Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-31
SToRRs COLLEGE NEEDS
CONSIDERED AT HARTFORD
Explanations to Joint comnittee on
Agriculture by President Beach.
Especial to The Bulletin. )


Hartford. March S0.-The Joint corn
mittee ON agriculture took most Of the
afternoon today considering the needs
of the Connecticut Agricultural .coliegS
at Storrs in the matter of new build
ings and equipment. The fact OF this
matter is that the college has reached
its limit OF usefulness with the present
number OF buildings and now has a
number of male students on the waiting
list who would be glad to attend its
classes If they could have any GER
taiIity of findfng accommodations at
the college or near at hand
Accommodation at the college for
more thar the ,1S0 odd which has beer
the maximum number of stud -nts there
during the present college. year Is out
Of the question until the state appro-
PIRATES for further buildings and these
are- Quilt. To find accommodations .ut :
side of the college buildings and near
er than Willimantic, six or eight miles
away. 10 just as. impossible, for Storrs
Is a college settlement pure and sim
pie and there is no opportunity for
anybody outside Of the college to come
in and build near it.
All of this and much more was ex-
planned to the committee by Presi-
dent Beach, who said that the icstitu-
tion couldn't take another student to-
day. He told Of the situation in regard
to having United States army officer
at the, college to take charge of the
military drills and inspect the work Of
the students in this line. The Con-
necticut college Is the only institut on
OF its kind in the country which Is
granted a military officer from the
regular army and hasn't one now for
the reason that it cannot house him IL
he comes.
The last one who was sent there
H. l.. 4. =.
and the war department withdrew him
but correspondence between President
Beach and President Taft has made It
plain that the department will send
another on the moment the college
notifies it that there are quarters for
him In its buildings.
The dormitories are filled with stu
dents and there are in the end of one
of them two families connected with
the faculty whom 1t is desired should
live in two of the cottages which the
state is asked to build. II these two
families were to vacate their present
quarters room would be thus made for
twenty five more students.
The measures under considerat ton.
which brought out all this were three
calling for a $4,000 appropriation for
a new dining hall and a $4,000 appra.-
priation for four new cottages, for
$4,000 appropriation for buildings. and
for a $1,000 appropriation for fitting
up the horticultural building which
was built under law passed two years
ago.
President Beach told the comnnittet.
that il was q case of either build new
dormitor,es or build these cottages and
relieve the dormitories now in exist
enee of the congestion and thus make
places for more students. The room
occupied now by the dining hall is
imperatively needed by the library of
the college, which is at present housed
in a small room utterly inadequate for
the housing and use Of the four or
five thousand volumes it contains
1t was made plain that the occu-
pants of the four cottages proposed will
pay rent for them IL they are built and
that everybody about the college pays
rent for quarterS occupied with the
exception of one member of the fac
ulty. whose salary includes house rent.
In addition to the president, several Of,
the trustees and members of the fac
ulty were present to support him in
his plea for new buildings for the IN
stitution, among them Messrs. r. s..
Patterson Of Torrington. Charles A.
Capen Of WilIimantic and d. Walter
Patten Of North Haven. and Prof. A.
G. Gulley. who is at the head Of the
horticultural department OF the COLI
leEe.
The latter told OF the situation re-
garding his department stating that
the Connecticut college had the finest
outdoor outfit in this line that there
is in New England and one. which is
the peer Of any in the country. and
now has a fine new building for lIous-
ing the indoor work CT the depart
merit. which has not yet been fttei I'M
entirely The classes have already fll
ed the largest lecture room in the
building and the department is grow
ing to the extent that building sup
posed to he sufficiently large to accom-
modate this end Of the college work for
sorre years TO come Is used To its limit
upon moving into It.
The college Is sure to get favorable
acticn on the part OF the committees on
agriculture. and 1t is quite possiblr
that all may be reported favorablv by
this committee. but they viii then have
to go to the appropriations commit
tee. where the financial condition Of
IRE state at nrAsAut may result inI
THAR AAin< 1ApaA A>-@L