Seeking Fortune in AmericaGrey, F. W. (Frederick William)
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Seeking Fortune in America
Grey, F. W. (Frederick William)
Canada -- Description and travel; Mexico -- Description and travel; United States -- Description and travel
One of the new rules practically does away with what I before said was
one of the handicaps of an English student. He must now produce
certificates of having spent _at least one year on a farm_, and must
have a practical knowledge of ordinary farm operations, such as
harnessing and driving horses, ploughing, harrowing, drilling, &c. And
his knowledge will be tested by an examination at entrance. The terms
are from 15th September to 22nd December, and from 4th January to 15th
April, thus allowing farmers’ sons to go home for seeding, haying, and
harvesting, and non-resident students to get work on a farm during these
operations; or, if they prefer, they can remain at the college and work
on its farm, for which they are paid. Since I was there the college has
made great improvements in its accommodation. Mr. Massey built and
presented to the college the Massey Hall and Library, in which are held
the literary meetings, concerts, &c., and which has a seating capacity
for 450 people, while the library has room for 80,000 volumes. They have
also a fine gymnasium with a swimming-bath in the basement, besides
another open-air swimming-bath. A new machinery hall, 146 feet by 64
feet, has been built, in which manual training and farm mechanics are
taught. There are also other new buildings too numerous to mention. Last
year 367 students attended Macdonald’s Institute, and 794 students
attended the College, either taking the entire course or the various
short courses. To show how the college is patronised by people from all
over the world I took this list of the hailing-places of the foreign
students: nine from the Argentine Republic, Belgium one, England
twenty-nine, Egypt one, Scotland eight, France one, Germany one, Ireland
three, India two, Japan three, Jamaica two, Mexico one, South Africa
one, Spain two, United States twenty-four. My old friend Creelman is now
president of the college through which he worked his way, and in his
hands the reputation of the college is spreading far and wide.
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