THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 4, 1908.
NEW BUILDINGS AT OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
STATE INSTITUTION HAS MADE RAPID GROWTH IN EQUIPMENT AND ENROLLMENT IN PAST TWENTY YEARS
0RF5ON AGRICULTT-RAL. COL,
IE;B. Oorvallla, Or.. Oct. 3. (Spe
cial.) From the possession of 35 acre
of land to the ownership of I!0 acres;
from one structure to a group of It
college buildings; from an sttsndar.ee
of ; to an enrollment of 150; from
n Instructional force of five to a fac
ulty of SS;.from a small denomination
al school Jo the greatest utilitarian
college In the West such In brief Is
the story of the growth of the Oregon
Agricultural College and of the prog
ress made by It during the !1 years
which have intervened between the
opening of college In the Tear of Ha
founding and the opening Monday for
the present college year.
In the year 1S5 the Legislature of
the State of Oregon passed a bill which
provided for the "permanent location
ft the State Agricultural College at
Corvallis. in Benton County." on con
dition that the rltixens of that county
would, within four years, erect on the
"farm containing Si acres in the im
mediate vicinity of said city . . .
brick buildings for the accommodation
of said college at the cost of tiot less
than JJD.'KO." Two years later the Gov
ernor of the state laid the corner
atone of the structure which now
stands as an eloquent testimonial of
the generosity and enterprise of the
citizens of Benton County.- Such was
the origin of the Administration build
ing and the birth of the Oregon Agri
cultural College.
This year, the twenty-first in the
history of the State College, and the
second under the administration of
President William J. Kerr, will record
more additions, alterations and ' im
provements In buildings, equipment,
instructional force and college govern
ment than have ever been made in
any one year In the hlsVry ot tne ro1"
lege. '
The Agronomy building, which will
reach completion about the last of Oc
tober, is an Imposing brick and stone
struriure. 71x130 feet. with three
stories and a basement. It Is .being
erected at a cost of I.1S.0P0. and win be
the north wing of the proposed new
Agricultural Hall. The first floor will
house the departments of agronomy
and horticulture: the second will be
equipped to meet the needs of the de
partment of domestic arts, and the
third floor will be occupied by the
school of commerce. The building is
electric lighted and steam heatwd. The
laboratories are floored with' tile and
equipped with the most modern appli
ances known to silence.
The Mechanics Art building, costing
(46.000, is an artistic creation of red
brick, built In the ' shape of a right
angle. 40 feet In width, with a total
lenglh of 470 feet. It contain the
general drafting rooms, the carpenter,
woodworking, machine and blacksmith
shops, as well as the college printing
plant. The shops are all furnished
with the latest equipment. The ma
chinery is run by five 15-horsepower
motors.
Shepard Hall, the new student club
building, which Is being erected under
the auspices of the Y. M. and Y. W. C.
A., will cost when completed some
thing over $20,000. The basement con
tains sn aquarium, shower baths, lock
ers and banquet-rooms. The tirst floor
will be devoted to soi'lal and club ac
tivities, and the second floor will be
made Into rooma for the use of the lit
erary societies. The funds used In the
erection of this building were sub
scribed In a large part by atudentsand
alumni of the college.
The new barn, recently completed, la
a frame building, with cement founda
tion, commodious, modern and of at
tractive design. The main part is 60s
100, and two stories high. Extending
to the south are two one-story wings,
each 4xS feet. The barn has a large
storage capacity for grain and hay.
T.-e stable m modern, well lighted and
ventilated and equipped with 30 Indi
vidual tubular Iron adjustable stalls.
The wonderful Improvements In sani
tation, convenience and attractiveness
in this well-appointed farm building
impress the visitor as nothing else can
with the revolution which science has
wrought In farming.
These new buildings, with Waldo
Hall, the beautiful women's dormitory,
which, though completed last year, will
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be uaed in Its entirety for the first
time this year, add to the college facil
ities for the work of scientific and
academic Investigation and Instruction in
a wav thnt can only be comprehended
by being investigated, and to the beauty
and lmpressiveness of the college campus,
in a manner than can only be appre
ciated by being seen.
In addition to these new buildings,
the capacity of the college is bwng in
creased by Improvements and altera
tions In almost every old building on
the campus. The Administration build
ing has been altered on the first and
second flojots so as to make room for
the offices of the financinl secretary
and the registrar, and to provide more
room for the library. The Installation of
new equipment has also made neces
sary extensive changes In both Agri
cultural and Mechanical Halls. The
s-vmnastum has been made vastly more
attractive by improved systems of light
ing, heating and sanitation.
Thlrtv-three new faculty members
appeared on the instructional staff of the
college on Monday. This number In
cluded two deans, three heads of depart
ments, is Instructors and 10 assistants.
Most of the new faculty people come here
direct from study or Instructional work
In the greatest educational Institutions of
the East. All are specialists in their par
ticular line of work.
