| Summary: | Minutes of the Board of Trustees meetings held in 1880Auburn, ,Alabama
June 29, 1880
At the regular annual meeting of the Board of Trustees held in Auburn on the
29th day .of June 1880, the following members of the Board were present, viz:.
Messers Barnes, Dowdell, Haralson, Hardie, Ligon and Stansel.
Absent: the Governor of the State, Rufus W. Cobb, Messers Box, Langdon, Lawler
arid Malone. ..
On Motion of Mr. Haralson, Mr. Barnes was called to preside over the meeting.
On Motion of ¥~. Haralson, the President of the College was requested to make
any communication he might desire to the Board. Whereupon the President read
his annual report which was submitted as follows: .
Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees:
The session of the college just closing, has been a prosperous one.
Though the number of students has been less this year, than last, we have
suffered in that respect, in common with most of the institutions of higher
learning. The opportunities opening before young men and the demad~ :for their
services occasioned by the great revival of business last fall, led many of
them to business pursuits, who would otherwise have been in attendance upon
our colleges.
The whole number of matriculates this year is 229. As compared with last year
the numbers in the different classes have been as follows:
First Class
Second Class .
Third Class
Fourth Class
Preparator.y Class
Past Year Present Year
13 20
31 18
51 57
78 & Post Course 55
104 79
Showing a decrease this year of 25 in college proper and 25 in the preparator.y
department •
. This year we send out the largest graduating class the college has ever had.
Of the young men, nine graduate in the course in Engineering, five in the course
in Literature, three in the course in Agriculture and three in the course in
Science.
The average number of students for the past 3 years has been 249. We have
every reason to believe and we confidently expect that the average attendance
for years to come, while it may vary on account of things beyon~ the control
of the authorities of the college, will not be less than it has been during
the past three years.
'During the session the conduct of the students, has in the main been good and
their progress in study satisfactory. During the existence of the college
there has been no serious disturbance among its students and comparatively
few flagrant violations of its rules.
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We have had occasion every session to dismiss a few, but we ' have always found such
action on the part of the Faculty had a salutary~ effect upon the remainder of the
students.
The Professors and Instructors have been diligent and faithful in the performance
of their duties. My impression is that the spirit prevailing in the College is
better than at anytime in the past history of the Institution and that teacher and
pupils are alike better satisfied with the result of the 'years labor than ever
before.
For the labors performed by each of the members of the Faculty, you are hereby
respectfully referred to their reports,. which are · herewith submitted. A careful 1
co m parison of the amount of work done by the .Faculty of the College with that
done by similar Institutions satisfies me that the.y 'are doing from' 20 to 40 per
cent more than is required in other colleges of the same class.
Among all the Institutions established in the various states of the Union by the'.
Congressional land grant, there is in the South not one equal to your own and .of
those north of 14asorr5and Dixonsline none but those of New York and Illinois are
decidedly superior to it.
Not a few of them have more than double the money invested in buildings and apparatu8
of, instrucion that we have. Many of them have, much larger endowments .and
resources but 10 the number ot. ·students and the quantity and' character of instruction
imparted,- they are not superior, in many cases not · equal to this Institution.
It may savor ot boasting to embody such statements inthis report, but surely the
Board and Faculty are entitled to feel and manifest. a cQmmendable degree of pride
in an Institution which has grown up under difficuLty'. and (has been in a great
measure the creation of their wisdom and energy.
The request of.·the Bureau, of Education at Washington, led the Faculty during the
present session to enquire into the number and present occupations of those who
have· received instructLon here, but who are no longer connected with the college.
The investigation showed that more than five hundred young men formermtudents
of this Institution are now scattered over the country"most of them in Alabama
who are engaged as far as we could ascertain as follows:
In Agriculture
In Mechanical pur·suits
Architecture
Printer
1
1
1
6
In
. Tel. Operator
Manufacturer
Mechanics
Professions
' 14 .. '
Ministers of Gospel 7
Dentists 2
'. Editors 2
Musical Composevs 2
Physicians 9
Lawyers 19
Teachers 30
23
70
In Engineering.' 17
Civil Engineering 4
Mining 4
Rail Road Employees 9
In Conunerce 90
Druggists 2
Bankers . 2
Merchants 33
Clerks 53
Those employments hot known to us number 94.. Whole number of students since the
organization is 744. The fact that more than half. our students engage in Agri~
culture ought to satisfy the farmers of the State that we' are' doing no' inconsiderable
work for them while it ought to induce a much larger. proportion of our students
to prusue those studies which fit them for this calling. Nor should our contribution
to the teachers o.f the State be overlooked. While thirty are now .engaged,
more than ,an equal number since leaving college have been employed in the school
room. Every year we are sending out larger and larger numbers who are well prepared
for the owrk and some of whom find employment in tne best schools of the.
state.
One of our graduates is Professor of Natural Science in the Normal School, four
of them. are engaged in teaQhing in the city. of Mobile, ·two Qf them in the High
~chool at Roanoke and three of them are Instructors in this College •.
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'!he finances of the College have been from thef1rst the only department which has
given· them any serious concern • . r
How to make our scanty means answer the demands of the College has been the most
difficult problem before them. Plunged in deb.t by the unfaithfulness o.f a state
official, paid for years in a depreciated currency on which rwe have lost not less
than twenty thousand dollars, required to furnish avery article of furniture--
every appliance of instruction--to make constant and extensive repairs upon the
dilapidated building we recsived to fit it for our purpose of instruction, to finish
up its unsightly and uninhabitable basement in order to meet the increasing number
of students and the greater demands made upon us for instruction. We have exhausted
every resource to do all that was demanded of us, and still preserve
the Institution from embarassment. The past year has in this respect been one
of peculiar trial. Misfortunes never come singly as 'Said and this year with us
the proverb has proven true. .
At its last meeting the Board appropriated $500 to the Department of Natural History
This was the modest sum asked for by the worthy and energetic professor of that
Department to enable him to make a peginning. Had the funds been at his disposal
he could have wisely expended ten times that amount. What he asked covered the
expense of the barest necessities for his work, and the Board acted justly and
wisely in making the appropriation.
The Board instructed the Treasurer to pay to Mrs. Ross the full amount due her and
her children for the services ~endered by her husband 'while a professor of the
College. They could do no less. These two sums aggregated. -
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During the year a suit. brought by Mr. George Foster t,erminat£d~ iin a ~judgem:ent of
$300 against the College. , This, on advice of Col. \iilliam H. Barnes the Attorney
for the College, I instructed the Treasurer to pay. In the month of February
a terrible tomado ' sw,ept over the town and so damaged the college building that
it required about $700 to repair; it·. This expenditure was inevitable. So that
this year we have been under the necessity of paying out of our income about
$2500 of extraordinary expenses.
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The Board ,too at its last meetil1g'."appropriated $150 to pay aB' Assistant in the
Clothing, Department. I have always been opposed to taking, the scanty .funds of
the, College for. such .& purpose. , I ; See no more 'creason why college' funds, should
be p'~id to provide ,clothing for the young men astb provide board for them.
That a contract for clothing can be made so as to release the college in this
respect is a proposition ,which is only to be .stated to the :Board. '. It 'needs' no
.argument to sustain it. _
The financial condition of the College needs the careful cons_ideration of the'
Board. We , ar_en9W dependent upon the upon the ability',and good will of our.'
Banker to carry for us an amount of indebtedness, which if he were to decline
to do would seriously embarass the Institution. Such an event may occur when
we least 'expe_ct it. • ,
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I amC8cidedly of the opinion that the time has come, when the Board and the friends
of the College 'Ought to make an ' earnest , erfort to have tlIe Stat'e of Alabama do
something for the Coilege.
The friends of the University at the last session of the Legislature obtained a
relinquishment of a claim for 'about $40,000 wh:i:ch the State !held against, that
institution for borrowed money.
They are now agitating the question of an appropriation by the State for additional
buildings. Such a measure will probably be pressed upon the Legislature at its
next meeting. We ought to share in any aid which the ptate may fUI"Ilish Its institutions
of leammg. If there could be an understanding between the Boal"ds and
friends of the two institutions, there might be secured such aid as would be of
material assistance to both. If the state would advance the amount of income of
this college to that possessed by the University, viz, $24,000, we could well
afford to wait until future years should bring us the full amount we need to
supply the college with ample facilities to do the work it can do 'and ' ought to
be expected to do for the people of the state. I commend this matter to the
earnest attention of the Board. .
' It would greatly faciiitate any efforts that mj:ght be made by the officers of the
college, charged with the disbursement of funds if the Board would adopt -a system
of appropriations to each separate department of the College. With this ,view, I
respectful~ suggest a committee on appropriations to be one of ~the standing committees
of the Board who may from year to year consider and report to -the Board
what amount is necessary, or can be spared from the funds ofthe,,'Col'lege -to each
department. It , is humiliating to a Professor of a Department to be required to
come to the President of the College to ask for money ~o cover every ' item of
expenditure and the President may sometimes reluctantly approve bills for expenditure
which the College is illy able to afford. Should the plan sugge$ted be adopted,
each department would know the amount at its disposal and ' invest 'it ac-cordingly
at its own discretion. ' ., - '
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There are several minor matters pertaining to .the · int.erests of the College to .
which the attention of ~he Board is ·r,espectfully invited ��� .
There should De a fee required of the higher classes in Chemistr,y, sufficient
to replace the, yalue of the material consumed by ·them. Professor Stubbs will give '
the Board full information upon this point. ..
