Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-06-30

his has been one of the prosperous
years in the history of this institution.
There has been great increase in the
income and equipment, as well as in the
number of teachers and investigators
and in students. The standards have
been raised in the matters of admission
and of requirements for the degrees.
The legislative appropriation of S65, ,00O
annually for general purposes has per-
mitted of the raising of salaries, thereby
calling stronger men to the faculty circle.
Among the new men are biologist, an
assistant professor of botany, an asso-
ciate biologist and an assistant professor
of Romance languages. There are now
seven Harvard men in the faculty.
In the increased equipment the Col
lege of Agriculture has not been over
looked, engineering, biology, the library
and the museum of natural history have
each been materially strengthened. The
library now contains more than thirty
six thousand volumes. The building of
the central heating and power plant has
been great factor in adding to the COM
fort of the buildings and cheapening the
cost of light and heat. Most of the
university buildings and several of the
fraternity houses are already connected
with the plant, and next year other
buildings will be connected.
The agricultural building, already be-
gun, will house all the departments of
the College of Agriculture, and will be
one of the most prominent and credit
able structures on the campus. Three
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or finished within few months, making
eleven in all. The admission of state
universities to participation in the bene-
fits of the Carnegie foundation, giving
their retired teachers substantial re-
tiring allowance, has helped this as well
as other similar institutions. | under
stand one teacher, former president OF
the university, who has spent the best
years of his life here, is to retire at the
close of this year
The College of Agriculture has been
particularly fortunate in interesting the
farmers of the state in its work. 1t has
given many extension lectures and
demonstrations in the farming sections
of the state, and more than one hundred
persons have already taken its corre-
spondence courses. Farmers week,
last March, which was fully reported in
The Tribune Farmer, was very success
full, and without doubt will be still
more largely attended next season. The
College of Arts and Sciences has prob
ably made the largest relative gain, the
number of students having increased from
l27 TO $50. There are also more post
graduates than ever before. The stand
ard of work in the College of Law was
evinced recently by the establishment
there of chapter of the legal fraternity
of Phi Delta Phi. There is continual
ly increasing number of college gradu-
ates studying in the College of Law.
The graduates from the College OF
Technology compare most favorably
with those from other institutions, and
many of them are now occupying lucra-
tive positions. A new departure in the
routine of the university is board of
preachers, furnished by various religious
Some of the most noted
diviues have addressed the student body
during the last year. The attendance OF
the students at these meetings and the
interest shown by the faculty are very
gratifying.
The gain in students during the last
year has been shared by all the depart
ments. There are now 776 students, as
against 6S7 in l906-'07, gain of eighty
seven, or II 1-2 per cent. OF the l23
students graduated in 1907, practically
all are already filling desirable positions.
The institution cannot help growing
and winning the confidence of the peo-
pie while its policy is shaped by the
broad and comprehensive methods OF
President Fellows. His motto, the
carrying out of which is absorbing his
entire efforts, is to make its work lone
of direct educational influence with all
the people in all occupations and OF all
ages"
How better could the crowning in
stitution of the states broad and elabor-
ate system of education be builded?
What more noble occupation is there
than such teaching?-B. Walker Nc
Keen, Fryeburg, Me-, in Tribune
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