reached with this work. A book is in course of preparation which is intended to aid in this work, and which will be distributed free of charge to all the districts in the State. Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College.─Heretofore the agricultural course has been the same for all. Now a student may specialize in agriculture, in horticulture, in veterinary science, botany, chemistry, etc., as he desires. University of Nebraska.-Established a four years' course in forestry. North Dakota Agricultural College.—Added a two years' course in teachers' nature study, and an additional three months' schedule to the short winter course in agriculture. South Dakota Agricultural College.—Instead of the two courses in agriculture one only is offered. This requires two years of some foreign language, and has some practical work not heretofore offered, such as stock judging, blacksmithing, horseshoeing, etc. 2. ENGINEERING. Florida Agricultural College.—Established a four-year course of study in civil engineering leading to the degre› of bachelor of science; also a two-year course in mechanic arts. Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky.-The general assembly in 1898 authorized the establishment of a department of mining engineering. Provision has been made for opening the department in September, 1902. The course of study extends through four years and leads to the degree of bachelor of mining engineering. University of Maine.-A course in mining engineering was established in 1902. For the first two years it is identical with the course in civil engineering except that during the second year class and laboratory work in chemistry take the place of the courses in mechanical drawing, descriptive geometry, and surveying. Marine engineering has been added to the course in mechanical engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.-The most important change is the successful institution of the new course for naval constructors taken the past year by three cadets from the United States Naval Academy. Graduate courses have been taken to a greater extent than before, and definite schedules have been presented in mining engineering, chemistry, and electrical engineering. Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College.—Changes have been made in the mechanical course. The chair of civil and rural engineering and that of geology and mining have been added. A special mechanical course has also been added, and specialization is allowed in mechanics, in electricity, in civil and rural engineering, and in geology and mining. University of Missouri.—Established a course of study in chemical engineering extending through four years and leading to the degree of bachelor of science. Agricultural College of Utah.-In January, 1902, the board of trustees established courses in mining and electrical engineering. 3. DOMESTIC SCIENCE. New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.-Toward the close of the year a complete course of domestic science was adopted to go into effect for the year beginning July 1, 1902. The course extends through four years, and leads to the degree of bachelor of science. North Dakota Agricultural College.—Added a two-year course in domestic science. 4. OTHER COURSES. Alabama Polytechnic Institute.-Established a four-year course of study in chemistry and metallurgy leading to the degree of bachelor of science. Florida Agricultural College.—Added a course in chemistry and a course in general science, each extending through four years and leading to the degree of bachelor of science. North Dakota Agricultural College.-Established a school of pharmacy, offering a course of study extending through four years and another extending through two years. Oregon Agricultural College.-The business course of two years has been extended to cover four years and denominated the literary commerce course. It leads to the degree of bachelor of science. GRADUATE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE. The first session of the Graduate School of Agriculture, under the auspices of the Ohio State University, and with the cooperation of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, was held at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, from July 7 to August 1, 1902. Courses of study were offered in three main lines-agronomy, zootechny, and dairying. The faculty included 35 men, of whom 26 are professors in agricultural colleges, 7 are connected with the United States Department of Agriculture, and 2 are officers of the New York State Experiment Station. The number of students in attendance was 75. These came from 28 States and Territories, including such widely separated regions as Maine, Oregon, California, New Mexico, and Alabama. There was 1 student from Canada, and 1 from the Argentine Republic. There was 1 woman in attendance, and the colored race was represented by teachers from Tuskegee Institute and the North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race. Twenty-seven of the students are professors or assistant professors of agriculture in agricultural colleges, 31 are assistants in the agricultural colleges and experiment stations, 9 are recent college graduates, and 8 are engaged in farming. NEW BUILDINGS. 