The question of secret societies has been before the Faculty and they recommend to
the Board to 'Permit the existence of these of kpown lcharacter and standing "among
the students. Though I concurred in this measure, :r think it greatly to be regretted
that ·these societies have obtained 'a .-foothold in the, Institution.. I apprehend no
good to .the Institution 'from their existence among the- students. . 1
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During the year two gentlemen of the U. S. Army have solicited· me, to use my ,
endeavor to secure their detail at this College as Instructors in Military Tactics.
I have been put in possession of such facts less a doubt that we could secure the
services of such an officer if the Board desired them and I ,have nodouot but that
such service would be of great value to the. Institution if .the officer (so detailed
should work in harmony with other officers of the College.
I have given no encouragement to these gentlemen as I did not , kno~what might be
either their fitness for the position or the wishes of the Board on this matter.
The agent of an Insurance company who .lives in S~lma, has offered to insure our
property at rates greatlY below those we have been paying. At his request I
call the attention of the Board to this subject.
The Faculty recommen~ l to the Board ~h~ fol~owing young· men for graduation:
In the course in Agriculture:
George R. Hall
Edwin ,A. Price
J • . J. Sykes
Charles B. , McCoy
Robert Y. Street
In the course in Literat u; e:
Benjamin F. Atkinson
E. J. Garrison
·H. L. ~tin
R. F. Ou.sley
H. G. Perry
H. B. Urquhart
_ J. T. ~shc.raft
S. B. Cantry
Samuel Calloway
J. S. N. Davis
Alva Fitzpatrick
George w. Stevens
J. C. Street
R. E. Thomas
B. L. Walker
Respectfully submitted,
I. T. Tichenor, President
On Motion of Mr. ~igon, the report of the President of the College lie upon the table
for the present which was. adopted.
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The Treasurer being called on read his report:
To the Board of Trustees'
A & M College of Alabama;
Auburn, Alabama
June 15, lSSO
of the A & M College of Alabama .
I herewith have the pleasure to submit for your consideration the report of the
financial transactions of this office for the year ending June 15, lSSO.
From State Treasurer
It Fees . .
It Farm
" Expense
. '
'. ' . ' .
Paid to Expense Account
" " Farm "
" " Rep. & In."
'" " Fixtures "
" " Printing "
" " Stationery"
" II Apparatus "
" " Freight 11
It II Military "
" " Int. & Ex "
11 " Trustees "
" " Salary ..
" " Insurance "
" " Advertising Account
" " Chemicals 11
11 " SU17{!eoo "
" " Bal., for'd "
'Receipts
Disbursements
$20,2S0.00
, 3,167'.50
293.9J
6S.00
$ 23,S09.43
3,499.5~
$ 27,30S.9
1,007.S9
736.00
1,953.90
239.55
300.47
92.50
619.15
215.60
367.61
291.72
125.85
~ 18,425.00.-
412.50
·441.90
, 172.16 '
820.00
1,007 .~
$27,308.9
Respectfully submitted,
E. T. Glenn
Treasurer
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To the Board of Trustees of
the .A & M College of Alabama
Gentlemen:
A & M College of. -Alabama
Auburn, Alabama
June 15, 1880
I deem it proper on this occasion of your meeting to submit to you a supp~emental
report observing more in detail the character of disbursements made by me for
the last fiscal year.
Expense Account
Paid to speakers, correspondents, etc. at Commencement
Music Repair of Chapel-
Servant hire
Postage on catalogues, reports, etc.
Fuel, wood & coal
Col. Hardaway
Prot. Trippe
Diplomas
Insurance Account
Advertising "
Farm If
Amount paid tor labor
Utensils and MatElrials
Fertilizers
Ginning
Bill of Col Chambers
Rep. & Improvement .Account
For roof on College
Carpenters, painters & ,plasterers
Material, Lumber etc. .
Hauling, draggage, .etc.
Incidentals, hiring hands, etc.
Under drain of building
Bagging for carpet .
Lumber for tam - .
Bill of Grant & Fortes judgement
Fixtures
Stoves, grates, etc.
Safe in Commandant's Office
Printing
Catalogues, regul3tions, etc.
Ledgers, class books, etc.
$ 175.00
148.00
288.75
87.97 .
157.77
62.00
47.00
48.00
$1,007.89
412.51
.... r ,.,. . 441.90
'J:
440.54
40.36
164.25
24.00
66.65
v "
745.57
244.45
,.353.15
33'. 72
22.40
9015([
37 .. 00
100.61 '
326.00
139.55
100.00
227.30
153.17
.. Stationery .
Paper, ink, & chalk
Apparatus
Professor Mellts-Department
Professor Smith's Department
J College
Freight
Amount paid on Farm
" " II Coal .
" " " Chemicals
11 " " Lumber
" 11 '.' Apparatus
" " " Stationery
" "- . o II Fixtures
" " " Printing
Military
Musicians
Adjt. & Q. M. Depts.
Rep. on instruments
Cleaning guns ! +
.Interest & . Ex~hange
Amount paid for
Trustees
Amount paid to
Salaries
Amount paid professors and officers
.Ghemicals
AmQ.unt 'paid for
Surgeon
Amount paid to in fees
Balance .brQught forward fr0m last year . ,-
.
92.50
,509.65
22.50 .
87.00
·26.00
95.45
12.75
36 .50
29:,80
2.15
o! 6.95
6.00
227.50
89.36
22.25
28.50
291.72
'125.85
18,425.00
,,172.16
820.00
: liOOZ.~
,$27,308.9
The following items were extraordinary expenses:
Material and work for last year
Repair on Roof
Under drain
r
225.96
745.37
90_.50
Back salaries to .Messers ,Ross-& E. R. Rivers 750.Qo'
Foster judgement
Lumber for farm
Apparatus
Balance forward
297.68
2:Jl00.00
500.00
1100Z.~
$ 3,717.2
Respectf~ly submitted, 'r
E. T. Blann, Treasurer
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To the Board of ~rustees
of the A. & M. College
Gentlemen:
A. & M. College .of Alabama
Auburn, Alabama
June 15, 1880
I herewith submit tto you a report of the receipts and disbursemell-ts on account ot
the Clodthing Department as shown by the books in ~ office kept tor that Depart-ment.
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Amount received on account of uniforms and hats for cadets
Amount paid to Loeb and Brothers Contracters
Respectfully submitted,
E. T. Glenn
Treasurer
$4,032.20
'$4,032.20
The Committee on .the Report of the Treasurer then read the following report:
To the Honorable .Board of Trustees
of the A & M College of Alabama
Gentlemen:
A & M College of Alabama
Aubum, Alabama
June 15, 1880
Your Committee to whom is assigned the duty to examine and audit the-~books,
vouchers and financial transactions of the Treasurer of the College have disch&rged
that duty; and find that the Treasurer has vouchers, reciepts and a proper showing
for all monies expended by him.
That the receipts .frsm all sources have been twenty three thousand eight hundred
and nine 43/100 dollars-and the expenditur.es with amount brought forward from
last year twenty seven thousand three hundred and eight 96/100 dollars.
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The regular and supplemental report of the Treasurer which we have examined
shows fully the transactions in his office, for the fiscal year ending June 15, 1880.
We further have -the pleasure to report to your vody that the books of the Treasurer
are neatly kept, ~is papers regularly filed and .safely deposited. ~-
Respectfully,
w. C. Dowdel19
F. M. Reese ) Committee
All of which reports -~ere on motion lain on the table for the present.
Regular PrQceedings:
After reading reports and orders taken thereon, On Motion of Mr-. Stansel., the
Board adjourned until 4 o'clock P. M. . '
The Board met at '4 0' clock P. 11 . and Haralson, Hardie , Ligon, and Stansel ltlere
present. . .
On Motion of Mr. Haralson, the following appropriations be made and that no monies
appropriated to any Department of the College for any specific object and purpose be
used otherwise than for the purpose and object of such appropriations.
For Insurance
" Farm
" ' Reps. & Improvements '
" Printing
" Stationery
" Apparatus & Chemicals
II ' Freight
" Military
" Int. & Exchange
" Trustees
" ' Adverli§ing
" ' Speaker
II ,Music '
" Servants
II Postage
" Fuel
$ 250.00
500.00
',' '" 500.00
200.00
50.00
200.00
120..00
200.00
300.00
100.00
200.00
75.00
150.00
. 250.00
75.00
150.00
$3,320.00
On Motion of Mr'. Haralson the various degrees recommended by the President of the
College' be conferred on those of the cadets who have graduated during the session
of 1879 and 1800. To wi·t: .
In the course. of· Agriculture,: , .t
George R. Hall Bullock County', Alabama
Edwin A. Price ¥l&d-ison" "
J. J ~ Sykes Lawrence " "
In the course of Science:
Charles B~ McCoy
Robert y ~ Street
Lee County, Alabama
, Clay " . "
In the course of Literature: -
Benjamin F.; .. Atk:i:nson Troup County, Georgia
E. Y. Gar'rison Clay ~ " ,. Alabama. '
Henry L. Martin Henry" "
R. F. Owsley Lowndes" Ge6rgia
H. G. Perry Lee" Alabama.
H. B. Urquhart "" "
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In the course in Engineering:
J. T. Ashcraft
S ~ B. Cant.ey
Samuel Calloway
J. S. N. Davis
Alva Fitzpatrick
George W. Stevens
J. C. Street
R. E. Thomas
B. S. Walker
Clay County, Alabama
Russell" "
Moptgomery County, Alabama
Lee II "
, Montgomery, II. "
Randolph n II
Clay II "
Tallapoosa . " "
Bullock " "
On Motion of Mr. Haralson the degree of A. M. Be conferred on Reverend E. W. Solomon
of Uniontown, Alabama. . Adopted.
