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Vermont College and Station. — Morrill Hall, the new agricultural building for which 

 appropriation \\a> made last year, and for which a Bite has recently been secured, 

 will probably be 60 by ■'<• it. ami at leasl three Btories in height above the basement 

 It is expected toconstrucl t he building of brick, with Btone basement and trimmings. 

 The work will be pushed as rapidly as possible, in tin- hope that it may be-made 

 ready for the opening of the fall term. 



The new Weather Bureau station, erected by the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 on the university grounds, has heen completed. The building stands nearly opposite 

 the experiment station farm, is of colonial style, and presents a very pleasing appear- 

 ance. The observer of the station will live in the building and will have one assistant. 



Semicentennial of Maryland Agricultural College. — The fiftieth anniversary of the 

 establishment of the college was celebrated w ith appropriate exercises March 6. The 

 date which these exercises commemorated was that of the passage of the act by the 

 legislature establishing and endowing the college, w hich two years later was located 



on its present site. 



President R. W. Silvester reviewed the history of the state charter, outlined the 

 position of the college, and gave special attention to the important function of the 

 agricultural colleges in training men for the great basic industry. Governor War- 

 field presented docuD lent a ry evidence to -how that the movement for the Maryland 

 College started in a memorial to the legislature in L837. 



President Ira Rem sen, of Johns Hopkins University, defined science, its aim- and 

 applications. He showed the application of pure science and made an eloquent plea 

 tor the value of investigation and discovery which was undertaken for the purpose 

 of advancing knowledge, but not with a commercial idea or a direct view to its prac- 

 tical applications. He urged that it is only through Buch work that the fund of 

 knowledge can be added to and the basis enlarged for application in the arts. 



Prof. L. II. Bailey declared that the agricultural college stands for the freest democ- 

 racy in education. Heshowedthe youthfulness of agricultural science in comparison 

 with pure science, and the great value of science in agriculture. In comparing 

 American and < rerman experimental work, he stated that the former is practical but 

 not fundamental, while the (ierman is fundamental without being practical. The 

 American has. as he said, revolutionized everything in farming since Washington's 

 time, except the man, and attention is now being given to reaching the man. He 

 prophesied that while at present the farm often doe- not inspire and satisfy the edu- 

 cated hoy. because it is so unprogressive, in future only the educated and thinking 

 man can succeed on the farm, as the requirements of farming are becoming so much 

 greater and success more difficult to attain. He extolled the great opportunities for 

 young men in this country to assume leadership in rural and agricultural affairs. 



Secretary Wilson urged the importance of teaching agriculture in the rural schools 

 and of training teachers for this instruction. He asserted that "the power of the 

 farm to create and produce has not half been reached." any more than has the 

 power of the man to produce. The agricultural college teaches the hoy how to do 

 things, how to do them better, and how to produce more. The work of the agricul- 

 tural college of the future was sketched and great development and usefulness was 

 predicted for it. 



Prof. F. A. Soper spoke for the alumni of the college. The occasion was one of 

 interest and enthusiasm for agricultural education and for the Maryland College. 



Agricultural Chemical Experiment Station at Vienna. — According to a reorganization 

 of this station, noted in a recent number of the Wiener Landwirtschaftliehe Zeitung, 

 the station now includes the following divisions: { l ) riant production and vegetation 

 station at Korneuberg, 0. Reitmair, chief, and Ferdinand I'ilz, assistant; [2) dairy- 

 ing and feeding, Max Ripper, chief; (3) wine and other alcoholic drinks, fruit 

 juices, and vinegar, Bruno Haas, chief, and Victor Kreps, Walter Fischer, and 



