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Rules Of The Laboratory Of The Maine State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, S. F. Peckham

General University of Maine Publications

A scan of the published rules for the scientific laboratory on the campus of Maine State College in 1871.

Exhibition Of The Junior And Sophomore Classes, Maine State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanical Arts

General University of Maine Publications

A printed program that provides the order of exercises for an Exhibition of Declamations (original speeches and readings) by the members of the junior and sophomore classes at Maine State College in 1871.

Catalogue Of The Officers And Students Of The State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, 1871, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This catalog for the Maine State College for the year of 1871 includes a list of faculty, students, courses of instruction and information about several policies and expenses.

This edition also includes a list of donations of books, specimens and equipment that had been made to the library, the cabinet, the reading room, and the farm.

Catalogue Of The Officers And Students Of The State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, November, 1870, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This catalog for the Maine State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts for the year 1870 lists the trustees, faculty, students, and provides information about the design of the institution, conditions of admission, course of study, labor, location, farm and buildings, library, reading room, cabinet, literary society, public worship, expenses and how to defray them, a general statement on policies and the academic calendar.

Faculty members listed include Merritt C. Fernald, Samuel Johnson, Stephen F. Peckham, John Swift, Mrs. Mary L. Fernald, Calvin Cutter, Corydon B. Lakin, X. A. Willard, A. S. Packard Jr., James J. H. Gregory, and …

Maine State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts Prize Declamation By The Sophomore Class, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

A program for a Prize Declamation ceremony held at the Methodist Church in Orono, Tuesday, August 2, 1870 for the Maine State College. A handwritten note on the program says, "First Public Exercise of Any Kind."

Catalogue Of The Officers And Students Of The State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, January, 1870, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This catalog for the Maine State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, later known as the University of Maine, includes a list of the Board of Trustees, faculty members, students in the first two classes to ever enter the college -- listing them as being among the sophomore and freshman class -- and provides information about the design of the institution, conditions of admission, describes the classes to be taken in a two year course of study, describes the labor requirement, location, farm and buildings, expenses and means for defraying them, a general statement on the need for strict …

Catalogue Of The Officers And Students Of The State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, 1869, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This catalog for the Maine State College of Agriculture, later known as the University of Maine, includes sections on the design of the institution, conditions of admission, courses to be taken during a two year course of study, labor requirement for students, information about the location of campus, the farm and buildings, equipment, library, reading room, chemical laboratory's mineralogical cabinet, a student-organized Literary Society, and the requirement for public worship and attending daily prayers.

Catalogue Of The Officers And Students Of The State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, 1868, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This catalog of the Maine State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts from 1868, the first for the institution, includes a list of the members of the Board of Trustees, two faculty members (Merritt C. Fernald and Samuel Johnson), the first thirteen students, information about the design of the institution, admissions, course of study, labor requirements for students, location, farm, buildings, library, reading room, scientific specimens on display, literary society, public worship, expenses, policies, degrees, and the academic calendar.

Architect's Report To The Board Of Trustees Of The College Of Agriculture, And The Mechanic Arts, Of The State Of Maine, Frederick Law Olmsted

General University of Maine Publications

The report of Frederick Law Olmsted on design considerations for the Land Grant College for the state of Maine presented in 1867.

Olmsted's report begins on page 15 of the Annual Report of the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts as it appeared in Documents of the Legislature of the State of Maine, 46th Legislature, House Document no. 57. The entire document was scanned.

Olmsted discusses what he views as important and unique design considerations given the goal of the college, to provide a liberal education to those who are to remain members of the industrial classes. He …

An Address Delivered Before The Penobscot Association Of Teachers And Friends Of Popular Education, At Bangor, Dec. 26, 1838, Joseph Cammet Lovejoy

Maine Bicentennial

A pamphlet providing a view on public education in post-Colonial America as: "the science of rearing men, fitted to be useful members of society on earth, and for everlasting felicity in heaven."

Female Education, A Discourse, Delivered At The Dedication Of The Seminary Hall In Saugus, Jan. 15, 1822, To Which Is Added The Little Reckoner, Consisting Principally Of Arithmatical Questions For Infant Minds, Joseph Emerson

Maine Bicentennial

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace. --Psalm 144:12 (King James Version)

The literal import of this prayer, is, that our daughters may be qualified to till with dignity, propriety and usefulness, the important stations, which they may be called to occupy. But prayer, without corresponding exertion, is presumption. We are not to expect miracles. Something must be done, in order that females may attain that dignified and elevated rank in society, for which the God of nature, as well …