On Motion of W. C. Dowdell the degree of A. M. be conferred on Dr. Rever~ E. Persons,
Assistant Surgeon in .,United States Navy of Auburn, Alabama. Adopted.
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On Motion of R. F. Ligon th~ degree of Civil Engineer be conferred on R. E.
Hardaway of Auburn, Alabama, • . Adopted •
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On Motion of Mr. Ligon th~ pommittee appointed at the last mee~ing of the poard
to raise all( ; amendment to t,he rules and regulations of the College have until
tne next meeting of the Board to report. Leave was granted.
On Motion of Mr. Stansel a pommittee of three be appointed to draft suitable
resolutions on the death o~ Hon. T. B. Bethea • .
The Chairman of the Board app?~~ed on that committee Messers Stansel, Hardie
and Haralson.
The Committee having retired, on their return submitted th~follo~g resolutions
which were ordered spread on the minutes of the Board and a copy of the same
be transmitted by the Secretary to the family of deceased.'
wnereas, since the last meeting of this Board-, the Hon. T. B. Bethea a member
of the Board has departed this l~fe, Be ·it therefore res91ve~ that_ ~ the
death of Col. Bethea this Board has sustained the loss o~ 9ne ~f its ablest and
most useful members, the State one of its m9st eminent and d~stingui~hed citizens
and society a loved and valued ornament.
RESOLVED, That we greatly sympathj,ze .·~th the family of our.- qeceased brother and
tender to them assurances of our sincere condolence in this ho~r of their bereavement.
RESOLVED, That the Secretary of th~s Board be instructed t~ forward to Mrs. Bethea
a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions and to spread tne spme on our
minutes.
M • . L. Stansel
J. 1f. Hardie
John Haralson
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Elections being ·in order. On Motion of Mr. Haralson; Mr. E. T. Glenn be elected
Treasurer of the College for the next year. at a salary of $800 ' and be requir,ed to
give a bond in the sum of $2000 to be approved by the President of the Boars.
Mr. Glenn was unan--imously elected.
On Ivlotion the Board adjourned until .l 0 I clock P. M.
On Motion of Mr. Stansel, that at the suggestion of the President o~ the College
a United States officer be detailed at the College.
Which on motion was referred to a Committee consisting of Messers Stansel, Haralson,
and' Ligon to report a future meeting of the ·Boa,rd. ..L . , . _.
On Motion of Mr. Haralson, Mr. Thach be allowed leave of absence for twelve months
and in the meantime to receive ~o . salary. Adopted.
On Motion of Mr. Ligon"the Board of Trustees accept the proposition of the Faculty
of the College to lend to the College the sum of' IO per cent of their respective
salaries and that the Board tender to the Faculty their thanks for their generous
and liberal offer. Adopted.
On Motion of Mr. Ligon, the Treasurer and the Secretary of the College are hereby
instructed to effect an insurance on the College. buiiding ,and its contents for
the sum of $20,000.
On Motion, a Committee consisting of Messers Ligon, Haralson, Stansel, Lawler,
Barnes, and Langdon was designated £or the purpose of presenting to the next
Legislature of Alabama, the claims and needs of this College and urging such
appropriations on the part of the State as are . justly due the College. Adopted.
RESOLVED, by MB. Stansel that hereafter the matriculation fee shall be twehty
dollars for each cadet which shall be deposited with the Treasurer at the time
of his matriculation and for which the Treasurer shall give his receipt. Adopted.
On Motion, Mr. McGehee be assigned to the place filled by Mr. Thach in the College
at his present salary and that the Faculty have authority and are hereby authorized
to make such arrangements for additional help (if necessary) in teaching as they
may deem proper and best. Provided the expenditure for such assistance shall not
exceed $200.00.
RESOLVED, That the Commandant be and he is hereby authorized to contract for the
furnishing of uniforms and hats for the cadets on such terms and conditions as may
be most advantageous and economical to the cadets and when the funds for the payment
of the same are deposited with the Treasurer and an account of the same is
kept by him; that the Commandant has authority and shall require of such contractor
a commission to be paid to the Treasurer of the College, not to exceed 5 per cent
on the funds so deposited.
Provided under no circumstances shall the f1lllds of the College be chargeable with
such commission.
On Motion the Board adjourned.
F. M. Reese, Secretary to Board of Trustees
Note: Col. Langdon reached Auburn on Wednesday morning a'.rter the Board had adjourned.
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The following is a communication addressed to the Board of Trustees and to which
reference was made in their proceedings.
To the, Honorable
Auburn, Alabama'
June 25, 1880
The Directors of the A & M College
In view of the embarrassments of the College, growing out of the extraordinary
expenditures of the past twelve months, whereby the disbursements have , exceeded.'
the income of the Institution the undersigned members of the Board of Instruction
submit the following proposition.
In order to relieve the deficiency in the. Treasury, we propose to lend to the
College one tenth of our several salaries for the year 1880-81. Said one-tenth
to be,_ deducted from the quarterly paymen.t of said salaries, . which will be due on
th'e 1st day of October next and to be paid with interest thereon at 8% per annum
on the 1st day of October 1881. If.at ,that time the funds of the. College will
warrant such repayment, and if not then as soon thereafter as any surplus in' the
Treasury may authorize it.
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Signed I. T. Tichenor
R. A. Hardaway
J. T. Dunklin
. W. C. Stubbs
o. D. Smith '
W. H. Chambers
, P. H. Mell '
G. W. Maxson
E.' R. Rivers
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The f'ollowing are reports submitted to the President of' the ,College, 1879-80..
Department of' Mathematics
A & M College, Auburn, Alabama.
.June 24, 1880
Reverend I. T. Tichenor
President, A & M College of' Alabama
Sir:
I respectfully submit the following report of my department for the year ending
June 30., 1880..
Class No. Students Subject No.. Recitations per annum
IV
III
III
II
I
I
49
56
56
18
Algebra, Geometr,y, Plane Trig.
Solid Geometr,y Analytical
Hensuration & Analy't. Geometry
Mechanics Calculus and
.Analyt Geometry ~
Integral Calculus & its application
Spherical Trigonometry
III & IV
9
9
18 Advanced Algebra irregular
Total number of recitations during the year
Total number of students in College classes
in the Department of Mathematics
346
20.8
149
69
35
80.7
132
The third and fourth classes recite in two sections each at different hours then for a
number of recitations of these classes for the year is doubled.
Qne student in Architecture under ever,y instruction has successfully pursued a
course in "Maintenance principles of wooden and iron roof' and Bridge Trusses."
As the special course in Architecture has been revised and extended the number
of students in this course will be.
It will be noticed that the number of studentS. in my department is less than number
of students in the College classes as shown by the catalogue. This results
from the fact that students in the course in Ag,riculture and Letters are not required
to take as extended a course in Mathe~tics as those in Science and Engineering.
During the year a special blackboard and set of models have been procured and the
department is furnished with necessar,y apparatus for ilLustration.
The progress of the students in this de·partment has been very .satisfactory, their
attendance generally regular and their department in class room good.
There is a steady, though gradual impr.ovement in the quality of the stUdents. Each
year they accomplish more work and do it better. This is especially true of the
1st and 2nd class.es. In conclusion, I cannot forbear mentioning the excellent record
of the second class in Mathematics. The number of absences from all c~uses
average only three to each member ~f the class for the entire year. The average
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of the sessional grade and examination for the entire class is 97.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Reverend I. T. Tichenor, D. D.
President
Dear Sir:
O. D. Smith
Professor of Mathematics
A & 1~ College
Department of English
A & M College, Alabama
June 24, 1880
I respectfully submit the following report of work in my 'Department for the year
ending June 30, 1880.
Class No. Students Subject No. Of Recitations
IV
"
"
"
III
IV
III
I
II
I
54 Ancient History
54 English Grammar
54 Composition
54 Exercises written, corrected,
and copied
60 " "
54 Rehearsals and exercises in
Elocution
60 II " 20 Exercises written and de1iverEld
10 "
5 Latin
Total Recitations
Exercises written
Rehearsals
II
(Cicero)
400
1,076
1,125
" II
220
80
80
420
600
525
600
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18 ' "
20
In connection with Ancient History, I have taught Geography of Countries mentioned,
also definition 'and use of words.
The classes have made good progress ~nd have unifqrmly been obedient and attentive.
The classes hav~ ma'de , great advancement in composition, both in knowledge and style
of expression. I have introduced Whiting's Essentials of English Grammar as text
bo'ok on thatsubject. I find a great deficiency in Knowledge of the elemenhary
principles o~ the language especially in students who do not come up~ from the
Preparatory Department here and think it best to extend the study of Grammar in
the ~ourth class through the entire' session.
The general attendance on recitations has been better than usual.
Respectfully submitted,
George W. Maxson
Professor of English
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Reverend I. T. Tichenor, D. D.
President A & 1-1 College
Sir:
Department of Chemistry
June 19, 1880
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I have the honor to submit the following report of my Department for session 79-80.
My third class in Chemistry consisted of 48 members and recited daily from January
1 to end of session. A larger proportion of this class have passed more satisfactorily
than in any previous session.
