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Show PROFESSER MAC EWAN'S ADVANCEMENT. The Trlbuna Is rejoiced to learn that Professor E J. Mac Ewen has been elected president of Ihc Hhodc Islnnd Agricultural College at a salary of 13400 a j ear. He has also been elected to a professorship of Fngllsh and History at an Institution at Kalamazoo Mich , from which he graduated as a boy. He will, his friends think, accept the llhode Island position, as It will give him nn opportunity to demonstrate some theories he has held as to tho proper scope of nn agricultural college col-lege as that It should not be made a competitor of the university or literary college, but a practical, helpful Institution Institu-tion to thc firmer, helpful to him In his evcr)da life, pointing out means of improvement In tillage, beneficial ciops ndnptatlon of tolls, selection of teeds, Introduction of new species and varieties the proper care of stock, whit should be expected of animals, nnd the best means of keeping them up to their highest value nnd most perfect plying bnsls, also, their treatment In alt kness, and ln general showing the farmer how cich fnrm and every portion of It and Its ippurtcnances can be brought up to the best models something generally gen-erally very much neglected In agricultural agricul-tural colleges, which nro too prone to be mere Imltntlons of the ordinary college, col-lege, and to prnctlcolly desert tho flell of their best usefulness nnd real occupation. occu-pation. Professor MacHwan spent ten years nt the Utah Agricultural College. Previous Pre-vious to coming hero ho tilled tho chnlr of Hngilsh at the Michigan Agricultural College for the same number of years Ills work nt the college nt Lngan was most thorough nnd nggresslvo, nnd no ono who knows him will doubt thnt thc work of the Ithode Island college, should he accept tint position, will bo conducted on a high plane., Tho Tribune Trib-une Is especially glad tn note his advancement ad-vancement nnd trusts thit he will be full) appreciated In Bhodo Island; ho will make the Agricultural college of that State a model for those of the whole country If, ns Is probable, he Is given a free hand |