The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-08
GREAT WORK AT PULLMAN.
Regent Barnard Enthusiastic Over
Methods of Education at Agri-
cultural College.

Prof. Frank j. Barnard, superintendent
OF city schools. has returned from Pull
man, where he went to attend meeting
of the board OF regents of the state
agricultural college, of whom he is one.
II was the first meeting OF the board that
Mr. Barnard has attended, and also his
first visit to Pullman. He is more than
enthusiastic over the college and its pros
pegs poets.
and many other parts OF the state for
that matter said he yesterday, have
but faint conception Of the great work
that school way down in the heart Of
the Palouse country is doing for the
young people of Washington The per-
lection of the educational methods of the
institution is something wonderful. As
a scientific and industrial school IT would
be hard TO find the equal of Pullman.
Everything over there is practical, in
tensely practical. and the boy who gradu-
ates Is assured OF a good position the mo-
ment he steps out into the world. The
records OF the school prove this 10 be a
fact. one year the Northern Pacific Rail-
way Company employed almost the entire
graduating class of the civil engineering
department at high wages, and l am in
formed that graduates are in demand all
over the Northwest.
The best illustration of the practical
nature OF the training the students at
FuIIman receive Is the fact that the little
town is well lighted by electricity from
modern power plant owned by the col
lege and under the entire charge OF the
students In the mechanical engineering
department..
There is not better school of mines
on the Coast than they have at Pullman
The students in that department learn
the working OF ores by practical expert
ence. The school owns and operates a
modern reduction plant ON a small scale
II is contained in a three-story brick
building. On top of the building are the
ore bins. From these bins the ore is
taken just as in the regular mills and
crushed. passing down through the build
ing TO the ground floor. There is a small
concentration and a cyanide plant
chlortnation plant is to be added at once
Inc students make working ASSAYS NJ
all ores submitted free OF charge All
a miner has TO do is TO forward a generous
sample OF his product TO Pullman and
nave II treated, This year the students
in the mining department are to be given
experience in practical mining. A wealthy
TO come to one of his mines and spend
the summer there In learning how ores
are found and taken out
IN every other branch the work ~
eduoation Is equally practical In the
department OF chemistry the students do
a great deal OF the work Of ANALYSTS ~
food products for the state food COM
missioner. who Is by law required to have
all such products passed upon nv fhs
chemist OF the Pullman college In IN.
dairy the students learn all about the
handling OF milk. cream butter and
cheese by doing the actual work The
laboratories, workshops, etc are marvel
ously complete.
There are now more than 800 students
or both sexes in the college Several
new pressed brick buildings OF the most
modern type Of construction have iust
been erected for their accommodation