Mys,econd class in Agricultural Analysis consisted of 8 members and passed very
satisfactory examinations. It worked in laboratory an average of 10 hours per week
and performed complete analyses of fertilizers, soils, and farm products .besides
an extensive preliminary drill in Qualitative Analysis. I also taught "How Crops
Grow and How Crops Feed" to t hree members of the 1st class pursuing the course
of Agriculture, and supervised two members of 1st class in Science which worked
10 hours per week in laboratory in Analytical investigation of minerals, waters, etc.
Both of theme classes have done tee work required of them and are recommended so ,far
as my Department is concerned for graduation.
In addition to this the regular work of my Department, I have given inst'ruction in
German to a class of .sixteen reciting five times a week throughout the entire session.
Eight of them have made satisfactory progress. I have a'lsoinstructed the
entire 1st class in Astronomy and report no delinquents th,erein.
On the ,whole the work in my Department has been v.ery satisfactory and I am happy
to note an increased interest in the part of the students in scientific studies.
During the session a balance room costing sixteen dollars, long needed appendage,.
has been constructed. I bave also expended for chemicals $172.16, and amount over
the average, necessary needed on account of some apparatus needed to fill the working
capacity of my laboratory. Next session only ,chemicals are needed and a sum
not exceeding $150 will be required to procure them. In all technical schools,
a fee ~f from $10-$100 is charged each stude~t working in the laboratory for actual
chemicals consumed, the student in addition ' buying his own apparatus or else when
pr0vided for 'by the College, paying for all 'losses by breakage, ' etc • .
irJe furnish t he cadets with free tuition and I see no reason why we should furnish
also chemicals free. We furnish now each cadet with apparatus at the beginning of
the session and make him pay for all breakage. This I respectfully recommend to be
continued but in addition I most ,respectfully suggest a fee of, ten dollars be
charged to EQch cadet working in laboratory tocol\'ie,r the cost of actual chemicals
consumed.
Of the $150 estimated for the next session, at least.OO will be required for
chemicals consumed ~ working classes~ Estimating the number pursuing this Department
next session at 10, t he number pursuing this year and we shall have $100 as
a c,redit to chemical De~rtlment. '
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We can thus make our laboratory self-sustaining and leave only the cost of chemicals
consumed in experiments to be sustained by College, an amount trifling in comparison
with the entire cost at present.
In closing this report allow me again to return thanks for continued interest
manifested and support rendered by you during the present session.
All of which is most respectfully submitted.
Doctor I. T. Tichenor
P-resident of the A & M College of Alabama
Sir:
W. C. Stubbs
Professor of Chemistry
Auburn, Alabama
June 22, 1880
'1 herewith submit · the second annual report of my duties in the Department of Natural
History.
Since my last report there have .1teen some important changes made. The class in
-French has been transferred to the -Department of Agriculture. Relieved of this
extra work, I 'have been enabled to enlarge the scope and render more efficieot the
different branches of my Department. The Icourse in lSotany that 'was 'lileretofore
pursued by the fourth and first classes has been assigned to those students in the
second class who take the Agrigultural, Enginee~ing and scientific courses.
Zoology is now completed the 1st term while the 2nd term is occupied by a course
of lectures on Entomology. In the place of Physical Geography in 'the 1st class, h
has been substi~uted a series of lectures on Met~lul ogy.
I am gratified to state that the students in all the branches have ' made satisfactory
advancement and the attendance on duty this year has 'been better than
that of last session. ThiS, however, is due -to a large exten~ tO ethe fact that
I have commenced the year by 'compelling all absentees within a ,given time to make
up all recitations. This' system at first gave me much trouble, but it soon resulted
in breaking up the "sick list" in my Department.
As an incentive to the 1st class, I offered' this year a gold medal for the best
essay on some subject in Geology. The plan has worked admirab~. The young men
as a general rule extended their course . of -reading on this subject thereby gleaning
knowledge it would have been ;next . to' impossible for me to -have giv:en the clas-s
in the short time allowed me for their course. It is my intention during another
year to require other classes to write me these on other branches of my Department.
N.ew Apparatus
With the $500 appropriated by the Board at its last ses,sion f0r ' ,the purchase of
physical apparatus, I have been enabled to r ender the study of Natural Philosophy
both instructive and interesting, and on account of the facilities these offered
me for illustrating my lectures with sui table experiments, I find that at the end
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of the course the students display a more thorough knowledge d the subject than
heretofore. This apparatus is of the most improved modern type and I have been
very fortunate in securing a large reduction on the original catalogue price. For
a list of the purchases I refer you to the bill in the hands of the Treasurer.
~1us eum
The additions to the museum during the year just closing have been extensive and
varied . The change in arrangement has also been important. I am endeavoring to
adopt Dana' system of classification.
The total number of specimens added to the collection since July 1, 1879 is 5919,
consisting of 808 species, many of which are entirely new to the museum.
These specimens have been obtained as follows:
By donation 5490
Exchange 429
5919
I have adopted a system of exchange by means of which I propose before the close of
another year to at least double th ~ addition of the past year. I commenced this
system the last year in the following manner. During the last two weeks in December,
I visited Cla.iborne, Alabama and collected several thousand specimens of the
interesting fossils belonging to the Eocene Group of the Tertiary Formation. On
my return I opened comm,uunication by means of a circular with the different colleges
and museums t~hout the country, calling the attention of those interested to the
fact that I h~d a large supply of those remarkable fossils on hand, that I would
gladly exchange for other fossils and, nanerals, etc. Shortly after mailing these
circulars; I received many "replies entering heartily into my plan. One of these
replies came from the General Geological Institute and another soon follow~d from
the Geological SOCiety of France. The State Geologist of Minnesota has info~ed
me that in exchange for these fossils, he will send to this museum about 50 birds
variet"ies of that state; well stuffed and in good condition for display and examination.
This of course will be a valuable addition to the Zoological Pepartment
of the Uollege. Thus you see with a slight expenditure of money (to pay freight
on boxes received) and an hour or two each day devoted to ~he work our museum will
in a few years reach large proportions. The question of storage will soon be an
item of consideration. The room and space now devoted to this punpose is on~
41 x 20 feet and almost every available sp~ye is occupied.
It will therefore be necessary at the opening of our next collegiate year to appropriate
an additional room for the collecti(;m that may be added in the future.
The following is a general statement of the contents of the musium at present:
Fossils from prominent formations
:t-1inerals (represented)
Zoological & Botanical
6554
1853
1~50
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Most of these specimens ha ~e been carefully labeled and classifi ed during the past
year and I am now engaged in making out a catalogue so 'that the student will have
but little trouble in finding any he may at ~e desire.
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I have als0 placed in this room my priva~e collection consisting of the following:
Foss:i,ls 613 specimens.
Minerals 2924 . It
Zoological and
Botanical 728 11
Total 4265
In these two collectio~s ~y be found specimens from nearly every quarter of the
known world.
It is with pleasure I acknowledge every kind favor and much valuable assistance
from you during the past year and I avail myself of this opportunity of thanking
you. .
I remain, Sir, yours very respectfully,
Reverend I. T. Tichenor, President
A & M ·Coll.ege of Alabama
P. H. Mell, Jr •
. Department of Latin and Greek
AubuJ;'n, Alabania.
June 21, 1880
l.L
,
I submit the following as bY- ,scholastic report for the year 1879-80.
, ,
The 3rd class Latin has had twenty~seven on its rol,l with three recitations
per week, 3rd crass Greek sixteen with two recitations per week. .
The progress of the class both in Latin and Greek has been very good considering
the time given for the study of these languages in this class. The additional
recitation weekly hereafter allowed each of these languages in the 4th
class also in the 3rd will be of great advantage not only to these particular
classes but also will promote a higher scholarship in the advanced 'classes of
the department in that it gives a petter preparation for a higher and more advanced
instruction and study in the 2nd and 1st classes.
The 2nd class has consisted of six members in Latin and five in Greek • . The
work done by this clas~ has been good and acceptable both in quantity and
quality. The scholarship of the class ~s .yery good. This class ha~ five recitat'ions
per week the 1st term and ten tne 2nd term in Latin and Greek.
The 1st class has consisted of ten members in Latin and the same number in Greek.
It is the largest and best class as a whole that has passed out of this department
of the College. The members have done good and full work, have passed all
their examinations fully and successfully and are hereby recommended for graduation
in the course of Latin and Greek Literature. This class has had ten recitations
a week in Latin and Greek during the year. Upon t he whole my classes have
done better work this year than usual and I take p],easure in noting this fact
in my report for the year.
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In regard to the work done by my classes, ·1 have thought it needless to mention it
specifically in this report .1 but I may state here I have tried to pass over the
gpound indicated in the catalogue as appropriate/:work for the different classes.
Reverend I. T. Tichenor, D.D.
President
A & H College of Alabama
Dear Sir:
Respectfully submitted,
J. T. Dunklin, Professor
Latin and Greek
A & M College
A & 1'1 College
Auburn, Alabama
June 21, 1880
I have the pleasure to submit the following tabulated statement of the work entrusted
to me from the several departments during the past year:
Subject pursued Class No. Students Rec. per week Ree. per year
Projection & Model Dr. III 23 2 72
" " " III 28 2 72
Linear & Freehand IV 49 2 72·
Bookkeeping & Penmanship V 19 5 180
Bookkeeping IV 20 3 108
II IV 6 3 108
Commercial Arithmetic IV 19 2 72
Lati.1"l IV 14 3 108
II IV 10 2 72
Greek IV 6 2 Total 26 ~
My methods of teaching I explained in a previous report. I may add I consult freely
with heads of Departments in which I have work. It will be observed from the foregoing
table that I i have twenty-six recitations per week. When not engaged with my
own classes, I was imparting instruction to students of other classes, assisting
them in the preparation of their studies in other departments, so that my entire
time was employed. As the result of my labors in this direction, I had the satisfaction
of hearing the Professor of Mathematics remarking in Faculty that in his
department the 4th class had done better work and more of it this year than the
same clas s in any previous year.
