The Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College [Announcement]
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The Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College [Announcement]
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http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1775388~S1
Publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Date
September, 1875
Contributor
Ashley Hughes, Lindsey Macdonald
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Language
English
Type
Announcement
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LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.1, no.3 (Sept. 1875), p.1-8
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This College has been in operation but about three years, and the way it has grown into public favor, as well as in the number of its students, is astonishing. The first year it had 132 students; the second year 197; the third year 222. This session bids fair to reach 300 at the lowest calculation. The largest number that has ever attended the College at any one time is here already this session.
The location is one of the finest in the State. Right on top of the Alleghany Mountains at Blacksburg, a beautiful little town which is especially attracting on account of the hospitality of its people. Here one can always breathe the pure fresh air, which so many seek. The country which surrounds it is beautiful and grand in every respect. The grandest scenery is here, and many wonderful curiosities, such as several caves, which go many feet under the ground the Mountain Lake or Salt Pond, the only lake in Virginia besides the finest watering places in the State, as the Alleghany Springs, the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, the Yellow Sulphur Springs, all of which are in the immediate vicinity of Blacksburg.
This College gives a winter vacation for several good reasons. One is that it is "best suited for an institution of this character," because "the study of the farm operations is interrupted at a less important season of the year," besides "students from other sections of the country, while escaping the severity of winter in the mountains, will remain at College during the most pleasant and healthful part of the year."
The New Colleges are building rapidly, and if nothing happens by the next session, they will be finished and ready for use.
The farm operations are progressing rapidly.
The location is one of the finest in the State. Right on top of the Alleghany Mountains at Blacksburg, a beautiful little town which is especially attracting on account of the hospitality of its people. Here one can always breathe the pure fresh air, which so many seek. The country which surrounds it is beautiful and grand in every respect. The grandest scenery is here, and many wonderful curiosities, such as several caves, which go many feet under the ground the Mountain Lake or Salt Pond, the only lake in Virginia besides the finest watering places in the State, as the Alleghany Springs, the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, the Yellow Sulphur Springs, all of which are in the immediate vicinity of Blacksburg.
This College gives a winter vacation for several good reasons. One is that it is "best suited for an institution of this character," because "the study of the farm operations is interrupted at a less important season of the year," besides "students from other sections of the country, while escaping the severity of winter in the mountains, will remain at College during the most pleasant and healthful part of the year."
The New Colleges are building rapidly, and if nothing happens by the next session, they will be finished and ready for use.
The farm operations are progressing rapidly.