The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-02-03

make intellectual training spiritual development The offering
throughout the undergraduate departments of the university
honest although the nearly all colleges
these have been expanded least by title meet wants that
apparently not yet felt Of the 237 announced the %
49, exclusive of medicine rs per cent?
actually given VI THESE % courses were Tor the o9 students eng
neeng the 70 students agriculture showing
perhaps than needed Such
expanded offering leads institutions elsewhere very large
number small classes Of the 271 classes held 1923
cent had from students 80 had from 10 to 49, 10
cent had from 20 49, and II per cent had 40 Thus
than wors of the below what be called the point
of economic efficiency
COLLEGE ENGINEERING
College Engineering study each
covering years. civil engineering eng
neerng electrical engineering The schedule
follows quite engineering among
the better schools of the country including the basis of the physical
sciences for the first two years followed by applications during the
last The faculty of the school engineering small
numbers for the work which undertakes do but the instruction
earnest and sincere and the laboratory facilities the whole
fair The department better quarters the present
ones are small inadequate and In the character of the
instruction the opportunity laboratory the school compares
well with similar schools engineering other institutions
to its best by the students who come it, still needs additional
instructors The the professors small with
that paid by the better engineering schools comparable
with that which the men SO trained can obtain in the practice of their
professions.
THE STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
Agricultural College
Congress of July 2 1862 usually named after its author Justin
Morrill, for thve and United States
By 10000
the public land each the
representatives which then entitled The
for little over ninety cents an acre and in 1863 ATTEMPTED to
University two of then into single institution to which
should be joined college of agriculture supported by the interest
the $35500 derived from the the federal land grant This
attempt unite the colleges having failed the legislature
in 1864, made provisional organization of Vermont
cultural College, the actual existence of the college be
dent the subscription by citizens of Vermont of sufficient funds
to supplement the income of the federal grant AS subscriptions
not forthcoming and the legislature apparently ppro
the treasury agricultural education
alternative of establishing college agriculture
at the University of Vermont By act approved November 1865
corporation formed entitled Th University of Vermont and
State Agricultural College, by board of trustees consisting
of the of Vermont the president the university
aive and sefperpetuatng trustees already described
To this corporation has been the income derived from the
of 1862 and the annual grants from the United States
authorized by subsequent legislation This annual ncome including
that for the Experiment Station amounts to $8S000
The College of Agriculture thus correative of the
sty Vermont with its faculty and who also director
of the Experiment Station The faculty consists of eight professors
three instructors and nonresident lecturer Professors paid
from $1,000 to $780, instructors about $1,000 The list of Students
which numbered than
years. 1928 stood half years
the entrance requirements have high school graduation strictly
enforced There special for the
eft of those engaged farming which the attendance 1928
equipment consists of Morrill, Hail. erected
appropriation $6000O the laboratories general chemistry
tho uJ tho