The evening times. [volume], December 14, 1906, ANNIVERSARY AND HOLIDAY NUMBER, Section III, Image 20

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PAGE EIGHTEEN.
(llj J. II. YfnrnU)
Tim North Dakota Am'leulturnl (Vil
wiiH founded lii IN'.IO, muter the
IVIHIOIIH
or "The Morrill Act" of
i',\ by wltleli tlio IIIIIIoil Stolon
IIIIOIII.
!HH,
represent
ROV-
nave to oarli
HIlito
iiiitl torrl-
•y an iiinoimt. of land equal In all to
.(Kio noroH for eaeli member of eon-
IIIK
•y.
Hint, state or terrl-
TIH
purpose of tilts tnml Kraut
in lo found colleges for the oduca
•n of (lie Industrial elassos In the
lenco «if itRi'lciilluro ami In the nip
mile. arts.
When admitted an a state, North
lUota wan entitled to three ropre
iitatlvon, an,i wan Riven. ly the
irosald act, 90,000 acres of land.
10 "Knabltng Act" Rave the agrlcul
ral college 40,000 acres In addition
that provided for by "The Morrill
•t." makliiK 130,000 acres In nit. My
lwno provision of the "KnabllnK
•t" and by constitutional and statu
ry provisions, the common school
Institution lands of the state can
sold for loss than $10 per aciv.
FRANK HANSEN
Grand Forks
Thl» will ulllmtilcly afford Ihe «Krl
cultural college an endowment con
siderably In excess of $1,300,000 from
which only the Interest and Income
can ho use,) for maintenance. In is0,
.Instill 8. Morrill sccnrcit an additional
appropriation for strenntheiilnK the
land Kraut
COIIOKON.
fonnress direct
ed that, hcKlnnluK «1 (h tS!»0 there
should he
Riven
and territory of the 1'nlon for the hot
ter maintenance of Its agricultural
and mechanical college, and that said
sum should ho Increased $
1,000 each
year thereafter until the total should
reach
$26,000
annually, at which
amount It should remain. The maxi
mum was reached In 1900.
The agricultural vvltofie wan or
ganised for educational work, Oc
tober 6, 1S!0, The legislative assom
hly of the previous year appropriated
$26,000 for buildings and equipment.
The administration building was part
ly completed and made ready for oc
cupancy. January t. 1S32.
Purine the winter of 1S9S the legis­
HORSR MARX.
THE REX
A NEW FEATURE
At the Rex Cigar Store is a
WELL EQUIPPED
BILLIARD HALL
Headquarters for the celebrated
EL PATERNO
and all other leading brands
A full line of
Smokers' Articles
Always on Hand
THE REX
lative assembly appropriated $55,000
for aildftlonnl liullillnRS and for maln
tcuanco. With this appropriation the
farm house, barn, mechanical building
and boys' dormitory were constructed
and the Administration building com
pleted.
Owing to excessive appropriations
made by the legislative assembly of
1S!»5,
$16,000 t» each state
the governor vetoed most of the
educational appropriations, leaving
the agricultural college the single
Item- -"l-Vr Miscellaneous Kxponses,
$11,260."
The legislature appropriated $33,000
for buildings and maintenance during
the session of
189".
and an additional
sum of $6,000 to clear np a deficit th*t
had existed for several years. Out of
this appropriation a wing for a con
templated chemical laboratory was
built at an expense of about $5,000.
The legislative assembly of 1899 ap
propriated $27,000 tor maintenance and
for the erection of a small addition to
the mechanical building.
The session of 1901 appropriated
W. S. CONRAD
Minneapolis
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Hie North Dakota Agricultural College and Experiment Station
I $1S.000 for maintenance for that por
tion of the year 1901 commencing
March 1 and ending December 31. The
legislative session also authorised tho
college board to issue bonds In the
sum of $60,000, and from the proceeds
of these bonds two barns and science
hall were built and a sewerage sys
tem constructed. It was also during
Hits session that a permanent future
income for maintenance was establish
ed by an act appropriating annually
onc-tlfth of a mill tax upon the tax
able property of the state for the
maintenance and support of the agri
cultural college. Since the Mill Tax
Act went Into effect, the agricultural
college has received no legislative ap
propriations until 1905, when $50,000
was appropriated for a chemical la
boratory and a greenhouse.
RilMligt.
The Administration Mullding la
substantial brick structure, 90x72 feet
in slate, with red sandstone basement
and two stories, used for office rooms,
postoffice. chapel, Y. M. C. A., English
and modern languages, history and
bookkeeping. At present it also con
tains the library.
The Mechanical Building is a two
story brick structure, 80x100 feet in
si sc. and contains the forge shop with
forty anvils, wood shop, machine shop,
physical laboratory, drawing rooms,
department of steam engineering,
offices and lecture rooms.
Science Hall is a two story base
ment brick building, 70x82 feet tn
site, and contains the botanical and
toological laboratories, department of
horticulture, geological laboratory
and lecture room and four commodious
class rooms for mathematics, besides
several offices and girls' study room.
