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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Commission of Technical Instruction, provided for under the pre- vious act, was superseded by a board of five regents, to whom the management of the institution was intrusted. Section V, providing for the appointment of a commission of three for the selection of a location for the college and stipulating: First, that none of the com- missioners should be from east of the Cascade mountainsg Second, that the college should be located on or before july 1, 1891, in some county east of the Cascade mountains, and third, that the college should not be located in any county already having a state institu- tion. Sections X and Xl, accepting the land grants of Congress, whereby the college became the benehciary of the 90,000 acres of land for the endowment ofthe Agricultural College, and the 100,000 acres for the endowment of the School of Science. Section IH of this act also reaffirms the intended scope of instruction in the fol- lowing words: The course of instruction of the Agricultural Col- lege and School of Science shall embrace the English language, literature, mathematics, philosophy, civil and mechanical engineering, chemistry, animal and vegetable anatomy and physiology. the veterinary art, entomology, geology, and politi- cal, rural and household economy, horticulture, moral philosophy, history, mechanics, and such other sciences and courses of instruc- tion as shall be prescribed by the regents of this institution of learn- ing. It might be remarked in this connection that the functions of the college and its curriculum are further delined and prescribed by the statutes of the United States. 1 The location commission provided for above consisted of Gov- ernor Black of Everett, A. H. Smith of Tacoma, and S. B. Conover of Port Townsend. The iirst meeting of the Board of Regents was called to order at Olympia by Lieutenant Governor Charles E. Laughton, on April 22, 154511. Governor Laughton, announced that he had ap- proved the bonds and received the oath of office of the following named regents. viz.: Eugene Fellowes, Spokaneg George XV. 19