickly outstripped In
the race for supremacy He MUST know
all about chemistry and he learns 1t at
the Agricultural and Mechanical college.
where there is an excellent laboratory aud
a most competent instructor.
IN this connection, the following inter-
view with Professor II. II. Harrington, the
professor of chemistry at the Agricultural
and Mechanical college, obtained by The
Post correspondent, will be found very in
teresting, lie said;
within the last quarter OF the century
chemistry has made wonderful progress MS
a science. and reached out helping hand
to every science, aud the various Industrial
arts. Its growth and development may
be fairly taken as measure of a people
national prosperity. Germany, with her
great schools and her great industrial pro-
cress is the most conspicuous natloh Tor
her great laboratories. Up TO lew year
ago the secrets Of nature, unlocked d! me
key of chemistry were mainly those "h'cn
benefited mechanical ana mahuinc'u' ins
Industries. But now, great effort IS pelns
made IN amply the same helping hand TO
apriculture The soils aud the plants ana
ali manufactured products from the iaIin
nre undergoing the careful watcn anu u'i'
cate touch OF the chemist ,,.,
81 would like TO explain many cnemlcal
rrocesses upon which great manhtactui ihs
industries are based. The analyh.s VI So
waters minerals. fertilizers ana Aniin''
feedstuffs and the importance OF Wv and
Tba student starts with some Simple "n"
n, .,,hetance like blue stone or copeias.
nd nasees from these TO the anaiysis VI
dirdc,,It and complex ores, untli nv naS 1
bad n finished course in quail.a,No
nIartitsiiye analysis; all the iapoia.v,,
Ill, Illustrating some lesson or prlhe'pi.s
,a,,gh, in the text book. insruut,o"
,,hirh includes elementary lhDFhsN
organic chemistry. agricultural . rhei i,se,u,
ond industrial chemistry. How the usein
me,ais iron. copper lead tin ana s'u inade
,'r, are taken from the ore anu LII,
w." ,sa,"i n man: how the precious ihs' ma
"oid silver and platinum. are esSa lssa, are
s"'u how the air and furnace sas'I how a,
Morrot into their several parts INV
ornda petroleum is refined INTO ~ i fiays
ornas rnroducls. how coal, limestone, s,ay
nse a a,ber useful minerals are eAa,ua.he
NV chemistry Of sugar making max.
Inc ,,,"einre bleaching. dyeins paper mali milk
ma art,scial butter. and condenssa VERY xery
ing, are only part. pu. Ia rs,
in n,rnd ~ learn in this department, .,,o
au,i.a nrofessor of chemistry y" and
AS p' TO- The experiment station ,,s ana .,
ohe sb,rm in that capacity a vide 'sn ns al.
la,yt,caI work upon agricultura' sa,,,res
he n ,y in bulletin form ana nis 'sn send
free =, ,se 's station oD iher address, :, need 0,
in 70 ans dsnartment is especially in nssd
nu building, such as y sspr col
e0 most Agricultural and mechanism ~