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+ QPEGHQQ + N presenting this. hhc First. anguul fPOnJ its Alma blahel'. the Class of NiIJehy hopes. to establish n Cugshonl which 25112111 be followed by each suvccusligg class 111,013 its advent. to the Ju- 5 IJior- year. Without. a precedent. de without. that dcumush 0F all uhhuigmegts. experience. if. has uleurhe-xken to creek 0 mme mcIJh to itself by Publishing u Glass kBook which will show. wiltlrln out. the usual adox-nnjcnts both sides OF life uh UUI' lgahihuhion. WIN: desire 1.1115 been to enlighten as wall Lxg entertain. LIIJ11 Imv- ing labored to Lwcomplislll this end, the class submits hlu: First. volume of 1:425; VIE fur the inspcvlziox-l of ihys Fx-iclyls, to wlmm HJiK, its, first. work, iH dedicated.
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Our Qolletgq. N the year 1854 the Legislature of Pennsylvania passed an act to incor- porate The Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania. The scheme em- bodied in the charter was, however, impracticable in many ways, and no organization ever occurred under it. This charter was revoked in 1855 and another granted differing from the first in the motle of selecting the Board of Trustees. A number of sites in various parts of the State, were offered for the founding of the new school, but the one given by Gen. Irvin 0f Bellefonte was selected. Had the tirst board of trustees forseen the kind of an institution their Farm School would become, they undoubtedly would have selected one of the sites oHered near Pittsburg or Philadelphia. On February 16th, 1859, the school was opened with one hundred and nineteen students. Mr. livan Pugh being its first president. The plan on which the institution was organized included a much higher curriculum than any High School, so in 1862 the name was changed to The Agricultural College of Pennsylvania. In this same year Congress passed an act donating to the several States public lands for the purpose 0! founding colleges in which agriculture and the mechanic arts were to he leadingr departments, without, however, excluding other courses. The State of Pennsylvania accepted the provisions of this act and used the proceeds of the public land scrip issued by Congress to endow the college, which they had previously founded for the same purpose which Congress had in view. In 1865 President Pugh resigned and William H. Allen was appointed, who served for two years. Mr. john Frazer was then chosen, but only re- mained in the chair one year. Rev. James Calder was made president 11nd served until 1880. In 1871 the college was declared open to both sexes, thus beginning our present Ladies' Department. Ever since the foundation of the college the agricultural department of .the institution had contained but few students, while the Classical, Scientific 14
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