Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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Bebtcatton We. the class of nineteen eleven dedicate this book; To Prexic, blundering Profs, and all their learned looks: To city jakes. to Western toughs and country dudes; To hashes, soups, to sinker bread and baby foods; To yelling, roaring Indjun Chiefs and coal black Coons: To flippy fussing fussers 'neath the green cheese moon; To brown and white and red and black and yellow lx ys; To great and small and those who live on simple joys: To bachelors and old maids, to all the wise and other-wise To bilking business men, to tramps and other guys: To all who may-be we have missed, both old and new: We dedicate this book and its contents to you.

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(0. A. 0L At % £ui» nf a ($uart?r (Eenturg As a result of negotiations which had been in progress for several months prior to the year iss.'», Corvallis College, hitherto conducted under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was in the aforesaid year relinquished to the State, which assumed control of the institution as an Agricultural College, under the Land Grant Act of 1SG2. 1 here had been a keen rivalry between different sections of the State, each desiring to have the college established in their respective localities. Filially Benton County, in order to retain the college, as a consideration, erected at a cost of $:’o.(mo, a brick structure, now known as the Administration Building. Phenomenal has been the growth of the institution since those days of the wooden building and the two-teacher faculty. From one building, two teachers, and twenty-five students, on a campus of thirty-five acres, the school has increased to twenty-two buildings, ninety-seven teachers, and sixteen hundred students, on a campus and farm comprising two hundred twenty-four acres. Among the men whose directive force has been largely instrumental in the achievement of these results may be named Presidents B. L. Arnold, John M. Bloss, Thomas M. Gatch and V. J. Kerr; while not a little credit is due ex-Senator Thomas Cauthorn, who successfully laid the needs of the College before the Slate Legislature. Located at the head of navigation on the Willamette River, Corvallis, with its five thousand inhabitants, is an ideal situation for the College. The social and moral tone of the community is of a high order; both the town and the county arc under local option rule, and all the prominent religious denominations maintain flourishing societies. An inexhaustible supply of crystal-clear water from the snows and springs of Mt. Chintimiui. distributed throughout the city, and in the college buildings, renders sanitary conditions especially wholesome. The plat immediately surrounding the College buildings is artistically decorated with ornamental trees and shrubs, native and exotic. These forms of plant life are available to classes in Nature Study. Botany and Lanscapc Gardening. By munificent legislative appropriations made during the earlier years of college expansion, the Administration Building. Agricultural Hall, Mechanical Hall. Mining Building. Gymnasium. Pharmacy Building. Cauthorn Hall. Horticultural Building. Mining Laboratory, and Power Plant, were added to the accommodations. The left wing and the middle wing of the Central Agricultural Building, the Shops (for the use of the Department of Mechanic Arts). Waldo Hall (for girls), and Shepard Hall, all modern in structure and in every appointment, have been provided during the incumbency of President Kerr. The new Armory, just completed, is said to be the largest structure of its kind at any institution of learning West of the Rocky Mountains. Two buildings now in course of construction, the Central Heating Plant and the New Green House, will materially add to the appliance of the College.