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WEST VXRGINIA. 



West Virginia University — Agricultural Department, at Morgantown ; 

 Rev. J. W. iScott, J). i>., LL. D., acting president. — A permanent president 

 of the university has not yet been elected, but it is expected that one 

 will be soon. The central portion of University Hall, or the Agricultural 

 College, has been completed during the year. It is claimed that there is 

 no better-finished public building in the State. The wings will be 

 erected as soon as means will permit. The following is the plan of the 

 entire building when completed, as seen in the accompanying engraving : 

 Length, including the wings, 150 feet; breadth of the njain central sec- 

 tion, 104 feet ; of each of the wings, 65 feet ; height of basement, 11 feet; 

 of first floor, 17^ feet; of second floor, 15^ feet; of mansard story, 20 

 feet ; of the main tower from basement, 101 feet. There are four rooms 

 each on the basement and second and third floors, measuring 23^ by 35 

 feet each. They are for laboratory and lecture-rooms. In the mansard 

 story is the commencement-hall, 55 by 78 feet. The basement-walls are 

 made of light sandstone, of uniform color and texture ; the other walls, 

 of pressed brick, laid in white mortar ; window-sills, corbels, and key- 

 stones, of light sandstone ; tiuials and belts on pilasters of entrances, &c., 

 cut stone ; belt-course on both towers, composed of fascia and water-table, 

 of cut stone. The inside is elegantly finished with chestnut. Estimated 

 cost of the entire building when completed, $75,000. A new building, 

 called University Boarding-hall, has been erected by private enterprise 

 in close proximity to the university, designed to supply a want which the 

 regents had been unable to meet. It is heated by luruaces, has a plen- 

 tiful supply of soft water, and is furnished with modern appliances for 

 thorough ventilation and conveniences for outdoor exercise. Board, 

 including everything except washing and lights, is furnished to students 

 for $3.75 per week. 



The annual interest on the proceeds derived from the congressional 

 land-grant is $5,400. The State has made at different times two ap- 

 propriations of $10,000 each to the university for a permanent fund, 

 the interest of which is shared in common by the dififerent departments. 

 It amounts to $1,200 annually. These incomes and the tuition received 

 from the students are not, however, sufficient to pay the annual expen- 

 ses of conducting the institution, but the deficiency has been generously 

 supplied by the State, so that there is ro incumbrance of debt. An 

 effort has been made to induce students to pursue the agricultural course 

 of study, but not with the success desired. Quite a number, however, 

 pursue studies relating to agriculture and the mechanic arts. It is 

 expected that this embarrassment will be corrected when the college 

 becomes older and the importance of an agricultural education is more 

 highly appreciated. The university has no farm. The campus contains 

 25 acres, but is not used for agricultural purposes. 



Professors in the university, 8 ; assistants, 5 ; students, 96 ; profes- 

 sors in the agricultural department, devoting a part of their time, 5 ; 

 students, 2. 



WISCONSIN. 



University of Wisconsin — College of Arts, at Madison; Rev. JohnBascom, 

 D. D., LL. D., president. — Science Hall, referred to in our Sast report as 

 being in course of construction, and then described as tar as information 

 would permit, is now completed. It is a magnificent l)rick l)uilding, four 

 stories high, and really constitutes the agricultural and mechanical col- 

 lege of Wisconsin. In it are the machine-slKjp, carpenter-shop, chemical 