1. AGRICULTURE. Purdue University (Indiana).—Agricultural Hall is a two-story brick and stone building, 165 by 60 feet, with a projection at the front entrance and a rear wing 30 by 40 feet. It contains offices for members of the agricultural faculty, class rooms and laboratories for instruction in agriculture, horticulture, live-stock husbandry, veterinary hygiene, farm dairying, creamery work, soil physics, and farm machinery; also a large assembly hall, a museum, halls for the various agricultural societies, and various other minor rooms. The building cost $60,000. Michigan Agricultural College.-There is in process of erection a building for instruction and experimentation in bacteriology. It is a brick structure, 59 by 76 feet, two stories with high basement. Adjacent to the building and connected with it by a covered passage way is the stable for animals treated for experimental purposes. It contains eight apartments and crematory. The cost of these buildings is about $30,000. University of Minnesota.-The new veterinary building, costing $25,000, is two stories high. On the lower floor are the following rooms: Veterinary class and operating room with amphitheater seats for 80 students; pharmacy and instrument room, box-stall ward, open-stall ward and contagious ward, and two dissecting rooms. On the upper floor are a large museum and physiology class laboratory and private office. The meat house affords accommodations for 120 students in the lecture room. The killing and cutting rooms on the main floor are well adapted to large details for practice work, and the basement curing rooms offer opportunity for training in this branch of the work. The cost of the building is $7,500. An addition, costing $3,000, has been made to the forge shop of the agricultural department, and a chemical laboratory to cost $25,000 is in course of erection. University of Missouri.-Dairy building, stone, 50 by 150 feet, two stories and basement, cost $24,000. Live-stock laboratory, stone, 60 by 80 feet, two stories, cost $12,000, for stock judging and study of animal diseases. Horticultural laboratory, stone, 55 by 140 feet, two stories and basement, with insectory and plant house, each 16 by 50 feet attached, cost $34,000. New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.—An adobe corral, 160 by 200 feet, was completed on the farm. Extending completely around it are sheds and rooms for the storage of grain, hay, and farm implements, and for sheltering stock. The total cost was $3,000. Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College.-A two-story barn, constructed of brick, cost $6,500. Oregon Agricultural College.-A new three-story stone building, 85 by 125 feet, known as Agricultural Hall. It provides the offices of the director of the experiment station, a large assembly hall for agricultural and horticultural meetings, and laboratories and class rooms for the departments of agriculture, chemistry, zoology and entomology, botany and horticulture, and bacteriology. On the first floor are a large stock-judging room and the dairy department, while the attic is used as a museum. The cost of the building is about $15,000. South Dakota Agricultural College.-A new two-story brick plant-breeding building, cost $10,000. Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.-Chemical and veterinary laboratory building, two-story brick, contains about 18 rooms; cost, $31,000. Agricultural College of Utah.—A cattle barn and a sheep barn, constructed of wood and stone, have been erected at a cost of $11,620. The cattle barn is 106 by 104 feet, and is provided with modern equipment, including iron stalls, cement floors, mangers, etc. There are accommodations for 75 head of cattle, also hospital rooms, feed rooms, a milk room, a root cellar, and storage room for hay and grain. The sheep barn is 94 by 41 feet, with accommodations for 75 sheep, and storage room for feed. The old barn has been remodeled at a cost of $700, and is used for a horse barn. It is 60 feet square and contains model sanitary stables for horses, besides storage divisions for hay, grain, and seeds, and rooms for carriages and wagons, farm implements and machinery; also the farm foreman's room and repair shop. A vegetation house has been built of wood and stone at a cost of $1,500, including equipment. It is used for work in agronomy and irrigation. University of Wisconsin.-The central building for the college of agriculture, for which an appropriation of $150,000 was made, is constructed of hydraulic pressed brick, terra-cotta and Bedford stone trimmings, and tile roof. It is 200 by 64 feet, three stories and basement, with a central projection in the rear, 66 by 66 feet, for an auditorium and library. The building contains the offices, laboratories, and museums of the agricultural experiment station, with recitation rooms and laboratories for instruction in agriculture. 2. ENGINEERING. Alabama Polytechnic Institute.--An addition to the machine shop, increasing the accommodations about twofold. University of Arkansas.—A brick addition to the shops, costing $3,500. Purdue University (Indiana).