Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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male students shall be trained in military tactics. Said commission shall provide instruction in the following subjects: First, physics, with special application of its principles to agriculture, second, chemistry, with special application of its principles to agriculture, third, morphology and physiology of plants, with a special reference to the commonly grown crops and their fungus and enemies, fourth, morphology and physiology of the lower forms of animal life, with special reference to insect pestsg fifth, morphology and physiology of the higher forms of animal life and in particular the horse, cow, sheep and swineg sixth, agriculture, with special reference to the breeding and feeding of live stock and the best modes of cultivation of farm produce: seventh, mining and metallurgy. Section IV of this act also provides as follows: Said commis- sion shall locate the said college unless its location has been other- wise selected in accordance with law, previous tot the first day of june, 1890 It is not clear from the information now at hand whether or not the Commission of Technical lnstructionu above mentioned was ever appointed. There was, however, a commission consisting of Hon. Tom Smith of Colfax, Hon. Ed. Wfinson of North Yakima, and Hon. G. Ferguson of Snohomish. which was empowered to select a location for the college. This commission does not seem to have had the powers designated by law, as belonging to the Com- mission of Technical Instruction. At any rate the college was not located, and thercommission above named was obliged to report to the legislature their failure to agree upon a site. The legislature of 1891 substituted a new act, which included section Vlll of the original act relative to the purpose and scope of the college and providing for the location and maintenance of the figricultural College, Experiment Station and School of Science of the State of Wlashington, and dehning more fully its functions. This new act was approved March Sl, 1591. Among the provisions of this act we find the following: ' Section l. providing for the establishment of the College Ex- periment Station and School of Science. Section lll, by which the 2 I7

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may be deemed necessary by it, to determine their duties, respon- sibilities, compensation and tenure of office, and to remove from office for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office, any person appointed by it to any office whatsoever, but all appoint- ments shall be made without regard to political opinion or religious belief. The purpose in View in creating the college. as vvell as its in- tended scope, is clearly set forth in section 8. which reads as follows: The said commission shall make provisions that all instruction given in the college shall to the utmost practicable extent be con- veyed by means of practical work in the laboratory. Said commis- sion shall provide in connection with said college the following laboratories: Une physical laboratory or more, one chemical labor- atory or more, and one biological laboratory or more, and suitably furnish and equip the same. Said commission shall provide that all I6

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ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.