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THE SUNNY SOUTH
THIRD TAGS
JUNE 3, 1902.
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jBy Florence l. tucker.
Written for SM* Sunny So«ih
JHabamas Polytechnic Institute Yearly Recruits
j& of Makers of South and Nation’s Future j&
Ranks
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of the tools of their different callings, ,
and prepared to contribute their part I
to a higher development of state and 1
Outtntry, as well as fitted for individual
betterment. The training here makes
ready for life in whatever department, i
and a young man can not go away from i
•these halls without some degree of qual- j
ideation to meet it.
AN EMINENT FACULTY.
The eminence in the profession of the j
thirty-four professors, instructors and
assistants may be judged by the fact i
that four out of one department have I
Auburn, the first distinctly ] received calls to similar chairs in the 1
technical institution in the j first Institutions of the country. An- 1
southern states; the best | burn boasts the first biological labora- |
equipped of them all, and; tory worthy the name to be established)
that one wliose graduates j ln the south, and one of its professors
are found in high positions, ^fs ^l’ed to Cornell university, two t
not only throughout the
We urge the attention of patriotic
southerners to this article, as a demon
stration of the practical money vain#
of technical education.
ITH the growth of technical
schools throughout the
south, interest never fail*
to revert to the Alabama
'Polytechnic institute, at
in Africa
United States, hut in Mex
ico, in 1 he Philippines and
Columbia university, and ci
University of Missouri. The serious, oar-
rest work of the faculty and the devo
tion of the student body attest the high
fitness of these able educators, and most
A school is known by the men it turns | rf all the positions taken by the young
•cut, and by the degree of their fealty ! men they send out.
afterwards. “Once at Auburn, always at! Their graduates are scattered through-
Auburn,” is the saying here, and the
truth of It is aittested 'on every hand.
(Ftudents do not only send back their
I nunger brothers and kinsmen to the care
of their alma mater, but the trophies of
their victories in file contests for which
she gave them preparation, the laurels
they win are added to her wreath; and
•wherever positions of trust call them,
•devotion to the old college burns never
Jess bright ln their faithful breasts. Shin
ing and steady It wins in every quarter
new adherents. For example, the father
Pf the young Nicaraguan student, appre
ciating his sons loyal attachment, he
presented to the institution a valuable
collection of minerals, one of the choicest
in ils possession. And so it is, whether
the student comes from Florida or Kan-
pas^ Cuba or British Honduras.
THE COURSES.
- Seven regular degree courses are of
fered here: I, Civil engineering; 2, elec
trical engineering; and mechanical engi
neering: 3, mining engineering; 4, metal
lurgy; 5, chemistry and agriculture; 6,
phn rmacy; 7. Batin and modern Ian-
out the south as civil engineers, elec
trical engineers, mechanical engineers,
mining engineers, architects, manufac
turers, chemists, food inspectors, min**
superintendents. Instructors and profes
sors in technical and scientific col
leges.
Chairs of science and engineering are
filled by Auburn men in the following
leading colleges and universities: Pro
fessors of chemistry (I), University of
Florida; (27. Auburn; (3), Tulane univer
sity (sugar chemistry); (4), University of
Alabama; (5), Agricultural and Mechani
cal college, Mississippi experiment sta
tion. the latter being also director of the
station; (6), professor of railroad engi
neering, University of Wisconsin; (7),
professor of electrical engineering, Clem-
son college. South Carolina; (8), professor
of agriculture, Mississippi Agricultural
and Mechanical college; (9), professor of
physics, Georgia Scho'ol of Technology;
(10), professor of entomology, Maryland
Agricultural and Mechanical college
(since on expert cotton boll weevil com
mission, United States department of
agriculture; (II), professor of electrical
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is located is a two-story structure con
taining four laboratory rooms. lecture
room, museum and office, and an op
erating room. The hospital building con
tains five large stalls, four open single
stalls, and office, and a feed room, the
upper floor being used for storage of
hay, fodder, etc., and the patients are
brought from the country side for miles
around.
