42 BULLETIN 984, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



CONNECTIONS OF BELLEVILLE COMMUNITY WITH NATIONAL LIFE. 



The community of Belleville is found to maintain certain well- 

 defined connections with the larger interests of the Nation. At no 

 point do the people appear to feel in any way out of the stream of 

 national events and movements. Since the founding of the academy 

 they have kept in touch with the best in the educational world 

 through the splendid teachers which they have brought to the com- 



Fig. 20. — As a matter of comparative interest this map is given to show the number of students of the 

 academy who went back to the farms and remained in the community. Each dot one student. The 

 stay-at-homes have, all during the community's history, as a general rule, rated up well in numbers, 

 caliber, and education when compared with the migrants. 



munity and through their own young people, whom they have sent to 

 the best normal schools, colleges, and universities of the East. 



COLLEGE CONNECTIONS. 



Following is a list of schools, colleges, and universities from which 

 the Union Academy teachers have come (see fig. 16) : 



Albany Business College, Albany, N. Y. J Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. 

 Albany Normal College, Albany, N. Y. | Belleville Academy, Belleville, N. Y. 