In addition to my academic duties I have been Librarian for the College and for the
5th year have performed the duties of Post Adjutant.
These duties are performed at other than College hours and without extra remuneration.
It affords me pleasure to be a~!e to report uniform and satisfactory progress on
the part of all my classes, save in Bookkeeping to which not suffieient time was
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allotted t.o acc.omplish the w.ork desired • . This difficulty will be remedied another
year as B.o.okkeeping wil~ be taught in the Preparat.ory . Departmen~ thus enabling me
t.o give the time n.ow dev.oted t.o b.oth 5th and 4th classes t.o the 4th class al.one.
This c.ourse seems t.o be gr.owing m.ore P.oPular, there weref.orty-five pursuing it
this year.
I W.ould suggest that if practica~le su~h ~rrangements be made as W.ould hint .of
its being taught .on the actual business plan.
Respectfully submitted,
E. R. Rivers
Instruct.or C.ollegiate Department
First Secti.on Preparat.ory Department
A & M C.ollege .of Alabama
Reverend I. T. Tichen.or, D. D.
President .of A.& M. C.ollege, Alabama
Sir:
I respectfully submit the ..ro.n.o~ng report of my department f.or the year ending
June 30, 1880.
Students Number
37
Subject
Writing
Reading and Hist.ory
Spelling
C.omposition
Ge.ography
Arithmetic
Algebra
English Grammar
Latin
Recitati.ons
200
200
160
105
200
100
200
200
The students in this section have been .obedient and attentive to duty and have
perf.ormed well the w.ork assigned them.
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Respectfully submitted,
o. C. McGehee, Instruct.or
Preparatory Department.
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Reverend I. T. Tichenor, D. D.
President
Sir:
State A & M College
Auburn, Alabama
June 24, 1880
I have the honor to submit the following report of the work in my department for
the year 1879-80.
The First, Second and Fourth classes have each a daily recitation to me. The
First during the Fall term is Gardening and Fruit Culture and during the ' Spring
term is Landscape Gardening • . - The Second during the entire year in the elements
of Practical Agriculture, embracing the subjects of soi1s, .manures, field crops,
drainage, farm implements and farm animals. The Fourth during the entire year iIi
French. . . '
During the Spring Term I have delivered two lectures weekly to the First class
upon the political history of the Government, its structure and the distribution
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of its powers under the Constitution and to the Second class a series of lectures upon
the Law of Contracts, conveyancies and Landlord and Tenant.
My plan has been to devote at least one hour daily and as much more as ~ engagements
in the recitation room would allow to the College Farm. The work on the
Farm has been devoted ' entirely to experimentation in which the sollowing system
has been pursued:
Nine acres subdivided into three parts of three acres each have been devoted to an
experiment intended to show the extent to which high fertilization may be economically
carried. Then three divisions being assigned to the three leading crops of
the South, viz; corn, cotton and small grain • . A half acre is devoted to fruit
culture, embracing grapes, peaches, and strawberries and the smae amount to Floriculture
and lawn g~sses. The remainder of the farm is subdivided into small plots
of 1/10 and 1/20 acre each and employed in experiments to test the value of different
fertilizers, different methods of applying :manures and different processes
of cultivation. The results of these experiments are hereto appended and made a
part of this report. If our means warranted it, it would certainly be desirable to
have in connection with this Department a farm of sufficient size to exhibit in
practical operation the most approved processes of southern agriculture, illustrating
by demonstration the best systems of culture, the best models of farm
buildings and farm implements, the best breeds of live stock and the best means
for caring for them, in short all the details of a model farm so consucted as to
exhibit to t h'} student the practicability and economic results of the most approved
methods of Ag~iculture. Such a farm sufficiently enforcing and illustrating the
instruction imparted by text books and lectures in the recitation room, would
afford the best appliances for a thorough agricultural education. The purpose
of an experimental farm is of course wholly different, though not less important.
It is by a system of well conducted experimentation in this country and in Europe,
more than by any other means that the most important advances in Agriculture as
a science and as an art have been made in the last twenty-five years. Of course
on such a farm devoted entirely to experiment, the expenditure must exceed the
income. The purpose is not to make money but to ascertain truths and in carrying
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out t his design the accuracy and core with which the experiments are conducted necessarily
involves and expenditure of time and labor which would not be afforded where
economic results are considered . The experimental stations in Europe and this
country which have confessedly contributed greatly to the stock of Agricultural
knowledge have been maintained by annual appropriations . amounting sometimes to
very large sums. TI1at in Connecticut for instance which has been the most valuable
in this country is supported by a State appropriation of twenty-eight hundred dollars
annually.
In order to carry out the system of experimentation which we have undertaken it
will be impracticable to reduce our expenses below $500-- the sum which has been
heretofore appropriated, and I therefore request a similar appropriation for the
next year. , In addition to this amount which is needed for ordinary purposes, the
property itself i s very much in need of repair and I hope the Trustees will feel
authorized to place $200 at ~ disposal for this purp9 se~ t The fenCing has been
partially repaired this year, but is still an insecure enclosure. The barn is
dilapidated, the sills and roof both r otten and is besides alt ogether inadequate
to our necessities affording insuffici ent room for the storag~ of crops. We have
no shelter for fr~~ implements some of which are valuable and being d~~ged from
exposure.
With $200, I can make the necessary repairs and additions, without which the
propert y of the farm must suffer injury.
I have been exceedingly anxious to establish an Agricultural Museum and an
Arboretum both of which are valuable adjuncts to our educational facilities and
I beg that you will wherever the means of the college authorize the expenditure
ask an appropriation by the Trustees for these purposes.
Respectfully submitted,
W. H. Chambers
Professor of Agriculture
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Montgomery" Alabama.
November 13, 1880
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At a called meeting of the Board of Trustees of the A & M College of Alabama held
in the city of Montgomery, November 13, 1880, the following report of the Board
for the years 1878-9 and 1879-80 to the General Assembly of the State was submitted
and adopted.
The dilligence and success of the Faculty and officers of the College and the general
good conduct of the students, has been such as to elicit the wa~ commendation of
the Board of Trust.ees.
The number of students in attendance at the College, during ~he two years covered,
by this report has been as follows:
For the Scholastic year 1878-79:
Post Graduates
First Class
Second Class
Third Class
Fourth Class
Preparatory Department
Total
For the Scholast~c y'es~ ~879-80:
First Class
. Second Class
Third Class
Fourth Class
Special Class
Preparatory Department
Total
Number of graduates for the two years
Average number of students
2
13
31
51
78
.l:illl
279
20
18
57
50
5
79
229
29
254
The present session has opened well and everything betokens a continuance which
has characterized the history of the Institution.
In the early part of the present year, the Commissioner of Education requested
the President of the College to forward to him for the qormnittee of Education and
Labor of Congress a statement of the number of young men who had received instru6-
tion at the College but who were no longer connected with it together with the
vocation in which they were engaged.
Tqe reply to this request exhibits the fact that from the organization of the
College to June 1878 nearly 750 young men had received instruct!on at the College.
Of those who had left there were engaged in :
Agricultural 222
As civil engineers, mining engineers,
rail road employees and mechanical
pursuits of various kinds 40
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The professions, lawyers, physicians,
ministers of the Gospel, editors and
teachers.
Co~nercial pursuits
Employment not known
Total
30
90
...JJ±
516
It will thus be seen that more than half our students· when they leave the College
go back to their homes to engage in the cultivation of the soil. Including those
who teach, more than nme-tenths of them pursue industrial as designated from
professional calling. Thus is, the College fulfilling the purpose of its organization
to educate the industrial classes.
These facts we trust will comrrlend it more fully to the confidence of the people
of Alabama, and the careful consideration of the interests and its needs to the
Legislature of the State.
Course of Instruction
There are four regular degree courses in this Institution, designated as follows:
I
Course in Agriculture
Degree, Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture, B. S. A.
II
Course in Engineering
Degree, Bachelor of Engineering B. E.
III
Course in Literature
Degree, Bachelor of Arts A. B.
IV
Course in Science
Degree, Bachelor of Science B. S.
Each of these courses require four years for its accomplishment and to entitle
the st~dent to the Degree, he must stand an approved examJirllation in the studies
prescribed for the course. For the first two years the stUdies for all the Degree
courses (which are the same as those pursued in the Freshman and Sophomore classes
of other Colleges) are identical except that students in the Department of Agriculture,
Engineering, and Science may if they ·prefer substitute the modern languages
(French and German) for Latin and Greek. Having completed the studies prescribed
for these two years, the student may elect either of the regular degree courses.
I Course in Agriculture
The design of this course is to furnish the student with a plan of study especially
adapted to the wants of those who propose to devote themselves to Agricul-
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tural pursuits; not so much by training in the actual processes of the farm, as by
affording instruction in the principles of correct husbandry and in those sciences
which relate particularly to the cultivation of the soil.
