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Botany, Horticulture and Agriculture The Department of Botany, Horticulture and Agriculture occupies three rooms ipon the first floor of the Natural Science Building—a lecture room, an instruc- tor’s office and laboratory and a large general laboratory. In certain parts of the work of the department the green houses upon the grounds are also utilized. The lecture room, like others in the same building, is equipped with a stereop- ticon, and many lantern slides, used in illustrating the subjects taught ,are pre- pared in the department. In the larger laboratory one finds the herbarium, a collection of preserved plant specimens, the nucleus of which was collected by the late Dr. Robert Peter, when a young man, between the years 1829 and 1835. There is much of interest to the Botanist in this collection, indicating, as it does, the character of vegetation in the immediate vicinity of Lexington at that time, and it is manifest from the frequent references to various woods and thickets that the appearance of the country in and near the city was then quite different from what it presents now. A large number of microscope slides, illustrating the minute structure of plants have also been accumulated, and afford many objects for microscopic study of great interest and beauty. The accessories required in any complete course in botany at the present day are far in excess of what was thought necessary even less than a generation ago, and the equipment of this department, as of any good laboratory, would surprise any one who had been accustomed to think of botany as an accomplishment adapted mainly for young ladies, and consisting of the gathering and naming of a handful of flowers upon a spring holiday. A thorough course in botany now means a long and rigid discipline in laboratory methods of work and study, and affords the training which, in the view of many to this work are the microscope, the microtome, and the disecting instruments, by educators, is second in value to that of no other scientific subject. The chief aids which the student seeks to penetrate the hidden mysteries of the beginnings of life and the progress of its subsequent devlopmnt. In this department of the State College each student is supplied with a microscope and other accessories, and as- signed to one of the tables with the labratories are filled. While the work of the general student is largely of disciplinary value, his studies have also an important economic and practical bearing in their relations to agriculture, horticulture and medicine, and are constantly kept in mind in the class room. I-Iis studies of plant tissues lead him to see the principles of budding, grafting and other kinds of plant propagation; his work in plant physiology teaches him to appreciate the necessity of the plant for good and proper quantity and variety, and his observations of the mildews, moulds, rusts and bacteria, all species of the long groups of plants give him a new incite into the rational treatment of many of the diseases to which plants and animals and even the human family are subject.
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vScHool of Civil Engineering' The School of Civil Engineering occupies the second floor of the engineering building consisting of office, recitation room and drawing room. The equipment in- cludes five high grade transits, three levels, a compass, solar attachment and plain table. The drawing room is provided with many instruments of precision, includ- ing a pantagraph, Thatcher-slide rule, polar planimeter and other implements. The library is well stocked with books and periodicals pertaining to civil engineering subjects. The civil engineering profession just now offers great advantages to those who perfect themselves in it. There never were such opportunities or such great rewards awaiting those who are fitted to adapt the forces of nature to the needs and com- fort of mankind. There never were as many bridges to be built, as man}' moun- tains to be tunnelled, or as many streams to be converted into useful power as at present. People are demanding with greater insistence a pure supply of drinking water, and a proper disposition of the sewerage of towns is becoming the rule rather than the exception. Abundant openings will be ready for all our graduates for years to come in lines of wnrk that are both profitable and pleasant. . Perhaps the surest test of the merit of a school is the character of work done by its graduates, and judged by this criterion the School of Civil Engineering of State College occupies an enviable position. Every one of its young graduates has adopted civil engineering as a profession, and all are hard at work in lucrative and responsible positions. It would be pleasant, if space permitted, to recall something of the work done by each of the graduates, but this is not necessary. The names of many of them are familiar to those in college now' and it will be sufficient to say that hard, consecutive, conscientious work in college has in every instance yielded fruit of which the School of Civil Engineering may justly be proud.
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