Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-02-05

many years. general college that offered
in which students obtain grounding in those cultural subjects that
training spiritual development The offering
of throughout the undergraduate departments of the university
fair and honest although in the case OF nearly all colleges
expanded least by title to meet wants that
apparently felt the @ announced the caa
ogue exclusive medicine 1876 Cor rs cent? were
actually these for the 100 students in eng
neeng and 81 for the 70 students agriculture showing an
expansion perhaps than is yet needed Such
expanded offering elsewhere to large
number of small classes OF the 271 classes held in 1912 3D. 81 per
had Students cent had from 10 to 49, 10
had from cent had 49, Thus
than twohrs the below what be called the point
THE COLLEGE o ENGINEERING
The College of Engineering offers three curcua of study each
civil mechanical
neering electrical The schedule Of studies
follows quite closely the schedule engineering
country including the basis of the physical
the first followed by applications during the
The faculty the school of engineering is small in
the instruction
laboratory facilities the whole
The need Of better quarters the present
inadequate the character of the
opportunity laboratory the school
we'll with similar schools other institutions In order
to by
instructors The of the small comparison with
that paid by the better engineering schools and comparable
with which the obtain the practice their
professions
AGRICULTURAL
Agricultural College
usually after it's author Justin
Morrill, for hve congressman and United States
By
the public land the and each of the three
representatives which then entitled The state sold this land
little ninety attempted
the University of Middebury College, Norwich
University two Of Them into single institution to which
should college by the
the $1350O derived the sale Of the federal land This
attempt unite the Vermont colleges having failed the legislature
1864 a provisional organization of Vermont Agri-
cultural College, the actual existence of the college be
the subscription by citizens Of Vermont of sufficient funds
subscriptions
Forthcoming and the legislature apparently ready
pirate from the state treasury agricultural education the
alternative adopted Of establishing college
the University of Vermont By act approved November 1865
corporation formed entitled "The University Vermont
State Agricultural College, governed by board consisting
Vermont the
atve and selperpetuang trustees already described
TO this corporation has been the derived
1862 and the annual the United
authorized by subsequent legislation This including
that for the Experiment Station amounts $S8OOO
The College Agriculture thus part
sity of Vermont with its faculty and who director
of the Experiment Station The faculty eight professors
three instructors lecturer
from $1,000 to $780, instructors about Students
which for numbered fewer than SO annually increased
recent and in 19123 stood TO- For half
the entrance requirements been high school graduation strictly
enforced There is also special winter intended for the ben
eft Of those engaged in which the