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last week. To those who knew of the institution and its
work only in the vaguest sort of a way the information
gleaned from a visit to the various departments came in
the nature of a revelation. Most of those who accepted
the invitation of President L. L. Foster and made the
trip in question knew only that there was some kind of a
school for boys at College Station and they were in con
sequence more than surprised to find an enclosure of some
2000 acres under the charge of the management of the col
lege, a prett} 7 little village made up of buildings contain
ing class rooms, work rooms, dormitories, mess halls and
offices, together with stables, dairies, granaries and all
the other buildings necessary to the conduct of a well
regulated farm.
The gentlemanly cadets showed the visitors through
the different departments and explained their workings,
from the laboratory, where the most difficult of scientific
problems are solved, and the machine shops, where the
students are fitted to fill the most responsible positions in
the mechanical world, down to the stables where the in
teresting process of raising calves by hand is carried on,
proving conclusively the excellence of the courses of study in
use and the thoroughness with which everything is done,
by the intelligent manner in which they explained the de
tails of their work and by the familiarity they displayed
with subjects of which the majority of young men of their
age know nothing. In support of the statement that
everything is done thoroughly, it may be said that the
students in the laboratory are not only able to ascertain
the exact amount of nutrition contained in any given kind