Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-02-04


board half whose trustees appointed by the
look out for the interests Agricultural College The out
illustrates how small control vested in
BOARD so constituted Omng the $3.50
the grant of 1852 the trustees after expenditures made on
engineering the natural and physical Sciences mathematics
science and English leave themselves of the
the federal government only spend agricultural education
Of this $3.50 spent botany zoology which, although
necessary college agriculture would under ordinary
circumstances be provided by university maintaining college Of
and sciences. other Words of the received
by the trustees from the United States the
of the Agricultural College, only $81 spent otherwise
than would be the the Agricultural College elsewhere
That to only this of distnctvey
agricultural subjects, such agronomy sois horticulture
chery farm management dang animal hushand and the like
This has always been the policy of the university trustees
policy that has been accentued years. Twenty years
ago only $3376 ncvey agricultural ed
cation but the annual appropriation from the govern
then stood at $4,000 This appropriation increased in the
intervening twenty by $320O agru
ture has grown by only $2,105.
It worth while to make comparison policy different
respect of the annual federal grant This
exhibited following the disbursement of such funds
in 192 In this table the University Vermont and Rutgers
College remaining institutions in the United States in
which the state agricultural college part privately endowed
institution The universities Minnesota Wisconsin, and Illinois rep
resent states having strong agricultural schools institutions
and controlled by the state aided large
atoms.
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Rutgers College sssses sa1osso s@oo slo4n@ ssA472
University Of Minnesota $3.50 $4,000 nsoooo saooo 10000 100000
University Of Wisconsin 100000 100000 100000 $4,000
expenditure the appropriations
agriculture not be strictly legal The Morrill,
ed should
colleges the leading objects shall be teach such branches
learning related to agriculture and the mechanic arts and
the arts universally
engineering The act furthermore declared that although such
to leading objects of these colleges this be without
excluding scientific classical tudes this comprehensive
language followed the second Morrill, August 1890
when these consideration
concusey that benefit agriculture that these
appropriations authorized by the United States and
preomnanty agricultural state it is certainly
the trustees of the University Vermont
method expenditure executing the intent Congress-
serving the best interests of Vermont.
attitude of the trustees toward the Agricultural
appreciated only going back the history
Vermont has in large gone
other states of the Union When the first Morrill, act
agricultural education neither
idea of what be
for the benefit of the people the
mechanic arts played subsidiary part
onay intended the moment include elementary
arts that Immediately associated farming When
the states received the grants and
to what disposition should be made the the term mechanic
arts assumed unexpected and aracng role great eng