Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-21

scale. a lecture room has been fitted up,
which is equal in it's appointments to any
in the university: further equipment mas
been purchased for dairyfng, and last WIN
ter twenty young men took the course
and left the university able to manutac-
ture cheese and to conduct dairy farm.
At the last commencement a one-year
course was tablished which gives the
cream of the four years course, and for
which the regular college entrance re-
uuirements are not demanded. Students
of sufficient maturity and earnest purpose,
with a common school education. can en-
ter the winter course or the one-year
course.
George Foster Peabody has provided
the expense of introducing elementary ed
ucation in agriculture through the state
college into the common schools by the
Nature Study Leaflets. and correspond
ence course with farmers. young or old'
will be instituted whenever a suff1cient
number of names can be obtained.
But 1t is said that 1t will not do for
the agricultural students to go to the
university, because they will be looked
down upon by their fellOw-students. L
regard this as an unjust imputation both
to the agricultural students and to the
others, since the farmers are not accus-
toned to being looked down upon. and
can hold their own in any college ccmmu-
nifty. The simple truth is that our stu
dents in agriculture at the last session
were treated courteously as any other
group of the student body. 1 will state
the fact as 1t was and ought to be, that
there was actually no difference what
ever made in respect to the question as to
whether a student was in the depart
ment OF agriculture or not. do not
believe that the boys of farmers ought
to be herded together as a separate lot;
I think they are entitled to the very best
education that the state is able to give,
and ought TO mingle freely on terms Of
equality with their fellow students. who
are to be the preachers, editors, lawyers,
doctors, judges officials, merchants, en-
gineers and business men of the state in
their generation.
Another alleged reason given for the
separation is that there will be more
students If the state college was sep
arate. This statement is completely neg
atived by the figures; there are twenty
seven states in the union where the col
leges are separate. The total number of
students in these colleges is $685. There
are twenty-one states in the union where
the state colleges are connected with the
universities. These number 17,059. In
other words, there are 9O22 more students
In the twenty-one colleges where they are
combined than in all the twenty-seven
colleges where they are separate. 1t is
also true lndL InS percentage VI SluuGulS
taking special courses in agriculture is
greater in these colleges that are COM
bined than in those where they are sep
arate.
THE expense of attendance has been
reduced to a point which brings it with
IN the reach of all. The dormitory rooms
are free, and board is only IS per mont.
One hundred and twenty-five dollars will
pay all the necessary expenses of a stu
dent for a session. In the winter course,
no fees whatever are required.
"A resolution similar to Colonel Peek s
was offered at the meeting at Thomas
vile last year, and obtained only two
votes, and I sincerely trust this will be
voted down. The farmers of Georgia
believe in fair play. Since 1 was elected
to my present position I have given
more thought and labor to this depart
ment than to any other in the institu-
ton. Many forward movements have
been made. While this good work is go
ing on as rapidly as it possibly can
since all things cannot be done in a day
Il do not believe that the fair-minded
and conservative farmers of Georgia will
strike what 1 regard as a blow, not only
to the university, but 60 their state col
lege of agriculture"