Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-04
!. Of N. at Completion
Of Its 40th Year.
Many, Additions to Faculty
and Equipment Shown.
Work Of the Various Departments
During Past Year.

| iiloHl prosperous year III Illc history OF
the University of Maine is drawing tC
q close with the approach Of its forti-
eth anniversary. There has been with
in one year Il great increase in income
in equipment, and in the number of
teachers and investigators as well as
of students; aud standards have been
raised il the important matters Of adj
mission to the University and of re-
Iulrcments tor the degrees of the Uni
versity.
With the Legislative appropriation of
S65,0oO year for general purposes ad-
ditional teachers have been appointed,
salaries have been raised, and depart
ments better equipped. Among the
new men WHO strengthen thn faculty
materially ar: ~ .illniG Pearl. Phi. d.
(Mlchlgan). biologist, al Investigator
OF proved entity; VI. \. Chrysler, Phi.
d. (Chcagu), associate professor or
botany, who has been teaching at IIar-
ward and still has charge Of the botan-
zeal work in the Harvard summer ses-
sion; +. NJ. Surface, PHI. ID. ipennsyl-
vania), associate biologist, holder OF q
University OF Pennsylvania before COM
Ing to Maine; a. =. ltaggio, Phi. D.
tHarvar). assistant professor of Ro-
nance languages who makes The
seventh Harvard man in the faculty at
Orono. Nineteen new teachers of va
rious grades including appointecs to
vacated positions, have been added to
the faculty This past year
The equipment Of almost all DEPART
Gents has been Increased, cSpcciallv in
agriculture, engineering. biology, and
the library The museum of natura I
history which has been dormant has
taken on new life under the direction
| Of Curator Gilman A. Drew, professor
of biology, and q director Of the famous
laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass. The
number of volumes in the library has
| risen above $4,000.
The general equipment has been in
creased by the building of heating
and power plant, thanks to the special
appropriation of the last Legislature
for that purpose. Most of the Univer-
sity buildings and several of the fra
ternity houses are already connected
with the plant, and next year other
buildings will be connected with it.
With another special legislative appro-
priation an agricultural building has
beel, begun. 1t will house all of the
departments of the college of Agricul-
ture and be one Of the most prominent
and Creditable structures on the cam
puS. Three new chapter houses, ac-
comodating 80 students, have been
started cr finished within d few months
making II in all
The most important event of the past
year for the University was the admis-
sion of the state universities to parti-
cipation in the benefits of the Carnegie
Foundation, whereby superannuated
professors are given substantial re-
firing allowance.
The work done by the various col
leges or branches of the University
continues to receive general recogni-
ton. The success of the Experiment
Station is known all over the country
AS usual every year it has issued
several valuable bulletins of interest
to the agricultural and commercial
classes as well as to the general pub
lie. The College of Agriculture has
given extension lectures and made
practical demonstrations in many
towns of Maine. Farmers Week at
the University continued to be success
full. In connection with it Miss Bar
rows of Columbia University. by her
lectures and demonstrations, aroused
intense interest in Household Econom-
les. A correspondence course in agri-
culture has been inaugurated under a
competent specialist, ana is already
t,i- no
poultry course continued to be well at
tended.
The College of Arts and Sciences has
probably made greater gains in various
ways than any other college OF the IN
ivCrSity. The number Of students In
creased from ~ to $50. There are
more t-graduates than ever before.
OF the two students who qualified last
year FOG appointment to q Rhodes Schol-
arShip at oxford one has been appoint
ed and the other has been assigned BY
Harvard University a graduate schol-
arshp in English. The Dramatic Club,
the Debating Club, the Literati, and
the DeutScher Ncrein were more sue
cessful than ever. The latter organ
ization secured Professor Rudolf Tom
DO, Jr., of Columbia University Tor
lecture on Faust and at the end of the
year presented a German play. Pro-
feSsor G. A. Drew, Curator of the new
University Museum of Natural HiSA
tory, published textbook in Zoology
that has been adopted by leading uni
versities. Professor j. w. Carr of. the
German department was reelected as
the only vice president of the Ameri
can Dialect Society. The 1907 Number
of Dialect Notes is composed almost
entirely of his contributions of Arkan-
sas. Maine, and New Hampshire dia-
lect Professor q. d. Chase Of the
Latin department was elected first
president of the Maine Classical Asso-
citation The great success of its first
meeting at Brunswick was due prin-
cipally to his untiring and well-directed
efforts. Professor NJ. A Chrysler has
carried on and published original work |
in Botany. Professor J. S. Stevens of
the Physics department published a
on Meteorological Condi-
tionS a OronO.
The session ut 0rono conducted on
tirely by the faculty of Arts and Sci |
tn,es, was atlehued ~ % stuue.i,s,