Our Catalogue

Our Catalogue

Discusses a student catalog of natural history, board members, and some student expenses

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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

October 2015

Lemuel Lee Mathias Jr

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English

Article, announcement

LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.2, no.9 (July 1877), p.4

Blacksburg, VA

Through the courtesy of our much respected and highly esteemed friend, C. L. C. Minor, President of the V. A. M. C., we have received a catalogue of that institution. Being a student of said institution we received the handsome present in common with a good many others, so called rats, preps, juniors, intermediates and illustrious seniors. As we are not crowded this month with back notices we shall give some space to the important volume. Turning to the third page we find an honorable roll consisting of three generals, one colonel, two physicians and several statesmen, one and all of the ten, composing the roll, are farmers, and several of them spoken of, by various newspapers, as candidates for the Gubernatorial chair, but we have yet to learn that any of them are mechanics. We are not complaining of the Board, they are all that we have a right to wish, but would suggest that should an unavoidable vacancy occur in the future, our Governor be reminded that this is a Mechanical as well as an Agricultural College. Turning now to the fourth page we find the gentlemen of the faculty in striking array. We shall deal lightly with this page as the majority of our readers are as well acquainted with the faculty as we are and need not to be enlightened by us. We might spend an hour on the next seven pages containing list of students, but for delicacy will leave the task to the members of the faculty hoping that they may discover nothing wanting in the extensive roll of promising young men. We find little to complain of save some errors in the expense list and commencement exercises. Fuel and lights are set down at from seven and a half to ten dollars per session while each student is charged ten dollars per session for fuel alone. Where does the light come in ? We have been paying too much for coal as the present surplus will testify. We hope this matter will be attended to by the gentlemen of the faculty as it is very important that the expenses should be kept as low as possible.

The celebration of the Maury Society will take place on the 15th August at 8 P. M. That of the Lee Society on the 14th, 8 P. M., and not as published in catalogue.

A junior, discovering through the catalogue that a collection had been started for the illustration of natural history, inquired where it was. He was informed that it was in the laboratory, and that it already consisted of three pretty little speckled snakes, a big bug and a "yellow-belly perch." Dr. Ellzey invites the friends of the college and students to assist him in collecting for the Museum and Cabinet in the new buildings such objects as will illustrate the resources, the natural productions, and Indian history of the country. Now boys send in your catterpillars [sic], Lamper eels, June bugs, Indian arrow heads, and fool's gold, and aid this good work.

This is without joke an important matter and we hope the boys at home will get a catalogue, follow Dr. Ellzey's directions, and let us especially have a fine collection of minerals.
This valuable little work has been read with great interest, especially by the role who were highly gratified to find their names in print, if it is bad print. Let us have a larger and better catalogue for next session or we will bore somebody to death "noticing" it.

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