The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-29
A. & M. Agricultural
Building to Be a Beauty
COLLEGE is CROWDED
President Winston's Report a Strong
Plea for More Dormitory Room--- Ac-
CommOdation Now for 400, and
There Were $40 Students
This Year.

The Board of Trustees of the A. and
M. College concluded it's work yes
terday with hearing the annual report
of President George T. Winston and
determined upon the plans for the
new agricultural building to be erect
ed at the college.
The board had before it plans pre-
scented by three architects. These
plans were discussed until noon. At
ter dinner the board retired to discuss
the plans and finally Messrs. Hook e.
to do the work. Mr.. F. NJ Sawyer of
the firm, is an old student of the A.
and M. college.
Then a committee was appointed,
consisting Of Chairman Patterson and
Messrs. Allen, Scott, McCallum and
Dunn, as the building committee, who
were charged with the responsibility
and invested with the authority
under the ruling of the board
and in accord with the act of the leg
islatdre to proceed With the construc-
ton of the agricultural building.
1t was agreed that the board attend
in a body the Farmers Congress to be
held here in July, at the college. 1t
is probable that the corner stone OF
the new building will be laid at THAI
time, with appropriate ceremony.
The board adjourned to meet at 3
O'Clock Monday morning.
The picture of the building may
be seen at the Office of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, and is a very
handsome one. The elevation OF the
plan shows a beautiful structure of
more than two hundred feet in length
and some sixty feet in depth. The
style of architecture is italian RenaiS-
sance. The central portion of the
building shows a portico with three
sweeping arches as an entrance four
massive columns supporting the hand
some Dediment. The roof is in red
tile, and the outside brick of u gray
imitation of granite. 1t is two stories
above the ground, with one basement
story of ten feet, with six fet ex-
posed above the surface. There are
two wings, right and left, which break
the roof lines in pleasing effects. The
cost is to be $4,000. 1t will be by
far the most imposing of all the build
ings connected with the college, and
will crown the hill opposite the open
ing or admission gates of the Fair
Grounds.
Presidents Report.
President Winston's annual report
to the board of trustees of the A.
and M college contained among
other things the following:
The registration during the year by
classes was as follows: Postcard
yates, 8; seniors, SO; juniors so; So
phomores, f21; freshmen, 232; special
and irregular students, As; winter
course students in agriculture and
"a inc ntoJ
The registration by courses of study
was as follows: Agriculture, lao;
civil engineering, IA; electrical engin-
eering, II; mechanical engineering,
70; textile industry, AZ; chemistry and
mining, %; mechanic arts, 73; specials
in shop, drawing, ETC., ETC., 16.
The enrolment by occupations OF
parents is as follows: Sons of farm
ers, 220; sons of merchants, 81; sons
of manufacturers, so; sons of physi-
clans, "a; sons of lawyers, p; sons OF
mechanics. Is; all others 108.
The average age of all students was
201a years, of seniors, % years of
juniors, 21 years; of sophomores, 20 Il
years; of freshmen, 10 1-3 years; age
of youngest student Is years; age of
oldest student, 80 years.
There were 494 students registered
from North Carolina from eighty-five
SOuiitlCos . oCuUCllIS I6SlSbSISd
six States other than North Carolina;
3 students registered from two for
eign countries
This large attendance of students is
highly gratifying, but it presents a
serious problem. The college has
dormitory accommodations for only
26S students, lodging two in each
room. 1t also rents two houses near
by with accommodations for thirty
two students, making a total of 800.
Add to these about fifty living in the
city and neighborhood, and about fifty
none who come in during the year to
take the places of others who with
draw; we get grand total of 400
students. This is really the limit of
the college with it's present equip
ment While we have exceeded this
limit the past year by 100 students,
yet if is very doubtful whether we
have acted wisely in so doing Tor
many students have been unduly
crowded in their rooms, making study
and good order an3 even good health
less probable than with proper ar
engagements; and other students have
been forced to use quarters over
stores and elsewhere in public places
remote from the college amid sur
roundings that are not only unsanitary
and UnconduciVe to study, but also
highly unfavorable to control by the
college authorities. Such arrangements
are not only harmful to the students
Immediately concerned, but by their
influence and contaeion they act unfa-
vorably upon the cadets who lodge iii
the college, and thus make more diff
ficult the maintenance of college dis
cipline in ali directions. Nothing but