—A building for housing the collection of locomotives; cost, $850. University of Minnesota.-The new electrical building cost $44,000. One portion, 92 by 50 feet, contains the electric light and power plant. The main portion, which is 80 by 60 feet, with two stories and basement, is devoted to the work of the electrical engineering department of instruction. In the basement are the electrochemical laboratory, battery room, toilet and locker rooms. On the first floor are the dynamo laboratory, high tension laboratory, office, instrument room, and shop. On the second floor are laboratories for photometry, photography, meter and lamp testing, and rooms for recitations, drafting, library, and office. An addition has been made to the shop building of the mechanical engineering department. North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.-The new textile building is a two-story brick building, 125 by 75 feet, with a basement. Its construction is similar to a cotton mill. The basement contains the dyeing department, the first floor the looms and warp preparation machinery, and the second floor the carding and spinning machinery. Ohio State University.—Addition to the heat, light, and power plant, costing $12,706. Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College.—Engineering building, two stories and basement, brick; cost, $10,958. Smokestack and boiler house, the former of brick, the latter of stone, cost $4,596. South Dakota Agricultural College.-A new two-story physics and engineering building, with wings extending back 60 feet; cost, $40,000. University of Wyoming.-A general central heating plant; cost, $15,000. 3. GENERAL. University of Arizona.-A new dining hall, including kitchen and laundry. It is a one-story brick building, 40 by 106 feet, and will seat 210 persons. The cost is $7,034. University of Arkansas.-A three-story brick dormitory, costing $10.218. It contains about 28 rooms, including a dining room 86 by 38 feet. Florida Agricultural College.-Science Hall, a four-story brick structure, costing $50,000. It is 130 by 100 feet, and is equipped for instruction and experiment in science. Kansas State Agricultural College.-Physical Science Hall is 96 by 166 feet, and its two stories and basement contain offices, class rooms, and laboratories for the departments of chemistry and physics and electrical engineering. The cost of the building is $70,000, and the value of its equipment $3,967. Maryland Agricultural College.-A one-story hospital with modern appliances; addition to the president's house, cost, $500. North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.-A large new dormitory to take the place of one destroyed by fire. Pullen Hall, a building containing library and reading rooms, a dining room for 500, an auditorium for 800, and some lecture rooms, is in course of construction. It is three stories high. Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College.—Addition to the library building, providing an auditorium with present seating capacity of 800, quarters for the department of botany and entomology and for the department of domestic economy. It is built of brick, two stories and basement, with the exception of the auditorium, which is one story high. The cost was $17,683. Colored Agricultural and Normal University (Oklahoma).—An addition to the main building, a dormitory for boys, and a residence for the president, at a cost of $18,662. Clemson Agricultural College (South Carolina).-Two-story chemistry building, 53 by 86 feet, cost $17,457; barracks building, 199 by 42 feet, containing 82 rooms, cost $30,682; five cottages and post-office, cost $4,342; addition to hotel, cost $1,388. Agricultural College of Utah.—The central front of the main building has been constructed during the year at a cost of about $50,000. It is of stone, brick, and iron, and provides room for the administrative offices, the library, and the commercial school. Washington Agricultural College and School of Science.-A three-story basalt and brick chemistry building. It is 54 by 120 feet and cost $25,000. A gymnasium, 140 by 64 feet, the front part 38 by 64 feet, is two stories high and contains 12 rooms; the main hall is 100 by 60 feet and has a gallery 6 feet wide around it; in the basement, 20 by 100 feet, are the lockers, baths, heating appliances, etc. The cost of the building is $10,000. TABLE 1.-Statistics of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts endowed by acts of Congress approved July 2, 1862, and August 30, 1890. 188458799 1 Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala. 5 Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colo 6 Florida Agricultural College, Lake City, Fla Georgia State College of Agriculture and Mechanic University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kans. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, Rolla, Mo.* G. E. Ladd, Ph. D., director 1870 Rev. James Reid, A. B 1833 90,000 90,000 215 175 75 6,348 5,000 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr Nevada State University, Reno, Nev. 29 New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Durham, N. H. |