[Response to Christian Advocate]
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Title
[Response to Christian Advocate]
Subject
Agriculture, Virginia Tech
Creator
ED.
Source
http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1775388~S1
Publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Date
October 1876
Contributor
Zak Risha, Natalie Richoux
Rights
Permission to publish images from The Gray Jacket must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Format
Text
Language
English
Type
Article
Identifier
LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.2, no.3 (October 1876), p.5
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In the Christian Advocate is a very long piece by one of its able editors giving an account of his travels through our section of the state, and as if by mere accident he pounces upon our college, and goes so far as to even blame the farmers for sending their sons to an agricultural college, where the President knows nothing of agriculture. In justice to our President, we would say if our readers could see him every evening when college labors are over, with his coat off, sleeves rolled up and hoe in hand manfully laboring in the garden and yard, striving as it were to excel the beautiful ones of Genl. Lane, they would feelingly say, in the expressive language of our Press, Oh! Lafferty—"How you did bust."
We insert the following paragraph, clipped from the Christian Advocate, to show to our readers how well informed one of the Advocate's editors, L., is as to the curriculum management &c., of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. If such a thing be possible, it explains itself:
"There was a woeful youth in our vehicle bound for the Agricultural College. As we came to Blacksburg his discomfort increased. At the stage office, a great crowd of cadets saluted him with yells and jeers prolonged and deafening, hardly equalled by the clamor from a Comanche camp. The wretched fellow sneaked into a store to escape the rude reception. The poor boy awed by the hoots and creeping into the first open door, is to be pitied indeed. But what a folly in the farmer to send his son to learn the art of agriculture to a school where the President came not from the plantation with its experience, but from an Episcopal Sectarian Seminary in Tennessee, and who knows less of practical farming than hundreds of negro foremen in Virginia!"
Dr. M. G. Ellzey is Professor of agriculture and Col. Norman Berkley farm manager. The "woeful youth" must have been frightened entirely away from Blacksburg, as all inquiry has failed to discover him or his whereabouts.
ED.
We insert the following paragraph, clipped from the Christian Advocate, to show to our readers how well informed one of the Advocate's editors, L., is as to the curriculum management &c., of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. If such a thing be possible, it explains itself:
"There was a woeful youth in our vehicle bound for the Agricultural College. As we came to Blacksburg his discomfort increased. At the stage office, a great crowd of cadets saluted him with yells and jeers prolonged and deafening, hardly equalled by the clamor from a Comanche camp. The wretched fellow sneaked into a store to escape the rude reception. The poor boy awed by the hoots and creeping into the first open door, is to be pitied indeed. But what a folly in the farmer to send his son to learn the art of agriculture to a school where the President came not from the plantation with its experience, but from an Episcopal Sectarian Seminary in Tennessee, and who knows less of practical farming than hundreds of negro foremen in Virginia!"
Dr. M. G. Ellzey is Professor of agriculture and Col. Norman Berkley farm manager. The "woeful youth" must have been frightened entirely away from Blacksburg, as all inquiry has failed to discover him or his whereabouts.
ED.