The course requires four years for its .completion, the first two years however being
devoted to studies which are common to the Literary Course, except that students,
who propose to take the course in Agriculture may if they prefer substitute the
modern for Ancient Languages.
Having gone through this. course of study which is thought to be essential to a
liberal education, for any of the practical pursuits of life, the student is prepared
to enter upon the technical studies in the sourse which occupy the remaining
two years. These technical studies embrace the following subjects:
1. Mechanics and Physics in which the class makes daily recitations during the
Fall Terrr, of the first year.
2. Botany, two recitations weekly during the Spring Term of the first year.
3. Descri ptive Astronomy and Meteorology, three recitations weekly during
the Fall Term of the second year.
4. Geology and Mineralogy, three recitations weekly during the Spring Term
of the second year.
5. Zoology and Entomology, two recitations weekly through the second year.
6. Agricultural Chemistry, with practical instruction in quantitative and
qualitative analysi~ of soils and fertilizers to which two hours are
devoted daily, throughout the first year.
7. Vegetable Physiology, embracing the structure and habits of plants and their
relations to the soil and the atmosphere occupying two recitations weekly
throughout the first year.
8. Practical Husbandry, embracing the subjects' of soils, fertilization, drainage,
andirrigation.- Farm Crops, Farm implements and machinery, Farm Animals,
Fruit Culture, market gardening, horticulture, and Landscape Gardening in
which instruction is given daily by text books and lectures during the entire
course of two years.
For the purpose of illustrating and exemplifying the principles taught in the
textbook and lectures, the college is furnished with the follOWing appliances:
1. An extensive Hineralogical and Geological Cabinet and a Museum of
Natural History.
2. A commodious laboratory, supplied with trough, furnaces, balances and
apparatus for making analyses.
3. An experimental farm of twenty acres devoted to soil tests of fertilizers,
and experiments in the cultivation· of field crops, grasses,
fruits and flowers. under the supervision of the Professor of Agriculture.
In addition to the technical studies embraced in this course, the class in Agriculture
is required to make three recitations weekly in Political Economy during the
Spring Term of the second year and also to attend lectures weekly upon constitutional
law and the law of contracts, conveyances and landlord and tenant, in which it is
desi gned to furnish such instruction as will be of service to the practical agriculturist.
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II Course in Engineering
This course extends the s,cientificcQurse in applied mathematics embraces full instruction
in regard to the construction of common roads, pikes, rail roads, bridges,
canals, improvement of rivers, harbors, etc.
In aid of the practical studies of the College and as a means of f~~iliarizing
students with the actual details of work the second class in Engineering will devote
two weeks in December and the first class four weeks in ¥.tay to field work
and to visits of inspection to machine shop, mills, mines, furnaces, and engineering
constructions within convenient reach.
The Senior Class of the Engineering Course is or ganized as an Engineering-_ Corps
and goes t hrough all the necessary operations f or the construction of a railroad
from Auburn .to some selected terminus.
Preliminary study of maps
Re.connoissance
Running preliminary lines
Maps and memoirs of land
Final location of road, grades and curves .
Final maps, showing l ongitudinal and cross sartions, excavations, etc.
The field work and office work, including the drafting and calculatiOns are performed
under the direction of the professor. Each step is accompanied by textbook,
study and lectures.
Examinations are made of engineering works in the vicinity and written reports
upon them (with drafts) are required. Both theory and practice are thoroughly
taught.
The work in this course · begins in /thit first collegiate term.
The course in Drawing extends through f our years. , During the first year the students
practice linear and free harid dra.wing. In the second year the elementary
principles of orthographic and isometrical projections" shades and shadows,
structural drawing and topographical . delineation are taught •. This course is
obl:lgatory on the students of all the cours.es except the course in Literature.
During t he t hird and fourth years i nstruction in drawing is obligatory only on
the ~tudent_s dn Civil Engineering. In the former year the system of instruction
embraces orthographic projections, isometric drawing, shades and shadows,
tinping in India ink and colors, the practice of dra~ng in sketches of tools,
the finished work of machines, bridges and other structures. , .
In the last or fourth year of the course in Engineering the students 'are taught
perspective . They then cease to draw for mere practice and use their graphical
skill in machine construction, in making drawings of worksvisited in excursions
tp mines, furnaces, water, gas and railway' structures. Plans.; profiles, and
sections of railroad surveys, complete the course.
Drawing Instruments-The instrucments sued at the College are the Swiss, which
are preferred for their general excellence and moderate cost. The instruments with
the materials for geometrical and topographical drawing cost from ten to twenty- '
fiv:e ,dollars.
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The student is advised to defer his purchases of drawing 'instruments and material
until he comes to the College, when we will have the advantage of procuring them
under the direction of the Professor of Drawing.
The Drawing Room is fitted with all the necessar,y arrangements. A full set of
geometrical models is provided. A large number of photographs, lithographs, and
manuscript drawings • English, German, and French have been imported. They illustrate
the following subjects: General Descriptive Gerometry, Linear Perspective,
shades, shadows and reflections, masonry and stone cutting, girders and trusses of
wood and iron, furnaces, boilers, railroad shops, depots, offices, machines and their
details shown in the conventional colors used in France and Germany.
A selection of portfolios in landscape, figure and classic subjects and casts from
the gallery of the Louvre in Paris is calcluated to meet the wants of students
desiri, ,g to pursue a course in freehand drawings.
III Course in Literature
This is the usual A.B. course of American colleges and the plan of study is substantially
the same as that required for this degree in the best literary institutions
of the country. It embraces a thorough course of the Latin and Greek Languages
running through the entire four years; the study of English in its linguistic
elements as well as its literature, including Rhetoric and Logic, History,
Ancient and Modern, Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Political, l1athematics, pure and
applied and Natural SciBnces, including Chemistry, Botany, Astrono~, Geology and
Physics.
Monthly exercises in declamation and composition are required of all students
during the first and second years and the higher classes in the Literary Course
deliver three original orations during the year.
IV Course in Science
This course is intended for t hose who wish to pursue the st udy of Physical Sciences
in a more extended course than that prescribed in the Literary course with the
privilege at the same time of substituting the modern for the ancient languages.
The subjects embraced are Mechanics and Physics; Botany; Chemistry, including work
in laboratory in qualitative and quantitative analysis; Descriptive and Practical
Astronomy; t-1ineralogy; Geology and Meteorology.
The purpose is to afford to the student ever,y facility for thorough instructi~n in
the way o.f experiment and illustration in' connection with the text b~oks and lectures
daily by Professors of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy and History.
The Chemical Laboratory is admirably fitted up for work in analysis. It consists
of a lecture room, furnished with counters, pneumatic traugh, gasometer and large
glass case. A work room with twenty five work tables; a furnace room and a balance
room. All are supplied with gas and water.
Every · student pursuing analytical chemistry is provided with a separate work table,
the necessary chemicals and apparatus, a jet of gas with Bunson Burners and enameled
water sinks.
In the Balance room are balances made by Oertling of London and Becker of New York
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~hilosophical apparatus _: The philosophieal dep~rtment of the College has been
renaered more efficient during the past _year by the ,addition of five hundred .
dollars worth of the most improveq modern apparatus. - Special appropriations will
be made for increasing the facilities of this department as the funds of the
College will permi~.
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Museum and Mineralogical Cabinet: The museum is co~rehensiv~ in -its scope,
embracing mariy ra:re and valuable specimens. The private eollectiQn of the Professor
of Natural 1iistqry (consisting of 5265 spe~imens) added to that of t;he
College (consist;ingof 6)58 specimens) renders the study Of Geology,_ Mineralogy
and Zoology bqth instructive and interesting.
We earnestly request the citizens of the State to forward to the Professor of
Mineralogy and Geology any speqimens which may be -useful in the geoJ,ogical
study of Alabama.
By an act of the Legislature appointing a State Geologist, it is made his duty
tu furnish this Institution a full set of all the minerals of the State, thus
giving a pr ospective increase to our alreaqy valuable cabin~t ,and by which the
Geology of Alabama may be fully illustrated,.
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Special Courses: In addition to the four regular Degree Courses, there are four
spec,ial cours.es, provided for those who do ,not wish to complete the full plan
of study required for graduation in the Degree Courses.
Upon completing anyone of the Special Courses and having passed a satisf&ctory
examination in the studies thereof the student is entitled to a certificate of
proficiency.
I. The Course in Commerce
This course is designed to meet the wants of those who have not the time and
means required for a full commercial course but who wish while fitting themselves
for the pzactical duties of life to acquire a good general education -.
such as would be afforded by a Business Co;Llege. It is intended to embrace
tw;o years combining the work of the first section of the Preparatory Depart-ment
with the regular work of the Fourth, substituting Commercial Arithmetic,
bookkeeping and. training in business forms and correspondence for an equivalent
amount .of work in· Ancient or Modern languages and drawing. I:t is based om ,a
thorough training in English Gramma~ and plain Mathematics. - If fully' prepared.
to enter the Fou!'th Class this course can be completed by the student in one
~ear. Upon a' satisfactory completion of the cqurse a certificat~ of- proficiency
will be given.
II. Course in Telegraphy
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This course is intend,ed to prepare stud,epts for practical office work. The
schope of study .is the ~ame as that prescribed by commercial coupe except in
the second year Telegraphy is -substitut.ed for Commercial Arithmetic and book-,
keeping.
The stude~t is made f&~iliar with the principles of the different kind of
batteries, adjustment and care of the instruments, how to build and op~rate a
telegraph line and keep it in repair and all other essential items that make a
first class operator. Upon a satisfactory completion of the cour~e a certificate
of proficiency will be given.