Francis Hall, wfcich was originally
the boys' dormitory, has been convert
ed into class rooms and laboratories.
is a two story' brick building,
47x130 feet in site, and contains the
girls' cooking and sewing room, vet
erinary laboratory, grain and grass
museum, departments of farm me
chanics, agriculture, soil physics and
several lecture rooms and offices.
The New Heating Plant is a brick
structure, (50x100 feet in si*e, and has
three 125 H. P. boilers installed, with
room for two more when needed. It
has coal bunkers of 800 tons capacity,
and all its appointments are modern
and convenient.
The Horse Barn is a wooden struc
ture. TfixlSS feet in sixe, two stories,
and provides ample room for the. work
stock, feed and vehicles. It also con
tains a stock judging pavilion that
will comfortably seat more than 100
students.
The Cattle Barn is also a two story
wooden structure, 85x95 feet in sue,
and conveniently houses the animals
kept for the dairy, for feeding and
breeding experiments and cattle used
in the class room for stock judging.
A brick silo of 175 tons capacity is
connected with the cattle barn.
A sheep and pig barn, poultry house,
implement shed, dairy building and
drill hall make up the remainder of
the buildings on the.campus. The
drill hail, at present, also serves the
purpose of a gymnasium. Cuts of the
more prominent buildings appear else
where in this catalogue.
Heating plant: The original heat
ing plant proving inadequate to the
demands of the institution and there
being no available appropriation for
improvements, the Emergency board
authorized the Board of directors to
erect a new plant which was com
pleted during the fall of 1904. An addi
tional appropriation of $30,400 was
made two yeaVs ago. to pay the bal
ance due on the heating plant, the
Emergency board having provide 1
$15,000 for its construction during:
1904.
The new chemical laboratory: The
chemical laboratory contains twenty
nine rooms and two vaults for storage
purposes. On the first or hasenjfnt
floor are located two statio.1 labora
tories, a laboratory for farm chemis
try, a food laboratory, physical labora
tory, private laboratories, store and
drying rooms and library. In one of
these rooms will be installel a com
plete flour producing mill for experi
ment work and Intended to furnish
opportunity for students to study the
entire milling process.
On the main, or first floor, a: the
right as yon enter, are to be found the
general and private office*, an back
of these a large private laboratory ar
ranged for the convenience of the
head of the department. On the op
posite side of the hall are the qualita
tive laboratories, balance and supply
rooms. In one wins is the laboratory
of general chemistry sad ^salltative
analysis. In the other wing are three
rooms fitted np especially for wort In
pharmacy. On the third floor it aa
aodftorinm capable of seating 12S tta
deata, a chemical museum room, a
large class room and a dark room 5#r
polarisoope work, for the ase of
spectroscope and for pbotographie
purposes.
Tie new library building, the 0ft
of Andrew Camugie, was completed
last snrnmer. It is &£x6$ feet la sine,
with ll-foot basement o! red sand
stone and 37-foot «ory of pre—til
brick. Tie basement ocartalas two
fine literary society rooms, two clonk
rooms, and aewal store rooms. Tbe
stack room is 2SxG6 feet, with roam
for eight donhje-taced steel stacks 22
feet long and feet high, and U4 Uaeal
feet -of wall space tor book shelve*. It
contains two reading rooms, each
2£x3fi fee: which are separated tram
tie stack room by a wire screen JIV
titka, an &x$ feet work room, aa Sii
feet librarian*1* room and a small cloak
room.
Tie new library is of be&nt&nl de
sign end is weS lighted. Tie interior
is fnuBfce.fi in emmer-sewed oak, with
statu ceiling asfi the entire floor space
is covered with cork carpet. ccd
lege library at present contains abiatt
Miftfi vrilmnes. Tie new library has
a capacity for abom 3&,DM> volumes.
Kfifiiea «f -Igrir&ltora! OsBegn.
Senator Justin Morrill, of VemwBt,
was fbe
SOB
of a bl&cksmlfh. and
3A
sriOx life toiled a: the anrH. Sis
hrigin.. aeSve mine «trly felt The bur
den of sosdirecteg -energy, wfeerem
physical force labored at such disad
vantage for want of that scientific
training which would'bring to Its nld
the subtle, yet powerful forces of na
ture. When he became a United
States senator he conceived tho idea
of establishing an educational Institu
tion in each state, partly supported by
federal nld, for tho better education of
the Industrial classes, such education
to have a direct bearing upon each
one's life work. Agriculture and me
chanical pursuits were more especial
ly emphasised, though his plan em
braced preparation for "the several
pursuits and professions of life." Tho
type of education he proposed was not
narrow or exclusively technical. It
must be "liberal." It was intended to
elevate the tolling masses and ulti
mately to professionalise agriculture,
the mechanic arts, and other Indus
tries. He doubtless drew his inspira
tion from his own humble beginnings,
and when opportunity offered he be
queathed his best endeavors to uplift
the tollers in the Held and workshop.