Auburn’s record on the gridiron is too
well known to need mention here. Ath
letics flourish vigorously—foottball, base
ball, tennis, basket-ball and track ath
letics all receiving enthusiastic attention.
The gymnasium is equipped witli a
Spalding apparatus, and in charge of an
officer is open to all students at stated
hours.
The social life of the college is the •
pleasantest. (Besides the seven Greek i
letter fraternities (the Kappa Alpha own- j
ing its own club house) there are two !
literary societies and a young men's j
Christian association. The students, too,
boarding in private families, have more •
or .less of home lire. The cadet band j
part of the military organization, plays j
a very enlivening and important part,
furnishing excellent music. The mem- I
hers are carefully trained by a band I
master who each year awards a gold j
medal to that one making : lie best record |
through t he year.
The college is ideal in its .location—The j
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The Wonderful Kidney, Liver and
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gauges. It is emphatically a school of I engineering. Auburn; (12), botanist. Mis
applied science, though first of all a col-j sourl experiment station; (13), professor
•lege, since the federal act of 1862. making j of physiology, Alabama Medical college;
the donation of lands to the different
schools, designated that the endowment
was for t.he, support and maintenance of
at least one college, where the leading
object shall be, without excluding other
s- lentifie and -classical subjects, and in
cluding military tactics, to -teach such
blanches of learning as are related to
agriculture and the mechanical arts. It
has been from the first all of this, yet
lacking nothing of the air and character
of the literary college. Where other
(14), professor of physiology, Vanderbilt
university; (15), assistant botanist, Mas
sachusetts Agricultural and Mechanical
college; (16), assistanT agriculturist,
Clemson college; (17), assistant in elec-
trial engineering, Clemson college; (18),
former director Arkansas experiment
station; (19), professor of history. Uni
versity of West Virginia. The chairs of
chemistry and engineering of the 1 Di
versity of Lou7*.iana have also been bold
by Auburn graduates.
Main Building of Alabama Polytechnic Institute. (Auburn, Ala.)
One, K. N. Brown, accepting a position
in Mexico, is now president of the Mexi
co National railway; another, W. I).
Taylor, after constructing a bridge for
the Chicago and Alton railway across
the Missouri river, was made professor
of engineering in the University of Wis
consin, while a third, J. M. Reid, em
ployed by a Portugal company in San
Paul de Leoamlo, Africa, at a handsome
s:ilary, was paid, in addition, SIO.OOO
for certain changes of his suggestion
which resulted in immense saving to the
company in the cost of production.
The high price set upon its men Is
easily accounted for by the thorough
training and preparation received. There
are fifteen well equipped laboratories
(the college claiming to have been the
first to establish in the south a manual
training laboratory, and a first-class en
gineering plant and biological laboratory).
Instruction iu any science being regard
s’at os have their different branches “of
education segregated or divided, at Au
burn they are all concentrated in one.
In Georgia, for instance, the State uni
versity is at Athens; the School of Tech
nology, in Atlanta; the military school,
eit Dablonega; and the agricultural farm,
at Experiment. The student in any one
of these schools gets only the life of that
particular school; at Auburn he gets all.
Thongli this is not saying, certainly
that the course of study is not. except in
the lower classes, elective. Beside the
seven degree courses already mentioned,
tin re are three partial courses—in agricul
ture. mechanic arts and pharmacy—each
requiring two years for completion. And
then there is the special one-year course
In agriculture, which admits young men
over twenty-one years of age to any
class under the professor of this depart
ment, excusing him from -military and all
other college duties, but allowing him
attendance on all the lectures In agricul
ture, and in the practical work at the
experiment station, in the field, stock
yard, dairy, garden, -orchard and vine
yard, thus enabling him to acquire in the
one year valuable scientific knowledge,
end equipping him for successful work.
A PRIVILEGE.
