Virginia Polytechnic Institute - Bugle Yearbook (Blacksburg, VA)

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Committee of the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, writes of Dr. McBryde's plans of reorganization, as then first submitted: When Dr. McBryde outlined his plans of future development to the Executive Committee, of which I was a member, I thought it a dream that the next generation would hardly see realized. These plans have long since been realized, and much more besides. During Dr. McBryde's presidency, the campus has been ex- tended from ten to one hundred acres, graded, sodded and set with nearly two thousand ornamental trees along the drives and throughout the campus. Three miles of avenues and walks have been made, athletic and drill grounds provided. A com- plete sewerage system, with one mile of sewer, extensive garden, orchard and nursery grounds developed, large farm improve- ments in new modern barns and increase in varieties of stock, a well-equipped electric plant, water works, fire equipments, steam heating and power plant, creamery, modern, well- equipped infirmary, steam laundry, veterinary infirmary, four new brick barracks, large brick mess hall, storage and kitchen rooms, new science hall, shops increased to triple their original size, twenty professors' houses, a magnificent stone agricul- tural hall, and many other improvements. The attendance of students has passed the seven hundred mark and the faculty numbers thirty-one professors and twenty-five instructors. The Graduate Class of 1891-92 numbered four students, that of IQO5-06, seventy-nine students. 1 Since Dr. McBryde has been President of the Virginia Poly- technic Institute, he has steadily refused advantageous offers elsewhere. Thus, in 189 3, he was offered the Assistant Secretary- ship of Agriculture by President Cleveland, in 1897, he was strongly urged to let his name be used for the Presidency of Clemson College, South Carolina, in April, 1904, he was unani- mously elected President of the University of Virginia, which he declined, and in 1906 he declined the Presidency of Sweet Brier Institute, to which he had been elected. ' Dr. McBryde has in his possession a large number of letters from distinguished scholars, men of note and influence, written in connection with his resignation of the Presidency of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, expressing in the highest and most cordial terms the high regard of the writers for him and their recog- nition and high appreciation cf- his great work and high service in the cause of education in the South. Among these may be mentioned Dr. C. W. Dabney, President of the University of Cincinnati, Dr. R. H. Jesse, President of the University of Missouri, Dr. Ingersoll, of the University of Tennessee, Drs. Gildersleeve, Browne and Bright, of johns Hopkins, Dr. Henne- man, of Sewanee, Presidents Sloan, of University of South Caro- lina, and Houston, of University of Texas, judge A. C. Haskell, of South Carolina, Hon. A. C. Braxton and judge Horsley, of Virginia, Dr. Wiley, of the Department of Agriculture, and many others. ' It is a matter of great gratification to all of the friends of our retiring President to know that he has been selected by the committee controlling the Carnegie Foundation as one of the beneficiaries under that fund. 18 A3 7'::iuf:' 1 'xfrvilgg rr 1:-'1::f'r1 -1-ilfnmzg 3155?frf'q:i:':'3'gAQjggggzg 7, 4 -- mm :K-5:-2-..-.....a..,.,-

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