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III Course in Surveying
This course is intended to fit the student for the proper discharge of the duties
of deputy surveyor according to the ¥~ual of .lnstructions of the Commissioners
of the General Land Office for Surveying the Public Lands of the United States.
An approved exandnation .must be passed in mathematics, durveying, drawing and
English of the fourth and third classes. Special work in map drawing and the use
of the Solar Compass and Theodolite is required. A certificate of Proficiency
in Surveying will be granted on completion of this course.
IV Course in Architecture
Students desiring a partial course in Engineering may omit a part of the higher
mathematics, chemistry and study of languages.
The course 'would consist of Architectural drawing, equilibrium and stability of
structures, arches, trusses, roofs, building material, mortar, etc.
Preparatory Department
In view of the imperfect preparation of many applicants for admission into College
and of the want of educational facilities in many localities for suitable preparation
for college or even fordbtaining a good academic education, there has been
established in connection with the A & M College a Preparatory Department.
This Department is intended to be auxiliary .to the higher departments of the College.
It is in charge of competent instructors. It affords unusual facilities
for a thorough preparation for the College Courses or for a good academic education.
Department of Military Science and Tactics
By the Act of Congress for the endowment of Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges
in prescribing the required studies the words "including" "mili tary tacties" are
used. The Act is designed to be faithfully carried out by imparting to each
student not phllsically incapacitated to bear arms, practical instruction in the
school of the soldier of the company and of the battalion.
The duties of guards, ou~posts and picket service are practically taught. The
College is provided by the State with breach loading cadet rifles, swords, and
accoutrements.
The following uniform has been prescribed for dress, viz: frock of cadet ~ gray,
three rows of Colleg~ buttons, gray pants and black hat, trimmings black. A
very neat and serviceable' dress suit can be d.btained here not to exceed $25 and a
fatigue suit not to exceed $lg sufficient with proper care for one years service.
This is less expensive than the usual clothing.
All students are required to wear this uniform at all times during the term.
In attendance upon drills and guard students loose no time from academic studies.
The officers and non-commissioned officers are distinguished by appropriate insignia
. of rank. These appointments are conferred by the Commandant of Cadets as honorary
distinctions and are continuous for the collegiate year unless forfeited for misconduct.
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Location and Building
The College is situated in the Town -of Auburn sixty miles from Moritgomer,r directly
on the line of the Western railroad.
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The region is high and healthful, 821 feet above tide water, being more elevated
than Montgomery by 659 feet -or than Talladega by 200 feet • .
The building is large and cormnodiou,s and is well furnished with rooms ,for college
use.
Societies
There are two literary societies--t he Wirt and the Websterian connected with the
College. Each has a co~~odious hall handsomely fitted up, a library of standard
and miscellaneous works and a reading room. Their weekly exercises add to the
facilities afforded by the College 'for practice in composition, elocution and
discussion.
Society of Alumni
The Annual Alumni oration by a member of the Society is delivered in the Chapel
Monday of Commencement week.
Young Hens Christian Association
The Association comprises the students who are members of churches. Its Qbject
is ,to promote the religious character and usefulness of those connected with .it.
Weekly meetings are held and -public addresses occasionally delivered.
E. J. Harrison, President
James Lapsley, Corresponding Secretary
Finances
Receipts and expenditures for the collegiate year 1879-80 and 1878-79: I.> _
1878-79:
To State Treasurers Account
II Fees Account
"Farm "
II Balance I_I
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Total
$19,350.00
2,965.00
305.81 '
1,007.14
$23,627.95
Disbursements:
By amount to Balance
II II II . Expense Account ·
II II " Repairs and Improvements
" 11 II Fixtures
II II II Records and Stationery
II II II Freight
II II II Apparatus
" II " Music
II II II Print.ing
II II . 11 Trustees
II II II Salaries
II " II Farm
II II " Insurance
II II II Chemicals
II II II Interest and Exchange
" II II Surgeon
II " " Advertising
Total
1879-80: .
Receipts:
To State Treasurer
" Fees
" Farm
II .Expense
II Balance
Total
Disbursement s:
By balance forward:
Amount Expense Account
" Farm II
" Rep. and Improvements Account
" Fixtures " II Printing II
II Stationery II
,, - Apparatus . II
· 11 Freight ' 11
II Military -" " Interest & Exchange " ·-Trustees " " Salaries " " II Insurance 11
/I Advertising II
1/ Chemicals II
II Surgeon _ II
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$ 689.41. ,~. -
1,120.06
1,223.72 .
459.17
180.95
92.38
618.57
391.42
343.27
256.93
15,497.90
664.70
412.51
135.25
196.51
965.00 i81.20
$23; 27.95
$20,280.00
3,167.50
293.93
68.00
3,499.5~
$27,308.9
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Buildings
The building donated to .the State by the Trustees of the East Alabama College for
the use and benefit of the . Agl~ '-and 111. College is used exclusively for the
purposes of instruction.
Thousands of dollars have been needed to put it in repair, to finish the basement
story, and to make such changes as were needed to adapt it to the 'wants
of the institution. It needs now an additional expenditure of several 'thousand
dollars to make it complete in this respect. We have no houses for members of
the Faculty, no halls for boarding and lodging students, and are dependent upon
the kindness of others for .a hall in which to hold our Commencement Exercises.
All the equipments of the College, furniture, apparatus, chemical and 'philo'sophical
cabinets of minerals, museums, etc. have been provided out of the
meager funds of the institution.
To pay current expenses, provide all appliances of instruction and attb3 same
time furnish free tuition to all students has required strict economy in the
management of our finances.
Agricultural Department
By the very law of its being "the leading object" to teach those branches wh-ich
relate to agriculture and the mechanic arts.
The Act of Congress which gave it both is entitled "An Act donating lands to
the several states and territo~ies which may provide colleges for ' the benefit
of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts"; and in the body of the Act are recited
t he very words already quoted. v,)hatever else therefore may be embraced in our
C01,lrSe of instruction, these must not only be included, but they must constitute
its prominent and distinc~ , in. features.
An institution of learning which undertakes to afford tecrmical education requires
a more liberal outfit in the applia'Jnces of instruction than in those
colleges which simply embrace the old curriculum of a "classical and seientific
education."
To do our work properly we must have expensive laboratories~ museums of Natural
History, philosophical apparatus and experimental farms. No amount of study
in the textbooks or lectures in the recitation room unaccompanied by experiment
and demonstration worthy of the ~~e in those branches of lear.ning which the
Agricultural and Mechanical College is expected to afford.
"'rhe only method" says Liebig"by which you possib;Le advance and develope agriculture
is by experiment and therefore the Agricultural Department of the College
without an experimental station is simply nOilsense:. ", The farm .;is an indispensable
adjunct of the Agricultural school not for the purpose of t eaching
the student to perform manual labor, but to impress upon his mind the ' truths
which he is required to learn from his textbooks and the lectures of his professors.
It is an essential part of the apparatus of the Agricultural College
and is just as necessary to its completeness as the laboratory of the ' chemist
or the museum of the naturalist. It pertains to the school of Agriculture the
relation that the clinic does to the School of Medicine and nerether can successfully
do its work without this appendage.
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Recognising this truth, nearly every Agricultural College in the United .States has
in -connection with it a farm which is considered an indispensable part of its
machinery; and of the 350 agricultural schools in operation in Europe every one
except the University of. Edinburg has connected with it either an ,experimental
or a model. farm.
The following table exhibits the, isze and value of the farms connected with the
A & M Colleges of the several States:
Arkansas 100 acres valued at 12,000.00
California 200 II " 200,000.00
Delaware 80 " " . 16,000.00
Illinoi s 570 " II 56,000.00
Indiana 159 II II 47,000.00
Iowa 850 " " 51,000.00
Kansas 225 II II 25,000.00
Kentucky 533 II II 130,000.00
Louisiana 600 " II II 40,000.00
Maine 370 II " II 10,000.00
Maryland 285 " " " 14,250.00
Massachusetts 383 II " II 37,000.00
Michigan . 676 II " " 47,320.00
l1innesota 120 " II " 12,000.00 ,
His50uri 640 " II " 60,000.00
Nebraska 320 II II II 18,420.00
New Hampshire 365 " II II 21,000.00
New Jersey 100 II II " 45,000.00
New· York 150 II " II 22,000.00
Ohio 320 II ¥{ II 200,000 .• 00
Pennsylvania 600 II II II 75,000.00
South Carolina 116 II II II 10,000.00
Tennessee 260 II II II 24,000.00
Virginia 250 II II II II 28,000.00
WisconsiB 196 II II " 40,000.00
The farm in connection with the A & M College of Alabama is wholly inadequate to
its wants.
During the past ' year the Professor. of Agriculture, has been endeavoring to conduct
a number of valuable and interesting experiments intended in part to illustrate
the truths which~re taught in the recitation room by lecture and text books, but
chiefly to test the value of various fertilizers and processes in the preparation
of soils and the cultivation of crops. , These experiments have been restricted in
their number and scope and in. many instances have been unsatisfactory in their
re~u1ts for the want of proper facilities in conducting them. With the help of
proper appliances the labors of the recitation room could be so supplemented as
greatly to augment theirl value and, indeed, without them it is almost impossible
to afford satisfactory instruction to the student. This is the value of a wel'l
organized experimental farm in connection . with the College, confined to the students
who attend its halls~ The farmers of the State will be the chief beneficiaries.
