The American System of Agricultural EducationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1904 - 21 pages |
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Page 9 - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and...
Page 10 - College instruction in agriculture Is given in the colleges and universities receiving the benefits of the acts of Congress of July 2, 1862, August 30. 1890, and March 4, 1907, which are now in operation in all the States and Territories except Alaska. The total number of these institutions is 69, of which 67 maintain courses of instruction in agriculture.
Page 9 - Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico North Carolina North Dakota Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah...
Page 11 - The course varies considerably in different institutions as regards the requirements both for admission and for graduation. In some cases students are admitted directly from the common schools, while in others the entrance requirements are on a level with those for admission to other college courses in high-grade colleges. Gradually, however, a number of the institutions which formerly admitted students from the common schools are raising their entrance requirements...
Page 8 - OF STUDY. Graduate departments which afford opportunities for advanced degree work in agriculture are maintained by many of the colleges of agriculture. There are now 40 colleges which thus provide agricultural work leading to the master's degree and 9 which offer courses in agriculture leading to the doctor's degree. The reorganization of courses of study and the division of agriculture into specialties along the lines recommended by the committee on methods of teaching agriculture have received...
Page 7 - States, and is steadily enlarging the scope and extent of this branch of Its work. Special attention is being given to the better organization of the American system of agricultural education, so that it may include properly graded courses of Instruction, reaching from the graduate school and the college to the common...
Page 9 - Industrial Institute, in Alabama. Colleges of agriculture (or equivalent schools or departments) in universities are maintained with the aid of national funds in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. In Massachusetts, Harvard University has a school of agriculture known as Bussey Institution.
Page 10 - The number of persons in the faculties of the colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts was as follows: For preparatory classes, 445; for collegiate and .special classes, 2,024; total (deducting 8 counted twice), 2,461.
Page 9 - The only purery agricultural college in the United States is that in Massachusetts. Agricultural and mechanical colleges are maintained in Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington. Separate institutions...
Page 10 - State appropriation for buildings or other special purposes, $1,577,927.40; endowment, other than Federal or State grants, $602,802.41; tuition fees, $944,826.07; incidental fees, $294,492.95; miscellaneous, $1,120,993.80; total, $9,248,378.40. The value of the additions to the permanent endowment and equipment of these institutions in 1903 is estimated...