The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-25

seven pharmacy students. sever stuserts
in the *t.or, coarse Il. agriculture ard
nineteen members az ire dairy school.
They some from SIN si-ere1t states. Wash
f1gtoa f9aso. Arkansas, Oregon. Ken
lucky ard Nebraska. Twenty-Five Of the
thirty from coGuftes 81 this state z-s rep
resented IS follows. Adams. Aso:ln. Ctal-
lam. Clarke. Columbia. Ghehaiis DozGlas.
Garfield Island. jefferson kinr kissap.
kfttitas Ltnc0In Lewis. okaaogan. Pa
esfic. Pierce Skagtt. Stevens. SnohorniSh.
TSurston. Whitman, Walia waila. and
Yakima
The work attempted by the Agricultural
College and School % Science Is OF two
distinct kinds. First che four years
courses. leading 70 the degrees OF a B. and
b. 8. covering literature. Languages. the
sciences. agriculture. horticulture, civil.
mechanical. electrical ard mining emgf-
neering. The short courses O. two .,@7rs
are intended for students WHO DO rot feed
able 70 take longer course. bar are in
tended TO III them with the technical
Enowi6eg. and practice sufficient 10 en-
able them 20 enter al once upon certain
line of work. These courses are the school
Of pharmacy, the school Of business train
ing. the scnoo. of dalrying, The short
course IN agriculture. the normal train
Ing schoo! and the school OF mines ard
mining The Tart named department was
organized only this spring. and will open
this fan. Its object is 10 III the student
In as short "A time possible with tech
meal knowledge sufficient to enable him
Il nH with trust and responsibility a
position such as foreman in 4 mine,
smelter or concentration.
In addition to these departments there
Is the regular farmers school for he
instruction % men actually engaged In
farming. IL - more OF convention than
a school, and consists OF a series OF lee
lures by the different professors. lasting
through period of two weeks ia Feb
rdstfy or each year. The farmers school
was established in 1856 and In three years
IL has had a total attendance OF .io farm
ers.
ne success OF the school during the
past year has been most highly gratifying
10 All tue friends OF the Institution. The
work IN every department has been OF an
unusual order or excellence, and the mem
beers Of the faculty and students are Cutie
ahahiihoas IN Their expressions of salts
faction at the results obtained
The several student organizations have
no9riShed beyond anything known at any
previous tine In The history of the COL
isSe The TWO literary societies OF the
college students and the literary society
conducted by the members OF the prepara-
tory department have done excellent work
during the year A college glee club of
twenty-five voices under the direction OF
fFof Eleazef barrow. was organized last
fall and made a tour OF all the important
towns OF Eastern Washington and North
efn Idaho. doing much 10 bring the coli
iese into prominence. A thoroughly or
ganized and well managed athletic asso-
CATION is one of the best features of the
college. Under its control are conducted
all the manly sports. Football, baseball
70 les
and match games played with teams in
the neighborlng towns each year, and a
regular annual field day is held In May
OF each year Last fall the foot ball team
defeated every team on this side of the
Cascades. and Is planning this fall to make
a tour OF the Sound cities to play games
with several teams OF the west side The
team was recently reorganized for the
coming season. with Joseph e. Winston.
OF Spokane, as captain and manager A
college paper. the Evergreen, is published
monthly by the students.
During the year there has been some
complaint among the students on the run
ming of the boarding club. The club Is
governed by a close corporation of five
members of the faculty and managed by a
steward. selected by them. The food fur
nshad is plain. but wholesome and costs
the students from s. TO $40 per month. The
number OF students boarding at the club
has varied during the year from GO TO 10.
short time ago a rather DANA ging re-
port was sent out from the college TO the
papers of the state to the effect that the
students had attempted TO blow up one of
the professors of the institution with
dynamite, and succeeded In causing con-
siderable damage to a portion Of one OF
the college buildings. The report was ex-
aggerated and dangerously misleading
There had been more or less disturbance
Prof. l.. II. Webster. who was selected by
the faculty TO act AZ proctor. not pos
sessing to any considerable degree the
power Of controlling the boys had allow
ed more or less disorder for some time
One night. while he was away two of the
more mischievously inclined made a bomb
by putting some black powder In a tight
metal tube and set II off In the hall Of the
dormtory. Beyond the disturbance ere
ated little or no damas. was done II was
not intended 10 iniure the proctor or any
one else. The faculty investigated the
matter thoroughly and suspended from
school two students found TO have been
guilty Of the ofYense-
The expense Of attending school az the
agricultural college Is reduced to a mini
mum. and - az low as for any similar In
stit1tion in any or the Western states
Tuition IS free I'm all departments. Books
are bought hy the college and furnished
10 the students AT reduced rates. Room
rent IN the dcrmitories ranges from SIS to
ga per year according to the size and To-
cation of the room occupied. and living
expenses are very moderate. Nearly all
az the male students are members Of the
cadet CORPS and wear military uniforms.
which are neat and seryiceable and cost
Only about 81 suit. Some Of the stud
entS club together rent rooms down town.
% their own cooking. and In this way get
through the year on an expense Of from
SIS TO SIS. The average expense Of a
student boarding as the iornlltory ranges
from STs 20 So a year. including every
thing necessary and some OF the luxurses
or school nfe.
In placing the credit for the rapid
growth and development Of the college as
an institution Of higher education too
much praise can hardly 10 given 70 PRIEST
dent Bryan Tor his able management He
g., q man Of excellent education and train
ing and very ambitious for the colleges
lie possesses the entire confidence ana
friendship ~ tho whole student body and
has Iahored incessaDtly for the upbuild-
ing OF TIE institution He Is a man Of
strong personality snd plea manner
suH his effect upon sCquatnta1ces a1d
STRANGERS alike IS 20 make uArv strenx
friends for himself and the school ~ which
~ fs tae head We takes a curnnaendahie
pride IN Nt~ work sac deserves great crtGst
for his success during tire past four years
Fcr the past foar wears the school has
b.,..r entirely free frona the }nauencN -
rofs5ics which is such g hare "a so many
stats educational Institutions f3tt there
weetuz at present 20 - some aln-@r 81
x,n1o ~ tha positions Nelre again fkrow1
sf,to fhs r-,17strq1 hopDer 20 - ground 1g.t
into vrsxes fo- the friends cf the ruvers
that Re. Tets danger e. rot very thvea ten-