No~anch of industry is so completely built upon expe~iment as agriculture.
A series of experiments fait hfully, patiently, and persistently
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conducted, will do more for the practical advancement 'of agriculture than any other
agency which can be employed, but such a series of experiments can only be conducted
on an establishment devoted to that purpose. The average farmer has neither
the time, means, or the appliances to conduct experiments. His business is to
make money on his farm, and he cannon afford to employ this time, .labor, land
and fertilizers in making experiments which mayor may not have profitable, however,
valuable it may be for educational purposes. The value of an experiment
is not its outcome in money, but the truth which e~lves and an experiment which
may be a failure so far as profit is concerned, may yet be of great worth to the
practical farmer as if it bad been pecuniarily successful; just as a buoy which
marks the scene of a ship ;wreck is worth as much to the mariner or the chart
which points out the safe ~harinel.
A well equipped, faithful~ conducted experimental station in Alabama where
scientific theory may be careftuly tested, where the suggestion of stuQy in
improved processes of cul~ure and fertilization and stock feeding, may be
subjected to the crucible ~f experience, will do more for the advancement and
development of practical agric.ulture in our State than any other meru1s at our
comrna.nd.
Leibig at Munich, Bousingoultat Bechelmin, Lawes at Rotharnstead, Wolff at
Moechem and Voelker at London have done more for the advanced farming in thoses
countries than all the pre.sses" agricultural societies and all other agencies
combined.
Professor Johnson pithily remarks that "the object of these stations is to make ·
a regular business of discllssing for the use of farming" and so well have they
done their work, that no intelligent observer of the present condition of Agriculture
in Europe, will hesitate to ascribe its im~ovement mainly to their
influence.
The first agricultural exper~ents station in the owrld was established at .Moechern
near the city of Leipzig in 1852. It was the result of a voluntary organization
among the farmers of Germany, who, appreciating the value of experiments,
and recognizing t he fact that they had neither the time nor facilities for doing
the work satisfactorily on their farms, determined to organize an institution
for that special purpose and maintain it by their joint contributions.
So marked were the advantages resulting from it, that since that time the government
has established fifty experimental stations in the German Empire, which are
maintained by appropriations from the public' treasury.
Other countries impresses with the importance of these establishments in the
development and improvement of practical agriculture, have followed the example
of Germru1Y and these are now over one hundred in ' successful operation in Europe.
Victor Emanuel in his efforts ~o reconstruct Italy, recognizing the truth that
a prosperous agriculture must be. the foundation of any healthy material prosperity
sent a messenger to Germany to study its system of Agricultural improvements and
the result was an establishment of an agricultural station in 1871 which has
been followed by twelve others. One of these is specially devoted to investigations
in grape culture, another to the cultivation of the olive, another.to
dairying, another to feeding experiments, etc.
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The experience of Europe has established another important point; and that is to
render these experimental stations most efficient they must be established in connectionwith
some well or.ganized institution of learning, when all the appliances
for scientific investigation .in the way of laboratories and apparatus and the assistance
of persons skilled in the science related to agriculture can be procured; and
hence .the latest and best endowed establishments of this sort are 'now 'being Idcated
in immediate connection with scientific instructions. Why should not Alabama avail
herself of similar facilities for the improvement of her most important industry.
No commonwealth in the world possesses superior agricultural resources. In none
is the population more largely engaged in agriculture. In none is the wealth and
the prosperity of the State more dependent upon the devaopment and improvement of
agriculture. And yet what has the State done in this direction? What has it
done to the equipment and improvement of her agricultural and mechanical College?
Other states as we have already shown in this lists of f arms, which have by state
liberality been established in connection with their A & M Colleges, have done
much to increase their efficiency. Shall Alabama do nothing? Does not good faith
require that in accepting the donation of the general government, ~ shall provide
the means for making that ~onation effective? Will not her state pride prompt her
t o put her institutions abreast with those of other states? Furnish to us the
facilities and we can afford to our young men educational advantages equal to any
which they can find elsewhere. If we had the means we would establish in connection
with the A & M College a complete experimental farm and other appliances of instruction
which would not only make it in all respects a first class institution of
learning, but the source of incalculable benefit to the agriculture of the State.
All this will probamlY be admitted but it is objected that the financial audition
of the St.ate will not enable it to bestow its liberality in .such enterprises. If
we ask an appropriation from the treasury of the State, we might reply to this
objection in the words of Dr. Leroy Bro·t.m in his address at out last Commencement:
liThe advocates of a false economy should bear in mind, that it is not education that
costs the State increased taxation so much as i gnorance or want of knowledge, and
that supplimenting the munificent donation of the general government on the part
of the State would constitute an investment for the present .and future generations
t hat would ~ield rich returns in adding to its power and wealth by producing earnes~,
active , creative men""
If Alabamians could be awakened to an appreciation of the magnificent probabilities
of the State; if they realized the untild millions of wealth that lie buried in her
soil, and in her mountain ranges, awaiting the touch of skill and enterprise; if
she understood that she needs nothing but trained labor directed by enlightened
minds to make her the richest and most prosperous in the sisterhood of States,
they would not regard it a wise economy or a true statesrnanship to withhold the
means of equipping and enlarging her institutions of· learning in which her sons
are to be fitted for the great work before them.
But we ask no appropriation from the treasury. It is in the power of the State to
furnish all the means in want without taY~g a dollar from her revenue or adding
a mill to the taxation of her people; nay, more the very means we ask the State to
employ in affording us the desired assistance will in itself prove a public benefactor.
A trifling tax upon the cOIDnlercial fertilizers sold in the State will · raise a sum
sufficient for our wants, and at the same time enable us to shield the farmers of
the state from the impositions which are now pract iced upon them in this trade;
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and while it will do this it will not add a cent to the cost of the f .ertilizers
themselves. vie pay exactly the same price for the fertilizers which are paid of
Georgia, when every ton is t 'axed at the rate of 50 cents. A similar tax in Alabama
would add nothing to the cost of the fertilizer.
Some. system of inspection is absolutely demanded for the protection of the farmer
He is- now completely at the mercy of the UIH~.crupulous manufacturer and he is now
doubly victimized by the fact ·that the worthless articles which cannot find a
market in other States, where protective laws are in operation, are brought here
where no m€,lans are provid.ed for their protection. The only meanS which can be
desired for this 'purpose is ,a system of rigid analysis, and nowhere else in the
State .can this system be S0 well established as in connection with the College of
Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.
Vie ask the State then as a measure of precaution for the protection of the farmer
to establish a system for inspection of commercial fertilizers; to provide for
their analysis by the authorities of the A & H G,ollege and to give to that institution
as the means of enlarging the usefulness of it the net revenue produced by
a small tax on fertilizers. woo will be benefitted? First the 'farmer will have
a guarantee of the genuiness of the fertilizer he uses; second, the State A & M
College which will thereby be enabled to put itself upon a footing with the very
best institutions of the Union making it at once the pride and blessing of the
State; and third, the State itself in the development of its material resources,
and the cultivation of that laudable pride in her own institutions, which is
~lways char~cteristic of a great and prosperous people~
Whatever else Ala.bama may leave undone, she cannot afford to permit her' sons to
grow .up in ignorance ••• that would doom her to helpless poverty and hopeless inferiority
to her sister States. And whatever branches of learning may be neglected
she cannot afford to neglect the enlight'enment of her. sons as to those industries
which are the basis of all he.r material· prosperity and from which her revenue
must .come.
At the last session of the Legislature an Act was passed which cancelled a debt
of thirty or forty thousand dollars due to the State by the. University. It was
wise on the part of the Legislature to thus relieve an institution which has
done so noble a work for the State and of whose past history and present prosperity
every citizen of Alabama may justly be proud. But while we areTgratified
at this- action of the General Assembly, we ' cannot but feel that the A &M College
which is educating as many of the sons of Alabama as the Uhi versity out of a .
smaller income is entitled to some consideration at the hands of the State, which
stands in the same ·relation to both institutions ;
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If it be .objected that the larger mass of the young men of the State can never
receive an education at these inst~tutions of higher learning and that therefore,
they are entitled to but little consideration from the representatives of the
people, we reply. that no class of men are so much interested in the support of
thes'e institutions as the unlettered cla.ss. ·
How much would this class be injured by the removal from our Stat'e of all its
educated men? How would such removal obstruct conunerce, hinder the adminis:tration
of justice, diminish the value of property' and impair if not destroy our very
civilization?
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If unfortunately any son of Alabama should be necessitated to grow up without
education, it is his true interest and should be his earnest desire that no other
should share his misfortunes.
Having failed to light his torch at the altar of truth, he could then walk in the
light emitted by others, and the more numerous t hey are the more perfectly could be
dispelled the darkness which otherwise would envelope him.
it/e most respectfully ask, that aconnnittee of your honorable body .shall at an early
day visit the college and report to you its condition, and such measures as will
promote its usefulness to the people of the State.
By order of the Board of Trustees. .::-~ .' - .
F. M. Reese, Secretary Signed-R. li. Cobb, Governor and
Ex Officio President of the Board
There were present of the Board of Trustees at which the foregoing report was
adopted: Ris Excellency R. W •. Cobb, Governor of the St ate and President Ex
Officio of t he Board of Trustees; H. C. Armstrong, Superintendent of Public
Education; C. C. Langdon; .' H. Barnes; J. W. Hardi e ; Robert F. Ligon.
F. M. Reese" Secretary
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