Many a young man who can not af
ford one of the four-year courses, nor
even the two-year, finds himself debar
red the inestimable advantage of col
lege life with its privileges and asso
ciations. but for this special course,
which, while it fits for practical needs,
also affords advantages which no other
experience can. The privilege of the
library alone was incalculable. This
valuable collections contains 19,000 vol
umes, with ;he very best and latest dic
tionaries and cyclopedias. Three thou
sand dollars is spent annually in addi
tions, frim 900 to 1.000 new volumes
being bought each year. The historical
library is the most complete of any
College in the south, current history
toeing kept run of through all the stand
ard magazines, which are bound, the
files being complete from the first vol
ume, as also the leading dallies. The
World, and others, whose files are un
til oken.
Special attention is paid to this feature
ef the library, and many dollars spent,
fio file being left incomplete ,where per-
eeverance and money can supply the
break. The handsome equipment, furnlsh-
fetgs and large numbers of busts of
poets and men of letters, is Itself up
lifting.
The enrollment of the institution in
1904 was nearly 500, representing fifty-
four counties in Alabama, ten states,
*ind three foreign countries. The fill!
Craduates number about 900, 65 per cent
cf whom are in strictly technical pro
fessions, while the 5.000 who did not
complete any of the college courses
returned to the farm or the various
trades equipped with scientific under
standing, with skill in the manipulation
ed of little value unless given with the
practical applications in the workshop.
SPLENDID EQUIPMENT.
The main building, Langdon hall,
chemical laboratory and the various oth-
Chemlcal Laboratory. (Auburn, Ala.)
During the Spanish-American war thir
ty-five commissioned officers were fur
nished by Auburn; it ranked second of
all colleges in the union, being surpass
ed only by Cornell university. Many of
the students are in the Philippines, and
have sent back interesting and valuable j pr buildings on the campus and the ex
contributions to the museum. j periment station grounds, make up £
GRADUATES PROSPER. j plant valued at $245,000. Tlite outfit-
The salaries of the graduates average transits, plane tables, compasses, mod
$900 per annum, some receiving $2,000.
others $3,000 and one exceptional man
$10,000. The demands on this institu
tion for competent men are beyond what
It is able to supply. Graduates whose
services have been retained at salaries
ranging from $500 to $700 seldom re
main more than a short time, invariably
receiving more lucrative offers from else
where. And these offers are as apt
to come from a distance as from nearer
home. For instance, we will take three
men, all graduating from the same class:
els of bridges, etc., in the department
of civil engineering, is considered equal
to that of any of the best institutions.
Graduates take high rank in their pro
fession. about twenty of them being en
gaged in the various branches of engi
neering, civil and running, in the min
eral region of Alabama. The equipment
in the mining engineering department Is
not surpassed by any other institution
in the south; a number of these grad
uates hold important positions at Iron-
dale. Gothite. Johns
and Birmingham.
The agricultural experiment station,
established in connection with the col
lege. affords finest opportunities to
young men selecting farming- as a pro
fession. They come here to learn the
scientific reasons for the defects which
mar this most independent and beautiful
of all vocations—the failures and disap
pointments which attend its pursuit
without the knowledge which alone can
avert its disasters—and the remedies.
Hie farm comprises 304 acres and ex
periments and investigations are contin
ually made, the students accompanying
the professor in the field, garden, stock
yard and conservatory when he delivers
his lectures in the presence of the ob
jects discussed. A plot of twenty acres
is devoted to orchards, vegetables, fruits
and flowers, and great interest is boLng
•centered in the botanic garden, which •
has been undertaken with the special end
Ir view of gathering here representative:- !
in the native flora of the state and na
tive medicinal plants. The green house .
is fitted with modern apparatus for ven
tilation and heat, and in the labora-i
tory practical instruction fs given in j
grafting, budding, spraying, fertilization ;
and gathering and marketing crops.
THOROUGH METHODS.