Professor Juliet Greer. A. B.. dean of
Fomestlc Science, received her training at
Vassar College and Columbia I'nlverslty.
Dean Greer comes to Corvallis from Pratt
Institute, where she has taught 'for the
past' 10 years. .
Professor J. A. Bexell. A. M., dean of
the School of Commerce, is a graduate of
the Augustana College, of Rock Island.
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work in the Universities of Minne
sota and Chicago.
Professor B. D. Angell, director of Phys
ical Instruction, has studied at Harvard
and Yale and has had special work under
the tutelage of , the greatest instructors in
pbvsical culture' in the world.
Professor William F. Gaskino. Mus.
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RosKBrRG. Or.. Oct. 3. (Special.)
Wednsday occurred a very In
teresting event for the City of
Roseburg. when the '96 Mental Cul
ture Club and the W. C. T. I", save to
the City of Roseburg a beau'iful brona
drinking fountain with Thorwaldsen'a
famous statue of Hebe. It stands 11
feet In height. The orenlng address
was given by Dexter Rice, president f
the hcal commercial club. The foun
tain was then unveiled, and the pre
it:iu;;oo of the fountain to the city,
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was made on behalf of the Mental Cul
ture Club, by its president, Mrs. S. C.
Flint, and on behaif of the W. C. T. I",
by its president. Mrs. A. C. Marsters.
Th fountain was accepted on behalf
of the city by Mayor E. V. Hoover
Binger Hermann delivered an address.
The Installation .of the water foun
tain marks the first of a series of pub
lic Improvements contemplated by
the numerous "booster" organlxations
of the city.
Mr. A. C. Marstera. wife of ex-State
Senator Marsters. Is president of tba
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W. C. T. I'., and in a large tneasura
the credit for the reeuring of the new
fountain for the city, is due her. Mrs.
Marsters Is prominent In social cir
cles, and is state recording secretary
for the W. C. T. I".
Mrs. S. C. Flint is the president of
the '95 Mental Culture Club, having
been elected for the third time In that
.trganlxation. She la a descendant of
Colonel Samuel Selden. of Revolution
ary fame. She Is a prominent social
leader and an enthusiastic clubwoman
and church worker
fiach., director of the School of Music, is
a post-graduate of Hillsdale College Con
servatory and the American Conservatory
at Chicago.
Ida A. Kidder. A. B.. College Librarian,
is a graduate of the University of Illinois
and has had experience in the best libra
ries in the United States.
The new instructors and assistants coma
equally well equipped to carry on the
work of their respective departments.
To reap the beenflt from these splendid
opportunities, students come to O. A. C.
from every county in Oregon and from
more than half of the states of the Union.
The enrollment last year was 1156, and
Judging from the advanced registration
the attendance will reach 1600 before the
end of the present year. Students
are here from the farm, the village and
the city to pursue the line of research
into which their ambitions have led them.
Some come to learn the secrets of scien
tific agriculture: some for training in
electrical, civil or mining engineering;
some to study pharmacy or music or to
receive expert training in the domestic
arts and sciences. To all of these the col
lege offers Instruction and means for re
search and study. To the new men and
women from farm or city, from wealthy
homes or humble ones, the college offers
equal opportunities.
While Industrial or technical work is
emphasized the importance of a thorough
sreneral training of mind development and
culture is recognized in all the work
throughout the Institution. The mission
of the college "is to train the mind and
eye and hand to act in unison: to unfold
and co-ordinate the faculties of mind and
body; to develop a symmetrical manhood
and womanhood and a just appreciation
of clean, upright citizenship."
Can't Cure Scotch Drunkenness
Repressive Legislation Found to Be Hopeless in Combating the Evil.
NOTWITHSTANDING regressive leg
islation of the most extreme type,
drunkenness in Glasgow and other
cities of Scotland Is increasing with
startling rapidity.
If a people could be made exceptional
ly temperate by Parliamentary experi
ments, the people of Scotland ought to
excel all their neighbors, but notorious
ly this is far from being the case.
The American speakers at an interna
tional council of Congregatlonallsts held
in Edinburgh a few days ago said they
had seen more drunkenness one night in
that city than could be witnessed in an
American city of similar size in a month.
Sir Andrew Reed, late Inspector-General
of the Royal Irish Constabulary, Is
equally emphatic. He visited Glasgow
in August, 39n, and walked about the
principal streets at night to see for him
self what was to be seen.
"I found."' he says, "towards the clos
ing hour of the public-houses, some of
the streets were crowded with drunken
men. In no city in Europe, the United
States or Canada I have ever visited did
I see such a number of drunken persons.
I thought the scene I witnessed was
most disgraceful to any civilized place."
The facts submitted by the Chief Con
stables of Scottish towns and countries
and by the Prison Commissioners, year
after year, represent a condition of things
which is not only startling, but is going
from bad to worse.
