. Souvenir of the Better farming special: Boston & Albany railroad, March 30, 31, April 1, 2, 1910 . the college as he held a permanent position in anearby institution. Shortly after the college was opened, A. Goessmann became a member of the faculty as pro-fessor of chemistry, and continued to hold that position untilhis retirement from active service in 1907. Once well established and under the efficient leadership ofits trustees and faculty, the institution was destined to thirty years its growth was apparently slow and at timesfluctuating. During this period however, a
. Souvenir of the Better farming special: Boston & Albany railroad, March 30, 31, April 1, 2, 1910 . the college as he held a permanent position in anearby institution. Shortly after the college was opened, A. Goessmann became a member of the faculty as pro-fessor of chemistry, and continued to hold that position untilhis retirement from active service in 1907. Once well established and under the efficient leadership ofits trustees and faculty, the institution was destined to thirty years its growth was apparently slow and at timesfluctuating. During this period however, a firm foundationfor subsequent rapid development was securely laid. In 1900the faculty had grown from four to twenty-two members, andthe courses of study had been correspondingly amplified; the 15. 16 physical equipment had also been materiall} increased; andthe number of reg^ular students in attendance had reached onehundred and fifty. The last ten 3ears represent for the colleji^e an era ofmarked and almost phenomenal development along variouslines. The value of the college equipment including land,buildings, and movable equipment, has more than doubled inthis time; a like increase has occurred in the teaching force;and the number of regular students in attendance has increas-ed more than 135%. The buildings which have been erectedin this decade are: A dining hall, horticultural building,botanical laboratory, floricultural building with attached glasshouses, entomological laboratory (not completed at present),and two sets of farm buildings to replace those destro3^ed byfire. New departments have been established along the lines ofpomology, floriculture, landscape gardening, market garden-ing, animal husbandry, dairying, farm administration, ruralsociology, English, Spanish, ag
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