In addition to ihe lectures in the field, i
instruction is given -by means of text j
books and bulletins of the agricultural I
experiment stations. Two hours per)
week with each class Is devoted to j
study in the lecture room, and two or j
four hours of laboratory work per week j
| in barn, field, dairy or library. The |
■ subjects studied in the first year are the ■
breeds of horses, cattle, sheep and j
hogs, their characteristics, uses, man
agement and adaptability to the south.
In the second the first term is devoted
ro dairying, butter and cheese making:
'he second term to chemical and physi
cal properties and defects of soils, and
means of improvement, and the third to
the study of grasses, leguminous and
; other forage plants adapted to the dif-
; fe rent soils of the state.
The third year takes up in the first
j term the study of the staple crops of
the south, cotton, corn, oats, wheat, to
bacco and rice, students making observa
tions ami notes and assisting In harvest
ing the different varieties of cotton,
corn, cowpeas and other crops. During
the second term of this year the feed
ing of animals and compounding of ra
tions Is studied; drainage, irrigation, etc ,
ce mlng in the last year’s work—though
for those who can give but two years, !
the studies are arranged so that the
nne courses In general agriculture and
animal industry may be all covered in
t lie alloted time, the attention being
given almost exclusively to the one sub
ject or subjects.
The live stock provided for the stu
dents' use in studying breeds an in
judging animals consists of Angus,
shorthorn, reed polled, and Jersey cat
tle; Berkshire and Poland China hogs;
and dorset. southdown, Shropshire and
common and graded sheep. The Here
ford cattle was brought from Eminence,
Ky., and at a big sale last year in which
Ensley, Blossburg | the liveliest interest was manifested was
introduced throughout the section with a
view to tlie improvement of beef cattle
VETERINARY DEPARTMENT.
The department of vetinary science and
art is of the utmost advantage to stu
dents of the agriculture course, prepar
ing them for the emergencies of ev
ery-day experience. Lameness in the
horse, minor surgery, and all various
means of protecting the health of do
mestic animals, are tianght practically,
post-mortem examinations and the dis
section of animals affording the most
scientific and thorough instruction.
The building in which the department
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cures kidney, liver, bladder and uric acid
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Some of the early symptoms of weak
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rheumatism, dizziness, headache, nervous
ness, catarrh of the bladder, graver
calculi, bloating, sallow complexion, puf
fy or dark circles under the eyes, sup
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Swamp-Root is not recommended for
everything, but if you have kidney, liver,
bladder or uric acid trouble you will find
it just the remedy you need.
Sold by druggists in fifty-cent and one-
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Binghamton, N. Y., and please be sure to
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Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-
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make
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IDEAL LOCATION.
The
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ling.
green expanse on
er cry
twenty matriculated, and the high stand
taken by these earnest aspirants after
man's privileges would appear proof con
clusive of the wisdom of the concession
in their favor, •
side, the peaceful quiet reigning all
around, calls to mind thiat other of the
same name—“Sweet Auburn, lovliest vil
lage of the plain.” Here are the same
content, the same unworldly joys, and
here, as nowhere else, is the golden op
portunity for the mind and heart of
youth—the noblest ideals, the most de
voted and conscientious teachers, and
equipment of the best known to sci
ence.
The Alabama Polytechnic institute was
the first college in the state to admit
young womf/i. The priviege was grant
ed by the trustees to “young women
•mature mind and character,
SQUALLS.
(From the Chicago News.)
v. Deacon Smiff, why was It de
tah had sec-h frown on his face
meetin’ ”
, he was grumblin’ 'bout de collec-
afta’r
“Oi
tion.”
“De collection oT pennies?”
“No, de collection of babies dat kept
bellowin' out en spoilin’ de sermon.”
A DESPERATE REMEDY.
(From The Cleveland Leader.)
Agent—I came to deliver your book on
“How to Piay the Piano.”
Lady—But I didn't order any such
book.
Agent (consulting his note book)—
f | Have you a next door neighbor named
not under ; Jones?
seventeen years of ag
enter the junior class.
, land ready to
The past year, ,
Lady—Yes; is it for her?
