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


o' throughout the undergraduate departments Of the university
and honest one although the nearly all colleges
these have been expanded at least by title to meet wants that
apparently felt OF the 237 the
oue for 9l23 exclusive of medicine 1876 rs cent?
actually given OF these the eng
neerng and the 70 students agriculture showing
amount Of expansion larger perhaps than is yet needed Such
expanded offering leads in institutions elsewhere to large
number Of small classes OF the 271 held 91213 81 per
cent had from to students so cent had from 10 to 49, 10
had from 20 to 49, and IL cent had 40 Thus
than wd of the below what be called the point
Of economic efficiency.
THE COLLEGE ENGINEERING
The College Engineering offers three curcua of study each
covering in civil engineering mechanical eng
neeng and in electrical engineering The schedule of studies
follows quite closely the schedule of engineering
the better schools of the country including the basis of the physical
sciences for the first two years. followed by applications during the
last two The faculty of the school of engineering small
numbers for the work which undertakes do but the instruction
is earnest and sincere and the laboratory facilities the whole
The department better quarters the present
small inadequate and nconvenent the character the
instruction and the opportunity for laboratory work the school
well with similar schools Of engineering other institutions
its best by the students who still additional
instructors The the professors small with
that paid by the better engineering schools and comparable
with that which the men so trained can Obtain in the nrace of their
professions.
STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
The Agricultural College result the
Congress of July 1862 usually after its author Justin
Morrill, for thrtve and United States
senator from Vermont BY the Morrill, Act Vermont received 10000
of the public land for each of the senators and each Of the three
representatives to which then entitled The state sold this land
for little ninety cents and in 1863 attempted
unite the University of Vermont ddbury College,
University any them into single institution to which
should be joined college of agriculture supported by the interest
the $3500 derived from the sale of the federal land grant This
attempt to unite the Vermont colleges having failed the legislature
1864 made provisional organization of Vermont Agri-
cultural College the actual existence Of the college to be depn
dent the subscription by citizens of
supplement the income of the federal grant AS subscriptions
not Forthcoming and the legislature apparently not ready ppo
pirate from the state treasury agricultural education the
alternative adopted of establishing state college of agriculture
the University of Vermont By approved November
corporation formed entitled The University of
State Agricultural College, governed by board of trustees consisting
of the Of Vermont the president of the university g
ive and nine sfperpeuatng trustees already described
TO this corporation has been the the
authorized by subsequent legislation This annual income including
that for the Experiment Station amounts to $88000
The College of Agriculture is thus correave part the Unver-
y Of Vermont with its faculty DEAN
of the Experiment Station The faculty consists of eight professors
three instructors nonresident lecturer paid
from 800 to $780, instructors about $1,000 The list of Students
which for numbered fewer than so annually has increased
and in 1923 stood 49, For half
the entrance requirements have been high school graduation strictly
enforced There also special intended for the
eft of those engaged farming which the attendance in
was "a
The equipment consists of Morrill, Hail. erected in 1907 from
appropriation of