In the year 1904 Scottish temperance
reformers of the coercive type obtained
the latest of their cherished schemes
the closing of all licensed houses at
10 P. M. and since that date, surprising
though it appears, the ofpeial statistics
of arrest for drunkenness in all the large
towns show a large and continuous In
crease. Glasgow affords the most striking il
lustration of this growing demoralisation.
In hla latest annual report. Issued In
May last. Chief Constable Stevenson
stated that the number of apprehensions
in Glasgow for drunkenness in 1907 was
31.063. or 26.1 per KW of the estimated
population. For an equal proportion of
apprehensions we must, says Mr. Steven
son, go back to the years previous to
urOO. . Of tlie 2,053 arresti 1706 were ef
fected on Sunday and that, too. In a city
where complete "Sunday closing nas
been enforced since 1S53.
"Ten o'clock closing" has been in op
eration in Glasgow since May, 1904. The
movement was heralded by Sir Samuel
Chlsholm. the leader of that group of
reformers, as the Inauguration of a new
era In temperance reform. Saint Bungo
was to be transformed Into a sober,
God-fearing, Sabbath-loving community.
But what are the Incontestable facts
provided each year by the Chief Consta
ble? In 1903, with 11 o'clock closing, 11.8
per 1000 of Glasgow's population were
convicted on charges of drunkenness. In
1905, under the "10 o'clock closing," the
convictions represented 12.3 per 1000. In
1906. when the "10 o'clock closing" was
admitted by all fair-minded persons to
have had a fair trial, it was found that
the arrests on account of drunkenness
ran up to 19.344. against 14.309 in 1905, an
increase from 18.3 to 24.2 per 1000 of the
population.
The Chief Constable, in these annual
reports, candidly confessed his Inability
to account for the deplorable state of
things which his reports disclosed.
Very soon public demands began to
be raised for some inquiry Into or ex
planation of result so disquieting and
opposed to the confident promises of the
reformers. In Glasgow a committee of
16 members of the Town Council was re
luctantly appointed and In Edinburgh the
subject was as reluctantly referred to
the Chief Constable for report: still the
question hung Are for many months.
The chairman of the Glasgow commit
tee was asked what was being done and
he had to confess that the members were
too busy to get together since January
last, and he candidly admitted that many
members would like the Inquiry to' drop
altogether, so Indifferent were they to
any further investigation.
Incredible though this may seem, it
was amply confirmed when a few days
later the minutes of the committee were
published, together with reports by the
Chief Constable, the Deputy Town Clerk
and the Police Prosecutor, to whom the
subject had been submittted by the com
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Bruce Murray, one of the magistrates,
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conclusions or recommendations of the
report, which were mainly founded upon
personal opinion, without having before
them all the Information and views ob
tainable from various sources bearing
upon the statistics, the report ajid the
situation generally. -
The causes that had led to the increase
of drunkenness in Glasgow, and unfor
tunately, in other Scottish cities, also,
such as Edinburgh, were multiform and
recondite. Without a full and open in
quiry, which would require time, pa
tience and some expense, it was unlikely
that any results which would command
general confidence or which would be
worthy of GlaBgow could be arrived at.
It was proposed In committee that the
report of the officials should be gener
all approved and remitted to the magis
trates, but this latter proposal was re
jected by S to S so little desire did this
special committee manifest of probing
this social sore or in tracing the cause
or causes of all this drunkenness to its
source. The matter, however, can
scarcely end here, for unwilling though
the restrlctlonlsts are to have the matter
further ventilated, the members of the
liquor trade are resolved that the issue
should be kept before the public until the
responsibility for the admitted scandal
Is ascertained. .
The leaders f the Glasgow licensed
trade have issued a vigorous criticism of
the official reports. In this report to the
special committee, the' Chief Constable
frankly admitted the evil. He ascribed
the primary cause to the inability of the
artisan and laboring classes to make
good use of "money In excess of their
ordinary requirements." Why these
classes in Glasgow should thus be singled
out is not explained. , It is a fact that
general holidays, the payment of army
pensioners and payment to militia on dis
bandment cause excessive drinking and
an immediate rise in the number of ap
prehensions. The licensed trade make a strong point
of the matter which Is avoided by the
official reports the tendency of restric
tion to curtail the use of food by people
who are drinking.
Where Scottish cities present an un
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either visitors or residents In the matter
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there any social life such as exists in
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restaurants is discouraged by the licens
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to say, pride themselves on the small
number of their hotels. Glasgow with its
806,800 population, has but 17 Uoensed ho
tels. Consequently, saloons are the most
popular resorts. Glasgow Corr. In Pitts
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Nineteen Have Voted Out Saloons,
Numbering 480. '
COLUMBUS, O., Oct. . Perry
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1211 voted to banish saloons, of which
there are 6 within its boundaries.
Brown County, with 23 saloons, also
voted to wipe out the liquor traffic
today by a majority of 682.
Nineteen counties have now held
elections under the Rose law, and all
have gone dry, the total number of
saloons affected being 482.
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