The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15

 GREAT YEAR AT AUBURN Its Attendance Records
 Broken. TOTAL OF .7oI ENROLLED Is the Oldest Pathological Insti- tuition in the South. sas stan gf Isssrscters Numbering M Professors And In.sruetors-- Hss Highest Resuirem-nts 2 4 ef Neurological scheeis
 of south.

The year 190S-09 has been an epoch-making year in the history Of the Alabama Polytechnic at Auburn the oldest technological institution in the South. being founded in 1872. It has had this year the largest attendance of students in it's history, 701, repre- senting twelve States three Foreign Countries. and every County in Ala hame: the highest average age.-24s young men over twenty-one years of age; the averages age of the fresh men being eighteen years and four months. The year, too, has been char acterized by the greatest development in building undertakings (D the o. D. Smith Dinning Hall. t21 Carnegie Library, (3) Conner Agricultural Hall, t4) waterworks and sanitary system being brought to successful comple- ton; making the total valuation of the plant now at Auburn over sbts,oo0, .
 The Polytechnic established the first chair of civil engineering in the south, 1872. It had the first chair in biology, It had the first chair in electrical engineering. II had the hfst chair In mining engineering. Ithad the first chair in bacterioiogy. It had the first chair in architesture. In word t has done the pioneer work In teehnoiogi- cal education n the south,
 
 slxty-seven Professors and instructors, Is now organised in four distinct faculties: (l) engineering and mines, (25 agricultural sciences and phar- macy, ts) academia, 60 veterinary medicine.
 During the period of seven years the Increase in number of students hss been from lt2 to TOE. or very nearly seventy-five per cent
 ways been definite one. It has not divided It's forces. but its aim has been to be a great and leading technoiogi- cal institution of which Alabama 1and the South will be proud.
 The wide extent of It's patronage and widespread reputation for thoroughness of work attests the wisdom of its policy
 According to the Carnegie Foupia- tion. 1t has by far the highest re- quirements for admission of any tech noloKical institution in the south.
 The friends Of the institution take the greatest pride in the work that 1t has done for the young men of the State as we'll as for the industrial interests of the State. In all fields of industrial development; engineering. civil. electrical. mechanical, mining, architecture; and In all fields of agri- culture and scientific work, chemistry metaIlurgy. bacteriology. sanitary chemistry, farm. etc, Auburn gradu- ates zare to be found in the lead.
 Over 1900 young men have received their degrees from the institution, and aver 5000 have passed through its halls back into the social and industrial life of Alabama and the South.
 The prospects of the institution were never brighter.
 The administrative stan of the in- stitution has been put to it's limit throughout the summer tn answering the numerous inquiries of prospee- tive students,
 The great need of Alabama and the South is young men well trained in now to do things and how to handle great forces of nature, whether fiaech- animal forces or forees of ylant ani animal life; and in the Polytechnic the State of Alabama has . great orr Kanixation which for thirty-five years has done this work in way to com mend itself to the entire population of the State as well as to thousands 'h s's's' ~ R. D. webb.