EDITORIAL. 



1047 



The commencement address was delivered by Dr. W. T. Harris, 

 United States Commissioner of Education. 



The college is now in a flourishing condition, having a faculty num- 

 bering 59 persons and about 750 students. The equipment has been 

 materially increased within the past two years by the erection of an 

 auditorium seating 1,500, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. M. Schwab; 

 a spacious library, the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, to which it is 

 expected that later a museum building will be added; a large dining 

 hall and dormitory, known as McAllister Hall; a splendidly appointed 

 dairy building, which is to constitute a portion of the large agricul- 

 tural building for which the legislature is making provision. AU 

 these buildings are of the most substantial character and worthy rep- 

 resentatives of the best types of modern college architecture. 



The college will receive from the State during the next two fiscal 

 years $75,000 toward the new agricultural building, $30,000 for the 

 maintenance of agricultural courses, $10,000 for the current expenses 

 of the experiment station, $2,500 for tool and poultry houses, and 

 $132,156.33 for general maintenance of the college. Plans are already 

 being made for the appointment of a dean of the agricultural fac- 

 ulty as an officer separate from the director of the station, and the 

 enlargement of the corps of agricultural instructors and investigators 

 is contemplated. 



Three students received the degree of bachelor of science this } T ear 

 on completion of the four years' course in agriculture, one of whom 

 graduated with the highest honors and was one of the speakers at com- 

 mencement; the degree of master of science was given to two others 

 for advanced work in agricultural lines. 



No State presents a field of greater promise for the new agricultural 

 education than Pennsylvania. Widespread interest in it has been 

 aroused b} T the work of the college, the experiment station, and the 

 farmers' institutes, so that a large and enlightened constituency now 

 awaits developments. Given sufficient funds for manning and equip- 

 ping it, no one will doubt that the agricultural department will soon 

 reflect the same credit upon the college that other highly developed 

 departments have. 