The educational energies of all the
past had been expended, almost ex
clusively to the end that a few favored
ones might enjoy a liberal education
for pleasure or for professional pur
suits, while the great army of Amer
ican children had to be content with
such schooling as the poorly equip
ped, common schools afforded. There
was no incentive for the son of a
farmer or the son of a mechanic to as
pi re to a liberal education as a prepa
ration that would enable him to follow
more creditably in his father's voca
tion, for it educated him away from
the farm or other industrial pursuits
The universities and colleges made no
provision for the education of such as
the farmer. The pure sciences were
but imperfectly taught and the applied
sciences were practically unknown.
Senator Morrill desired to remedy this
condition. He did provide a remedy.
The name of Justin Morrill will grow
more illustrious as time goes on, and
the people become better acquainted
with the educational ideals he inaugu
rated.
The fund of knowledge having a "di
rect bearing upon agriculture" that
has been gathered since the passage
of the Morrill act of 1862 is enormous,
and is still growing. This knowledge
is already admitted to be of highest
pedogoglcal as well as practical value.
The classics are no longer considered
essential to a liberal education by
progressive educators. The applied
sciences are their equal for mental
discipline and have the added ad
vantage of being useful. The mental
discipline afforded by the study of the
Administration BuSdixig
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classics, all things considered, Is ex
tremely costly, though not without
merit. The sclenccs answer the-same
purpose, and have vocational value as
well. The best evidence In support of
the new type of education is the fact
that classical Institutions, though at
first they opposed, soon found it nec
essary to teach the sciences and adopt
courses of study having to a greater
or less degree a vocational bearing.
These new courses of study proved
popular even in classical institutions.
The agricultural colleges inaugu
rated this new type of education and
for a definite purpose. They con
tribute directly-to the development of
Industrial pursuits—chief among
which Is agriculture—by bringing to
their aid scientific and technical train
ing. They also foster the spirit of
democracy by raising the industrial
processes from drudgery to thoughtful
labor—from slavish toll to dignified,
learned vocations.
For the girls, long and short courses
are offered in domestic science. It is
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14,1906.
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CAMPUS VIEW.
the purpose of the college to afford
girls practical instruction In cooking,
sewing, household sanitation $nd all
subjects that have a direct bearing
upon home making and home improve
ment. Nature designed that woman
should adorn the domestic circle and
preside with equal dignity whether in
the kitchen or in the drawing room.
Her place in society is too important
to force her into it with no special
ties. The home is the nursery of the
state's moral and spiritual strength,
and its central figure, the wife and
mother, should be as technically edu
cated along domestic lines as is the
engineer or the artisan for his work,
training for her most important du
Her education should not have sole
reference to the ornamental, the cul
tural or the artistic.
The North Dakota agricultural col
lege has kept its mission to agricul
ture, domestic science and the me
chanic arts steadily in view. It has
never truckled to the whims of those
who are not in sympathy w^th the pur
pose of aiding in the largest measure
those who til the soil or who other
wise work with their hand6. For
those desiring a liberal education that
they may more fully enjoy the de
lights of living and the power of do
ing, or who desire to become teachers
of their fellow men, four year graduate
courses of study are offered. For
those who cannot complete a graduate
course of study, shorter courses are
offered—even three month courses of
study, drill and training are maintain
ed for boys who are kept employed on
the farm, except during the winter
monthB. The subjects offered are
thoroughly practical and have direct
application to every phase of farm
work. The training is toward the
farm or other Industrial pursuit, and
not away from it. The very atmos
phere of the institution is full of In
dustry and the dignity of labor.
It must not be supposed, however,
that history, literature, language,,
mathematics, etc., together with the
discipllne and culture they afford are
slighted or neglected. These and all
other academic subjects are highly
emphasised and taught only by spe
cialists in their respective lines. Tha
educated farmer is entitled to as high
a degree of culture as the professional
man. Only the type of education
should be different, not the quality.
There is abundant material of edu
cational value—of highest value—that
has a direct bearing upon agriculture
and other Industrial pursuits without
encroaching upon the dead languages
and other popular sources of culture,
to raise Industrial vocations to a level
ISsS A
til
*%v •»,
with the "learned professions," with
plenty of material to spare. We have
but begun to study and comprehend
the laws and forces of nature and to
co-operate with them in the activities
of industrial life. The great farming
class is but awakening to the possi
bilities of its vocation when strength
ened and stimulated by the scientific
aids that come to it through research
and investigation.
The farmer's lot can be ameliorat
ed, his labors made more fruitful ot
good results and his life rendered an
enviable one. Instead of his children
flocking to the cities, filled as they are
with allurements and vices, where
they are not needed, or into already
overcrowded professions where they
are not wanted, they will more gen
erally return to the form where
healthful exercise and profitable em
ployment await them. Educated chil
dren naturally desire brainy work.
The farm can be made to challenge
the best efforts of brainy men, both
for profit and pleasure. Hie sciences
hold perpetual convention on the
farm.
The agricultural college stands for
and emphasizes the type of education
calculated to bring about these desir
able ends.
Time Enough.
"Ah!" exclaimed Clumsay, as he led
her back to her seat after the waits, "I
just adore waltzing."
"Well," replied Miss Cutting, ex
amining a badly torn flounce, "you're
not too old to 4earn."—Philadelphia
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