Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-05-01
AGRICULTURAL
'' ''i COLLEGE. Notes

Agricultural College, N. D., May L.
Judge c. A. Pollock of Fargo, was the
speaker before the convocation exer-
cises last Monday. Taking John Mar
shall for the subject of his remarks,
Judge Pollock portrayed the part
taken by this man in the colonial revo-
luton; spoke of his cheerfulness
and the sound counsel afforded Wash.
ington by him during the trying times
of the winter at Valley Forge, of his
influence in the constitutional devel.
opment of the colonies, of his careful
diplomacy when, at the head of a
special commission to France at the
time that country was attempting ia
recruit funds and men in this coun.
try and to embroil this country in a
foreign war, he was opposed to that
perhaps the shrewdest of the MANY
keen diplomatists of contemporary
Europe-Talleyrand, of the subse.
quent great influence in the interpreta.
ton of the constitution, during his
extended incumbency in the federal
supreme court, in period when the
constitution underwent it's most
severe strain but when it acquired it's
wonderful elasticity and sufficiency.
Judge Pollock brought these inter.
esting facts out in way that evidenced
a man who knows of what he is speak
Ing and hence held the undertaking at
tention of his audience.
The college was fortunate in hav.
Ing as a visitor at these exercises.
Rev. Herbert G. Leonard of the Fargo
First Methodist Episcopal church.
who conducted the religious part of
the services.
The foundation of the two new
buildings, the library and the chemi-
cal, are completed and work is at
present come nearly to a standstill on
account of the delay in the arrival
OF the lumber which is being Skinned
from Washington on a special order
for these buildings.
President Worst placed the first
brick in the foundation work Of tho
library building last Friday afternoon
In the midst of good deal of entbus.
lasm on the part of the students and
members of the faculty present.
The last legislature appropriated
$4,000 for the establishment of a
sub-station at Dickinson and looking
toward carrying out the intentions
OF this appropriation, Mr.. Addison
Leech of the college board of Trus-
tees, Messrs. C. B. Waldron, Bolley
and Nugent of the college were in
Dickinson the first part of the week,
selecting site for the station, The
place selected is a 100 acre tract adj
lacent to the town line of Dickinson
and is generally considered by all
interested to be remarkably fine
place for the purpose of an expert
mental farm. The experimental work
was outlined and the plans for the
permanent improvement were dis
cussed. The whole will be so ar.
ranged that an excellent view of it
may be obtained from the town.
Work on the station will be COM
next Monday and as part of
the site is already under cultivation,
1t will be possible to begin expert
ments not only on the native sod but
also on cultivated forage crops. Build.
ing arrangements have not as yet been
but it is more than prob
able that substantial house or barn
will be built this summer.
Mr.. ]. P. Brodie who has been ap-
pointed resident trustee is very en-
thusiastic over the possibilities at
the station and feels assured that the
project will prove of unlimited value
to the entire Missouri slope.
The party from Fargo returned
Wednesday evening. greatly encour-f
aged over the situation a. Dickinson.