Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-06-25

Two new members of prominence have
entered our faculty circle during the past
year. Prof. George Gorham Groat, A. b.,
from Syracuse University; A. NJ. Cornell,
and Ph. ID. from Columbia University
has come to the chair of commerce and
economies. He has brought to his new
position an unusual fitness gained by edu-
cation, and accumulated by the advantage
OF successful experience as head of a.
similar department in the Ohio Wesleyan
University. He has identified himself In
most helpful way with various civic,
| social and Industrial agencies, and has
assisted by conference and public adj
dress in an endeavor to find solutions for
many problems that are of great Importance
to the various communities of tho State
The bureau OF legislative research Mt
Montpelier during the year called upon
| the university, as n State institution, for
| cooperation, and DR.. Groat. as an officer
| of the State serving the university, gladly
agreed to collaborate with the work of
this important bureau. The department
of commerce and economies has rendered
n service of incalculable value to the
State and II Is not too much to hope, I'm
der Its present competent leadership. that
| 1t will be increa singly useful with every
coming year
In response to a suggestion made by
Doctor Claxton, the United States Com
| missioner of Education, and sent out to
all Immigrant colleges, the Department
| of Agricultural Education has been es-
| tublished and Professor F. B. jerks, for
| many years tho capable assistant to the
Commissioner OF Education, has been
placed In charge of this importan. work.
Prof jerks was trained for service in
Purdue University and In the Massachu-
sets Agricultural College. and having
visited nearly every College and expert
| ment station In the United States as a
| federal official, he is peculiarly fitted as
| member of the faculty of tho Uni
versity Of Vermont College Of Agriculture
to train teachers for this most impor-
| tant branch which so many of the ele-
| mentary and secondary schools of the
State are now placing in their curricula
The work of general university extern
| sion has continued throughout the year
| and various members of Our staff have
| cooperated with local organizations from
one end of Vermont to the other IL bring
ing to them. through lectures, the results
of special studies. In this way the uni
versity is serving the State mos. effec-
| lively, as a State institution should, in
every locality in the State.
| Doctor Notey the capable dean of the
College of Engineering is the engineer
| of the State Board of Health and, CO.
| operating with that organization and al
| so with the State highway commissioner,
the College OF Engineering, through its
dean and it's colleagues. Is rendering a
service to the State that would be impos-
| sible without such an institution.
Dean Perkins continues his work as
| State geologist and Is making the State
| Of Vermont as we'll as the university
| widely known as the result of his service,
This venerable young man grows young
er with every added year. Last August
he Joined company of eminent geolo-
| gsts from all over the world for a trip
| through the Canadian Rockies extending
\ from Montreal to the Pacific coast. =
| man who keeps fresh In his subject by
such associations can never grow old and
with every added year of added youth
| Doctor Perkins is adding to his own dis
| tinction as scientist and to the fame of
the university and the State he serves.
| DIR. Tinkham, the dean of the Univer-
| sity of Vermont College of Medicine, Is
| closing the most active year of his pro-
| fesional life and one OF the best In the
service Of the university 1t has been my
good fortune to attend numerous alumni
banquets, and other gatherings with him
and everywhere he has gone he has
| brought announcement to our alumni
| and increased conviction that the college
| Of medicine IS an absolute necessity. He
, has compelled a larger faith In the stand
ing and possibilities OF his college. Asso-
ciated with him in the faculty of the col
/ lege of medicine Is a body of professional
| teachers unsurpassed in the ability to
train competent men for the medical
profession. The product of our college of
] medicine is ample warrant for such n
| conclusion.
| For years Dean Hills of the College of
| Agriculture has been dreaming of the day
when the college might be taken off the
hill at Burlington and projected on, for
service into the remotest corners of the
| State. That dream, after a quarter of a
century, is now a realization The Leg
| sature Of 1912 made the first appropra-
| ton ever given by Vermont for agricul-
tural extension. Mr.. Thomas Bradlee, a
graduate Of Cornell University was call
ed to head the department and,
in cooperation with Dean Hills, ex-
| tension courses have been established at
various points throughout the State. Mr..
| Bradlee has proven a most efficient and
| inspiring influence among the farmers of
the State and as his acquaintance extends
his influence will increase.
The Smith-Lever bill. recently passed by
| Congress. has become n law by the sigma
| ture of the President of the United States
| This bill will give to the State OF Ver-
mont Immediately $4,000 for the work of
| agricultural extension to supplement the
| appropriations made by the State. Ultl-
mately this bill appropriates nearly s25 900
for the agricultural industries OF the State
beyond the seat of the university, and the
possibilities of service to Vermont
| through this extension work are beyond
all present computation. We believe that
new dignity Will come to the vocation OF
the farmer and that farm lands and prod
ucts In Vermont will increase in money
| value every year as the result OF this new
and important phase OF agricultural work
directed by the State university.
The United States Department of Agri-
culture. through Secretary Houston, has
established a new administrative policy.
There VIII be the closer cooperation on
tho part OF the federal government with
the various State colleges, and the
county agents from this time forward, In
this, as in all States will be appointed
by the College Of Agriculture. All this
means that the University Of Vermont
College OF Agriculture will be limited in