The farmer and mechanic., 1914-10-06

with faith almost as great as Abra-
hams
Southern colleges, owing to the
lack Of available wealth in their
states have to grow painfully slow
However the quarter of century eIaps-
ing since the first students frightened
It's originally ugly campus marks
much for which to be grateful to a
patriotic State. These have been wears
of struggle. There was a struggle for
recognition that technical training
is education. struggle for land, for
buildings. for equipment, for main
tenance-indeed a wrestling for all
that makes an institution. That the
young institution trumphed over it's
obstacles IS proof that the State needs
what 1T has to offer and that it has
offered what the State needs. The
following bald contrasts reveal the
results of this struggle.
Ihe institution, as first stated, be-
gan with one building and even its
own trustees thought this building
would suffice for many years, it now
has twenty brick buildings. two
wooden houses, six barns and eight
bear buildings known in the vernacu-
lar OF the campus as "shacks." in
winch young men live in more or less
discomfort to get the kind of educa-
tlon they want. The total value of
its buildings is $587.21s2S.
The land owned at it's opening dav
consisted OF 62 acres valued at 50
W, 1t now owns 1876 acres of land
estimated to be worth s127.310o0.
Inc equipment Of the college in
1883 was valued at $4,000; it is to-
day inventoried at $236,13311.
The live stock that greeted the
nrst agricultural students consisted of
one pair OF small red mules; the pres
ent nerd OF dairy cattle, work stock
10000. $1o'
The horticultural students fonnd
no orcnards, green houses or gardens
III 1883, there are now Twenty-Five
acres set TO 10 hundred trees and GAO
vines. seven acres are devoted to
gardens. ~
It's first library was housed in
room 14x13 feet and consisted Of
ooO books it's present building shell
ters about 3O,0 900 volumes.
me yearly income Of the college
Wnen 1t started it's career was ST.
ooo.oO from the Land Scrip Fund and
the surplus Of the State Agricultural
Department This surplus was swept
ond amaS vos. oy legal decision in the sec
oho year OF the college, the yearly
income Of the institution for mainten.
ance is now $163,OOO.O
Inc nrst years enrolment Of stu
dents was u. last years enrollmant
was 1873. This year it will proba hlv
feacn 500, and if adequate provision
for dOrmitOries were made wo,,1d
soon reach 1900.
Inc faculty present for duty the
opening day numbered five in ali
namely: A. =. Holiday, president. T
n. Chamberlain, Professor of Agrienl
t4re; w. F. Massey, Professor Of
Hortlculture; J. H. Kinealy, Professor
0I Mechanical Engineering, and DR..
y. Il Hill, Professor of English. tho
faculty for teaching now comnr;sas
oa members and for experimental
WORK the number is about the same
In the Experimental Station turned
over Dy the State to the new COLLEGE
.nere were ten workers and five of
.hese were trained only analytica1
cnemists. The Station maintained
now IN conjunction with the STATE ~
partment Of Agriculture and the
United State Department Of AgricuI-
.ure includes Sixty-five scientific mon
and women. '''ei
Inc greatest contrast, however ia
Ia the changed attitude Of the people
-. me state towards the institution.
a. It's inception and for some wears
aIter It's opening the new tangled in
Sututloh was looked on with curious.
coioiy suspicious eyes Industrial
euucaIon was new to the State Some
SurViVofs or better days declared it a
IA rankee trick to reconstruct the State
The college therefore counts ito
sreatest gain IN it's quarter Of century
OF hfe to be the winning of the con
nuehce e ana hearty good will Of eyery
Grass OF people. Technical men arc
no longer objects of suspicion: thew
are the vanguards of progress,
Inese figures measure in a wav
villa. the college has received. The
question pertinent now is wh.+ has
,ne ihSt1tutlon returned for the out
,as: What contribution has it made
500 ana country to justify it's
apologies ou'
FIrst: 1T has furnished to the in
uus'rIes or our country 773 gradu
a.es VINO are carrying on their Young
s~nouiuers ~ an immense deal Of indus
trlal enterprise. Wherever thesa
men are found, they are efficiently do
ing the service for which they were
educated Only one out of every