Agent—No, she ordered it for you.
Wood Room. (Auburn, Ala.)
Success Won Only by Clean
iNRI
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By HENRY OYEN
O the
would
young
the first
He does not advise clean living he- i a:: from the other. And a man can keep
cause he is particularly Interested in I a ’ this a ,ons time, an awfully long
the spiritual welfare of the young man
.. , *’’ i utery
principle of
success?” a prominent
man recently replied:
“The clean life.”
"Evidently been -ending
Wagner’s 'Simple Life,’ ”
ventured the friend who
had asked the question.
"No.” was the answer.
"The simple life, doesn t
hardly apply when a
question of winning in the race for suc
cess today is considered. But as the
fust principle for the guidance of t7ie
young man who wants to win success
i 1 would place clean living. Tt is only
; the clean liver who wins success now-
! auays.”
| The man who spoke
"W-a« : •••. spiritual weltar, of the yo,,„ g man | « «■« „
you urge on the j ol. tod<ij. Jle worries not about the tu making the i finn.1 outcry that Tarings
man of today as ture of the human race. But when nail- I
; ed down for the prime principle of a
recipe for success, he says, “Live clean.” !
, And he knows, for he came up from the ;
bettom himself and has hundreds of men |
under him now.
KEEP BODY AND MIND CLEAN.
j Tlier.- is nothing Utopian nor finical j
mg
down the eras
his best work
manner, and
nowadays he
But a man can’t dr
,-hile he's living in this
a man wishes to win
rot to do his best work
the
clean.
In these days when it is the strenuous
life that obtains in business affairs, it
| is the man of health, the man of good
thus Is just a physical stamina, energetic, clear-mind-
j plain, practical, Chicago business man. > an j sane, who wins the position
; Fleasant theories have nothing attractive j WO rth having. The weakling who has
to him. All questions, of whatsoever j spent his best days in dissipation that
nature, appeal to him on the practical j g as cost him his health is the man who
side or not at all. He is all business. . winds up at the bottom of the ladder,
; When he says that clean living is the j j n the places where the failures of the
• first and foremost requisite for success, | .,g e are relegated. The pace is too swift
I when he places this above education, 1 f or them, and they drop behind mutter-
| training, aiid even the hard work sue- | jug- that the hand of fate is turned
i cess regime advised by most men who j cruelly to them and that less capable
I lay down rules for the young man to | men than they are being proomted over
J follow to wealth and position, it is up j tlieir heads through influence, etc.
• to the young man to pause and give | \\’e all know this type. Every office,
his words consideration.
first, last and all the time.
The clean liver can do this. He
knows that it isn’t well to try to be a
“sport.” He may not have any relig
ions scruplps nor be any paragon of
virtue. But We is sensible, anfi he
about the “clean life” proposition. There ; knows it doesn’t pay. It’s simply a
are a whole lot of young men ln every I question of dollars and cents with him.
city in the country who could give a 1 .he solves the question in the right
good definition of the phrase from having C leAN LIVER TO BE BELIED ON
dabbled deeply in its exact opposite. It : Avhen thP re is a promotion to he made
means to live in a way that is best ) in the office or store that he is in he I
calculated to keep the body and mind : gets it. Maybe lie isn't a better work-
free from disease or decay—to live I er than the other fellow, the “sport.” I
He may even be less capable than
“the sport” is when he is “right.” j
But the clean liver is reliable, he can
bo depended upon to do his work day
at ter day, and to the last. The man 1
who plays the sport, whose energy ia
continually below par, sees the other 1
fellow get the promotion, curses -.his
superiors for favoritism, and goes out
to get drunk over it. Soon he is one
of the large army of "booze fighters,” 1
who drink because their system craves
liquor. When they lose tlieir jobs and I
go to the bad, and finally fall victims
to the drink habit, their friends all say,
“Too bad.” And ihe clean liver is then
just getting into the prime of a long
and satisfactory life.—Chicago Tribune.
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