History of the Maine State College and the University of MaineUniversity of Maine, 1916 - 450 pages |
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... increased and the number of students increased , most forms of student labor came to be purely educational , and hence remuneration in money for such labor was in time discontinued . In other words , with the change of conditions , a ...
... increased and the number of students increased , most forms of student labor came to be purely educational , and hence remuneration in money for such labor was in time discontinued . In other words , with the change of conditions , a ...
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... increased more than ten - fold . In December , 1868 , the writer commenced a record of meteorological observations at the College which were continued by him to the middle of the year 1893 . This record , extending over a period of ...
... increased more than ten - fold . In December , 1868 , the writer commenced a record of meteorological observations at the College which were continued by him to the middle of the year 1893 . This record , extending over a period of ...
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... increased , greater emphasis was laid on the summer as the better or more advantageous working period . While dealing with this topic of term - arrangements , it is pertinent to add that the two - term plan adopted in 1876 , with only ...
... increased , greater emphasis was laid on the summer as the better or more advantageous working period . While dealing with this topic of term - arrangements , it is pertinent to add that the two - term plan adopted in 1876 , with only ...
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... increased . It will be remembered that in Chapter III four factors were pointed out as operative in the way of increasing or diminishing the number of students , of which tuition was but one . I am far from claiming as a general ...
... increased . It will be remembered that in Chapter III four factors were pointed out as operative in the way of increasing or diminishing the number of students , of which tuition was but one . I am far from claiming as a general ...
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... increased with the years , and with his brilliant and distinguished achievements in military and civil life . It is pleasant to remember that the friendship between us has con- stantly contributed to the cordial relations between the ...
... increased with the years , and with his brilliant and distinguished achievements in military and civil life . It is pleasant to remember that the friendship between us has con- stantly contributed to the cordial relations between the ...
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Abner Coburn administration Agriculture Agronomy Aley Allen Alumni appropriation Aroostook Aroostook County Assistant Chemist Assistant Professor Associate Professor Balentine Bangor Beta Theta Pi Board of Trustees Bowdoin College building Campus chapter Charles Charles Hamlin Civil Engineering Coburn Hall College of Agriculture College of Law Committee coöperation County courses of study Dean dollars dormitory educational Electrical Engineering Engi established Experiment Station Extension faculty farm Fernald fessor fraternity Fund George given graduates Hannibal Hamlin Harris herewith Horticulture increased institution instruction Instructor in Chemistry Instructor in Civil Instructor in English interest James June laboratory Lecturer lege legislature Librarian Lyndon Oak Maine State College Mechanical Engineering ment Station Military Science Modern Languages Morrill neering number of students officers organization Orono period Pharmacy President received Samuel F School Summer Term tion tuition University of Maine versity volumes Walter William Wingate Hall
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Page 114 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 84 - An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Page 266 - No portion of said fund nor the interest thereon, shall be applied directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 276 - SEC. 2. That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same ; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth ; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops ; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation ; the analysis of soils and...
Page 276 - ... the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches...
Page 266 - State, and no portion of said moneys shall be applied, directly or indirectly, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings, or the purchase or rental of land, or in college-course teaching, lectures in colleges, promoting agricultural trains, or any other purpose not specified in this Act, and not more than five per centum of each annual appropriation shall be applied to the printing and distribution of publications.
Page 266 - That cooperative agricultural extension work shall consist of the giving of instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economics to persons not attending or resident in said colleges in the several communities, and I imparting to such persons information on said subjects through field demonstrations, publications and otherwise...
Page 276 - ... comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective...
Page 268 - That for the purpose of protection from frauds in commercial fertilizers, and from adulterations in foods, feeds and seeds, and for the purpose of promoting agriculture by scientific investigation and experiment, the Maine Fertilizer Control and Agricultural Experiment Station is hereby established in connection with the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
Page 428 - The governor and council shall take measures, as soon as may be advantageously done after the passage of this act, to sell the land scrip received by this state under the act of congress, and to invest the same as required by the fourth section of said act. The securities shall be kept by the state treasurer, and he shall report annually to the legislature the amount and condition of the investments, and of the income of the same. He shall from time to time, as the income shall accrue, pay over the...