The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-02-05

College the director of the Experiment Station He has been loaded
with teaching thing said of other
the staff desirable be that the Experiment
Station and the Agricultural College should have real and vital
necon the chief for the existence of the former
institution has been taken if its staff to be made chiefly
body teachers No other form of research the history of the
world has been similarly endowed could
gan proportion the amount expended research agriculture
ought to exceed efficiency any other field OF scientific endeavor AS
matter fact however only small proportion Of these funds
directly efficiently agricultural investigation They
cannot do when locked up in salaries Part of this income should
remain fluid.
giving the Agricultural College adequate sup
port also clearly the duty of the trustees set the Agricultural
Experiment Station free to bend its efforts directly and theoretically
investigation those problems whose solution much
individual dairyman There field
in Vermont for the Agricultural College and the Agricultural Expert
Station that agencies may work.
there be conception of what that work ought to be-
suitable organization for carrying it out and the
in hand for the of agriculture rather than for the
of general instruction.
COLLEGE MEDICINE
The College Medicine University
the old medical schools of the country began instruction in anatomy
1902 and what considered that day
full of lectures nauguated 1922 By 1886 had grad
uaed 16 doctors of medicine wen owing to the difficulties of
Quoting school small place. abandoned until the year
1854 when it reestabhed enlarged building better
building provided 1870 and still better 1884 This
last burned 1903 and the present building erected in 1906
of $l25Ooo This building containing the dissectng
laboratories lecture halls admirably situated and throughout
welghted welhated and wevenlated building and excel
enty adapted to its With its equipment valued
at $50,000.
like that of American medical colleges purely nominal
The college conducted by of physicians with nominal
utilization with the university but practically Independent of its control
that made coordnag department of the University
the control of the board of trustees but really until
1911 that the College Medicine the language of the catalogue
made part of the University system"
The Medical School heightened twenty weeks
months in 1885, to months 1908 and half in 1907
to the length the other university 1912
The College Medicine administered through faculty. with
much the other departments of the university
There nine
ALL the regular professors salary of $4,000 being paid to but three
In addition there number of special professors assistant
professors these special lecturers brought
from Boston and from New York to take particular subjects In
there fortyfour teachers the nuctng staff
eight of whom chosen from the praccg physicians in
Burlington
the College of Medicine for the 1912 amount
$30149 of which $20867 10 from buttons and $4,000
from appropriations the remaining small amount being received
laboratory and The expenditures consisted
$2692834 teaching salaries $5395 equipment supplies
and 62 for the maintenance the building leaving small deficit
for the $1762 The state appropriation of $4,000 began in
1909 and has been increased for the 1913 $23500
expenses student attending the medical school
tuition fee of S25 S. macuaon fee and $40 annual athletic
besides 25 graduation charges that comparable with those
made in similar medical schools.